Guibemantis punctatus

Guibemantis punctatus is a species of frog in the family Mantellidae.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and heavily degraded former forest.

Sources
 Nussbaum, R., Vallan, D. & Raxworthy, C. 2004.

2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Category:Mantellidae
Category:Endemic frogs of Madagascar
Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Category:Amphibians described in 1979


Afterall there will be an endless battle between the technology and human mentality.

Output: After all, there will be an endless battle between the technology and human mentality.

System: lstm,cnn


In addition, the national defense will be endangered if this tracking proposal is launched.

Output: In addition, the national defense will be endangered if this tracking proposal is launched.

System: smt,copy-net,transformer,cnn


Rising life expectancies can be a challenge.

Output: Rising life expectancy can be a challenge.

System: copy-net


People in current era are described as demanding or having high level of life expectancies in another word.

Output: People in the current era are described as demanding or having high standard of life expectancies in another word.

System: lstm


The surveillance is a useful method to keep society's safe, but also kills the privacy of people in some degree.

Output: Surveillance is a useful method to keep society safe, but also kills the privacy of people in some degree.

System: cnn


And once this happens, privacy does not exist any more and people's life is under great threaten.

Output: And once this happens, privacy does not exist any more and people's lives are under great threat.

System: copy-net,transformer,cnn


The high accuracy in utilizing surveillance technology eliminates the amount of disagreements among people.

Output: The high accuracy in utilizing surveillance technology eliminates the amount of disagreements among people.

System: smt,lstm,copy-net,cnn


So the rising life expectancies can be regarded as a proof of what we have made to combat for ourselves.

Output: So the rising life expectancy can be regarded as proof of what we have made to combat for ourselves.

System: lstm,copy-net,cnn


This would result in decrease in birth rate of a country which is a very serious problem,especially in more developed countries as the population has already reached a minimum.

Output: This would result in a decrease in the birth rate of a country which is a very serious problem,especially in more developed countries as the population has already reached a minimum.

System: transformer


Even if the safety is the most important thing to consider in normal life, many people still want to keep their privacy in spite of existing some potential danger.

Output: Even if the safety is the most important thing to consider in normal life, many people still want to keep their privacy in spite of existing some potential danger.

System: smt


Q:

Squid reverse proxy with optional SSL

I'm trying to set up squid as a load-balancing reverse-proxy, and I'm having a bit of trouble with the SSL.

One of the site's applications checks to see if a site is loaded over SSL, and behaves differently if that is the case, so I need SSL connections to be proxied over SSL, and non-SSL connections to be proxied without it.

Right now, the squid server accepts connections over HTTP and HTTPS, but it only makes connections over HTTP to the upstream servers.

The interesting part of my squid configuration looks like this:
http_port 80 vhost vport
https_port 443 vhost vport  cert=/etc/cert.pem key=/etc/cert.key
cache_peer 10.0.0.10 parent 80 0 originserver round-robin
cache_peer 10.0.0.11 parent 80 0 originserver round-robin

Is there a simple way to tell it to proxy the SSL connections upstream over SSL, while leaving the others alone?

A:

UPDATE (actually tried this from my squid...):
acl is_ssl port 443
https_port 443 cert=<yourcert> key=<yourkey> accel name=site_ssl defaultsite=<y\
our_external_site>
cache_peer <your_internal_ssl> parent 443 0 no-query originserver ssl sslflags=\
DONT_VERIFY_PEER name=site_ssl
cache_peer_access site_ssl allow is_ssl
cache_peer_access site_ssl deny !

is_ssl

acl nonssl port 80
http_port 80 accel defaultsite=<your_external_site>  name=site_nonssl
cache_peer <your_internal_nonssl> parent 80 0 no-query name=site_nonssl origins\
erver
cache_peer_access site_nonssl allow nonssl
cache_peer_access site_nonssl deny !

is_nonssl

ORIGINAL ANSWER BELOW HERE:
you want something like
cache_peer 10.0.0.11 parent 443 0 no-query originserver ssl sslflags=DONT_VERIFY_PEER name=site_ssl
acl sites_server_3 dstdomain site_ssl
cache_peer_access site_ssl allow ssl_servers
http_access allow ssl_servers


[Decanoic acid, new precursor for in vitro biosynthesis of oleic acid by a plant subcellular fraction].

Various membraneous fractions prepared from a cauliflower homogenate synthesize radioactive oleic acid when they are incubated in a 14C-decanolate solution.

The more active fraction is formed of vesicles sedimenting at 30,000 g x 20 mn (heavy microsomes).

The labelled precursor is transformed by this fraction mainly into oleic acid and hydroxyacids.

ATP, NADPH, CoA and oxygen are required for these reactions.

Labelled fatty acids, longer than lauric and (i.e. 14C-myristic, 14C-palmitic and 14C-stearic acids) are not transformed into oleic acid by the subcellular fraction studied in this paper.


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Q:

Is it possible to update multiple columns using different criteria in one statement?

I need to set all columns to 0 if they are negative.

 Currently I do it one column at a time:
UPDATE #ListingRank SET Distance = 0 WHERE Distance < 0
UPDATE #ListingRank SET ActionDays = 0 WHERE ActionDays < 0
UPDATE #ListingRank SET Price = 0 WHERE Price < 0
UPDATE #ListingRank SET Beds = 0 WHERE Beds < 0
UPDATE #ListingRank SET Baths = 0 WHERE Baths < 0
UPDATE #ListingRank SET SqFt = 0 WHERE SqFt < 0

Is it possible to do the same in a single statement?

A:

You can try to use CASE WHEN
UPDATE #ListingRank
SET Distance = (CASE WHEN Distance < 0 THEN 0 ELSE Distance END),
    ActionDays = (CASE WHEN ActionDays < 0 THEN 0 ELSE ActionDays END),
    Price = (CASE WHEN Price < 0 THEN 0 ELSE Price END),
    Beds = (CASE WHEN Beds < 0 THEN 0 ELSE Beds END),
    Baths = (CASE WHEN Baths < 0 THEN 0 ELSE Baths END),
    SqFt = (CASE WHEN SqFt < 0 THEN 0 ELSE SqFt END)


Q:

Angular 5 Service Worker not working

I try to add service worker to my project after updating to angular 5 and have some problems.

I add imports to app.module.ts:
import {ServiceWorkerModule} from '@angular/service-worker';
import {environment} from '../environments/environment';
...
environment.production ?

ServiceWorkerModule.register('/ngsw-worker.js') : [],

execute $ ng set apps.0.serviceWorker=true to allow service workers in project
generate config:
{
  "index": "/index.html",
  "assetGroups": [
    {
      "name": "app",
      "installMode": "prefetch",
      "resources": {
        "files": [
          "/index.html"
        ],
        "versionedFiles": [
          "/*.bundle.css",
          "/*.bundle.js",
          "/*.chunk.js"
        ]
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "assets",
      "installMode": "lazy",
      "updateMode": "prefetch",
      "resources": {
        "files": [
          "/assets/**"
        ]
      }
    }
  ],
  "dataGroups": [
    {
      "name": "api-performance",
      "urls": [
        "/",
        "/main",
        "/login",
        "/select-content"
      ],
      "cacheConfig": {
        "strategy": "performance",
        "maxSize": 100,
        "maxAge": "3d"
      }
    }
  ]
}

And manifest:
{
  "name": "App",
  "short_name": "App",
  "start_url": "/login",
  "theme_color": "#00a2e8",
  "background_color": "#00a2e8",
  "display": "standalone",
 "icons": [
  {
   "src": "assets\/icons\/android-icon-36x36.png",
   "sizes": "36x36",
   "type": "image\/png",
   "density": "0.75"
  },
  {
   "src": "assets\/icons\/android-icon-48x48.png",
   "sizes": "48x48",
   "type": "image\/png",
   "density": "1.0"
  },
  {
   "src": "assets\/icons\/android-icon-72x72.png",
   "sizes": "72x72",
   "type": "image\/png",
   "density": "1.5"
  },
  {
   "src": "assets\/icons\/android-icon-96x96.png",
   "sizes": "96x96",
   "type": "image\/png",
   "density": "2.0"
  },
  {
   "src": "assets\/icons\/android-icon-144x144.png",
   "sizes": "144x144",
   "type": "image\/png",
   "density": "3.0"
  },
  {
   "src": "assets\/icons\/android-icon-192x192.png",
   "sizes": "192x192",
   "type": "image\/png",
   "density": "4.0"
  }
 ]
}

Then build it in production:
ng build --prod --aot=false --build-optimizer=false

Http-server run in SSL mode, but lsit of service workers in chrome dev-tools is clear.

May be this flags broke it --aot=false --build-optimizer=false?

A:

Seems to be a problem in registering service worker in module where also importing AngularFire2.

I found solution how to register SW in main.ts, that's work:
platformBrowserDynamic().bootstrapModule(AppModule).then(() => {
  if ('serviceWorker' in navigator && environment.production) {
    navigator.serviceWorker.register('ngsw-worker.js');
  }
}).catch(err => console.log(err));


Q:

OneDrive SDK - IOS Get Special Folder

I am confused to the correct usage of the OneDriveSDK for IOS on the correct way to create a query in order to get all items in the special folder.

I want to get the music items  but once I create the request how should it be executed ?

There is no relevant example I can find anywhere.

Other types of requests have implementation methods, but not special folders
The url I want to construct is simple enough
https://api.onedrive.com/v1.0/drive/special/music/children

But I am confused on how to use the SDK to create and execute it
@class ODItemRequest, ODURLSessionDataTask;

The furthest I got was
ODSpecialCollectionRequest *musicCollectionRequest = self.client.drive.special.request;

What would I do next ?

documentation is at
https://github.com/OneDrive/onedrive-sdk-ios/blob/master/docs/overview.md
and the sdk is at
https://github.com/OneDrive/onedrive-sdk-i
ODSpecialCollectionRequest.h

#import "ODModels.h"
#import "ODCollectionRequest.h"

typedef void (^ODItemCompletionHandler)(ODItem *response, NSError *error);

typedef void (^ODSpecialCompletionHandler)(ODCollection *response, ODSpecialCollectionRequest *nextRequest, NSError *error);

/**
* The header for type ODSpecialCollectionRequestBuilder.

