Today is where it all comes together. We've spent the week talking about content marketing strategy, including why it's such a great go-to opportunity for writers of all kinds.
Figure out who the hiring manager or editor is and connect online – maybe through Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, or even by commenting on blog posts. Introduce yourself. Leave comments. Leave compliments, when genuine. Ask questions. Participate in contests. Basically, do anything to build name recognition between you and the hiring person.
2) Figure out what would make the hiring person's job easier.
If you notice this person publishes regular Facebook posts, consider reaching out to help with that. Same thing goes for blog posts, or emails, or articles. Or, if you see a need that's not being met, offer to take care of it.
AWAI president Rebecca Matter always says, "Be the idea person." Meaning, offer an actionable idea you can follow through on. Don't say, "Let me know what I can help with!" Because, even though your intentions are good, you're asking the hiring person to do work. Instead, tell her or him how you can help. Better yet, show her or him with a spec sample.
Once you've made a connection and you have concrete ideas to offer, define each idea in one sentence. Follow-up with a second sentence that explains the benefits to that hiring person's audience. If you have more than one idea to share, put them in bullet form. Assume your pitch will be scanned by someone who is busy, so make it quick and to the point.
I often hear writers groan over this one. (Truth be told, I groan over this myself!) But that's because we too often take a non-reply or a "not now" reply as personal rejection. It's not. Chances are good the hiring person is super-busy and hasn't had a chance to get back to you, or your pitch doesn't fit their current needs. Or, they're human like the rest of us and get behind on email. Give it two weeks, then send a friendly "Just checking in" message.
We all get excited about our ideas – especially if you've researched a possible client and you know your idea is strong. But unless you're already working with that client, you have no way of knowing what's coming down the pipeline already, or why they might like one idea but not the next.
By all means, ask for feedback when your ideas aren't accepted, but don't stress if you don't get it. Instead, stay open to new suggestions. Take those ideas and run with them. Not only will that give you an inside track into a real need for that hiring person, but it also shows you're accommodating and easy to work with.
This issue includes an eye-opening interview with Ann Handley, Chief Content Officer of MarketingProfs. Plus, we've got tips on how to pitch a project, the importance of story in any writing assignment, and even a writing contest that could win you $100! Check it out and let me know what you think.
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'Simpsons' Creator: "No Nuance" Around Apu Debate, Decries "Outrage of the Week" Culture
Matt Groening is doubling down on his previous comments that people are primed to collectively take offense to news items in popular culture, like his 'Simpsons' character Apu, which has been accused of racism.
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Matt Groening is doubling down on his previous comments that people are primed to collectively take offense to news items in popular culture, like his Simpsons character Apu, which has been accused of racism and perpetuating unflattering ethnic stereotypes.
In a new interview in The New York Times published Wednesday, Groening says that his much-quoted comment, "People love to pretend they're offended," from a USA Today story about the Indian-American character, who is voiced by a white actor, was directed at the culture at large and not the Apu controversy.
"That wasn't specifically about Apu. That was about our culture in general. And that's something I've noticed for the last 25 years. There is the outrage of the week and it comes and goes," he said. "I think particularly right now, people feel so aggrieved and crazed and powerless that they're picking the wrong battles."
Mainstream debate around the Apu character initially took off in November, when Hari Kondabolu's documentary The Problem With Apu, which elaborates on ethnic stereotypes that the character has perpetuated, was released. In April, the white voice actor for the Indian-American neighbor character, Hank Azaria, said he would be happy to "step aside" given the outcry over the character.
Later that month, The Simpsons seemingly made an attempt to address the controversy when Lisa and Marge Simpson have a brief conversation about things that were once "applauded" and are now "politically incorrect." Marge tells Lisa, "Some things will be dealt with at a later date," to which Lisa replies, "If at all." The moment was widely discussed, as well as criticized, in social and news media.
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When asked what he thought about reaction to the episode, "No Good Read Goes Unpunished," Groening said, "Well, I love Apu. I love the character, and it makes me feel bad that it makes other people feel bad. But on the other hand, it's tainted now — the conversation, there's no nuance to the conversation now. It seems very, very clunky."
Going forward, the Simpsons creator said, he's not sure how Apu will be handled. "If we come up with a good story we'll do it, but some of the stuff the show got taken to task for, we covered in an episode a couple of years ago [in 2016's "Much Apu About Something" episode]. Oh well," Groening said.
He also addressed Kondabolu's documentary and complaints. On Twitter last month, Kondabolu extended an invitation to Groening to grab coffee at the upcoming San Diego Comic-Con.
"Sure, and my guess is I agree, politically, with 99 percent of the things that Hari Kondabolu believes. We just disagree on Apu," the Simpsons creator said.
Groening then challenged his interviewer to come up with a better Indian animated character than Apu in the last 30 years: "I am sorry that The Simpsons would be criticized for having an Indian character that, because of our extraordinary popularity — I expected other people to do it. I go, maybe he's a problem, but who's better? Who's a better Indian animated character in the last 30 years?"
Groening has a new Netflix series premiering next month, Disenchantment, a parody of animated fairy tales that will feature voice acting from Abbi Jacobson, Nat Faxon and Eric Andre. The Times interview was an excerpt from a conversation about the new show, which will be featured in another story for the publication.
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namespace ZfcFacebook\Auth;

use Zend\Http\PhpEnvironment\Request;
use ZfcFacebook\Auth as Auth;
use ZfcFacebook\Exception;

class Iframe implements Auth
{
    /**
     * Facebook secret for application
     * @var string
     */
    protected $fbSecret;
    /**
     * @var Request;
     */
    protected $request;
    /**
     * Decoded Facebook sigs
     * @var array
     */
    protected $decodedSigs;
    /**
     * @var array
     */
    protected $configuration;

    /**
     * @param $fbSecret
     * @param Request $request
     * @param array $configuration
     */
    public function __construct($fbSecret, Request $request, array $configuration)
    {
        $this->fbSecret = $fbSecret;
        $this->request = $request;
        $this->configuration = $configuration;
    }

    /**
     * @return string
     */
    public function getToken()
    {
        $decodedSigs = $this->getDecodedSigs();
        return (string)$decodedSigs['oauth_token'];
    }

    /**
     * Returns auth'd user's Facebook ID
     * @return string
     */
    public function getFacebookId()
    {
        $decodedSigs = $this->getDecodedSigs();
        return (string)$decodedSigs['user_id'];
    }

    /**
     * Returns the decoded facebook sigs
     * @throws \ZfcFacebook\Exception\AuthException
     * @return array
     */
    public function getDecodedSigs()
    {
        if (!is_array($this->decodedSigs)) {
            $this->decodedSigs = $this->parseSignedRequest();
            if(!$this->decodedSigs) {
                return false;
            }
        }
        if (!is_array($this->decodedSigs)) {
            throw new Exception\AuthException("Invalid decoded sigs");
        }
        $decodedSigs = $this->decodedSigs;
        if (!array_key_exists('expires', $decodedSigs)
            || !array_key_exists('oauth_token', $decodedSigs)
        ) {
            throw new Exception\AuthException("Token details do not exist");
        }
        if ($decodedSigs['expires'] < time()) {
            throw new Exception\AuthException("Token has expired");

            if (!array_key_exists('user', $decodedSigs)) {
                throw new  Exception\AuthException("Token details do not exist");
            }
            throw new  Exception\AuthException("User has not installed application", self::ERROR_NOTINSTALLED);
        }
        if ($decodedSigs['expires'] < time()) {
            throw new  Exception\AuthException("Token has expired");
        }
        return $this->decodedSigs;
    }

    /**
     * Decodes signed request
     * @throws Exception\AuthException
     * @return array
     */
    protected function parseSignedRequest()
    {
        // Check vars
        if (!is_string($this->fbSecret) || empty($this->fbSecret)) {
            throw new Exception\AuthException('Invalid Facebook Secret');
        }
        $signedRequest = $this->getSignedRequest();
        if(!$signedRequest) {
            return false;
        }
        list($encodedSig, $payload) = \explode('.', $signedRequest, 2);

