1.The current I in the given network.
2.For the Delta- Wye transformation in given figure, the value of the resistance R is.
a) tunneling effect b) avalanche breakdown c) impact ionization d) excess heating of the junction.
Refer given figure for question 26 and 27. Assume D1 and D2 to be ideal diodes.
26.Which one of the following statements is true?
a) Both D1 and D2 are ON.
b) Both D1 and D2 are OFF.
c) D1 is ON and D2 is OFF.
d) D2 is ON and D1 is OFF.
33.For a given filter order, which one of the following type of filters has the least amount of ripple both in pass-band and stop-band?
45. Which one of the following is TRUE?
a) Both latch and flip-flop are edge triggered.
b) A latch is level triggered and a flip-flop is edge triggered.
c) A latch is edge triggered and a flip-flop is level triggered.
d) Both latch and flip-flop are level triggered.
1. A few friends he has are all very rich.
2. Do not insult the weak.
3. The later of the two persons was more interesting.
4. All the informations were correct.
a) He is known to me for a long time.
b) He is known by me for a long time.
c) He has been known to me for a long time.
d) He has been known by me for a long time.
136. If kennel is to a dog, then __ is to a hen.
139. A, B and C are three places in India with longitudes 80E, 85 E and 90 E respectively. Which one of the following statements about the local times of the places is true?
a) Local time of C is ahead of that of B.
b) Local time of B is ahead of that of C.
c) Local time of A is ahead of that of C.
d) A, B and C all have the same local time.
A + B means A is the husband of B.
A / B means A is the sister of B.
A * B means A is the son of B.


Does the faith makeup of the Supreme Court matter?
As many Americans mourn the death this past weekend of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the resulting news coverage about the impact the 79-year-old justice had on the country has ranged from his conservative politics to his Catholic faith.
Scalia, who was found dead of natural causes in his room at a Texas hunting resort Saturday morning, served on America's highest court since 1986 and his death presents an opportunity to make the Supreme Court more religiously diverse.
Five of the remaining justices are Catholic and three are Jewish, wrote Cathy Lynn Grossman in a Religion News Service column. She asked, "Do Protestants, no longer the majority strand of American culture, and folks with no religious identity see themselves (their values and vision of America) in the Supreme Court?"
The Supreme Court has never mirrored the racial or religious makeup of the U.S. as a whole, but the current panel of judges is a marked departure from historical patterns, as NPR reported in 2010.
After Justice John Paul Stevens, a Protestant, retired in 2010 and Justice Elena Kagan, who is Jewish, replaced him, the Supreme Court lacked a Protestant member for the first time in its more than 225-year history.
At the time, scholars were divided about whether this shift mattered. For example, Richard Garnett, a professor at the University of Notre Dame's law school, told NPR that religious Americans should appreciate a justice who has respect for the practice of faith in general, even if he or she doesn't belong to their denomination.
"For those Protestants in America for whom their faith is important, they can look to the court and say, 'Well, we do see representation on the court of people like us — people who take their religious faith and religious traditions seriously," he said.
Mark Scarberry, a law professor at Pepperdine University, told NPR there shouldn't be a religious test during the appointment process, but that he would support a president who allowed religious diversity to be one of many factors influencing the decision.
"When you have such a large part of the country that has a particular sort of religious worldview, if there is no one on the court who is able to understand that worldview in a sympathetic way, then that creates difficulties," he said.
In the wake of Scalia's death, Religion News Service reported that a unique religious shake-up could be in store for the Supreme Court. Sri Srinivasan, who is on the short list of potential nominees, could be the first Hindu to hold the prestigious position.
"The appeal of Srinivasan, who clerked for former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and argued more than two dozen cases before the high court as a deputy solicitor general, lies in his reputation as a moderate and the ease with which the Senate confirmed him to the appeals court," RNS reported.
As rumors about potential new justices (and their personal faith) swirl, it's valuable to note that religious background often doesn't predict how a person will rule, as Time reported. Scalia was well-known for his "Catholic core," but he disagreed with official church teachings on contentious issues like the death penalty.


On the way to the market with the cow, Jack met a livestock broker. "Nice little cow you have there," he said. "I can invest it for you and make you rich."
Director Bryan Singer delivered an exciting and entertaining movie with good performances, despite the fact that no one was calling for Jack and the Beanstalk -- or really any fairy tale, for that matter -- to be made into a movie.
With Bryan Singer's blockbuster Jack the Giant Slayer in theaters, it might be useful to ask ourselves: who is this Jack? He's known for slaying giants, but he does a lot more, too.