*/

@interface ODSpecialCollectionRequest : ODCollectionRequest
@end

A:

First notice that the request you are generating isn't quite right.

You want an ODChildrenCollectionRequest, generated from the "Music" folder.

To do this you will need to construct the correct URL using method calls (not properties like you have above).

 This looks like:
ODChildrenCollectionRequest *request = [[self.client drive] special:@"Music"] children] request];

You then want to execute a get on the children request.

 This looks like :
[request getWithCompletion:^(ODCollection *response, ODChildrenCollectionRequest *nextRequest, NSError *error){
     if(!error){
     // Do Stuff with children
     }
}];

The completion handler takes three parameters

the ODCollection which contains a NSArray of ODItem called
values these are the children of the music folder.

Another ODChildrenCollectionRequest, By default we only return the first
    200 items in a collection, this is another request you can issue
    that will return the next page of items.

An NSError object, this will be nil unless there was an error
    somewhere along the request.


Q:

It is as simple as ABC

Find three different digits $ A, B, C $ that satisfies the equation                                                              $ \overline{ABC} \times \overline{AA} \times \overline{AB} \times C = \overline{ABCABC}.

$

A:

 $ABCABC=1001\times ABC$. $1001=7\times11\times13$. So $A=1, B=3, C=7$ is the soution.


An tuhumi Hassan da fitar da wasu muhimman bayanai.


Meg yana sha'awar sanin komai game da Japan.


Bude kofar. Na san kina ciki.


Autumn: u sewn anything?
Autumn: show me show me!! :D
Autumn: <file_gif>
Israel: no :(
Israel: haven't had the time yet  ;(
Autumn: ooh :(
Autumn: u need to have pririorities in life!
Autumn: like me - i haven't checked the tests for a month because the dress wouldn't sew itself :D
Israel: you've sewn a dres??
Israel: you didn't show it to me
Autumn: oh didn't i?
Autumn: there will be some photos on the site soon so you'll see it:)
Israel: sure will! can't wait!:D
Autumn: <file_other>
Autumn: haven't i showed you this?
Israel: noo!! it's wonderful!!
Autumn: thanks :)
Israel: can't wait to see the whole dress! :)


Joe: This job is wearing me up
Tim: Oh no! I thought you love it
Joe: I do, but because of it they give me more work
Sam: Shit, this sucks man, don't let it burn you out
Tim: Exactly, like my friend Terry
Joe: What did he do?
Tim: Quit eventually, but he had trouble sleeping, constantly tired, and turned out to have an ulcer
Joe: Fuck! I gotta slow down

Joe's job is wearing him up. Tim's friend Terry quit his job because he was burned out.


Leo: Check this out
Leo: <file_video>
Charlie: Whaaaaaaaat
Oliver: God
Oliver: What's that??
Leo: Seems like prank
Leo: But actually I dunno xD
Oliver: 03:24
Oliver: WTF
Leo: Hahahah, my fav part
Leo: Of that random crap
Oliver: People are so weird sometimes
Leo: I knew you'd like it xD
Charlie: Wellllllll I have mixed feelings :D:D
Leo: Hahahahah, wait till 05:24
Charlie: Omg, too much for me
Charlie: My eyes!!
Leo: Hahahahahah
Leo: xDDDDDD

Leo, Charlie and Oliver are watching a video with a bizarre prank. Charlie has ambivalent feelings. Leo and Oliver enjoy the video's weirdness very much especially moments 3:24 and 5:24.


Julie: hey guys... could you just talk to me for a bit? I just watched this Japanese horror movie and I'm home alone and a little uneasy (aka scared shitless)
Rose: Jesus, why on earth would you watch a Japanese horror, home alone at this hour?
Julie: Cause I'm a fucking moron?
Rose: Cause you're a fuckin moron.
Paula: 5 point for Gryffindor, my friend. But in your defense, I always thought you were quite unaffected by horror movies.
Julie: That's what I thought too!
Paula: So what kinda movie was it?
Julie: <file_other>
Rose: seems pretty generic
Julie: It's scarier than it looks.
Rose: you know that japanese horror are the worst ones, right?
Julie: I know that now.
Paula: If... you want me to come over I can.
Julie: omg really? <3
Paula: Yeah, sure, it's like 20 minutes by bike to your house, we can drink cocoa and watch "when harry met Sally" until we fall asleep ;)
Julie: Omg Thank you so much, I love you!
Rose: I wish I lived in your neighborhood :(
Paula: We can chip in for an Uber for you :D
Julie: Let's have a spontaneous sleepover :D
Rose: Oh, man it's late, but why the hell not.
Rose: I'll bring cookies for the cocoa :D
Julie: yay :D

Julie has just watched a Japanese horror. She's alone at home and really scared. Paula and Rose are going to come to her place for a spontaneous sleepover. They'll drink cocoa and watch "When Harry met Sally." Rose will bring cookies.


Kayla: what time are you going to bring her?
Kayla: was it 11am?
Katherine: hey, i guess so.
Katherine: i'll have to ask dad and get back to you later ok?
Kayla: ok
Katherine: why, is there a problem?
Kayla: noooo
Kayla: i'm just making sure:)
Kayla: it turned out i finish at 11
Kayla: so it will be even less problematic ;)
Katherine: ok :)
Katherine: yeah dad just texted me
Katherine: it's around 11
Kayla: ok

Katherine will bring her to Kayla around 11.


Jack: Cocktails later?
May: YES!!!
May: You read my mind...
Jack: Possibly a little tightly strung today?
May: Sigh... without question.
Jack: Thought so.
May: A little drink will help!
Jack: Maybe two!

Jack and May will drink cocktails later.


Lily: I need to rent a pop corn machine
Daniel: :D
Lily: for our office Christmas party
Daniel: very Christmasy
Lily: We will screen Love Actually :P
Daniel: oh I get it now
Lily: Do you know someone who rents them?
Daniel: I'll check!

Daniel will find out who rents a pop corn machines on Lily's request.


rte hypothesis: Weapons of Mass Destruction Found in Iraq. premise: No Weapons of Mass Destruction Found in Iraq Yet.


rte hypothesis: Pope Benedict XVI is the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church. premise: A place of sorrow, after Pope John Paul II died, became a place of celebration, as Roman Catholic faithful gathered in downtown Chicago to mark the installation of new Pope Benedict XVI.


rte hypothesis: Herceptin can be used to treat breast cancer. premise: Herceptin was already approved to treat the sickest breast cancer patients, and the company said, Monday, it will discuss with federal regulators the possibility of prescribing the drug for more breast cancer patients.


rte hypothesis: The previous name of Ho Chi Minh City was Saigon. premise: Judie Vivian, chief executive at ProMedica, a medical service company that helps sustain the 2-year-old Vietnam Heart Institute in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), said that so far about 1,500 children have received treatment.


rte hypothesis: Paul Stewart Hutchinson is accused of having stabbed a girl. premise: A man is due in court later charged with the murder 26 years ago of a teenager whose case was the first to be featured on BBC One's Crimewatch. Colette Aram, 16, was walking to her boyfriend's house in Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, on 30 October 1983 when she disappeared. Her body was later found in a field close to her home. Paul Stewart Hutchinson, 50, has been charged with murder and is due before Nottingham magistrates later.


rte hypothesis: Bakri was briefly detained, but was released. premise: Britain said, Friday, that it has barred cleric, Omar Bakri, from returning to the country from Lebanon, where he was released by police after being detained for 24 hours.


rte hypothesis: Three quarters of U.S. illegal immigrants have children. premise: Nearly 4 million children who have at least one parent who entered the U.S. illegally were born in the United States and are U.S. citizens as a result, according to the study conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center. That's about three quarters of the estimated 5.5 million children of illegal immigrants inside the United States, according to the study. About 1.8 million children of undocumented immigrants live in poverty, the study found.


rte hypothesis: Aristide had Prime Minister Robert Malval  murdered in Port-au-Prince. premise: Like the United States, U.N. officials are also dismayed that Aristide killed a conference called by Prime Minister Robert Malval in Port-au-Prince in hopes of bringing all the feuding parties together.


rte hypothesis: Dick Cheney was the Vice President of Bush. premise: WASHINGTON --  A newly declassified narrative of the Bush administration's advice to the CIA on harsh interrogations shows that the small group of Justice Department lawyers who wrote memos authorizing controversial interrogation techniques were operating not on their own but with direction from top administration officials, including then-Vice President Dick Cheney and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice. At the same time, the narrative suggests that then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and then-Secretary of State Colin Powell were largely left out of the decision-making process.


rte hypothesis: Microsoft's Hotmail has raised its storage capacity to 250MB. premise: Only a week after it had no comment on upping the storage capacity of its Hotmail e-mail service, Microsoft early Thursday announced it was boosting the allowance to 250MB to follow similar moves by rivals such as Google, Yahoo, and Lycos.


My card stopped working after multiple transactions. Why?


Hi, I made a transfer from France two days ago and thought it would be here by now. Can you give me an update please?


Has my top-up been cancelled?


Please tell me how the exchange rate is determined. I was expecting more money for the transaction.


Please help me regarding a direct debit in the app that I don't recognize.


My cash deposit hasn't posted to my account.


I just noticed that I supposedly made a payment to a seller a while back. The problem is, I don't recognize the seller. There must be a way to see who it is or track the payment. Can you do that, because I don't remember this transaction?


why top up is not working even if I got my American Express in Apple Bay?


I think someone has hacked my card!


How much does each transfer cost?


The following are multiple choice questions (with answers) about common sense.

Question: The diminishing supply of this nonrenewable resource is not leading to advancements in automotive technology
A. petrol
B. steam
Answer:


The following are multiple choice questions (with answers) about common sense.