        // Decode the data
        $decodedSig = $this->base64UrlDecode($encodedSig);
        $data = \json_decode($this->base64UrlDecode($payload), true);
        if (\strtoupper($data['algorithm']) !== 'HMAC-SHA256') {
            throw new Exception\AuthException('Invalid Signed Request');
        }

        // Check sig
        $expectedSig = \hash_hmac('sha256', $payload, $this->fbSecret, $raw = true);
        if ($decodedSig !== $expectedSig) {
            throw new Exception\AuthException('Invalid Signed Request');
        }

        return $data;

    }

    /**
     * @return mixed
     * @throws \ZfcFacebook\Exception\AuthException
     */
    public function getSignedRequest()
    {
        $signedRequest = ($this->request->getPost()->get('signed_request')
            ? $this->request->getPost()->get('signed_request')
            : $this->request->getQuery()->get('signed_request'));
        if (empty($signedRequest)) {
            if($this->configuration['allowoutsidefacebook']) {
                return false;
            }
            throw new Exception\AuthException('No signed_request has been posted, are you trying to access outside Facebook?');
        }
        return $signedRequest;
    }

    /**
     * Base 64 Url Decode string
     * @param string $input
     * @return string
     */
    protected function base64UrlDecode($input)
    {
        return \base64_decode(\strtr($input, '-_', '+/'));
    }
}

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Governor: Right to work 'common sense'
Thursday, January 8th, 2015 at 3:01pm
Gov. Susana Martinez poses with young readers Myla Garcia, Leilani Nieto, Tessie Trujillo, Emiliana Lopez and Evangeline Hernandez before speaking to the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce Thursday.
(Courtesy GACC)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Gov. Susana Martinez said she will push for so-called "right-to-work" legislation during the upcoming legislative session, calling a change to the state's labor laws "common sense" and long overdue.
The comments, made before about 500 business leaders and legislators at a Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce luncheon, were Martinez's strongest to date on the subject of right-to-work legislation.
Currently, 24 states have right-to-work laws, which generally bar requirements that employees pay union fees as a condition of employment. Such fees are only mandated in workplaces covered by a collective bargaining agreement.
"It is fundamentally wrong to require membership (in a union) in order to get a job … or take money from the paychecks of our workers by force," Martinez said.
The Republican governor, who began her second term in office last week, did not make right to work a major part of her first term legislative agenda.
But debate on the subject — long stifled by a Democrat-controlled Legislature — has reignited since Republicans seized control of the New Mexico House in the November elections.
Democrats still control the Senate, and some top-ranking Democratic senators have said they will fight the right-to-work push.
Labor union leaders also oppose the legislation, which they claim leads to lower worker pay and is aimed at weakening unions.
However, the governor said right to work is one of several hurdles New Mexico faces in attempting to become more economically competitive with neighboring states.
Check back later for more updates.
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HHS mandate 'ominous' threat to religious liberty, priest says
Fr. Avelino Gonzalez.
Washington D.C., Jun 2, 2012 / 16:01 pm
As the battle to defend religious freedom continues, a Capitol Hill priest said the contraception mandate should be a cause for concern for all Americans.
"The trend set by the current administration has ominous overtones which recent history shows should be taken very seriously from the beginning – before further liberties are taken away," Fr. Gonzales told CNA June 1.
In his native Cuba, Fr. Gonzales said that Catholics faced similar restrictions before the start of an all-out persecution.
"In 1960 after the takeover of Fidel Castro in Cuba," Fr. Gonzales said, "the Catholic Church began to feel the sting of anti-Catholic policies which reduced the right to religious freedom to the freedom to worship in private temples."
Fr. Gonzales said the rhetoric behind such persecutions is similar to that which is found in the federal contraception mandate.
"This smacks of the present language used by the current administration that seeks to redefine religious freedom to the freedom to worship," as in private houses of worship.
His comments come the same day as the U.S. release of the epic war drama "For Greater Glory" which charts the history of Mexico's Cristero War that was sparked by anti-Catholic legislation passed at the hands of President Elias Calles.
The highly anticipated film has already prompted much praise from clergy and laity alike as an example of the courage that is necessary to defend one's faith in the face of religious persecution. Some have also called it highly relevant in light of the battle over the contraception mandate.
Drawing attention to the timely message of the sacrifices necessary for religious liberty, the Knights of Columbus featured a spread of the film in their May issue of "Columbia" magazine.
But the cover, which featured an image of actor Andy Garcia as Gen. Enrique Gorostieta Velarde – the leader of the Cristiada martyrs – with the phrase, "Freedom is Our Lives" in bold red, has already received sharp criticism from opponents.
In his recent post for Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, Steve Schneck called such rhetoric both "scandalous" and "dangerous" while accusing Supreme Knight Carl Anderson of the Knights of Columbus of attempting to incite escalation in "America's highly partisan culture war."
However, Fr. Gonzales said that rather than downplay the threats posed by the federal government, the Catholic Church has a "moral obligation to be a sentinel in this area and earned the right to be hyper-sensitive to this trend." This is due to the fact that the Church has "recorded the largest number of martyrs in the 20th century, more than all the previous centuries combined."
In order to protect religious freedom, Fr. Gonzales said Catholics need to actively participate in the upcoming "Fortnight for Freedom" and follow guidelines on the issue laid out but the U.S. bishops conference.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Special sessions of the state Legislature aren't so special anymore; they have become almost an annual event. And special sessions are being expanded well beyond dealing with critical issues.
Both Democrats and Republicans are behind the trend of more government in Santa Fe.
Special sessions are the times when the governor convenes the Legislature outside its annual regular sessions. The governor sets the agenda, often after reaching agreement with legislative leaders but not always.
The special session that began Sept. 6 is the 12th special session in the past 14 years, according to data compiled by the Legislative Council Service. We've also had one so-called extraordinary session; that's when legislators convene outside regular sessions at their own request.
Of those 13 sessions, two — including the current special session — were called because of the need to redraw district boundaries for seats in Congress and the Legislature and other elected state offices.
Democratic Gov. Bill Richardson, who left office at the end of the year, and the governor before him, Republican Gary Johnson, each convened six special sessions in eight years as chief executive.
The increase in the number of special sessions is part of a trend of lawmakers spending more time in Santa Fe. Until the mid-1960s, the Legislature met in regular session only once every two years. Today, it meets in regular session every year — 60 days in odd-numbered years and 30 days in even-numbered years.
Special sessions have fulfilled their design of providing a mechanism for the governor and Legislature to deal with critical matters between regular sessions.
The first special session, in 1917, resulted from the outbreak of World War I, according to the Legislative Council Service, a staffing arm of the Legislature. More recently, in 1986 and 2009, special sessions were called because of the impacts of national economic downturns.
Budget matters, including disputes between the executive and legislative branches, have been a major reason for special sessions. We've also had special sessions so lawmakers can focus on a single big issue, like compensation for injured workers.
Because the world is more complex today and the regular sessions of the Legislature are relatively short, there probably is a need for more special sessions to deal with critical issues. But we've moved well beyond special sessions being limited to the essential.
For a special session convened in 2007, Richardson asked lawmakers to approve public financing for judicial elections, create a state ethics commission and pass domestic partnership legislation. Johnson, in 1999, added a school voucher proposal to a special session to deal with a budget impasse with the Legislature.
The lengths of regular sessions are set by the state Constitution, and an amendment would be needed to lengthen them.
The current special session had been long-planned because of the need to redistrict congressional and state offices.
Redistricting is dealt with in a special session because census data weren't available until after the last regular session and because the new boundaries need to be in place well before the primary election next June.
Gov. Susana Martinez significantly upped the ante for the redistricting special session, calling on lawmakers to enact legislation dealing with about a dozen other issues.
For the most part, Martinez's agenda is a list of leftovers from the regular session that ended in March.
Some of the proposed legislation is largely minor and noncontroversial; other bills are far from that. They include repealing driver's licenses for illegal immigrants, reorganizing government, shoring up the unemployment compensation fund and doing away with so-called social promotion of third-grade students.
No previous governor in the past 50 years has added other items to the agenda of a redistricting session.
Some Democratic legislators have objected to the number of issues on the governor's agenda, but Martinez has said lawmakers can do the job and she is ready to help. At least two other states expanded their special sessions beyond redistricting.
As of Friday, the Legislature had largely ignored Martinez's most controversial proposals. It was possible lawmakers could adjourn this weekend without giving much to the governor.
Legislators could remain in special session longer to deal with all the items on Martinez's agenda, but do we really want them to?
Special sessions are expensive — about $50,000 per day.
More importantly, do we want a governor using a special session to try to get noncritical legislation that he or she couldn't get from the Legislature in regular session or to make a political point?
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Q: Does a man run a same distance with different velocities spend the similar energy? To simplify the question we assume the same man run on a straight and flat road with constant speed. Personally I don't believe the man would spend a similar energy. But how to prove it in physics?
I have a raw answer to this question, probable it is not right. I separate the running process into two phases.
First is the start point from 0 velocity to V.
as we known
$$ mV_{fast}t_{short} = mV_{slow}t_{long} $$
because
$$ mV = Ft $$
then
$$ F_{fast}t_{short}^{2} = F_{slow}t_{long}^{2} $$
V as velocity;
F as force;
t as time;
m as mass;
if decrease t will lead to increase F keep equal the equation.
The energy spend by the man is direct proportional to the inverse of $$1/t^{2}$$
The second period is constant speed, the energy is mainly spend on resist the resistance. Because it's the same road so it is relative to the air resistance. The air resistance equation is
$$ F = 1/2C\rho SV^{2} $$
The energy spend by the man is direct proportional to the $$V^{2}$$
C as const value of air resistance;
$$ \rho $$ as density of air;
S as frontal area;
V as velocity;
I'm not expert in physics so if someone could supply a more professional answer that would be create! I will really appreciated the help and thanks in advance!