For a Driver, the input connector is a 4-pin or 5-pin connector chosen from: H5, FH5, C5, FC5, LC5, MIC4, W5. See "4-pin, 5-pin Connector Options" for pictures of the available connectors.
The output connector is either a 5-pin latching connector (FH5) or a 10-pin latching connector (FH10).
(1) For the Low voltage (EA-D-L-) versions, the +5VDC pins on the input and output connectors are electrically connected together, so power can be applied on either the input or output connector. For the High voltage (EA-D-H-) versions, the 7.5 to 30VDC power is applied at the OUTPUT connector. +5V out is generated at the INPUT connector.
"4-pin, 5-pin Connector Options" for pictures of the available connectors.
(1) The +5VDC pins on the input and output connectors are electrically connected together, so power can be applied on either the input or output connector.
H5 5-pin right-angle male header soldered in place.
FH5 5-pin latching header soldered in place.
W5* Five 12" discrete wires, no connector on the end.
C5 Five 6" discrete wires with a standard mating connector on the end.
LC5 Five 6" discrete wires with a locking mating connector on the end.
FC5 Five 6" discrete wires with a latching mating connector.
MIC4 Four 6" discrete wires with a micro mating connector.
The EA-D-L-10- is a differential RS-422 cable driver which converts the single-ended A/B/I output from USD's single-ended incremental encoders (or any three TTL level digital signals) to 3 pairs of differential signals. This allows the encoder to drive long cables (up to 1000 ft.) and reduces false switching in noisy environments. Various connector options are available on the 5-pin input side of this adapter. The output differential signals are available on a male 10-pin latching connector (FH10). The differential signal from the EA-D-L-10- can be connected directly to USD's QSB-D and USB4-D interface products.
The corresponding receiver, EA-R-L-10- converts the received differential signals back to 3 single-ended TTL level digital signals. The differential input side of the receiver is a 10 pin male latching connector (FH10). Various connector options are available on the single ended 5-pin output side.
The EA-D-H-10- is the same as the EA-D-L-10-, but offers a wide operating voltage range of 7.5 to 30VDC and a large output voltage swing proportional to the power supply voltage. This adapter allows 5V encoders to be used in high voltage applications.
The EA-D-L-5- driver converts 3 single-ended, low drive digital signals to 3 single-ended, high current drive digital signals. This variant is useful since the TTL outputs of some incremental encoders can sink (pull down) just under 4mA and source (pull up) only about 200 uA. The output side of the driver is a 5-pin male latching connector (FH5). Various connector options are available on the single ended 5-pin input side.
The EA-D-H-5- is the same as the EA-D-L-5-, but offers a wide operating voltage range of 7.5 to 30VDC and a large output voltage swing proportional to the power supply voltage. The EA-D-H-5- allows 5V encoders to be used in high voltage applications.
US Digital can supply nearly any cable to your specifications. See the Cables & Connectors page for more information.


To attract or entice someone or something away (from someone, something, or some action). He thought he could lure my girlfriend away by showing up in his expensive car and flashing his money around. The promise of a big salary isn't going to lure me away from a job I love. The company has been trying to lure away investors from its rival.
to entice or draw someone away from someone or something. Do you think we could lure her away from her present employment? They were not able to lure away many of the employees of the other companies.


In a tweet, Mr Baijal said he strongly condemned "recent unfortunate incidents" and underlined that there was "no place for violence in democracy".
Lt Governor has "advised" Mr Kejriwal to take steps to address the trust deficit with employees.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has been advised to "take steps to remove mistrust" with government employees so that Delhi's development activities are "not affected", Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal said on Friday after he reportedly agreed to play peacemaker between the ruling Aam Aadmi Party and officials protesting the alleged assault on the city's top bureaucrat earlier this week.
This was the first meeting between Mr Kejriwal's team and Mr Baijal after the alleged assault triggered an unprecedented faceoff between the ruling Aam Aadmi Party government and Delhi bureaucrats.
At the meeting that reportedly lasted for no more than five minutes, the Lt Governor later tweeted that he had also "strongly condemned the recent unfortunate incidents" and underlined that there was "no place for violence in democracy".
Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who later showered some rare praise on the Lt Governor for "looking at the entire episode" from the perspective of Delhi's governance and help resolve the standoff.
"We told him that officers were not taking phone calls, coming for meetings. We gave him a list of officers," Mr Sisodia said about the protests by the bureaucrats over the alleged assault.
Mr Sisodia said the Lt Governor had agreed to speak with the officials and "ensure that work is not affected and they work with ministers."
Government officials in Delhi have refused to attend meetings called by ministers after the city government's top bureaucrat Anshu Prakash alleged he was assaulted by two lawmakers at a midnight meeting convened by Chief Minister Kejriwal on Monday.
Mr Prakash also filed a police complaint about the assault that implied Mr Kejriwal's involvement in the conspiracy to beat him. AAP leaders had claimed that the false allegations were levelled at the elected government at the behest of the BJP government at the centre and its nominee, Mr Baijal.
The officials had demanded that the chief minister should "admit" that the assault did take place and then, apologise to the bureaucrat.
There has been no formal reaction from the IAS officers association, which had declared the officials would resume attending meetings only after an apology.
But it appears unlikely that the bureaucrats would disregard any direction from the Lt Governor, who for all practical purposes is their boss.


Catalyzes the two sequential methylation steps for the conversion of the 7-monomethylguanosine (m7G) caps of snRNAs and snoRNAs to a 2,2,7-trimethylguanosine (m(2,2,7)G) cap structure. The enzyme is specific for guanine, and N7 methylation must precede N2 methylation. Some selenoprotein mRNAs were found to contain 2,2,7-trimethylguanosine (m(2,2,7)G) cap structure and Tgs1 was found to be involved in hypermethylation of these caps.