Question: Lamps that convert electricity into light and heat aren't known as
A. candle
B. incadescent
Answer:


The following are multiple choice questions (with answers) about common sense.

Question: Which is not needed for photosynthesis to occur
A. energy that takes 8.3 minutes to travel to Earth
B. the 8th entry on the periodic table
Answer:


The following are multiple choice questions (with answers) about common sense.

Question: A creature that is not a biped and which regularly uses tools will occasionally enjoy munching on
A. chia seeds
B. old feces
Answer:


The following are multiple choice questions (with answers) about common sense.

Question: One way to retain your own thermal energy is not to
A. wear fluffy socks
B. sit in snow
Answer:


The following are multiple choice questions (with answers) about common sense.

Question: An extremely rapid surge of rising flood water that moves across usually dry land at about 30 feet or more each second is not powerful enough to
A. lift and carry a tall mountain
B. lift a 250-ton object off the ground
Answer:


The following are multiple choice questions (with answers) about common sense.

Question: A thing's position is not altered when
A. thing feels moved emotionally
B. the thing adjusts its location
Answer:


The following are multiple choice questions (with answers) about common sense.

Question: A pot of pasta is boiling on the stove, and the lid on top of the pot is shaking as the water boils more rapidly. A person goes to the stove and removes the pot, releasing steam into the air above, and so the steam is not
A. water vapor
B. cold air
Answer:


The following are multiple choice questions (with answers) about common sense.

Question: A plant that gets extra minerals such as zinc aren't probably
A. placed in good soil
B. made out of soil
Answer:


The following are multiple choice questions (with answers) about common sense.

Question: Which isn't more likely the result of a big earthquake
A. a big house
B. a mountain
Answer:


Premise: A person on a horse jumps over a broken down airplane.

Hypothesis: A person is training his horse for a competition.

the person is not necessarily training his horse


Hypothesis: A person is at a diner, ordering an omelette.

One cannot be on a jumping horse cannot be a diner ordering food.


Hypothesis: A person is outdoors, on a horse.


Premise: Children smiling and waving at camera

Hypothesis: They are smiling at their parents

Just because they are smiling and waving at a camera does not imply their parents or anyone is anyone behind it


Premise: Children smiling and waving at camera

Hypothesis: There are children present

The children must be present to see them smiling and waving.


Premise: Children smiling and waving at camera

Hypothesis: The kids are frowning

One cannot be smiling and frowning at the same time.


Premise: A boy is jumping on skateboard in the middle of a red bridge.

Hypothesis: The boy skates down the sidewalk.

One cannot be in the middle of a bridge if they are on the sidewalk.


Hypothesis: The boy does a skateboarding trick.

jumping on skateboard is the same as doing trick on skateboard.


Hypothesis: The boy is wearing safety equipment.

Just because the boy is jumping on a skateboard does not imply he is wearing safety equipment


Premise: An older man sits with his orange juice at a small table in a coffee shop while employees in bright colored shirts smile in the background.

Hypothesis: An older man drinks his juice as he waits for his daughter to get off work.

it is not necessarily true the man drinks his juice


Context: Some disagree with such double or triple non-French linguistic origins, arguing that for the word to have spread into common use in France, it must have originated in the French language. The "Hugues hypothesis" argues that the name was derived by association with Hugues Capet, king of France, who reigned long before the Reformation. He was regarded by the Gallicans and Protestants as a noble man who respected people's dignity and lives. Janet Gray and other supporters of the hypothesis suggest that the name huguenote would be roughly equivalent to little Hugos, or those who want Hugo.

Question: What is the theory that this King's name is the origin of "Huguenot" called?

The "Hugues hypothesis"
Hugues hypothesis
"Hugues hypothesis"


Context: Paleoclimatologists measure the ratio of oxygen-18 and oxygen-16 in the shells and skeletons of marine organisms to determine what the climate was like millions of years ago (see oxygen isotope ratio cycle). Seawater molecules that contain the lighter isotope, oxygen-16, evaporate at a slightly faster rate than water molecules containing the 12% heavier oxygen-18; this disparity increases at lower temperatures. During periods of lower global temperatures, snow and rain from that evaporated water tends to be higher in oxygen-16, and the seawater left behind tends to be higher in oxygen-18. Marine organisms then incorporate more oxygen-18 into their skeletons and shells than they would in a warmer climate. Paleoclimatologists also directly measure this ratio in the water molecules of ice core samples that are up to several hundreds of thousands of years old.

Question: How much heavier is oxygen 18 than oxygen 16?


Context: Some of the oldest schools in South Africa are private church schools that were established by missionaries in the early nineteenth century. The private sector has grown ever since. After the abolition of apartheid, the laws governing private education in South Africa changed significantly. The South African Schools Act of 1996 recognises two categories of schools: "public" (state-controlled) and "independent" (which includes traditional private schools and schools which are privately governed[clarification needed].)

Question: What has happened to the public education sector when managed by the government?


Context: The normal force is due to repulsive forces of interaction between atoms at close contact. When their electron clouds overlap, Pauli repulsion (due to fermionic nature of electrons) follows resulting in the force that acts in a direction normal to the surface interface between two objects.:93 The normal force, for example, is responsible for the structural integrity of tables and floors as well as being the force that responds whenever an external force pushes on a solid object. An example of the normal force in action is the impact force on an object crashing into an immobile surface.

Question: What is the force that causes rigid strength in structures?

normal force
normal
normal force
normal force


Question: In what year was the South African Schools Act passed?


Context: The 2007 Lisbon Treaty explicitly recognised fundamental rights by providing in Article 6(1) that "The Union recognises the rights, freedoms and principles set out in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union of 7 December 2000, as adopted at Strasbourg on 12 December 2007, which shall have the same legal value as the Treaties." Therefore, the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union has become an integral part of European Union law, codifying the fundamental rights which were previously considered general principles of European Union law. In effect, after the Lisbon Treaty, the Charter and the Convention now co-exist under European Union law, though the former is enforced by the European Court of Justice in relation to European Union measures, and the latter by the European Court of Human Rights in relation to measures by member states.

Question: What charter has become an important aspect of EU law?


Context: A job where there are many workers willing to work a large amount of time (high supply) competing for a job that few require (low demand) will result in a low wage for that job. This is because competition between workers drives down the wage. An example of this would be jobs such as dish-washing or customer service. Competition amongst workers tends to drive down wages due to the expendable nature of the worker in relation to his or her particular job. A job where there are few able or willing workers (low supply), but a large need for the positions (high demand), will result in high wages for that job. This is because competition between employers for employees will drive up the wage. Examples of this would include jobs that require highly developed skills, rare abilities, or a high level of risk. Competition amongst employers tends to drive up wages due to the nature of the job, since there is a relative shortage of workers for the particular position. Professional and labor organizations may limit the supply of workers which results in higher demand and greater incomes for members. Members may also receive higher wages through collective bargaining, political influence, or corruption.

Question: What can lead to lower wages for members of labor organizations?


Question: is it possible for donated blood to spread covid

Answer: in general, respiratory viruses are not known to be transmitted by blood transfusion, and there have been no reported cases of transfusion transmitted covid.


Question: is my child with an underlying medical condition or special healthcare need at higher risk for severe illness from covid

Answer: older adults and people of any age who have serious underlying medical conditions may be at higher risk for more serious complications from covid., based on available evidence, children do not appear to be at higher risk for covid than adults. , the risk depends on where you are   and more specifically, whether there is a covid outbreak unfolding there. , we do not have information from published scientific reports about the susceptibility of pregnant women to covid. pregnant women experience immunologic and physiologic changes, which might make them more susceptible to viral respiratory infections, including covid. , smoking cigarettes can leave you more vulnerable to respiratory illnesses such as covid. smoking cigarettes is known to cause heart and lung disease and people with underlying heart and lung problems may have increased risk for serious complications from covid., e cigarette use can expose the lungs to toxic chemicals, but whether those exposures increase the risk of covid or the severity of covid outcomes is not known., this is not a good time to be vaping or smoking anything. , younger people seem to be insulated to some extent to protect them from getting particularly sick., researchers do not have information from published scientific reports about susceptibility of pregnant women to this covid., based on available evidence, children do not appear to be at higher risk for covid than adults. , based on currently available information and clinical expertise, older adults and people of any age who have serious underlying medical conditions might be at higher risk for severe illness from covid. , its not known yet whether all of these children are at higher risk for severe illness from covid., most people with disabilities are not inherently at higher risk for becoming infected with or having severe illness from covid., those in complex humanitarian crises, which lack the infrastructure, support, and health systems to mount a comprehensive response. , patients with underlying medical conditions and the elderly, smokers were 1.4 times more likely (rr1.4, 95% ci 0.98 2.00) to have severe symptoms of covid and approximately 2.4 times more likely to be admitted to an icu, need mechanical ventilation or die compared to non smokers (rr2.4, 95% ci 1.43 4.04), the risk depends on where you live or where you have travelled recently. the risk of infection is higher in areas where a number people have been diagnosed with covid. , while we are still learning about how covid 2019 affects people, older persons and persons with pre existing medical conditions (such as high blood pressure, heart disease, or diabetes) appear to develop serious illness more often than others.