A: This question is an example of the role played by forces internal to a system.  In the case of the human body, complex chains of metabolic processes provide the energy used to contract muscles. Furthermore, different metabolic pathways with different efficiencies will be deployed depending on the human's speed, current dietary situation (does their body have access to carbohydrates?  Is the body burning more fat or ketones?), and many more variables.  This heavily complicates the question.
Fortunately, to answer your question, we don't have to worry about that.  All we have to do is treat the human like a black box and measure its energetic expenditure in different situations.  For the sake of getting a clear answer, let us assume that we are dealing with an average human who just had a nice big plate of pasta the night before.  In this average case, we can say that a human has $S=.55m^2$, $C=1.16$, and that air has $\rho=1.225 kg\cdot m^{-3}$.  ( These values are from a very well sourced school project)
Now, let's compare two situations: 1) as in your posed question, we can consider only the force of air resistance at various speeds to calculate energy expenditure, and then 2) use measured values from the literature for the power required for an average human to maintain certain speeds to calculate the energy expenditure.
1) First, let's consider a modest jog of 2.25 m/s. Using the quadratic drag force equation $F=\frac{1}{2}C\rho S V^2$, this yields a constant drag force of 1.98 if we assume there's no wind.  The work done is $$W=\int_0^d{F\cdot dx}=\int_0^d{1.98dx}=1.98d$$
where d is the distance traveled.  For a 5K run, this yields
$$W=1.98\cdot 5000=9900J\approx 2.4\ kcal$$
since $1\ J\approx .00024\ kcal$.
If the runner was going at a 6 min/mile pace (~4.5 m/s), a similar calculation gives $F=7.81$ and $W\approx 39000\ J\approx 9.4\ kcal$.  But notice that the kinetic energy of a runner of 70 kg moving at this rate is $T=\frac{1}{2}\cdot 70\cdot 4.5^2\approx 700\ J $. This is about 7% of the energy used to run the 5K itself!
2) Following this Harvard Medical School Table we can do some very rough obsevations that show the difference between running at different speeds.  At 2.25 m/s, we see that a a 5K would take about 35 minutes to complete, so the energy expenditure would be somewhere around 350 kcal.  At 4.5 m/s, a 5K would take about 18.5 minutes and expend about 380 calories.  Now, the difference here may be small, but it of course scales as longer distances are ran.
Finally, we have to take into account the basal metabolic rate- the Harvard table does not separate this from its values.  If we assume that the runner is a 5'8" man who is less than middle age and is 70 kg, he will have a BMR somewhere around 1700 kcal/day.  This means that his body will spend about 40 kcal while jogging for ~35 minutes at 2.25 m/s, and about 20 kcal while running the 5K at 4.5 m/s.   If we take this into account, the difference becomes $360\ kcal- 310\ kcal = 50\ kcal$.
In conclusion, we shouldn't rely upon knowledge of drag force to determine how much energy is being spent, and the mechanisms used by the human body to move our muscles become less efficient as we move faster.

A: The absolutely simplest way to think about it concerns acceleration. The man has to expend metabolic energy accelerating to a given velocity, which is then dissipated as heat after the run and is not recovered into the metabolism. The higher the velocity, the more energy is expended.
As other answers indicate, there are a whole slew of other factors concerning the specifics of physiology, so think of this as an answer featuring "a spherical human moving in a vacuum"!