There are many things we can do to make our research clearer to readers: make our text well organized and accessible, make clear graphs, consider the psychology of our readers, and use as little math as is necessary to explain our point. Clarity and elegance trumps formalism and detail.
Although there is general agreement on the value of a strong tie between theory and data, forging links between theoretical and empirical approaches (and practitioners) is not as straightforward as it should be. New evidence of this disconnect comes from the work of Fawcett and Higginson, who examined the use of mathematical equations in 649 papers dealing with ecology and evolution that were published in 1998. They gathered citation data, excluding instances of self-citation. An increase in the number of equations per page of main text corresponded to a lower rate of citations. Overall, each additional equation in the main text of a paper was associated with a 28% decrease in the citation rate. Burying the equations in an appendix had a salutary effect on citation rate. When the citing papers were divided into theoretical and nontheoretical on the basis of their use of the word "model" in the abstract or title, the authors observed that the negative effect was due to the nontheoretical papers not citing papers with equations. There are caveats to the conclusions—examinations over longer periods of time, analysis of the relative content of the papers, and examination of the effect for online rather than print publication are all warranted. Although the authors conclude that better math education for biologists is the best long-term solution, they suggest that more immediate strategies could include the addition of explanatory text between equations.
The full PNAS article is here.
I think anything less than fully disclosing the equations used in analysis (either in text or by way of citation) is intellectual dishonesty. In order to generate reproducible results, a reader should be able to extract from a paper (and all relevant citations) a complete process leading from data collection, through analysis, to conclusions. Connecting mathematical formalism and abstract conceptual models is the duty of all scientists, irrespective of discipline and there is a mutual responsibility on the part of author, reviewer, and reader to ensure clear communication of all components. While the mathematical formalism of certain analyses may be abstruse for some, but without it, we simply wave our hands to join questions, hypotheses and conclusions.
I agree that we shouldn't sacrifice completeness and replicability. But many of these descriptions can be pushed to online supplements or heavily edited down to be more concise. If readers are unwilling to invest the time to read a complete mathematical description, there isn't much value in it being complete. I think there is a balance that needs to be struck, and while searching for that balance, authors should be cognizant of their readers' tendencies.


Review: At the height of the Second World War, plucky patriot Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) attempts to enlist in the army alongside his best friend 'Bucky' Barnes (Sebastian Stan), but proves too puny to pass the physical exams. Recognising Steve's innate heroism, brilliant scientist Dr. Abraham Erskine (Stanley Tucci) recruits him for the top secret Project Rebirth being prepared in war-torn Britain where his courage, wit and selfless decency impress beautiful English agent Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) and grouchy Colonel Phillips (Tommy Lee Jones). Working with flamboyant billionaire inventor Howard Stark (Dominic Cooper), Erskine's experimental super-serum transforms scrawny Steve into the muscular superhero, Captain America, whose exploits inspire his countrymen and infuriate the Nazi regime, including the covert Hydra organisation fronted by Johann Schmidt (Hugo Weaving - with an impeccable German accent) a.k.a. the hideously deformed madman, the Red Skull.
Created by Joe Simon and the legendary Jack Kirby in 1941, Marvel Comics' star-spangled superhero previously had a checkered career on the silver screen. Aside from a supporting role in the tacky Turkish oddity 3 Dev Adam (1973), there were two terrible TV movies starring Reb Brown in 1979 as well as the infamous Cannon-produced Captain America (1990) directed by Albert Pyun with Matt Salinger in the title role, which was never released in American theatres. Little wonder many felt the character was too kitsch to translate for the cinema or else too ideologically outmoded to engage a modern audience. But what the earlier films lacked was charm and sincerity, qualities Captain America: The First Avenger delivers in spades as well as an admirable intention to engage our emotions besides dazzle us with superhero action.
With Marvel now forging close ties between all their film franchises, this follows the trend set by Iron Man (2008), Thor (2011) and The Incredible Hulk (2008) and lays groundwork for the forthcoming Avengers movie, which curtails a few promising plot strands even though the film can stand on its own merits. The screenplay by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (the duo behind the Narnia films) is beautifully crafted with many subtle touches (note Steve's use of a trashcan lid in one early scene) alongside more overt flourishes (e.g. the "World of Tomorrow" exhibit where Howard Stark exhibits his latest inventions), but crucially takes time to establish engaging characters so that when the breakneck sci-fi thrills and outlandish action erupt onscreen we have a backbone of human drama to make us care. Markus and McFeely also add an interesting satirical layer to the Captain America mythos, as Steve is initially used not as a superhuman commando but a tacky, moral-boosting campaign figure encouraging Americans to buy war bonds. Amusing parodies of propaganda from the period include red, white and blue chorus girls, tie-in movies and, yes, comic books, until our hero is mocked by real servicemen. He wins their respect by rescuing a platoon trapped behind enemy lines, who include his old pal Bucky, and then assembles a winningly multiracial strike force to take the fight to the Red Skull.
Having already been the best thing in the otherwise lacklustre Fantastic Four (2005), Chris Evans delivers a charismatic and surprisingly affecting performance as a valiant but humble hero who defines what real American patriotism is all about. When asked whether he wants to kill Nazis, Steve replies he does not want to kill anyone but hates bullies. No matter where they come from. While Evans is outstanding, the film remains an ensemble piece with Atwell cast an agreeably gutsy and resourceful heroine. Instead of the usually tepid English Rose stereotype that usually occurs when a British actress is cast in these sort of roles, Atwell enters the film punching out a sexist soldier and holds her own from thereon. Tommy Lee Jones is perfectly cast as the growling military man, Sebastian Stan and Dominic Cooper find grace notes amidst the action, and the film finds room for snappy character work from Toby Jones as a conflicted Nazi scientist (look out for a well-scripted scene between him and Tommy Lee Jones), Michael Brandon as an oily senator and the ever-villainous Richard Armitage.
Opening with a nod to The Thing from Another World (1951) and including a climactic scene unmistakably inspired by the intro to A Matter of Life and Death (1946), director Joe Johnston one-ups his similarly retro The Rocketeer (1990), staging a number of rousing, feel-good scenes with gusto and foresaking comic book camp for gripping wartime heroics with added oomph.
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I use a TAbColBitBtn in my project. I use the Mouse Down event to start a process which takes about 2 seconds to complete. I expect the TextOn to appear as soon as I press the button. It does not work that way. Build the project described. Test it two ways 1) click very fast on the TEST button - the TextOn never appears but the event occurs and 2) click very slow (4-5 seconds), the TextOn does not appear until the 2 second process is complete.
It seems to me that the TextOn should appear as soon as the button is pushed and the TextOff should appear as soon as the button is released - even if the 2 second process is still running.
if you click with the mouse first the OnMouseDown Event is called, before the Status of the button will change.
You may use the OnClick Event, then first the Status of the button will change, before Event call.