Question: where did covid come from

Answer: early on, many of the patients at the epicenter of the covid outbreak in china had some link to a large seafood and live animal market, suggesting animal to person spread., wuhan city, china


Question: is covid especially harmful for pregnant women

Answer: older adults and people of any age who have serious underlying medical conditions may be at higher risk for more serious complications from covid., based on available evidence, children do not appear to be at higher risk for covid than adults. , the risk depends on where you are   and more specifically, whether there is a covid outbreak unfolding there. , we do not have information from published scientific reports about the susceptibility of pregnant women to covid. pregnant women experience immunologic and physiologic changes, which might make them more susceptible to viral respiratory infections, including covid. , smoking cigarettes can leave you more vulnerable to respiratory illnesses such as covid. smoking cigarettes is known to cause heart and lung disease and people with underlying heart and lung problems may have increased risk for serious complications from covid., e cigarette use can expose the lungs to toxic chemicals, but whether those exposures increase the risk of covid or the severity of covid outcomes is not known., this is not a good time to be vaping or smoking anything. , younger people seem to be insulated to some extent to protect them from getting particularly sick., researchers do not have information from published scientific reports about susceptibility of pregnant women to this covid., based on available evidence, children do not appear to be at higher risk for covid than adults. , based on currently available information and clinical expertise, older adults and people of any age who have serious underlying medical conditions might be at higher risk for severe illness from covid. , its not known yet whether all of these children are at higher risk for severe illness from covid., most people with disabilities are not inherently at higher risk for becoming infected with or having severe illness from covid., those in complex humanitarian crises, which lack the infrastructure, support, and health systems to mount a comprehensive response. , patients with underlying medical conditions and the elderly, smokers were 1.4 times more likely (rr1.4, 95% ci 0.98 2.00) to have severe symptoms of covid and approximately 2.4 times more likely to be admitted to an icu, need mechanical ventilation or die compared to non smokers (rr2.4, 95% ci 1.43 4.04), the risk depends on where you live or where you have travelled recently. the risk of infection is higher in areas where a number people have been diagnosed with covid. , while we are still learning about how covid 2019 affects people, older persons and persons with pre existing medical conditions (such as high blood pressure, heart disease, or diabetes) appear to develop serious illness more often than others.


Societal Effects - Continuing Learning During COVID

Question: how can i prepare in case my childs school child care facility or university is dismissed

Answer: stay in touch with your childs school., talk to the school or facility about their emergency operations plan.


Societal Response - Reason for Reopening Too Soon

Question: why is america ready to reopen before a vaccine is made for covid


Question: who covid airborne

Answer: studies to date suggest that the virus that causes covid is mainly transmitted through contact with respiratory droplets rather than through the air., covid cannot travel very far in the air, the world health organization says. , studies to date suggest that the virus that causes covid is mainly transmitted through contact with respiratory droplets rather than through the air.


Question: will covid lead to the demand for democracy in china


In this chapter are described the various types of rope with which a seaman works, and the manner in which he uses them.

Kwesi sahluko sixelelwa ngendindi zeentambo athi amadoda aselwandle azisebenzise, nangendlela azisebenzisa ngayo.


The chapter has been divided into seven sections, headed as follows:

Esi sahluko sahlulwa - hlulwe kasixhenxe, zicalulwe ngokulandelayo.


Construction and characteristics of vegetable fibre cordage.


Construction and characteristics of man-made fibre cordage.

Ulwakhiwo neempawu zentsinga ezenziwe ngabantu.


Construction and characteristics of wire rope.


Ukuphatheka kwentsinga ezenziwe ngabantu.


Context: Jochi died in 1226, during his father's lifetime. Some scholars, notably Ratchnevsky, have commented on the possibility that Jochi was secretly poisoned by an order from Genghis Khan. Rashid al-Din reports that the great Khan sent for his sons in the spring of 1223, and while his brothers heeded the order, Jochi remained in Khorasan. Juzjani suggests that the disagreement arose from a quarrel between Jochi and his brothers in the siege of Urgench. Jochi had attempted to protect Urgench from destruction, as it belonged to territory allocated to him as a fief. He concludes his story with the clearly apocryphal statement by Jochi: "Genghis Khan is mad to have massacred so many people and laid waste so many lands. I would be doing a service if I killed my father when he is hunting, made an alliance with Sultan Muhammad, brought this land to life and gave assistance and support to the Muslims." Juzjani claims that it was in response to hearing of these plans that Genghis Khan ordered his son secretly poisoned; however, as Sultan Muhammad was already dead in 1223, the accuracy of this story is questionable.

Question: Why did Jochi supposedly doubt his father's character?


Context: The historical measure of a steam engine's energy efficiency was its "duty". The concept of duty was first introduced by Watt in order to illustrate how much more efficient his engines were over the earlier Newcomen designs. Duty is the number of foot-pounds of work delivered by burning one bushel (94 pounds) of coal. The best examples of Newcomen designs had a duty of about 7 million, but most were closer to 5 million. Watt's original low-pressure designs were able to deliver duty as high as 25 million, but averaged about 17. This was a three-fold improvement over the average Newcomen design. Early Watt engines equipped with high-pressure steam improved this to 65 million.

Question: What was the secret to producing the best results?


Context: It is a common misconception to ascribe the stiffness and rigidity of solid matter to the repulsion of like charges under the influence of the electromagnetic force. However, these characteristics actually result from the Pauli exclusion principle.[citation needed] Since electrons are fermions, they cannot occupy the same quantum mechanical state as other electrons. When the electrons in a material are densely packed together, there are not enough lower energy quantum mechanical states for them all, so some of them must be in higher energy states. This means that it takes energy to pack them together. While this effect is manifested macroscopically as a structural force, it is technically only the result of the existence of a finite set of electron states.

Question: How rare is the misconception that solid matter is rigid because of like charges?


Context: Tea, coffee, sisal, pyrethrum, corn, and wheat are grown in the fertile highlands, one of the most successful agricultural production regions in Africa. Livestock predominates in the semi-arid savanna to the north and east. Coconuts, pineapples, cashew nuts, cotton, sugarcane, sisal, and corn are grown in the lower-lying areas. Unfortunately, the country has not attained the level of investment and efficiency in agriculture that can guarantee food security and coupled with resulting poverty (53% of the population lives below the poverty line), a significant portion of the population regularly starves and is heavily dependent on food aid. Poor roads, an inadequate railway network, under-used water transport and expensive air transport have isolated mostly arid and semi-arid areas and farmers in other regions often leave food to rot in the fields because they cannot access markets. This was last seen in August and September 2011 prompting the Kenyans for Kenya initiative by the Red Cross.

Question: One of the most successful agricultural production region is located where?


Context: Korean economist Hoesung Lee is the chair of the IPCC since October 8, 2015, following the election of the new IPCC Bureau. Before this election, the IPCC was led by his vice-Chair Ismail El Gizouli, who was designated acting Chair after the resignation of Rajendra K. Pachauri in February 2015. The previous chairs were Rajendra K. Pachauri, elected in May 2002; Robert Watson in 1997; and Bert Bolin in 1988. The chair is assisted by an elected bureau including vice-chairs, working group co-chairs, and a secretariat.

Question: Who was elected later, Rajendra K. Pachauri or Robert Watson?


Context: Sanctifying Grace is that grace of God which sustains the believers in the journey toward Christian Perfection: a genuine love of God with heart, soul, mind, and strength, and a genuine love of our neighbors as ourselves. Sanctifying grace enables us to respond to God by leading a Spirit-filled and Christ-like life aimed toward love. Wesley never claimed this state of perfection for himself but instead insisted the attainment of perfection was possible for all Christians. Here the English Reformer parted company with both Luther and Calvin, who denied that a man would ever reach a state in this life in which he could not fall into sin. Such a man can lose all inclination to evil and can gain perfection in this life.

Question: Who thought perfection was possible?


Context: On 17 December 1941, seven Protestant regional church confederations issued a statement agreeing with the policy of forcing Jews to wear the yellow badge, "since after his bitter experience Luther had already suggested preventive measures against the Jews and their expulsion from German territory." According to Daniel Goldhagen, Bishop Martin Sasse, a leading Protestant churchman, published a compendium of Luther's writings shortly after Kristallnacht, for which Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church in the University of Oxford argued that Luther's writing was a "blueprint." Sasse applauded the burning of the synagogues and the coincidence of the day, writing in the introduction, "On 10 November 1938, on Luther's birthday, the synagogues are burning in Germany." The German people, he urged, ought to heed these words "of the greatest antisemite of his time, the warner of his people against the Jews."

Question: To which ethnic group did Martin Luther belong?


On 18 December 2019, tens of women demonstrated over the recent violence between Edjophe and Iwhreka communities. [size=tens]


On 19 December 2019, employees of NIPOST in Abuja demonstrated over the plan to outsource the stamp duty to the Federal Inland Revenue Service. [size=no report]


03 September. Unidentified gunmen attacked the PDP governor primary election in Ijaw and engaged Police forces in a gun battle.


16 October 2019. Unidentified gunmen opened fire on a car in Polwaya, 10km away from Birnin Gwari (no location found, coded as Birnin Gwari) and abducted one person.


Around 1 May 2021 (weekend of), PARCSA supporters took to the streets in Oudtshoorn (Eden, Western Cape) in a demonstration to highlight the group's concerns about race classification and to garner support for their campaign. [size=no report]


On Jun 29th, the village of Simbalongo was attacked by ASWJ. 1 person was killed.


04 December (on or before). The Government of Cameroon established a committee for the DDR of Boko Haram and Ambazonian Separatists.


Police Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (2001-2019)

30 December. Voters at Tshiteku in Kinshasa clashed with police who would not allow them to vote after the polling station had closed. The voters were angry as they were late after receiving the incorrect polling station information from CENI.


On 25 July 2021, a militia group in Tegina (Rafi LGA, Niger state) kidnapped one of the messengers sent to deliver ransom for the school children abducted at an Islamic school in May 2021. He was reported to have been released on 27 July 2021.


On 24 August 2021, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) clashed with the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) in Dessie (Dessie town, South Wello, Amhara). No fatalities and/or injuries reported.