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Do we see objects in their past?
Discussion in 'Pseudoscience' started by absolute-space, Feb 24, 2016.
I know it is a medical condition, I am glad I am not a sufferer.
Thought you had me on ignore?
We seem to have a rash of this type on the forum at present. And I also believe in certain circumstances, we have some fraudulent behaviour in progress.
it is a fad derived from individuals believing that they are some sort of intellect and/or genius. this is a result from a notion stemming back from the 80s'-- " everyone is special " if you end-up last, you receive a trophy. welcome too humanity.
so far you have three topics doing so.
This is the really crazy thing. The guy claims to be using the results of SR & GR, then clearly contradicts them over and over again. Then admits to not knowing any mathematics. Then refuses to read anything that goes into detail on a pop science level.
LIM, physicsbang--this is how azo conducts himself.
if i had access to physforum, i would simply show you.
Please stop lying. We can all read how you claim that SR is false: you deny that the length contraction is anything other than appearance. We can all read how you claim that GR is false: you deny that the cosmological expansion of space is real. These lies do not help your case.
For your information probably about 90% of the scientists out there do mediocre jobs and roles, not everyone can create hypothesis or theory or be an influence on science.
Ah, now we come to the conspiracy theory section of the science denier. So, now you are claiming that your ignorance of mathematics somehow makes you more competent at physics than the people who study physics?
My theory, hypothesis or idea or opinion is just that, when and if I complete my theory and send it off to be peer viewed , even if it were the best thing since sliced bread, it would still only be a theory.
Your ideas will be mere hypotheses, not theories. Since you refuse to engage in the available evidence, you cannot hope to produce something that people might consider seriously.
So, this thread is a prime example of a problem that I've wondered about from time to time. How can one distinguish between a troll and a really uninformed crank? Satire is comparatively easy to pick out; since satirists are trying to highlight the ridiculousness of the position they're putting forward, they tend to emphasize the most flawed aspects of that position, while true believers instead focus on the strongest aspects. Semi-informed cranks also have their signature; their pet theory usually passes muster up to a certain level of analysis, so they offer detailed arguments up to that level but get hand-wavy and/or angry if one tries to push further.
But if I were a troll, fishing for frustrated responses, I would pick a clearly ridiculous position and support it with arguments not quite well-posed enough to be decisively debunked. I would then wrap it all in a shell of faulty math, just to give it that extra air of refutability. On the other hand, that's also what I would do if I were suffering from a critical case of the Dunning-Kruger effect and didn't understand how math is used. So how does one tell the difference? When absolute-space invoked Godel's Incompleteness Theorem above, I thought he had to be a troll, because no one could be misguided enough to think that had anything to do with the subject at hand. But then again, at least a quarter of our country thinks Donald Trump would make an excellent president, so I'm hesitant to put a lower bound on the human intellect.
But then again, at least a quarter of our country thinks Donald Trump would make an excellent president, so I'm hesitant to put a lower bound on the human intellect.
how do you know he would not be?
a little know reality that only few even know of-- the president is already known before campaigns even begin. not that i am saying that trump will be president, but i am saying that the secrete government has already picked the president, since the president and congress are simply just puppets for the secrete government.
we can see the entire length of light from the monitor to our eye, but the wave-length has no spectral content that we see.
Do you agree that we cannot see light that is in motion from a source to our eyes? For example, you can't be aware now of photons that are half way from your computer screen to your eyes, even though in a couple of nanoseconds from now they will enter your eye and hit your retina.
If you do not agree, please tell me how your eye/brain can possibly know about what light is doing now some distance away from you. Note that what I want is not some kind of process of mental reasoning about what you think or deduce is probably going on "out there", but an explanation of how you think this is actually, directly, perceivable right now, via your senses (eyes).
In short, the distance you are seeing, is what you are seeing. The entirety of what you see is exactly as you see it like a ''live feed''.
You are claiming there is no time delay between light between emitted from your computer screen and you being aware of that light. Is that correct? Note that I'm not counting delays caused by the time it takes a nerve impulse to work its way from your eye to your brain, and stuff like that. I say you're aware of the light at the point when it hits your retina. You say that you're somehow magically aware of the light on the screen the very instant that the screen lights up. you need to explain how you could possibly be aware of that.
we do not observe single photons as if like dots.
all the dots are merged from A to B, we see the entire length of the dots from A to B. that is the ''rod'' I mentioned.
How can you possibly be aware of those dots that have not yet reached you eye? Explain.
Now you are being ridiculous, if I sore you 1 second ago and you sore me 1 second ago, when did we see each other? we both sore each other at the same time.
Are you confused, or are you deliberately trying to confuse what you have claimed?
We're not talking about the possibility of light from you reaching my eye at the same time that light from me reaches your eye. Everybody agrees that this can happen simultaneously.
Your claim, on the other hand, is that you see your computer screen before light has had time to travel from it to your eye. That is what our disagreement is about.
I don't know whether this stuff means something to you, but I'm confident that it means nothing to everybody else.
Please don't post this kind of rubbish - or, if it's not rubbish you'll need to explain what you're doing.
we [want to] look into the future, but see only the past. houston, we have a problem. and could not see it coming.
A simple thought experiment ( it can be tested). Visualize this; the sun has set and you are *presently* standing in the dark, but you can see a far off object that is still reflecting light because the sun is still shining over there.
In your present it is dark, but we are still receiving reflected light from other objects. Which means it took time for that light to reach us, even as we are already in the dark. What we see is a still lighted image from our past.
We can see the light from stars which since have gone nova a billion years ago. But we see them as they were a billion (light)years in our past. In our present that star does not even exist anymore.
The guy you're responding to got perma-banned for being a sock puppet.
well, it was not because of the time at c, but the changed angle from the earth's rotation that obscured the setting sun, good illustration though, reminds me of watching the shuttle launches from our driveway, by the time the sound arrived, rattling your teeth, the shuttle had already been silently levitating for a few seconds, , standing on stem light, on a base of steam, oblivious to a deaf person.
both observers travel through time for the 5 minutes , really 1.3 seconds, and they would receive the message simultaneously, the photonstream having crossed paths halfway. both would see each other as being 5 minutes /1.3 sec younger then they were at reception.
We send messages into the future, but receive them from the past.
* in case the op meant an exchange of messages:, would the original sender not have to wait double the the time to get the return message message from the past. or?
If the astronaut is seeing the man 5 minutes ago and the man is seeing the astronaut 5 minutes ago, when are they seeing each other?
it is not like looking in the mirror.
Nice example, but I have a much better one. In a thunderstorm you see the lightning several seconds before you hear the thunder clap, proving that light travels faster than sound.
It takes less time for the light of the event to reach your eyes than its sound reaches your ears. In fact, from the two associated phenomena you can estimate the distance where the event occurred.
If thunder is heard.....The lightning is . . .
In fact, from the two associated phenomena you can estimate the distance where the event occurred.
1 second ~ 1 km away + 20%.
To the blind you can be an awesome prophet, predicting thunder they do not know is coming. Good money in that, in religions.
I don't think that is right. The speed of sound is 0.343 km/s. 3 seconds is approximately 1 km away.
I was wrong for so long. Thank you for the correction! in what else could nebel be possibly wrong?
I felt so safe with lightening strike 3 times further away in my mind than in reality***. must have paid no attention in my brownie boy scout training.
my error ratio ~ 1/3. the same as the ESM model, which is suggesting that the furthest matter is 3 times further away in lookback time than the BB.
No, we see objects in our past.
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Q: Multiple JOIN conditions with different operators in $lookup stage sub-pipeline MongoDB I want to write below query written in postgresql to MongoDB:
SELECT * FROM t1
LEFT JOIN t2 ON (t1.age = t2.old AND t1.name = t2.alias OR t1.age = 24);

The above query has 'AND' and 'OR' operation.
The query which has same operator with multiple join condition has equivalent syntax in MongoDB.
Postgresql:
SELECT * FROM t1
LEFT JOIN t2 ON (t1.age = t2.old AND t1.name = t2.alias AND t1.age = 24);

MongoDB:
db.t1.aggregate([ {$lookup: {
                             from: "t2",
                             let: {age_field: "$age", name_field: "$name"},
                             pipeline: [ { $match:{ $expr:{ $and:[
                                                             {$eq: [ "$old",  "$$age_field" ]},
                                                             {$eq: [ "$alias", "$$name_field"]},
                                                             {$eq: [ 24, "$$age_field"]}
                                                                 ]}}}
                                       ],
                             as: "joined_result" }},
                  {$unwind: {path: "$joined_result", preserveNullAndEmptyArrays: true}}
                ])

I tried below syntax for query consisting AND and OR but these are NOT working as expected. Please suggest the correct syntax:
1. Used Multiple $match stages:

    db.t1.aggregate([ {$lookup: { from: "t2", let: {age_field: "$age", name_field: "$name"},
                    pipeline: [
                             { $match:{ $expr:{ $and:[{ $eq: [ 25,  "$$age_field" ] },{ $eq: [ "arun", "$$name_field" ] }]}} }
                             ,{ $match:{ $expr:{ $or:[{ $eq: [ 24,  "$$age_field" ] }]}} }
                          ],

                     as: "joined_result" }},
              {$unwind: {path: "$joined_result",
              preserveNullAndEmptyArrays: true}},
         ])

2. OR is part of AND:

    db.t1.aggregate([ {$lookup: {  from: "t2",
                    let: {age_field: "$age", name_field: "$name"},
                    pipeline:[{ $match:{ $expr: [ {$and:[
                                         {$eq:["$old","$$age_field" ]},
                                         {$eq:["$alias","$$name_field"]},
                                         {$or: {$eq: [24, "$$age_field"]}}
                                         ]}
                                    ]  }}
                                    ] ,
                     as: "joined_result" }},
              {$unwind: {path: "$joined_result",
              preserveNullAndEmptyArrays: true}},
              ])

3. Array of expression:

    db.t1.aggregate([ {$lookup: {  from: "t2",
                    let: {age_field: "$age", name_field: "$name"},
                    pipeline:[{ $match:{ $expr:[
                                                {$and:[{$eq:["$old","$$age_field" ]},
                                                       {$eq: ["$alias","$$name_field"]}]},
                                                {$or: {$eq: [24, "$old"]}}]}}
                             ],
                     as: "joined_result" }},
              {$unwind: {path: "$joined_result",
              preserveNullAndEmptyArrays: true}},
         ])