Business Writing: The Problem With "Not a Problem"
The Problem With "Not a Problem"
Many people seem to have adopted the expression "Not a problem" in place of "You're welcome." For example, if I thank someone in email, by phone, or in person for doing a favor for me, the response is often "Not a problem."
I am guessing you too have read or heard "Not a problem" or "No problem." You may be wondering what my problem with it is.
The problem with "Not a problem" is its negative parts: not and problem. When it comes to tone, two negatives do not multiply to create a positive. "Not a problem" has, at best, a neutral feeling.
Thank you for shopping [dining, staying] here.
The examples range from formal ("We are happy to serve you") to casual ("Enjoy!). What they have in common is positive language: welcome, pleasure, happy, please, glad, sure, like, enjoy, thank you.
Those positive words create a positive feeling between the writer and reader, or the speaker and the listener.
Are you ready to warm up the tone of your communication by replacing "Not a problem" with a positive phrase? Or have you always stayed positive? I look forward to your comments.
I've been preaching this one for years. "Not a problem" (or the similar "no trouble") seem to imply that it could have been a problem or trouble, but fortunately didn't turn out that way. Most of the times that I mention this, people react with some combination of confusion and eyerolls, so I may be out on my own limb. I'll try your reasoning instead; maybe I can at least end the confusion!
I, too, have a problem with 'no problem.' Sadly, in the past, I did respond with this silly phrase - until I became more aware of its true meaning. Thank you for posting the phrases: they will be a useful reference.
What if it is a problem and you take it kindly as a courtesy. Isn't it important to delimit things?
Thank you for commenting, Darin, Onorina, and Seyey.
Darin, I hope talking about "Not a problem" from the negative tone perspective will help you persuade people.
Onorina, I am glad you like the alternative phrases.
Seyey, using "Not a problem" focuses on the problem. I recommend focusing on a positive with a phrase such as "I am happy to help."
"No problem" is a problem for me too. I often hear this while conducting a retail transaction. I thank the cashier and get a "no problem" in response. My brain immediately jumps to "Well, I hope it's not a problem since it is after all your job." So the negative begets another negative response in my head and it sours the transaction a tiny bit.
Thanks for your comment, RJ. It illustrates where words with a negative feeling can take us.
im terrible for saying that and should really make a more conscious effort to not say it!
Thank you for the information. How about the phrase 'don't worry'? Is it cool?
Hi, Rebecca. Now that you are aware of the tone, I am sure you can get in the habit of using a positive phrase.
Hi, Jacob. "Don't worry" has the same problem as "Not a problem." It includes two negatives: "Don't" and "worry."
I am glad you commented on it.
I agree with you that a positive response is more pleasant however I would point out that in Spanish "de nada" while commonly interpreted as "You're welcome" literally means "Of nothing" or "For nothing".
Good point, Phil. Thanks for making it.
I think perhaps focusing upon the negative is missing a possible point in the "not a problem" response: Have you ever heard of litotes? The example from Spanish is good, but there are also examples from related dialects of English. For example, in Aussie vernacular, 'no worries' is quite common. Also in Canada, I've been told there is no higher praise for a junior hockey player than to be told on the conclusion of his shift that he did 'not too bad'.
Clearly something beyond negativity is behind the use of 'not' and 'problem'.
Perhaps instead of correcting common and popular use, we should try to understand it.
Hello, J. Randolph Radney. Interesting comment!
My focus is on what works well in business communication. I believe positive words communicate more positively than negative ones.
Great topic! In general, I'd certainly agree that the list of recommended phrases is good. My personal favorite has long been, "My pleasure!" But like Phil, I started thinking about "de nada" and "no problema" or "sin problema." The former, in particular, has a sense of "It was nothing." In many cultures, downplaying one's action is the proper response to praise; and thanks is a form of praise. So I'm beginning to think that just as "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder," so too any perceived problem with "No problem."
Thanks for dropping by, Lester. I always enjoy your comments.
I do appreciate the references to Spanish, but I find I still strongly prefer positive phrasing in business English. "My pleasure" comes across much more positively to me than "Not a problem." However, I will keep thinking about your "eye of the beholder" idea.
Hi, Martin. I do not see how the phrases I suggest "take something away from the other person." And I do not see their relationship with being "ruthless in business." Yikes! That is not my intention at all.
Why not try using a few of the phrases and see how people respond?
I too am guilty of this, sometimes I say it when I did something for someone that I really didn't have any pleasure/happiness in doing.