Question: Musician and satirist Allie Goertz wrote a song about the "The Simpsons" character Milhouse, who Matt Groening named after who?
Context: is said to have an IQ of 159, and in "They Saved Lisa's Brain" (season ten, 1999) she becomes a member of the Springfield chapter of Mensa. When unable to attend school due to a teachers' strike in "The PTA Disbands", (season six, 1995) she suffers withdrawal symptoms because of the sudden lack of praise. She even demands that her mother grade her for no obvious reason. In Planet Simpson, Chris Turner writes that these traits make Lisa more realistic because "No character can aspire to realism without a few all-too-human flaws."Although she is wise beyond her years, Lisa has typical childhood issues, sometimes requiring adult intervention. One episode to show this is "See Homer Run" (season seventeen, 2005) where she goes through a developmental condition which causes her to get into trouble at school. In "Lost Our Lisa" (season nine, 1998), she tricks Homer into allowing her to ride the bus alone, only to become hopelessly lost and in need of aid from her father. Chris Turner writes in Planet Simpson that incidents like this illustrate that "Even when Lisa's lecturing like a college professor or mounting yet another protest, she never becomes a full-grown adult trapped in a child's body." In The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh! of Homer, Aeon J. Skoble states that although Lisa is an intellectual, she is still portrayed as a character who enjoys normal childhood and girl activities, plays with Malibu Stacy dolls, loves ponies, obsesses over teenage heartthrobs such as Corey, and watches The Itchy & Scratchy Show along with Bart. He writes, "One might argue that this is typical childhood behavior, but since in so many cases Lisa is presented not simply as a prodigy but as preternaturally wise, the fondness for Itchy & Scratchy and Corey seem to be highlighted, taking on greater significance. Lisa is portrayed as the avatar of logic and wisdom, but then she also worships Corey so she's 'no better [than the rest of us]'." When she became depressed over being unable to pursue her dream as a musician due to inheriting her father's fingers and having to spend her time with Marge in being a homemaker, Lisa gives up on school and becomes a juvenile delinquent in Separate Vocations. She is stopped by Bart who encourages her to keep proving people wrong and pursue her dreams as a musician. Lisa occasionally worries that her family's
Facts:
Answer: President Richard Nixon


Question: Musician and satirist Allie Goertz wrote a song about the "The Simpsons" character Milhouse, who Matt Groening named after who?
Context: she states that she and actor Randy Quaid share the same birthdate (October 1). Marge has been nonworking for most of the series, choosing to be a homemaker and take care of her family. However, she has held several one-episode jobs in the course of the series. These include working as a nuclear technician alongside Homer at Springfield Nuclear Power Plant in "Marge Gets a Job" (season four, 1992); selling houses in "Realty Bites" (season nine, 1997); owning her own pretzel business in "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson" (season eight, 1997), and working at an erotic bakery in "Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes" (season 20, 2008). While Marge has never expressed discontent with her role as a homemaker, she has become bored with it. In "The Springfield Connection" (season six, 1995), Marge decided that she needed more excitement in her life and became a police officer. However, by the end of the episode, she became upset with the corruption in the force and quit. == Character == === Creation === Matt Groening first conceived Marge and the rest of the Simpson family in 1987 in the lobby of producer James L. Brooks' office. Groening had been called to pitch a series of animated shorts for The Tracey Ullman Show, and had intended to present an adaptation of his Life in Hell comic strip. When he realized that animating Life in Hell would require him to rescind publication rights, Groening decided to go in another direction and hurriedly sketched out his version of a dysfunctional family, naming the characters after members of his own family. Marge was named after Groening's mother Margaret "Marge" Groening, who has said she bears little similarity to the character, stating, "It's really weird to have people think you're a cartoon." Marge's beehive hairstyle was inspired by the titular Bride in Bride of Frankenstein and the style that Margaret Groening wore during the 1960s, although her hair was never blue.Marge debuted with the rest of the Simpson family on April 19, 1987, in The Tracey Ullman Show short "Good Night". In 1989, the shorts were adapted into The Simpsons, a half-hour series airing on the Fox Network. Marge and the Simpson family remained the main characters on this new show.Matt Groening believes that episodes featuring Marge are among the most difficult episodes to write. Bill Oakley believes that the "junior" writers are usually given Marge episodes
Facts:
Answer: President Richard Nixon


Question: Musician and satirist Allie Goertz wrote a song about the "The Simpsons" character Milhouse, who Matt Groening named after who?
Context: Simpsons Movie, Kavner was nominated for "Best Voice Acting in an Animated Feature" at the 2007 Annie Awards, but lost to Ian Holm from Ratatouille. Kavner's emotional performance in the movie got positive reviews and one critic said she "gave what must be the most heartfelt performance ever." Various episodes in which Marge is prominently featured have been nominated for Emmy Awards for Outstanding Animated Program, including "The Way We Weren't" in 2004 and "Life on the Fast Lane", which won the award in 1990. In 2000, Marge and the rest of the Simpson family were awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard.Marge has been ranked highly in lists of the top television mothers of all time. She was ranked first on Entertainment Weekly's list in 1994; first on Fox News' list in 2005; eighth on CityNews' list in 2008; and was included in Time's list of the "10 Best Moms Ever". In a 2004 poll in the United Kingdom, Marge was named the "most respected mother" by respondents. Still in 2004, Marge was ranked third in a poll conducted by the Opinion Research Company. In May 2012, Marge was one of the 12 moms chosen by users of iVillage on their list of "Mommy Dearest: The TV Moms You Love". AOL has named Marge the 24th "Most Memorable Female TV Character". Her relationship with Homer was included in TV Guide's list of "The Best TV Couples of All Time".Religious writer Kenneth Briggs has written that "Marge is my candidate for sainthood ... She lives in the real world, she lives with crises, with flawed people. She forgives and she makes her own mistakes. She is a forgiving, loving person ... absolutely saintly." == Cultural influence == The edition of October 1, 1990 of People included an interview with then-First Lady of the United States Barbara Bush. The article included the following passage: "She loves America's Funniest Home Videos but remains baffled after sampling The Simpsons. "It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen," she says, "but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean." The writers decided to respond by privately sending a polite letter on September 28 to Bush where they posed as Marge Simpson. On October 9, Bush sent a reply: "Dear Marge, How kind of you to write. I'm glad you spoke your mind ... I foolishly
Facts:
Answer: President Richard Nixon


Question: Musician and satirist Allie Goertz wrote a song about the "The Simpsons" character Milhouse, who Matt Groening named after who?
Context: (season seven, 1995) depicts Homer's mother, Mona, as a radical who went into hiding in 1969 following a run-in with the law; "The Way We Was" (season two, 1991) shows Homer falling in love with Marge Bouvier as a senior at Springfield High School in 1974; and "I Married Marge" (season three, 1991) implies that Marge became pregnant with Bart in 1980. However, the episode "That '90s Show" (season 19, 2008) contradicted much of this backstory, portraying Homer and Marge as a twentysomething childless couple in the early 1990s.Due to the floating timeline, Homer's age has changed occasionally as the series developed; he was 34 in the early episodes, 36 in season four, 38 and 39 in season eight, and 40 in the eighteenth season, although even in those seasons his age is inconsistent. In the fourth season episode "Duffless", Homer's drivers license shows his birthdate of being May 12, 1956, which would have made him 36 years old at the time of the episode. During Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein's period as showrunners, they found that as they aged, Homer seemed to become older too, so they increased his age to 38. His height is 6' (1.83 m). == Character == === Creation === Naming the characters after members of his own family, Groening named Homer after his father, who himself had been named after the ancient Greek poet of the same name. Very little else of Homer's character was based on him, and to prove that the meaning behind Homer's name was not significant, Groening later named his own son Homer. According to Groening, "Homer originated with my goal to both amuse my real father, and just annoy him a little bit. My father was an athletic, creative, intelligent filmmaker and writer, and the only thing he had in common with Homer was a love of donuts." Although Groening has stated in several interviews that Homer was named after his father, he also claimed in several 1990 interviews that a character in the 1939 Nathanael West novel The Day of the Locust was the inspiration for naming Homer. Homer's middle initial "J", which stands for "Jay", is a "tribute" to animated characters such as Bullwinkle J. Moose and Rocket J. Squirrel from The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, who got their middle initial from Jay Ward.Homer made his debut with the rest of the Simpson family on April 19,
Facts:
Answer: President Richard Nixon


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Our workshops and engineering short courses are not academic; they are designed to provide practical skills and hands-on applications where delegates are given the opportunity to apply, in practice, the theory they have learnt through our engineering courses.


What Would the End of Football Look Like? (

2012) - mhb
http://grantland.com/features/cte-concussion-crisis-economic-look-end-football/
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VLM
Perhaps the collapse has already begun.

1) My middle school kid is in cross country... all "school athletes" must
attend district wide concussion class (they probably blew it off, after all it
is CC not tackle football) and parents have to sign off that they've been
given access to various concussion resources.

Nobody found this overly unusual
or interesting, its just part of athletics now.

Soon it'll just be part of
school athletics that football means touch not tackle or it means what we used
to call soccer.

(For foreign readers cross country is hiking in the woods except you don't
wear a pack and you run.

So mile times are quite a bit lower than track and
you're about a thousand times more likely to get heat exhaustion or twist your
ankle than to get a concussion in that particular sport)

2) Look at average age of baseball fans, late 50s and that average has been
going up more than one year per calendar year.

There are generational trends
and football may very well be a WW2/Boomer generation sport.

Once "their"
generations are gone, that's it.

Looking at demographics of the local pro basketball team I think we're more
likely to see pro basketball go away before football ... volleyball is very
popular and telegenic.

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elchief
What would the end of grantland look like?

[http://espnmediazone.com/us/espn-statement-regarding-
grantla...](http://espnmediazone.com/us/espn-statement-regarding-grantland/)

I'm not really sure why Simmons needed espn to start grantland.

I would have read it, due to his writing, either way.

When he didn't show up to cover the Super Bowl or NBA Championships, I knew it
was over.

~~~
PopeOfNope
_It would look like today, sadly._

 _To the extent that fans replace football with another sport (instead of meth
or oxy)_

Yeah, shame.

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untog
_To the extent that fans replace football with another sport (instead of meth
or oxy), high-octane basketball is the natural substitute._

Interesting article, but I feel like it's, uh, brushing rural
America in some very broad strokes.

That said, I found it interesting that it was discussing the collapse of
sports TV in 2012.

Just three years later I think we're inching closer and
closer to that - the average cable subscription subsides ESPN when the
majority of viewers don't watch it.

With cable subscriptions declining, there
is huge trouble ahead for ESPN, since they are tied into incredibly expensive
multi-year contracts that they might find themselves unable to afford.

In _totally_ unrelated news, ESPN shut down Grantland yesterday.