A: The query condition
(t1.age = t2.old AND t1.name = t2.alias OR t1.age = 24)
is the same as:
((t1.age = t2.old AND t1.name = t2.alias) OR t1.age = 24)
The SQL AND operator has precedence over the OR operator.
Then the $lookup pipeline's $match stage can be constructed as follows:
db.t1.aggregate([ {$lookup: {
                from: "t2",
                let: {age_field: "$age", name_field: "$name"},
                pipeline: [ { $match:{ $expr:{
                               $or: [
                                    { $and: [
                                          { $eq: [ "$old",  "$$age_field" ] },
                                          { $eq: [ "$alias", "$$name_field" ]}
                                    ]},
                                { $eq: [ 24, "$$age_field"]}
                               ]
                             }
                        }
                }],
                as: "joined_result"
            }},
           {$unwind: {path: "$joined_result", preserveNullAndEmptyArrays: true}}
])


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Overview: analysis of trends
Part of Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2015
This report looks at the whole five years of the Coalition's term in government, although only some of the indicators bring us right up to date.
The record of the last five years
The data on the labour market and benefit claims covers 2015. The data on incomes and poverty is less recent, taking us only to March 2014.
So what can we say about the Coalition's record on incomes, jobs, pay, homelessness and education? Inevitably, the record contains good and bad, but the divisions between those indicators which have improved and those which have not is instructive. The table below summarises the changes over both the last five years and the last ten.
Much of the 'good' is found in the employment chapter. Unemployment has fallen markedly over the last five years from 2.5 million to 1.8 million even if it is not quite back to the level of the mid-2000s. This is true for young adults as well as older adults, and true for long- and short-term unemployment. Household worklessness is now the lowest on record – only 16 per cent of working-age households have no working adult.
There are a few caveats to this good news story; there are more people on temporary contracts than five years ago, and more people in self-employment, for whom incomes have been falling. There are more people working part-time but wanting full-time work. Pay rates are lower than five years ago across the distribution, after inflation has been taken into account. Still, though, the improvement is real – there are more people in full-time, permanent jobs as well.
This rise in employment has knock-on effects when we look at the number of people claiming benefits, but overall the indicators in the social security chapter are pretty mixed. Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) claims have fallen much more quickly than unemployment, leaving around 680,000 unemployed people not claiming the support they are entitled to. Out-of-work Housing Benefit claims have fallen, but claims among working families have risen. And while the number of people claiming Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) is lower now than in 2010, it rose in the last year, after falling almost every year in the previous decade.
Summary of indicators
The table below shows how indicators in the report have changed over the last five and ten years – better, worse or same. The assessment tends to be conservative; where there is any doubt, the assessment is of no change.
Some of the effects of the 2011 Welfare Reform Act can now be considered in this report. For the first time, we can include the number of people claiming Universal Credit. In May 2015, following delays and the phased nature of its rollout this figure stood at 65,000 – around 1.5 per cent of the out-of-work benefit caseload. This is the government's flagship welfare reform policy, but its impact so far is negligible because of the small numbers.
Another high profile policy is the overall benefit cap, which so far affects relatively few people (around 22,000 households nationwide) but reduces their income by a lot (an average of £65 per week). With the further reduction of this cap from £26,000 to £20,000 (£23,000 in London), the number of people affected will rise sharply, and the average losses to those currently hit will increase by a further £60. Whereas the benefit cap affects a relatively small number of people, the new harsher system of sanctions for benefit claimants affects a large number of people – 20 times as many in the last year. While numbers fell in 2014 in line with falling numbers of JSA claims, from 890,000 to 500,000, it is still around twice the level of a decade ago, when the number of claimants was roughly the same.
It is not just the number of people affected, which remains historically high even after last year's fall, but the size of the financial penalty. Around one-third of people sanctioned last year had been sanctioned more than once. The penalties ranged from four weeks' to three years' suspension of benefits.
Sanctions existed before 2011, and a form of benefit cap existed for private renters, to the extent that Housing Benefit did not cover rent in all cases. But the scale was much smaller. What we have now is a large, potentially growing number of people whose needs would previously have been met by social security but are now contingent on a variety of factors such as family size, geographical location and personal behaviour.
On incomes and income poverty, the overall proportion is similar to a decade ago, but the mix of people has changed. The average household saw their income increase by 2 per cent over the last decade, the result of a rise up to the late 2000s and a fall thereafter. Poverty across the whole population is very similar now to ten years ago – around 21 per cent measured after housing costs. But now just over half of all people in poverty are either in work or living with a working adult, up from around 40 per cent ten years ago. A third of people in poverty live in private rented accommodation, up from a fifth a decade ago. And while in 2003/04, there were more people in poverty aged over 65 than 16–25, the opposite is now true. Due to changing definitions, a longer trend is harder to confirm but in the last couple of years the poverty rate among disabled people has risen, widening the gap in poverty rates between families with and without a disabled member.
Increases in the cost of food, fuel and rent have hit lower-income families harder than average families, as these items make up a greater share of expenditure for people further down the income spectrum. Around a quarter of people in poverty are behind with at least one bill. And, most strikingly, the proportion of families in the poorest fifth with no savings stands at 69 per cent, up from 57 per cent a decade ago.
The Services chapter shows some progress in health, but in education the same inequalities that we have been reporting on for years persist. Children receiving free school meals are still less likely to get five good GCSEs than others - the gap remains at 27 percentage points. The gap between boys and girls persists, and the gap is greatest between poorer boys and poorer girls. The health indicators, though slow moving, do show closing inequalities in life expectancy between men and women and between men in more deprived areas and average areas.
As well as outcomes, the chapter also covers provision of services, focusing on the key areas of legal aid and social care. Cuts to legal aid mean that the number of people receiving help for welfare and housing issues has plummeted in the last couple of years. The number of over 65s receiving help to live at home is falling, while resources are focused on more concentrated and intensive packages of care for those in greatest need.
The most obvious examples of indicators moving in the wrong direction are in the housing chapter, particularly those relating to homelessness. Over the last five years, the number of rented households in England and Wales who were evicted has more than trebled, and now stands at 18,000. The number of households placed in temporary accommodation has risen by a quarter, to 64,000. Of these, 17,000 were placed outside their original local authority area, more than double the number five years previously.
Pulling this together, a picture emerges about the changes of the last five years. The average person in the UK saw their incomes fall a little during the recession and the recovery. If they owned a home, the fall will have been cushioned by low interest rates. Most of those in work avoided unemployment, even if their pay barely rose. Over a longer period, ten years rather than five, they are probably slightly better off.
At the lower end of the income spectrum, the number of people living in poverty has not really grown, but their material circumstances may well be worse now, as their incomes have not kept up with rising costs. Moreover, low-income families now have less money to fall back on in the form of savings. The mix of people in poverty has also changed – a shift towards younger, working people in private rented accommodation.
But there is now a growing group, a subset of those in poverty, whose circumstances, both in terms of material wellbeing and security, are far worse than five or ten years ago. This group includes those whose benefits have been sanctioned or capped, people in temporary accommodation and people who have been evicted from their homes. It is a group of people whose entitlement to state support in hard times has been restricted, and whose problems frequently manifest themselves in housing crises.
Poverty and place
Each chapter in this report ends with a map, showing the variation between local areas of a particular indicator. Here we focus on three of them, beginning with the map in the first chapter showing the proportion of people claiming certain benefits.
This shows a very striking pattern. In Northern Ireland, every single district has an above-average proportion of people claiming benefits, as well as the district, Derry, with the single highest rate. Other areas such as the west of Scotland, the Welsh Valleys and the ex-industrial parts of the north of England also stand out.
The map has changed little over the last few years with one significant exception. When we produced a similar map three years ago, the Inner East London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets were in the group with the highest levels of benefit receipt. This is no longer the case.
The position of London regarding educational attainment among children receiving free school meals is also one of the striking figures of the map in the services chapter. London stands completely apart – every borough has a GCSE pass rate for FSM pupils above the national average. In contrast, the east coast of England is an almost unbroken line of educational under-attainment among poorer pupils, with three of the five lowest performing areas being in East Anglia.