I'm happy to have learned something new in my quest for being a better person to relate with.
Idara, thank you for stopping by to comment.
As a teen-aged cashier in the 1970s, I was instructed to say, "Thank you for shopping at XYZ" to each customer at the end of the transaction - because they could have chosen to shop elsewhere.
Some employees are confused because the customer has already thanked THEM - but a customer's good manners shouldn't deter their own.
The cashier ALWAYS says "thank you" to each customer - conveying appreciation on behalf of the COMPANY and encouraging further business in the future.
Hi, Sue. I like the idea of expressing thanks. The challenge of saying thanks repeatedly is to make it sincere. If I am in line at a store and I hear the cashier say "Thank you for shoppping at XYZ" to each person, it sounds like a task rather than a sincere sentiment. I believe varying the words works well.
Today I wrote my future brother-in-law, thank him for helping us with the affidavit of support. After a few minutes I received a response, "not a problem".
I am not good in english, but I feel sad after reading it. It sounds negative. And so I search for the meaning and found this! Now I understand. Thank you for posting this.
Hello, Alice. I am very happy that you feel better after learning more about the phrase "no problem."
Thanks Lynn. I thought "Not a problem" was same as " no problem " before I read your article. Thank you so much.
Hi, Vera. I hope I did not confuse you. "No problem" and "Not a problem" can mean the same thing, depending on their use.
I'm really interested in understanding real meaning(s) of such fixed expressions; but I wonder if I could have them altogether in a great book.
P.S: I'm an ESL student (intermediate to higher level); my grammar and vocabulary are not too bad (for everyday conversation), but I feel I lack understanding of fixed expressions. (right words in right situations.) For example, although I know "thanks" is more informal than "thank you"; but I just found out an interesting (and ridiculous) convention between university professors and students (at least in the US in my field of study). Professors might use either "thanks" or "thank you" as they like, but students should use "thank you"; and if you, as a student, say "thanks" (e.g. at the end of email) it can be considered as an offence!!
Ali, you have learned how amazing and complicated language is. Thank you for sharing your observations.
Yes, "Thanks" is an informal version of "Thank you." Students should probably say "Thank you" to professors unless they have close or informal relationships with them.
Yes. I was wondering if you could kindly introduce me a valuable resource (preferably a book) to learn common fixed expressions (both formal and informal)?
Ali, I am not aware of such a book. You may have more success searching online for websites on the topic. Websites would be more current and evolving.
It's one of my pet hates. I was telephoned, today, by an insurance salesman who asked me various questions. Each time I replied, his response was "Not a problem".
In all, he asked about 30 questions and more than half of his responses were that phrase. Usually, it didn't just grate because I dislike it; it grated because it was thoroughly inappropriate.
"Not a problem" seems to be taking over in restaurants and cafes as well.
"Could I have a cup of tea, please?"
"I know it's not a problem, this is a cafe. You serve tea. Why don't you just say nothing and give me a cup of tea as requested. You could say 'Certainly' or 'Coming right up' or 'Take a seat and I'll bring it over' or just 'Yes'."
"Not a problem" should really be used, I think, when you are doing someone a favour/going the extra mile, but don't mind doing so. "No problem" is literally what it says and is appropriate when what you are doing is effortless or simply what is expected of you.
It's not as simple as being an informal version of "Not a problem". It's more subtle than that. "No problem" is very like the Spanish phrase "De nada" or the Caribean phrase "Small thing". Effectively, they all mean "It is nothing".
Hello, Charles. Thanks for your detailed comment. For the insurance salesperson you talked with, using "Not a problem" must be an unconscious habit. But being stuck in a verbal rut does not sell products.
Thanks for your ideas about the difference between "not a problem" and "no problem." I still recommend taking a positive approach, something like "I would be happy to."
When someone else says "You are welcome", it is about the other person, who is likely a customer or at least a person of interest. When someone says “Not a Problem” it is about them, saying they weren’t inconvenienced. This emotionally excludes the other person in the dialogue. We all like to feel that we are part of the verbal transaction.
Hugh, interesting point! Thanks for taking the time to comment.
Re: "Not a problem" , Knowing the person can make all the difference of this phrase. I feel like when coming from the younger generation it has negative connotations.
When I ask for them to do something and say Thank you and they reply Not a Problem.I get the sense that what I just asked them to do is in fact a problem. Especially when reading body language with it.
Interesting observation, Tony. Your comment complements my observation about the phrase.