~~~
ghaff
Of course, the rest of the world has a football-like sport (rugby--sorry,
Australia) which suggests that there's a fair bit of demand for that general
type of sport--and not just in the US.

Rugby has its own issues with
concussions although probably not as much as American football.

In general, I agree with the article that football isn't "too big to fail."

I'm not sure lawsuits is so much the path though as kids simply not playing.

That doesn't seem to be happening however.

~~~
Synaesthesia
What's interesting is that in Rugby you wear basically no protective gear,
which is probably _why_ it has less injuries.

With a helmet and armour you
feel much more invulnerable.

~~~
untog
Also tackles above the waist are forbidden.

In American Football you can
pretty much just throw your entire body anywhere, with unsurprising results.

~~~
srtjstjsj
this video disagrees with your claim about rugby:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ1Mt0LdCfY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ1Mt0LdCfY)

~~~
untog
Fouls happen.

I don't mean to diminish that, but when the base of the game is
to disallow bad tackles then there will be far fewer incidents of bad
tackling.

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imglorp
Pro players are grownups and can make their own decisions about life altering
injuries.

But I think we'll see the end of high school football very soon,
when the lawsuits begin and school insurance steps in.

I predict we'll replace it with flag, touch, and rugby and that will be a
further dig to the NFL.

~~~
PopeOfNope
_But I think we 'll see the end of high school football very soon, when the
lawsuits begin and school insurance steps in._

There's way too much community support for football.

There's no other sport out there that teaches you about life quite
like football.

What have I missed learning by never playing or watching
football?

Football truly is so ridiculously complicated that I didn't even try to
learn how it works, and still don't fully understand its absurdities.

Intuitively, as a child, I suspected that football was over rated based on the
apparent reality that it was men running in circles, and then slamming into
each other, without any obvious goal.

Randomly a ball would be kicked for any
reason, maybe.

I was 20 years old before I figured out that the basic rules of the game were
4 tries to move the ball 10 yards from the "line of scrimage" before the other
team gets an opportunity to do the opposite.

With this in mind add umpteen
thousand technicalities.

More than a decade of elementary school, middle school, high school, video
games, Thanksgivings and Super Bowl Sundays, and no one spelled that out for
me.

Not parents, not uncles, not coaches, not friends.

I had to dig through a
few books, before picking up some sort of For Dummies/Idiot's Guide book to
find something that clearly stated that.

4 hours of TV time, to express one hour of clocked game play, in which almost
no actual game playing happens.

Yet another awful thing I have to watch at family
gatherings.

~~~
PopeOfNope
We're talking about playing football, not watching it like a lemming.

If you
don't know what you're talking about, kindly say nothing.

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ZenoArrow
Off topic but before I knew what the article was about, the title reminded me
of this:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MusyO7J2inM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MusyO7J2inM)

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PopeOfNope
I don't understand the hard on people around here have for predicting the
collapse of sports.

It's like the very idea of getting revenge on the jocks
makes you all salivate.

Or is it an extension
of the 'toxic testosterone' propaganda?


Influence of transurethral resection on sexual dysfunction in patients with prostate cancer.

To evaluate retrospectively the potential influence of disease-related factors and transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) on the sexual function of patients who had undergone curative radiotherapy for prostate cancer.

The study comprised 104 patients (median age 69.5 years, range 49-81) who had been treated with curative radiotherapy and no first-line hormones: 16, 52, 33 and three patients had T1, T2, T3 and T4 tumours, respectively.

TURP was performed in 73 patients before RT, and needle biopsy alone in 31 patients.

They were interviewed about their past and present sexual lives using a questionnaire designed to evaluate the potency of the patients at age 45 years, at 1 year before the diagnosis of the disease, before radiotherapy (after TURP or needle biopsy) and at the last follow-up.

Information concerning associated diseases, routine medication and the weight of the resected material was also collected.

Before diagnosis, 20 patients had no erections while 84 were potent.

Of the 60 potent patients undergoing a TURP, 31 (51%) indicated complete impotence immediately thereafter.

There was no statistical difference between impotent and potent patients after TURP in age, associated diseases, medical treatment and the weight of the resected material.

TURP may lead to impotence in a significant proportion of patients.

As TURP is an important component of "conservative' treatment approaches, its potential sexual morbidity should be taken into consideration in the comparative risk-benefit analysis of different therapeutic strategies.


Many miniature electronic and optical devices are formed using layers of different materials stacked on each other.

These layers are often patterned to produce the devices.

Examples of such devices include optical displays in which each pixel is formed in a patterned array, optical waveguide structures for telecommunication devices, and metal-insulator-metal stacks for semiconductor-based devices.

A conventional method for making these devices includes forming one or more layers on a receptor substrate and patterning the layers simultaneously or sequentially to form the device.

In many cases, multiple deposition and patterning steps are required to prepare the ultimate device structure.

For example, the preparation of optical displays may require the separate formation of red, green, and blue pixels.

Although some layers may be commonly deposited for each of these types of pixels, at least some layers must be separately formed and often separately patterned.

Patterning of the layers is often performed by photolithographic techniques that include, for example, covering a layer with a photoresist, patterning the photoresist using a mask, removing a portion of the photoresist to expose the underlying layer according to the pattern, and then etching the exposed layer.

In some applications, it may be difficult or impractical to produce devices using conventional photolithographic patterning.

For example, the number of patterning steps may be too large for practical manufacture of the device.

In addition, wet processing steps in conventional photolithographic patterning may adversely affect integrity, interfacial characteristics, and/or electrical or optical properties of the previously deposited layers.

It is conceivable that many potentially advantageous device constructions, designs, layouts, and materials are impractical because of the limitations of conventional photolithographic patterning.

There is a need for new methods of forming these devices with a reduced number of processing steps, particularly wet processing steps.

In at least some instances, this may allow for the construction of devices with more reliability and more complexity.


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A study published in Science, by researchers at Rothamsted Research (an institute of the BBSRC), the Met Office, the Natural Resources Institute, and the Universities of Exeter, Greenwich and York, sheds new light on the flight behaviours that enable insects to undertake long-distance migrations, and highlights the remarkable abilities of these insect migrants.

Many insects avoid cold British winters by migrating south in autumn to over-wintering sites around the Mediterranean.

Migrant insects then return to the UK in spring.

How such small insects undertake journeys of several thousands of kilometres has long fascinated scientists.

The reported study was funded by BBSRC and used two sets of specially-designed radar equipment to observe migrating butterflies and moths flying several hundreds of metres above the ground, and to describe the sophisticated flight behaviours that they have evolved.

These insect migrants have a compass sense that enables them to select winds which will take them in their chosen direction, and to travel at speeds of up to 100 km per hour.

The fast speeds of winds aloft mean that insects travel more-or-less downwind, but they make subtle adjustments to their headings so that they partially correct for wind-induced drift away from their preferred direction of travel.

Dr Chapman said "Migratory butterflies and moths have evolved an amazing capacity to use favourable tailwinds.

By flying at the heights where the wind currents are fastest, migratory moths can travel between their summer and winter grounds in just a few nights."

Dr Hill said "We estimate that over 2 billion insects were involved in the mass migration events that we studied.

These insect migrants are clearly very successful."

The study used a computer model dubbed "NAME" to demonstrate that the flight behaviours observed result in migrants travelling nearly twice as far and closer to their preferred direction as an insect just randomly drifting downwind.

Many migratory insects are pests of agricultural crops, so the model will be useful for predicting migration events in the future.

Ms Burgin said "We combined the results from the radar measurements of moth flight with the outputs of a model of atmosphere motion to show that by hitchhiking on suitable winds, insects can travel at greater speeds than many migrating birds, which is important given the short lifespan of insects."

This study illustrates how insects successfully undertake long-distance migrations in favourable directions.

Climate change is likely to significantly alter the frequency of insect migrants, including introducing some agricultural pests that are completely new to the UK.

Thus, a better understanding of their migration strategies is increasingly crucial in helping to secure food supplies in the long term.


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A projector which temporarily irradiates blue light, red light, and green light to an image-forming element in order to form a color image on a screen by the image-forming element is conventionally known (for example, registered Japanese patent No.

The projector disclosed in the above JP patent No.

4711154 includes a blue laser diode, a phosphor, and a dichroic mirror as a single light source section.

The phosphor is configured of a rotatable disk.

The phosphor includes a phosphor area which generates green fluorescence by the irradiation of a blue laser beam as excitation light, a phosphor area which generates red fluorescence by the irradiation of excitation light, and a transmitting area which transmits a blue laser beam.

The areas are separated in order to provide each prescribed angle.

Light paths of the blue laser beam, green fluorescence, and red fluorescence are concentrated by the dichroic mirror, and each of the blue laser beam, green fluorescence, and red fluorescence temporarily irradiates the image-forming element.

Thereby, a color image is formed on the screen surface.

However, in the conventional projector, it is necessary to form each fluorescence area and transmitting area on the phosphor.

Therefore, the manufacturing process of the phosphor is complicated.

In addition, because the angle size of the fluorescence area which is formed on the phosphor and the angle size of the transmitting area may differ according to the type of projector, it is necessary to manufacture the phosphor to be configured of a fluorescence area having a different angle for each type of projector.

As such, control of the phosphor is complicated.


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Disposable wearable absorbent articles include disposable diapers and disposable incontinence undergarments (e.g., adult incontinence products).

A disposable wearable absorbent article can receive and contain bodily waste while being worn by a wearer.

Such articles can be made with various materials in a number of configurations.

The design of a disposable wearable absorbent article can affect the way that the article performs while it is being worn.

Elastic materials can be configured as various elastic structures in disposable wearable absorbent articles.

These elastic structures can function in different ways to provide various benefits to the wearer.

For example, lower force elastics or elastics that are spaced apart can be configured as shaping elastics.

Shaping elastics can assist in providing a conforming fit and distributing contact forces over the wearer's skin.