The other map that stands out is in the housing chapter, showing the proportion of children in each local authority that live in private rented accommodation paid at least in part by Housing Benefit. Here there are two things at play – the incomes of the families and the prominence of private rented accommodation rather than social rented. London figures quite prominently, as it has high levels of poverty, high housing costs and a large private rented sector. But areas with the highest levels tend to be small towns and suburbs, and, again, coastal areas in the east of England.
These are just indicative findings. There is a lot of variation within types of area as well as between types of area. But the 'rise' of London over the last decade is hard to deny, especially in terms of employment rates and educational attainment. The changes in coastal towns also deserves greater attention. The high proportion of poor children in the private rented sector in those areas is telling – these areas lack the infrastructure to cope with rising poverty.
Replacing the Child Poverty Act
As part of the Welfare Reform and Work Bill, the 2010 Child Poverty Act will be replaced with the Life Chances Act. As a result, the income poverty targets contained within the 2010 act will no longer be law, and will be replaced by reporting duties for measures of household worklessness and educational attainment.
The government is also intending to develop other measures and indicators of what it describes as 'root causes' of poverty, including family breakdown, debt and addiction. The new measures are yet to be announced but it seems low income will not be one of them. The DWP is still committed to publishing the relevant data, however.
To exclude income entirely would be a mistake. Poverty is about the lack of resources relative to needs, and income is generally used as the proxy for those resources. As well as collecting data on causes and symptoms, there needs to be some measure of poverty itself, or the indicators are incoherent. Having a broad set of indicators is also a positive step – this series of reports has always been based on that broader approach to measuring and tackling poverty.
As part of a wider set of indicators, the evidence in this report makes a very good case for housing being central to any understanding of poverty. In terms of life chances, having a warm, secure home is vital. It is also vital to have some idea of disadvantage in working families. This report has shown for several years that income poverty is not solved simply by one or sometimes both parents going out to work. It would be an obvious flaw in any new set of measures to pretend this was not the case.
The next five years
Predicting exactly what will happen to levels of poverty is never easy – so much depends on the broader state of the economy and labour market, and the policy decisions made in response to that. However, there are big changes we already know about, which will inevitably make a big difference to the poverty picture in the UK.
One change is the continuing rise in the state pension age, and the impact this will have on pensioner couples receiving pension credit. Pensioners are generally seen as generously treated by the benefits system. Over half the 'welfare' budget is spent on pensions, and the state pension is protected by the 'triple lock' – it rises by whichever is the highest of earnings, inflation or 2.5 per cent. But pension credit is not included in this lock, and has been subject to the same freezes and low increases as working-age benefits. As a result, after-inflation pension credit is worth less in 2015 than it was in 2010.
It is possible that we are already seeing the effects of this in the poverty statistics. While the rate of pensioner poverty over the last ten and even five years has fallen, the last two years of data have seen no further falls. The reduction in pensioner poverty was one of the great social policy success stories of the last 15 years, but low pensioner poverty rates should not be taken for granted.
The second big change relates to working-age benefits. A cut in working tax credits was announced in the 2015 summer budget. The changes – a cut in the total amount that any family could receive and a reduction in the number of families eligible – were announced alongside the new National Living Wage (NLW), effectively a much higher minimum wage for those aged over 25. From a poverty perspective, the cuts to tax credits do far more harm than the increases to the minimum wage will do good.
Analysis by JRF and others showed how many families on low incomes would be worse off with the package of measures announced in the Summer Budget. JRF highlighted that in families with two children, both parents would have to work full time on the NLW to get close to a socially acceptable standard of living in 2020 and lone parents with one child (also working full time on the NLW) would be £80 short of what they need every week, compared to £39 short today.
These changes to tax credits were rejected by the House of Lords and have proven politically very unpopular. From the perspective of poverty reduction, they were problematic in any case. Expressed simply, tax credits acknowledge the cost of children and wages do not. So an approach to tackling poverty that uses tax credits will, everything else being equal, be more effective in reducing poverty among families with children than one that focuses solely on earnings. A better balance would have been to bring in the higher minimum wage and leave tax credits as they are. Higher earnings would lead to lower entitlement to tax credits, meaning the overall tax credit bill would fall, albeit by less than the scenario set out by the Chancellor in June. But families on low incomes would have been protected.
Regardless, cuts to 'welfare' in the order of £12bn were promised in the Conservative manifesto at the 2015 General Election. Tax credits were due to supply £4bn of those cuts. If that money is to be found within the welfare budget, there are only three options.
Firstly, it could come through current in-work benefits, by reworking the tax credit proposals to make them more palatable, possibly delaying their impact. Over the medium term, the effects would be the same, but the pain would be forestalled. The second option is to make changes to Universal Credit (UC), so that as people move onto that new system, only then are the cuts felt. The slow rollout of UC makes estimating the impacts of that approach very difficult, but again, this would simply delay the problem, and undermine the effectiveness of UC at the same time.
The third option is that it is out-of-work benefits that take the hit. If the working tax credit cuts were unpopular due to the effects on working families who are seen as deserving of government support, attention may move to a group seen as less deserving. Given the long term freeze in out-of-work benefits, cuts to Housing Benefit for young people and reductions in amounts of money given to disabled people who have been found unfit for work, further cuts to this group would cause exceptional hardship. At the moment, and probably until next spring, there is a lot of uncertainty over what exactly will happen. Announcements made in budgets and spending reviews can change. But ostensibly, any cuts to the social security bill in the order outlined at election time are almost bound to increase poverty levels. Although such an increase was predicted when the recession first hit in 2009 and when the first round of austerity cuts were announced in 2010, one of the reasons it didn't happen was due to the good performance of the UK labour market, highlighted in this report.
There is, therefore, a lot riding on the labour market continuing to grow as strongly in the next five years as it did in the last five. But while the last five years was about getting people who were out of work into work, the next five has to be about helping people in work progress both in terms of hours and pay. This is potentially a much harder task.
There also needs to be an increased focus on the role of another market, the housing market, in tackling poverty. Many of the trends that worsened the most are at the acute end of the housing crisis – rising homelessness, rising repossessions, the growing number of families living in temporary accommodation. People cannot be expected to work their way out of poverty in such conditions – a secure, affordable home is the first step on the route out of poverty.
Money commentary - analysis of the trends
This chapter looks at different aspects of household finances – income, expenditure, debts and savings. Money matters.
Work and worklessness commentary - analysis of the trends
The employment rate in the UK reached its highest level on record, 73.5 per cent, for those aged 16–64 by the first quarter of 2015, although it is still below previous peaks when accounting for changing state pension ages.
Welfare and benefits commentary - analysis of the trends
A further round of welfare reforms have been announced in recent months, many building on other changes that have been introduced in the last few years.
Services commentary - analysis of the trends
Last year's Monitoring poverty and social exclusion was the first time an entire chapter was dedicated to services. The justification for this was the important role services play in wealth redistribution, complementing the work done by taxes and welfare in reducing poverty. Therefore our approach to services has been about provision, access and outcomes. The indicators in this chapter have been chosen to reflect that.
Housing commentary - analysis of the trends
In this chapter we consider the links between housing and poverty. To put this into context it is useful to understand how overall tenure patterns have changed in recent years.
More on this report
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In Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) 2018, the total value of inward mergers and acquisitions (M&A) was £33.3 billion, the highest value since Quarter 4 2016 (£85.2 billion).
The total value of inward M&A for the whole of 2018 (Jan to Dec) was £71.1 billion, a sizeable increase on the value reported in 2017 (£35.2 billion), yet considerably lower than the value recorded in 2016 (£190.0 billion).
The value of outward M&A (UK companies acquiring foreign companies abroad) was £9.9 billion in Quarter 4 2018, a sizeable increase on the value recorded in the previous quarter (£4.3 billion).
Quarterly data on the value and number of mergers, acquisitions and disposals involving UK companies with values of £1 million or more.
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Brand new spankin' heat from one of Jersey's best all-around producers Nadus! Utilizing an addictive chop sample intertwined with a lot of bass makes this a party anthem from the start! The club kicks hit hard like a mallet and you'll probably find yourself replaying this one . . alot.