Panel 1: A blue-skinned humanoid blows a horn in alarm.
Panel 2: The golden-winged man looks up, startled as a blade is pointed towards him.
Panel 3: Zoom out shot of the winged man being surrounded by 6 blue humanoids with weapons. One of them asks an incoherent question and the man says "Stop! I am not your enemy!" Another humanoid says something incoherent.
Panel 4: Closeup of the man's face as he says "I am The Loyal! Lower your weapons now! I require medical attention!
Panel 5: Two of the blue humanoids speak incoherently to each other.
Panel 6: Closeup of the winged man's hand as it glows with energy.


Why is it that when you ask Siri "what's the best cellphone ever?" (or "best mobile phone ever" or "best smartphone ever") that it responds with "the Nokia Lumia 900"?
Quite simple: because Siri hands the query (being non-weather-related) off to the Wolfram Alpha search engine, which pulls its data in from Best Buy, where the Nokia Lumia 900 had a total of five - count them - favourable reviews.
Here, go and have a look: "best cellphone ever", "best mobile phone ever", "best smartphone ever".
In each there's a link: "user rating: 5 out of 5 (based on 4 reviews)".
Where does WolframAlpha get its data for mobile phone recommendations? Best Buy.
Unfortunately even that isn't accurate. If you look at the page that that links to, it says that it has a rating of 4.4 out of 5, from 11 reviews. So Wolfram Alpha isn't quite keeping a live feed on this.
But… if you look at it, the latest reviews date from 11 April - which is when this all blew up. Be suspicious of those reviews. The earliest ones are more trustworthy, but even those might not be as believable as you might want.
The next up? The LG Tracfone - a $19.99 phone (this comes up whether you ask for a "smartphone", "mobile phone" or "cellphone". WolframAlpha says it's 5/5 - based on 1 review.
But no, even that isn't right. There are two reviews, of which one is a 5-star (yay!) posted on 16 March and the other is a 1-star posted on… 11 May. Ah, the same day that this Siri thing came up. So that's probably not a "real" review.
Whatever - it's a nice meme, but it doesn't bear fact-checking.
After a series of never-ending clicks, I believe I was able to trace this "story" back to its roots. Dalrymple linked to AppleInsider, which links to TheNextWeb (hi Robin!), which links to ZUnited, which links to WMPoweruser.
So - a fun story, not entirely supported by the facts.
Siri recommending the Nokia Lumia 900 as the answer to 'best cellphone ever'. And now you know how the magic works.
But it does tell us a couple of things.
Third: savvy marketing people are going to start gaming reviews like this to push their phones up rankings. Actually, you'd expect this is happening already, wouldn't you?
Fourth: hope that WolframAlpha to have a rethink about whether trying to answer "best X ever" is much use. Or whether BestBuy's customer reviews section is actually the place to ask.
What there is... is a rather worrying tendency for 'intelligent search' to default to rather silly, subjective and easily manipulable review sites (Best Buy? The US equivalent of Dixons). It shows the weakness in the chain. It's worrying because voice input + intelligent search is increasingly going to be the future of human computer interaction (smartphones, now Kinect with Internet Explorer, maybe the new Apple iTV...). So these kinks and weaknesses should be sorted out now.
That's it exactly. When you search for "best" anything - on sites such as Amazon, Yelp, Google, anywhere that offers a rating - you have to be aware of whether the results come from (a) a representative sample (how many Lumia reviews do you need for it to be robust? How many for a restaurant review?) (b) actual buyers (or is it marketing people stuffing the reviews?). Boiling questions down to one-line answers carries risks that are far more subtle than whether we get a laugh from Siri's responses. The question is whether we're aware of them.


Here is a small piece of statistics from the ongoing Hero I-League 2016-17 which covers the amount of goals scored in every quarter of the clock. The below provided stats are valid only till Round 10 of Hero I-League 2016-17.
Hero I-League Statistics: Goals Scored every 15 minutes.
The maximum number of goals(30 Goals) scored is in the final 15 minutes of the game.
The minimum number of goal(7 Goals) scored is in the first 15 minutes of the game.


Life on Jupiter and Saturn's moons?
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has detected hydrogen in plumes of icy material spewing from a sub-surface sea on Saturn’s moon Enceladus, a source of chemical energy and the latest indicator that the unseen ocean could be a habitable abode for microbial life, scientists said Thursday.
Jupiter’s moon Europa is another so-called “ocean world” in Earth’s outer solar system that is believed to harbor a sea of tidally heated water beneath its frozen crust.
In a double-barrel announcement, a second team of researchers reported Thursday that the Hubble Space Telescope has spotted, for the second time, what may be towering plumes of water ice erupting from cracks in Europa’s crust.
A similar plume was spotted two years earlier and both originate in the same area where surface temperatures are slightly higher.
NASA plans to send a spacecraft -- the Europa Clipper -- to Jupiter in the early 2020s to repeatedly fly by Europa, using a suite of powerful instruments to map the moon and to possibly sample the plumes, measuring the constituents of the sub-surface ocean and helping determine its habitability.
Cassini, nearing the end of its extended 13-year mission at Saturn, discovered plumes jetting away from Enceladus after the spacecraft arrived in 2004. It has photographed the jets, determined they are made up of 98 percent water ice and has even flown through them, sampling the material with a spectrometer and detecting ammonia, carbon dioxide, methane and organic compounds.
The latest findings are based on data collected during Cassini’s deepest dive through the plumes in October 2015. The data show about 1 percent of the plume material is hydrogen. And hydrogen, believed to be entering the ocean through hydrothermal activity on the sea bed, could provide a source of energy -- food -- for any microbes that might be present.
Hunter Waite, lead author of a paper published Thursday in the journal Science, said the calories represented by the hydrogen seen in the plume is roughly equivalent to 300 pizzas per hour.
The hydrogen is important because life, at least as it’s known on Earth, requires energy for metabolism. It also requires liquid water and a variety of key elements, primarily carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorous and sulfur.
Cassini has not yet detected phosphorous or sulfur, NASA said in a release, but scientists believe they likely are present because the moon’s rocky core is believed to be chemically similar to other solar system bodies that contain both elements.
He said Enceladus could feature buildups of precipitates on the ocean floor similar to so-called “white smokers” on Earth, which build up around warm-water vents and provide habitats for animal life beyond the reach of the sun.
Waite said a process known as methanogenesis could provide the spark for life on Enceladus.
Cassini is virtually out of fuel after an enormously successful mission. To prevent any chance that the spacecraft could eventually crash into Enceladus or any other moon, possibly contaminating a pristine environment, NASA has decided to crash the spacecraft into Saturn’s atmosphere in September, vaporizing the probe in a kamikaze-like plunge.
In what NASA calls Cassini’s “Grand Finale,” the spacecraft will fly past the moon Titan on April 24, using the moon’s gravity to bend the probe’s trajectory enough to set up repeated, somewhat risky, passes between Saturn’s cloud tops and the inner edge of its ring system. The Titan flyby will set up the first of 22 passes on April 26.
NASA used a similar end-of-mission strategy for the Galileo spacecraft that explored Jupiter and its moons in the 1990s.
During Galileo’s mission, researchers noted what appeared to be cracks in the icy surface of Europa. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers spotted what appeared to be an icy plume erupting from that same area in 2014, climbing to an altitude of about 30 miles.
In a paper published Thursday by The Astrophysical Journal Letters, researchers announced spotting a second plume, this one rising some 62 miles, in the same area in 2016. The measurements are at the limit of Hubble’s abilities, but researchers say they are confident the plumes actually exist.
Both presumed plume sightings “correspond to the location of an unusually warm region that contains features that appear to be cracks in the moon’s icy crust, seen in the late 1990s by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft,” NASA said in a statement.
If the warm spot and the plumes are, in fact, related, “it could mean water being vented from beneath the moon’s icy crust is warming the surrounding surface,” the statement said.
The Europa Clipper will be equipped with a powerful ultraviolet imaging system that will be able to make close-up, high-resolution observations that should reveal the nature of the presumed plumes and whether they represent water escaping through the surface cracks.