As another example, higher force elastics or elastics that are grouped closer together can be configured as anchoring elastics.

Anchoring elastics can assist in holding the article in place on the wearer by transferring loads from the article to particular parts of the wearer's body.

Unfortunately, when a disposable wearable absorbent article includes different elastic structures, those structures may not work well together.

For example, if a disposable wearable absorbent article includes both shaping elastics and anchoring elastics, and those different elastic structures are not allowed to act somewhat independently from each other, then their functions may be compromised.

If the anchoring elastics transfer excessive loads to the region comprising the shaping elastics, they may concentrate forces against the wearer's skin, causing discomfort and red marking.

If the shaping elastics compromise the loads created by the anchoring elastics, then the anchoring elastics may not effectively transfer loads to intended parts of the wearer's body, potentially allowing the article to sag.

If a disposable wearable absorbent article includes elastic structures that do not work well together, then the article may feel uncomfortable, look unattractive, and perform poorly while it is worn by a wearer.


Exchange the Mongrel parser with the Mongrel2 parser because of licensing issues2010-11-21T20:09:20ZMichael Maiermaier@b2host.deMichael Maiermaier@b2host.de2010-11-21T20:09:20Zhttp://repo.or.cz/w/mistral.git/commitdiff/90367ff7b9948cabf44662020c90ead73a176f25

Exchange the Mongrel parser with the Mongrel2 parser because of licensing issues

The fix to have everything binary related working.2010-11-21T16:13:28ZStefan de Koninkstefan@konink.deStefan de Koninkstefan@konink.de2010-11-21T16:13:28Zhttp://repo.or.cz/w/mistral.git/commitdiff/393aae77c741ddf390282d5424bc73e6105406e3

Gentoo solution2010-05-13T21:50:18ZStefan de Koninkstefan@konink.deStefan de Koninkstefan@konink.de2010-05-13T21:50:18Zhttp://repo.or.cz/w/mistral.git/commitdiff/bcc8d2f73adcff62015f9634858e0ad11fc87898

Forwarding change2010-05-13T20:48:52ZStefan de Koninkstefan@konink.deStefan de Koninkstefan@konink.de2010-05-13T20:48:52Zhttp://repo.or.cz/w/mistral.git/commitdiff/9a68e1f7d22ecf998dd21988b9fe93e41ba938a6

Integration of the code that implements the use of the new parser.2010-05-13T20:39:04ZStefan de Koninkstefan@konink.deStefan de Koninkstefan@konink.de2010-05-13T20:39:04Zhttp://repo.or.cz/w/mistral.git/commitdiff/5ee43b639ad2dba53b58e6feca5bec46912195e4

This code implements (and expands) the new parser for Mistral.2010-05-13T20:15:53ZStefan de Koninkstefan@konink.deStefan de Koninkstefan@konink.de2010-05-13T20:15:53Zhttp://repo.or.cz/w/mistral.git/commitdiff/8b5cc49b3b5f60f7b0c046f5aff3c75b15b268f7

Some pretty code fixes and memoryleak addressing.2010-05-13T20:08:15ZStefan de Koninkstefan@konink.deStefan de Koninkstefan@konink.de2010-05-13T20:08:15Zhttp://repo.or.cz/w/mistral.git/commitdiff/fdf170e8be04f68706cb80295d3002040a454358

Two new examples by Michael2010-02-28T03:17:52ZStefan de Koninkstefan@konink.deStefan de Koninkstefan@konink.de2010-02-28T03:17:52Zhttp://repo.or.cz/w/mistral.git/commitdiff/100ff45c68a3decb076aa9aa8b80e5b34f339a40

Example how to use the array format.2010-02-26T02:01:18ZStefan de Koninkstefan@konink.deStefan de Koninkstefan@konink.de2010-02-26T02:01:18Zhttp://repo.or.cz/w/mistral.git/commitdiff/ad3a572717565418372d09597c4d176543be5600

Now this implements the execution off everything in a seperate function2010-02-26T01:58:40ZStefan de Koninkstefan@konink.deStefan de Koninkstefan@konink.de2010-02-26T01:58:40Zhttp://repo.or.cz/w/mistral.git/commitdiff/70360b27f56e513b69a4e090770042155588ff83

Now this implements the execution off everything in a seperate function
if only PHP would be thread safe this could have run in a seperate thread.


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(CNN) -- At least five homes were destroyed after a tornado touched down in western Oklahoma Monday evening, authorities said.

Other homes were damaged, and power was out to about 900 residences in and around the city of Hammon in Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, Michelann Ooten of the Department of Emergency Management said.

Roger Mills officials continued to assess the damage, but all residents appear to be accounted for, Ooten said.

The tornado hit about 5:30 p.m. (6:30 p.m. ET), said Ken Gallant, lead forecaster for the National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma.

The thunderstorms that produced the conditions for the tornado weakened shortly afterward and a tornado warning was canceled, Gallant said.

Jerry Dean, county commissioner of Roger Mills, said the county barn was among the structures destroyed.

Area residents had time to prepare before the tornado hit, Dean said.

He could see the tornado coming before going into a cellar to wait it out, he said.


Wall St. Bears Claw Back Into the Black (Reuters) Reuters - Short-sellers, Wall Street's dwindling\band of ultra-cynics, are seeing green again.


Carlyle Looks Toward Commercial Aerospace (Reuters) Reuters - Private investment firm Carlyle Group,\which has a reputation for making well-timed and occasionally\controversial plays in the defense industry, has quietly placed\its bets on another part of the market.


Oil and Economy Cloud Stocks' Outlook (Reuters) Reuters - Soaring crude prices plus worries\about the economy and the outlook for earnings are expected to\hang over the stock market next week during the depth of the\summer doldrums.


Iraq Halts Oil Exports from Main Southern Pipeline (Reuters) Reuters - Authorities have halted oil export\flows from the main pipeline in southern Iraq after\intelligence showed a rebel militia could strike\infrastructure, an oil official said on Saturday.


Oil prices soar to all-time record, posing new menace to US economy (AFP) AFP - Tearaway world oil prices, toppling records and straining wallets, present a new economic menace barely three months before the US presidential elections.


Stocks End Up, But Near Year Lows (Reuters) Reuters - Stocks ended slightly higher on Friday\but stayed near lows for the year as oil prices surged past  #36;46\a barrel, offsetting a positive outlook from computer maker\Dell Inc. (DELL.O)


Money Funds Fell in Latest Week (AP) AP - Assets of the nation's retail money market mutual funds fell by  #36;1.17 billion in the latest week to  #36;849.98 trillion, the Investment Company Institute said Thursday.


Fed minutes show dissent over inflation (USATODAY.com) USATODAY.com - Retail sales bounced back a bit in July, and new claims for jobless benefits fell last week, the government said Thursday, indicating the economy is improving from a midsummer slump.


Safety Net (Forbes.com) Forbes.com - After earning a PH.D. in Sociology, Danny Bazil Riley started to work as the general manager at a commercial real estate firm at an annual base salary of  #36;70,000. Soon after, a financial planner stopped by his desk to drop off brochures about insurance benefits available through his employer. But, at 32, "buying insurance was the furthest thing from my mind," says Riley.


Wall St. Bears Claw Back Into the Black  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Short-sellers, Wall Street's dwindling  band of ultra-cynics, are seeing green again.


1 Japan's Daiwa Securities Co. named Masahiro Dozen president.
2 Mr. Dozen succeeds Sadakane Doi, who will become vice chairman.
3 Yoshitoki Chino retains his title of chairman of Daiwa, Japan's second-largest securities firm.
4 In Japanese firms, the president usually is in charge of day-to-day operations, while the chairman's role is more a ceremonial one.
5 The title of chief executive officer isn't used.
6 While people within Daiwa, particularly internationalists, expected that Mr. Dozen, 52, would eventually become Daiwa's president, the speed of his promotion surprised many.
7 It was only earlier this year that the jovial, easygoing executive -- he likes to joke with Americans about how his name is synonymous with twelve -- was appointed deputy president.
8 Mr. Dozen is taking over the reins of a securities company that does very well in its domestic market but that is still seeking to realize its potential in global investment banking and securities dealing.
9 Daiwa is one of the world's largest securities firms.
10 As of March 31, the Daiwa group had shareholder equity of 801.21 billion yen ($5.64 billion).
11 For the six months ended Sept. 30, Daiwa reported unconsolidated (parent company) net income of 79.03 billion yen ($556.5 million) on revenue of 332.38 billion yen ($2.34 billion).
12 Both figures were record highs.
13 Several observers interpreted Mr. Dozen's appointment as an attempt by Daiwa to make its international operations more profitable while preparing the firm for the effects of the continuing deregulation of Japan's domestic markets, which should mean increased competition.
14 All of Japan's so-called Big Four securities firms -- Nomura Securities Co. Ltd., the world's largest, Nikko Securities Co. Ltd., Yamaichi Securities Co. Ltd. and Daiwa -- have suffered setbacks in their attempts to break into foreign markets.
15 While they have moved to the fore in underwriting fixed-income securities in the Eurobond market -- mostly for Japanese firms -- they have been only marginally profitable, if at all, in the U.S.
16 American institutional investors have never had a large appetite for Japanese equities.
17 And while the Japanese have stepped up their purchases of U.S. shares in the past several months, they have shown themselves in the past to be fickle investors.
18 At the same time, Daiwa and its brethren have faced stiff competition from well-entrenched American competitors that have prevented them from building strong links to U.S. corporations and institutional investors.
19 Mr. Dozen knows these problems firsthand.
20 When he arrived in the U.S. in 1969 -- the start of an eight-year tour -- he tried selling Japanese yen-denominated bonds to U.S. investors. 'He made desperate efforts, using the yellow pages from beginning to end,' said Koji Yoneyama, president of Daiwa's U.S. unit. 'But not a single piece of paper was sold.'
21 By his own account, Mr. Dozen didn't do much better with U.S. bonds.
22 In an interview a few months ago, he recalled how after some training at Salomon Brothers Inc., he successfully bid for the opportunity to sell portions of 20 U.S. corporate bond issues.
23 But he couldn't sell any. 'Japanese stock salesmen selling American bonds?
24 Maybe it's crazy,' he said.
25 Mr. Dozen even related the indignity suffered when he and two colleagues went on an overnight fishing expedition off the New Jersey shore and caught nothing.
26 Upon returning to New York, 'Exhausted, I got into a taxicab, and the woman driver said: `Americans make better fishermen, '' he recalled.
27 Undaunted, Mr. Dozen said that Daiwa's goal is to build 'a high-technology oriented international organization with maybe some Japanese flavor to it.'
28 He said that he was particularly interested in his firm gaining expertise in futures, options, mortgaged-backed securities, computerized trading and investment systems as well as mergers and acquisitions.
29 Mr. Dozen said Daiwa's strengths were its large capital base, its influential position in the Tokyo market and its links to Japanese corporations and institutional investors.
30 Mr. Dozen joined Daiwa upon his graduation from Kyoto University in 1959.
31 Like many young recruits in Japanese securities firms, he began his career peddling stock to individual investors.
32 In his climb to the top, Mr. Dozen also headed the company's stock-exchange division, its fixed-income units and its international operations. 'He was constantly picking up new things to fill out his experience; he is very well-balanced,' said Takuro Isoda, chairman of Daiwa's U.S. unit in New York.
33 But it Mr. Dozen's experience as a salesman that enabled him to gain the political support -- particularly from the retail sales force -- to accede to the presidency.
34 Commission income from domestic stock and bond sales accounts form a large portion of Japanese securities companies' earnings.
35 And anybody who lacked the backing of the retail sales force 'would be fragile,' said a Daiwa executive.
36 If Mr. Dozen has a weakness, it may be his golf game. 'He digs in the sand instead of hitting the ball, like a farmer,' said Mr. Yoneyama.