I made this necklace as a positive affirmation of my desire to visit Paris this year. This piece is saying "Yes, Yes!" to Paris!
Oui Oui INDEED! I surely hope your dream comes true! Beautiful piece and Happy 50th. It's all good from here on!!!!!!!
I love this! Hoping all your dreams come true, PAris would be wonderful! Happy Birthday!
Thanks so much for stopping by my blog and leaving such a nice comment. It is so much fun to receive comments and find that so many of us have the same likes.
WHEN you go, will you take me? The bracelet is beautiful!
I sure hope you get to go, Terri! I've never been, except in my dreams!!!
Keepin' my toes crossed for you!!!
What a beautiful necklace, hope it is like a lucky charm for you and you go to Paris soon!
gorgeous, lovely, such a beauty!!!!!


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saveHighscore(HighscoreModel) - Static method in class Tetris.DataRepository

A ponttáblázat mentése XML dokumentumba.

saveShape(Shape) - Method in class Tetris.Shapes.Board

Az Shape mentése a pályára.

setAchieved(Date) - Method in class Tetris.Model.HighscoreElement

Beállítja azt az időpontot, mint dátumot, amikor a játékos elérte
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setCurrentAchievement(HighscoreElement) - Method in class Tetris.Controller.HighscoreController

Beállítja a játékos aktuális eredményét, ami tartalmazni fogja a játékos
 nevét, pontszámát, és hogy mikor érte el azt a pontszámot.

setHighscoreTable(Vector<HighscoreElement>) - Method in class Tetris.Model.HighscoreModel

Beállítja a játékosok eredményeit tartalmazó táblát.

setPlayername(String) - Method in class Tetris.Controller.Tetriscontroller

Beállítja az aktuális Game játékosának nevét

setPlayername(String) - Method in class Tetris.Game

Beállítja az aktuális Game játékosának nevét

setPlayername(String) - Method in class Tetris.Model.HighscoreElement

Beállítja a játékos nevét.

setPlayerscore(int) - Method in class Tetris.Model.HighscoreElement

Beállítja a játékos pontszámát

setup() - Method in class Tetris.Test.BoardTest

setup() - Method in class Tetris.Test.IShapeTest

setup() - Method in class Tetris.Test.JShapeTest

setup() - Method in class Tetris.Test.LShapeTest

setup() - Method in class Tetris.Test.MatrixHelperTest

setup() - Method in class Tetris.Test.OShapeTest

setup() - Method in class Tetris.Test.SShapeTest

setup() - Method in class Tetris.Test.TShapeTest

setup() - Method in class Tetris.Test.ZShapeTest

setX(int) - Method in class Tetris.Position

Beállítja az x szerinti eltolás mértékét.

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Beállítja az y szerinti eltolás mértékét.

Shape - Class in Tetris.Shapes

A Shape osztálya, mely ezeket tartalmazza: Position, randomszám generátor,
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Shape(Position) - Constructor for class Tetris.Shapes.Shape

Az Shape megkapja a pozíciót.

ShapeSavingTest() - Method in class Tetris.Test.BoardTest

SShape - Class in Tetris.Shapes

Az SShape osztálya, melynek konstruktorában van megadva, hogy hogyan nézzen ki a mátrixa.

SShape(Position) - Constructor for class Tetris.Shapes.SShape

Az SShape mátrixbeli reprezentációja.

SShapeTest - Class in Tetris.Test

SShapeTest() - Constructor for class Tetris.Test.SShapeTest

start(Stage) - Method in class Tetris.Window

sweepRow(int[][], int) - Static method in class Tetris.MatrixHelper

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We are very jealous. We had snow flakes on Friday but they didn't stick to the ground. There was hardly enuf to play in.
I love to romp in the snow. The last storm we had a couple of days ago MOM had to shovel SIX times. But it is beautiful and she says it's good exercise.
You have the same snow totals as us. Torrey is the only one happy.
Nice one! Beats are miserable rain any day.
Kellie escaped early enough on the 26th to fly south of the snow, but Jeff got whacked in the front fender and Cass in the rear fender on their way back to their apartments, so they could report to work the next day. Neither was hurt, but my checkbook will be, when I cover their deductibles. Patrick was p***ed off Saturday when his flight back to Phoenix was cancelled. Me? I called him a cab to the airport on Sunday, and we'll get plowed out today. Glad the pups are enjoying it, even if Matt isn't.