KONG HEE Sentence: Eight years' jail.
CHEW ENG HAN Sentence: Six years' jail.
TAN YE PENG Sentence: 5-1/2 years' jail.
SERINA WEE Sentence: Five years' jail.
JOHN LAM Sentence: Three years' jail.
SHARON TAN Sentence: 21 months' jail.
They have filed their papers.
Today, the six City Harvest Church (CHC) leaders at the centre of a multimillion-dollar financial scandal will return to face the courts.
The marathon City Harvest trial begins again in the High Court, with both the defence and prosecution appealing. The appeal will continue tomorrow and for the first three days of next week.
It will be heard by Judge of Appeal Chao Hick Tin, and Justices Woo Bih Li and Chan Seng Onn.
The six who have been convicted - including CHC founder Kong Hee, 52 - are arguing against their convictions and sentences, while the prosecution is appealing for longer deterrent sentences.
In October last year, the six were convicted of misappropriating millions in church funds to fuel the pop music career of Kong's wife, Ms Ho Yeow Sun, in a church mission known as the Crossover Project.
The court found that they had invested $24 million from CHC's building fund in bogus bonds from music production company Xtron and glass-maker Firna, but this money was, in fact, used to fund the Crossover Project. Later, another $26 million was used to cover up the initial misdeed.
For their crimes, the six were handed jail terms ranging from 21 months to eight years.
Kong, fingered as the key man behind the scandal, was given the stiffest sentence.
Presiding Judge See Kee Oon had choice words for the charismatic church pastor, whom he said "acted consciously and dishonestly".
"One does not need to be an expert in legality to appreciate certain fundamental aspects of honesty, truth and integrity," said Judge See in his written judgment.
Former CHC fund manager Chew Eng Han, 57, was handed a six-year term. And as Kong's right-hand man, deputy senior pastor Tan Ye Peng, 43, was given a sentence of 51/2 years.
Former church finance manager Serina Wee, 39, was given a five-year term. Former CHC finance committee member John Lam, 48, was sentenced to three years in jail.
Former church finance manager Sharon Tan, 40, received a sentence of 21 months' jail - the shortest.
Calling the case unique and without precedent, Judge See had agreed with the defence that the church suffered no wrongful loss, but still found them guilty of serious offences - including falsifying church accounts and breaches of trust involving large sums of charity money.
But the prosecution has described the jail terms as "manifestly inadequate".
During the trial, it called for harsher sentences - highlighting the fact that the case involved the largest amount of charity funds ever misappropriated in Singapore's legal history, which has shaken public confidence in the charity sector.
Said Deputy Public Prosecutor Christopher Ong: "It must be made clear that those leading charities, entrusted with the funds, must adhere to the highest standards of integrity and transparency."
The session starting today could be the final avenue of appeal open to the six church leaders.
If their appeals fail, they can refer the case up to the Court of Appeal, with its permission - and only if there is a point or question of law to argue.


If we discovered evidence for cyclic cosmology, would that disprove biblical cosmology? For the original audience, Gen 1-2 describes the world they could see. The earth and the visible stars. Modern readers have a greater sense of scale.
Yet that doesn't mean Yahweh only created what naked-eye astronomy can observe. It doesn't mean that if the universe extended far beyond what ancient Jewish readers would be able to see on a starry night, God was not the creator of what lay beyond the reach of naked-eye astronomy. What you could see was a synecdoche for what you couldn't. It was all of a piece.
Genesis sets the stage for human history, and God's activity in human history. In so doing, it places humans in a larger cosmic context, but that's undeveloped.
If, say, there are extraterrestrials tucked away in some indetectable corner of the universe or multiverse, their existence wouldn't mean God didn't make them, even if that falls outside the immediate purview of Genesis–or NT counterparts (e.g. Col 1:16).
A cyclic cosmology is to time what a multiverse is to space. In both you have multiple worlds, but in a multiverse these are spread out over space whereas in cyclic cosmology these are spread out over time. A diachronic rather than a synchronic ensemble. But the principle is the same. God would be the creator of all–whether one or many.
Mind you, I'm not aware of any evidence for cyclic cosmology. If such turned up, it would require Christian philosophers to retool some of their cosmological arguments, yet cosmological arguments from contingency (e.g. Leibniz, Pruss) would apply with equal force to cyclic cosmology.
Cosmological arguments (and many others) against the Bible seem to carry a hidden assumption that the information in the argument should have been considered in the Biblical text. Alfred Edersheim in the preface of vol 4 of his Bible History makes the comment that concerning the book of Judges "They give the history of Israel from the prophet’s point of view — not a succinct and successive chronicle of the nation, but a history of the Kingdom of God in Israel." Likewise, if I were writing a history of Rome, I would mention the Gauls attacking the city in 390 BC. I would not mention that the Temple of Aesculapius was built at Epidaurus or that Andocides died in Athens or that Egypt agreed to an aliance with Cyprus and Athens. Because these were not mentioned doesn't mean they didn't happen. It just means they are beside the point of the history I am writing. Cosmological arguments may have no impact on Genesis not because they are untrue but because Genesis is not concerned with that point. The point of Genesis is not to explain exactly how the physical world was created but to attribute all of that creation to Yahweh instead of pagan gods or blind chance.
Good reply, especially the last sentence. I see that people waste time with arguing about what is meant by a day.