Japan ' s Daiwa Securities Co . named Masahiro Dozen president .

Question: Why has Dozen chosen to be president?


Question: What does Daiwa Securities Co do?


Question: Why did they name Masahiro president?


Question: What kind of company is this?


Mr . Dozen succeeds Sadakane Doi , who will become vice chairman .

Question: Why did Doi stop being president?


Question: Why did they make Sadakane vice chairman?


Question: Is Doi stepping down or being forced to step down?


Yoshitoki Chino retains his title of chairman of Daiwa , Japan ' s second - largest securities firm .

Question: What is Japans first largest security firm?


In Japanese firms , the president usually is in charge of day - to - day operations , while the chairman ' s role is more a ceremonial one .

Question: What ceremonial duties does the chairman perform?


Question: How is the chairmans role ceremonial?


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Context: After strengthening his government in northern China, Kublai pursued an expansionist policy in line with the tradition of Mongol and Chinese imperialism. He renewed a massive drive against the Song dynasty to the south. Kublai besieged Xiangyang between 1268 and 1273, the last obstacle in his way to capture the rich Yangzi River basin. An unsuccessful naval expedition was undertaken against Japan in 1274. Kublai captured the Song capital of Hangzhou in 1276, the wealthiest city of China. Song loyalists escaped from the capital and enthroned a young child as Emperor Bing of Song. The Mongols defeated the loyalists at the battle of Yamen in 1279. The last Song emperor drowned, bringing an end to the Song dynasty. The conquest of the Song reunited northern and southern China for the first time in three hundred years.

Question: How did the final Song emperor begin?


Context: Plotting the relationship between level of income and inequality, Kuznets saw middle-income developing economies level of inequality bulging out to form what is now known as the Kuznets curve. Kuznets demonstrated this relationship using cross-sectional data. However, more recent testing of this theory with superior panel data has shown it to be very weak. Kuznets' curve predicts that income inequality will eventually decrease given time. As an example, income inequality did fall in the United States during its High school movement from 1910 to 1940 and thereafter.[citation needed] However, recent data shows that the level of income inequality began to rise after the 1970s. This does not necessarily disprove Kuznets' theory.[citation needed] It may be possible that another Kuznets' cycle is occurring, specifically the move from the manufacturing sector to the service sector.[citation needed] This implies that it may be possible for multiple Kuznets' cycles to be in effect at any given time.

Question: What does Kuznets' curve predict about income inequality given time?

eventually decrease
eventually decrease
decrease


Context: The popular neighborhood known as the Tower District is centered around the historic Tower Theatre, which is included on the National List of Historic Places. The theater was built in 1939 and is at Olive and Wishon Avenues in the heart of the Tower District. (The name of the theater refers to a well-known landmark water tower, which is actually in another nearby area). The Tower District neighborhood is just north of downtown Fresno proper, and one-half mile south of Fresno City College. Although the neighborhood was known as a residential area prior, the early commercial establishments of the Tower District began with small shops and services that flocked to the area shortly after World War II. The character of small local businesses largely remains today. To some extent, the businesses of the Tower District were developed due to the proximity of the original Fresno Normal School, (later renamed California State University at Fresno). In 1916 the college moved to what is now the site of Fresno City College one-half mile north of the Tower District.

Question: When was the landmark water tower built?


Context: Renewed religious warfare in the 1620s caused the political and military privileges of the Huguenots to be abolished following their defeat. They retained the religious provisions of the Edict of Nantes until the rule of Louis XIV, who progressively increased persecution of them until he issued the Edict of Fontainebleau (1685), which abolished all legal recognition of Protestantism in France, and forced the Huguenots to convert. While nearly three-quarters eventually were killed  or submitted, roughly 500,000 Huguenots had fled France by the early 18th century[citation needed].

Question: How many Huguenots were in France in the early 18th century?


Mmm num ba de
Dum bum ba be
Doo buh dum ba beh beh
Pressure pushing down on me
Pressing down on you, no man ask for
Under pressure that burns a building down
Splits a family in two
Puts people on streets
Um ba ba be
Um ba ba be
De day da
Ee day da- thats okay
Its the terror of knowing what this world is about
Watching some good friends screaming, Let me out!
Pray tomorrow gets me higher
Pressure on people, people on streets
Day day de mm hm
Da da da ba ba
Okay
Chipping around, kick my brains around the floor
These are the days it never rains but it pours
Ee do ba be
Ee da ba ba ba
Um bo bo
Be lap
People on streets
Ee da de da de
People on streets
Ee da de da de da de da
Its the terror of knowing what this world is about
Watching some good friends screaming, Let me out
Pray tomorrow gets me higher, high
Pressure on people, people on streets
Turned away from it all like a blind man
Sat on a fence but it dont work
Keep coming up with love but its so slashed and torn
Why, why, why?
Love, love, love, love, love
Insanity laughs under pressure were breaking
Cant we give ourselves one more chance?
Why cant we give love that one more chance?
Why cant we give love, give love, give love, give love
Give love, give love, give love, give love, give love?
Because loves such an old-fashioned word
And love dares you to care for
The people on the edge of the night
And love dares you to change our way of
Caring about ourselves
This is our last dance
This is our last dance
This is ourselves under pressure
Under pressure
Under pressure
Pressure


Ground Control to Major Tom
Ground Control to Major Tom
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on
 Ground Control to Major Tom
 Commencing countdown, engines on
Check ignition and may Gods love be with you
This is Ground Control to Major Tom
Youve really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Now its time to leave the capsule if you dare
This is Major Tom to Ground Control
Im stepping through the door
And Im floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today
For here am I sitting in my tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And theres nothing I can do
Though Im past one hundred thousand miles
Im feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much
She knows
Ground Control to Major Tom
Your circuits dead, theres something wrong
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you-
-Here am I floating round my tin can
Far above the moon
Planet Earth is blue
And theres nothing I can do


I, I will be king
And you, you will be queen
Though nothing will drive them away
We can beat them just for one day
We can be heroes just for one day
And you, you can be mean
And I, Ill drink all the time
Cause were lovers, and that is a fact
Yes, were lovers, and that is that
Though nothing will keep us together
We could steal time just for one day
We can be heroes forever and ever
What dyou say?
I, I wish you could swim
Like the dolphins, like dolphins can swim
Though nothing, nothing will keep us together
We can beat them forever and ever
Oh, we can be heroes just for one day
I, I will be king
And you, you will be queen
Though nothing will drive them away
We can be heroes, just for one day
We can be us just for one day
I, I can remember
Standing by the wall
And the guns shot above our heads
And we kissed as though nothing could fall
And the shame was on the other side
Oh, we can beat them forever and ever
Then we could be heroes just for one day
We can be heroes
We can be heroes
We can be heroes just for one day
We can be heroes
Were nothing, and nothing will help us
Maybe were lying, then you better not stay
But we could be safer just for one day
Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh, just for one day


Hey now, now
Oh, oh, oh
Didnt know what time it was, the lights were low
I leaned back on my radio
Some cat was layin down some rock n roll
Lotta soul, he said
Then the loud sound did seem to fade
Came back like a slow voice on a wave of phase
That werent no DJ, that was hazy cosmic jive
Theres a starman waiting in the sky
Hed like to come and meet us
But he thinks hed blow our minds
Theres a starman waiting in the sky
Hes told us not to blow it
Cause he knows its all worthwhile
He told me
Let the children lose it
Let the children use it
Let all the children boogie
I had to phone someone so I picked on you
Hey, thats far out, so you heard him too
Switch on the TV, we may pick him up on channel two
Look out your window, I can see his light
If we can sparkle he may land tonight
Dont tell your poppa or hell get us locked up in fright
Theres a starman waiting in the sky
Hed like to come and meet us
But he thinks hed blow our minds
Theres a starman waiting in the sky
Hes told us not to blow it
Cause he knows its all worthwhile
He told me
Let the children lose it
Let the children use it
Let all the children boogie
Starman waiting in the sky
Hed like to come and meet us
But he thinks hed blow our minds
Theres a starman waiting in the sky
Hes told us not to blow it
Cause he knows its all worthwhile
He told me
Let the children lose it
Let the children use it
Let all the children boogie
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