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Saline solution is often used to treat chronic fatigue syndrome
It is the most effective treatment for severe ME/CFS that I have found in my 21 years of looking….Dr. David Bell 2006
Saline solution is…
an intravenous IV drip containing sodium chloride (salt water) at levels close to those found in the blood (usually 0.9%). Saline solution raises blood volume levels; a common need in a disorder where patients are often a liter or more down in blood volume. It may also effect the functioning of the autonomic nervous system which has been implicated in chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia and similar other disorders.
Outside of chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) saline solution is typically used in emergency situations when blood volume drops enough (hypovolemia) to significantly impair blood circulation.
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Saline is often used – when ME/CFS patients are able to get it – to counter the effects of a crash. Staci Stevens of Workwell recommends saline after exercise testing. It may be particularly effective when taken before and after surgery at reducing the side effects of anesthesia.
Saline Solution May Be Effective in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) and POTS Because…
While it's clear that saline IV's raise the blood volume allowing more blood to get to the tissues, organs and brain, other methods of increasing blood volume have failed to produce same results. Why saline IV's can have such beneficial effects in some is a mystery.
Twelve hundred mg. sodium chloride daily for eight weeks enabled half the chronic fatigue syndrome patients with orthostatic hypotension (low blood pressure upon standing) who failed a tilt table test to pass it in a 1997 study. Burklow et. al found providing saline to adolescents who had fainted during a tilt table test, enabled all of them to pass successfully pass a 30 minute tilt table test without fainting. Heart rate variability tests suggested the saline stopped the sympathetic nervous system crash the adolescents were experiencing and demonstrated saline's effectiveness at regulating autonomic nervous system functioning.
A 2014 study found that IV saline significantly increased cardiovascular performance (increased stroke volume and cardiac output and reduced systemic vascular resistance) but did not increase exercise capacity (VO2peak, peak HR) in POTS. A 2017 study found that intermittent saline IV's over a year significantly reduced symptoms and improved quality of life in postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) patients.
Regular Use of Saline May Reduce Symptoms, Boost Energy in POTS (and ME/CFS?)
Remarkably, 50% of the study participants didn't feel they needed the IV's anymore – suggesting that regular use of saline IV's in POTS may be able to eradicate the disease in some. The authors believed the IV's allowed the POTS patients to exercise, overcome the deconditioning present, and basically work their way out of the illness.
Oral rehydration solution is currently being evaluated in an NIH funded ME/CFS study and an IV albumin/saline study is underway in POTS.
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Doctors Report
Dr. Bell noted that a year of daily 1 liter saline infusions had enabled a severely ill CFS patient who had been undergoing seizures (which had been characterized as psychological in nature) to return to full-time work.
With the first bag of saline the "pseudo-seizures" stopped and did not return. At three months of daily infusions of 1 liter of normal saline, she was able to be up and around the house for several hours a day. At six months of treatment she was able to volunteer at her church for three hours a day. At one year of infusions she returned to full time work and has remained working for nearly five years.
Saline solution's effects are, however, usually temporary resulting in a return of symptoms when the treatment is stopped. Dr. Bell reported that 75% of the 25 patients he'd tried saline solution on had improved.
Many specialist ME/CFS practitioners including Dr. Peterson, Dr. Klimas and Dr. Bateman use saline solution.
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Patients Report
Many people have reported significant increases in energy and reduced symptoms following saline. One person with ME/CFS suffering a severe relapse after being given general anesthesia for an operation reported being revived 5 weeks later after being given saline solution.
Another reported ME/CFS patient reported saline helped her recovery from surgery greatly…"
I recently had major surgery and was given IV saline continuously from pre-op until two days later when I left the hospital. It made all the difference in the world for me, I believe because it not only increased my blood volume but it also helped to flush out the effects of general anesthesia. As a result, I'm still recovering from the surgery but I did not experience any relapse in ME/CFS symptoms. Following the anesthesia protocol (always carry your laminated card and present it with your insurance card) is equally important but I can't stress enough the benefits of IV saline before, during and after surgery."
IV saline is not without its risks. If PICC lines ("permanently" placed catheter) are used they will likely cause an infection at some point. The woman who returned to health (see above) encountered no less than four infections over a year. Others have gone for over a year without an infection. Dr. Bell does not recommend changing the line every six weeks.
The Nitty Gritty on IV Saline and POTS / Speed and frequency – Does it Matter? – An Aussie blogs on her experiences with IV saline – lots of information here.
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In the last three decades the two major political parties, the NPP and the NDC have dominated modern contemporary Ghanaian politics.
In fact, they have ridden the trust and goodwill reposed in them by Ghanaian voters to become incredibly powerful, rich and overbearing.
Without mincing words, the NDC and the NPP are the political overlords of Ghana, ubiquitous, and omnipresent. They are everywhere you go in the country, in the nooks and crannies of urban and rural areas. They, without any iota of doubt, dominate our lives.
Our very existence is contingent on what these parties decide when they are in power. They control our healthcare, education, employment, and many other issues that affect our lives.
Ultimately, policies they pursue either accelerate our economic progress and propel our country's development or worsen our already deplorable state of unrelenting poverty and high unemployment.
On the campaign trail during election cycles over the years, the NDC and the NPP promised to fundamentally change our fortunes and in the process bring prosperity and financial security to all.
But the many promises made have not materialized, not seen the light of day; they are essentially illusions.Things have remained stagnant, the status quo vastly unchanged and our financial and economic lot hasn't improved one bit.
Some have suggested that the time is ripe for an independent president with no political party affiliations to steer the affairs of the country, someone who will be an anti-dote to the power and influence of the NDC and the NPP.
Proponents of this idea think there is a dissonance between the two political giants and the Ghanaian public. They also strongly adhere to the belief that the only way to save Ghana from the intransigence and corrupt ways of the parties who indeed have had their time in the sun, is to go the way of the benevolent dictator.
I enthusiastically share the sentiments of those who think the NDC and the NPP have misled and deceived Ghanaians for so long.
But, I wonder as do so many others that effectively reducing the power of the NDC and the NPP will not a walk in the park; in fact, it will be an uphill task given their clout, wealth, resources and ability to spread their wings where others would have immense difficulties doing so.
What is more, are Ghanaians who are so used to the current political establishment and familiar with the actors ready to switch their allegiances to an unknown quantity?
Would that individual have vast, unlimited resources and deep pockets to match the NDC and the NPP boot for boot in the race to win the hearts and minds of millions of deeply skeptical voting age Ghanaians?
It will be a tall order for anyone with the desire to change the political calculus. Unfortunately, we will remain stuck with these two political giants so long as Ghanaians refuse to venture outside the box.
Ghanaians are sick and tired of the NPP/NDC duopoly, that is, the dominance of our political landscape and system by the two parties.
They have no credibility left; they have no more political capital. Ghanaians desperately want a makeover of the entire system, a change that will be inherently good for all Ghanaians.
It is time to ditch the two political parties, time to sideline them for their incompetency, mendacity and inability to deliver on their pie-in-sky promises.


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Essence Takes on Misogyny in Hip Hop
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On March 7 and 8, Essence presented Queens Rule, a show exploring the objectification of black woman by today's hip hop artists. In 20 vignettes divided by positive and negative hip hop lyrics, performers danced out their response to the objectification within the music.
"The original idea behind hip hop has changed," said artist-in-residence Adenike Sharpley, artistic director of Essence. "It's purpose was for young people to get away from fighting and gangs and be productive with what was available to them because there was a lack of inspiration and role models to look up to. … [But] today's artists focus on money and women. This leads me to believe that record companies are promoting a certain kind of hip hop artist; they are promoting those that feed the black stereotype and disrespect for women rather than community empowerment."
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Everyone on hand for the event was the first to experience the new #NYXPalmBeach store, with over 2,000 NYX Cosmetics products and our NYX Beauty Bar! They swatched and played with the latest products and learn about the lates...t trends in beauty.
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the Beersheba-Arad Valleys in the course of the 7th century BCE was short-lived.
that took place at the end of the Iron Age.
and couldn't protect them anymore?
that there was an orderly abandonment before the place was destroyed.
century BCE was found in other forts and small settlements.
there was a settlement gap at least until the fifth and fourth centuries BCE.
only a small scale recovery in the Persian period, mainly by Edomite and Arab tribes.
the wave of devastation on the sights in the Negev.
Was it in 597 BCE, 586 BCE or perhaps even later?
We can't know that time gaps between the destruction of each of the various sites.
Was it one short period of destruction following a planned military campaign?
following a series of offensives by different agents?
We can't know also the identity of those responsible for the destruction.
Semi-nomadic tribes from an Edomite or Arab origin?
The answer to these questions are all part of historical reconstruction.
the central administration of the kingdom.
was depending upon the ability of the kingdom of Judah to defend it.
collapsed, and with them, the entire array of settlements.
that continued for most of the sixth century BCE.
Judean desert and along the Western laterals of the Dead Sea.
in the eastern region of the Kingdom of Judah.
the economic and political centers on the mountain reach.
of the military and economic system after Jerusalem was destroyed.
but in small scale and as a very isolated sites.
of the settlement collapse that transpired in the early 6th century BCE.
only the main site of En Gedi and Jericho were rebuilt in the Persian period.
Let's summarize the archeological data.
deliberate destruction in Jerusalem and its immediate environs.
remained so until the beginning of the Persian period.
the fortresses of Judah's western border were also destroyed.
The Shephelah was emptied of its inhabitants.
more complex process that eventually also led to a ruinous consequences.
kingdom in the Beersheba-Arad Valleys collapsed as well.
Together with a settlement that had existed alongside of them.
north of the Negev, to the southern part of the Shephelah in the Hebron hills.
as presented above is clear.
the Persian Period, there was a demographic and settlement crisis.
may be estimated in about 40,000 people.
can be estimated in 30,000 people.
now, have served as the almost exclusive source for all historical discussions.
in the history of the kingdom of Judah.
The Babylonians concentrated their effort on Jerusalem and its immediate environs.
continued to exist almost unchanged.
that most of the exiles to Babylon had been residents of Jerusalem.
it was probably residents of this region also who were deported to Babylon.
the kingdom's eastern and southern border areas are still unclear.
part of the population was taken from the small sites into the Babylonian exile?
of population from either the Benjamin region, or the northern Judean hills.
limited in number and from the demographic point of view, it was insignificant.
after the destruction of Jerusalem, was a sharp decline in urban life.
a settlement in Judah remained largely based on the rural population.
This sharp decline in urban life has other implications on the material culture.
usually associated with urban and other elite classes in society.
This is a reflection of deep religious and social change.
to a broader and graduate change in religion and society.
the disappearance of iconography and stamp impressions on jar handles occurred.
a gradual change that had already begun during the 7th century BCE.
like the houses in Tell en-Nasbeh, Biblical Mizpah.
the time of the destruction.
We may emphasize one more important conclusion.
is that the, Return to Zion, left no archaeological evidence.
there is a marked dwindling of settlement, particularly in the Benjamin region.
of either a demographic increase or any change in settlement pattern.
the city's population was only few hundreds, maybe to 1,000 people.
these returnees only amounted to several hundreds.


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