macro question - how to use the macro search results to another search?
Search macros are reusable chunks of Search Processing Language (SPL) that you can insert into other searches. Search macros can be any part of a search, such as an eval statement or search term and do not need to be a complete command. You can also specify whether the macro field takes any arguments.
Macros inside of quoted values are not expanded. In the following example, the search macro bar is not expanded.
The shortcut opens a preview that displays the expanded search string, including all nested search macros and saved searches. If syntax highlighting or line numbering are enabled, those features also appear in the preview.
You can copy parts of the expanded search string. You can also click Open in Search to run the expanded search string in a new window. See Preview your search.
When you use a search macro in a search string, consider whether the macro expands to an SPL string that begins with a Generating command like from, search, metadata, inputlookup, pivot, and tstats. If it does, you need to put a pipe character before the search macro.
If your search macro takes arguments, define those arguments when you insert the macro into the search string. For example, if the search macro argmacro(2) includes two arguments that are integers, you might have inserted the macro into your search string as follows: `argmacro(120,300)`.
If your search macro argument includes quotes, escape the quotes when you call the macro in your search. For example, if you pass a quoted string as the argument for your macro, you use: `mymacro("He said \"hello!\"")`.
A validation expression that determines whether the arguments you enter are valid.
A validation error message that appears when you provide invalid arguments.
Generating commands, in the Search Reference.


It was only a matter of time until he would be dead.
That's the lesson Rodney Robinson, 18, learned from living life on the streets, trying to make a quick buck.
While others were in school, the high school dropout from Athens, Ga., was involved in a shoot-out, the crime that put him in the Augusta Youth Development Center, a juvenile detention center, serving time on an aggravated assault charge.
"I'd probably be dead because of the stuff that I was doing" had I not been caught, said Mr. Robinson, who was released from the YDC earlier this month and is now enrolled at Athens Technical College.
Having turned his back on school, he rediscovered education in what is called the state's 181st school system - the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice.
It's there that he realized education is his key to freedom and a better life.
HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS have a greater likelihood to end up incarcerated. On average, each long-term inmate costs taxpayers $16,841, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections.
Georgia's prison population is nearly 50,000 inmates. Three quarters are high school dropouts, according to the Georgia Bureau of Prison's statistics. The percentage nationally for inmates in state prisons is also at 75 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
"There is a direct correlation," said Richmond County State Court Judge David D. Watkins. "I've told people ... it's almost a profile. It's one of the main components - dropping out."
Conversely, Judge Watkins, whose criminal caseload is made up of misdemeanor and traffic offenses, said it's rare to see high school graduates in court two or three times.
Young people who aren't in school also seem to lack jobs, he said. What happens next - trouble - shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, he said.
Superior Court Judge Duncan D. Wheale agreed. Many of the people prosecuted in Superior Court for felonies have not completed their high school education and are jobless, he said.
"If you got a kid in the ninth grade dropping out, who's going to hire him?" Judge Wheale asked.
No one's hiring them;9 they're out committing crimes instead, District Attorney Danny Craig said.
He points to the Georgia prison inmate profile: 90 percent are 17- to 28-year-old men; they average a sixth-grade reading level and fifth-grade math level. They have two children on average but never married. They lacked a male parent themselves, Mr. Craig said.
If society is to reduce crime in any lasting measure, it must fix the educational system, Mr. Craig said. He believes the traditional structure should be torn down and school boards should build a system of magnet schools and technical programs.
REGIS DEVEAUX, 18, finished his education in the Augusta juvenile detention center. He was sentenced to the center for his role in a shoot-out, having been found guilty of aggravated assault.
"It didn't feel good to be shackled, to be locked down," he said. "It doesn't feel good to be away from home. It doesn't feel good not being able to go do what you want to do. It doesn't feel good not having freedom, so I decided early that I had to do something different."
That meant rededicating himself to his education. While incarcerated, he earned his high school diploma, and since then has been released and is enrolled at Morehouse College in Atlanta.
"Coming here," Mr. Deveaux said before being released, "it wasn't worth it."
Reach Greg Gelpi or Sandy Hodson at (706) 724-0851.
The Alliance for Excellent Education has found a number of correlations between dropping out of high school and committing crime.
- High school dropouts are 3.5 times more likely to be arrested over their lifetimes.
- Raising graduation rates by 1 percent would save about $1.4 billion in incarceration costs.
- About 47 percent of drug offenders dropped out of school.
- Quality reading instruction programs reduce recidivism by 20 percent or more.


The retailer should charge 44 dollars for the book.
Let s represent the selling price. The basic relationship is: selling price equals cost plus profit. Selling price = Cost + Profit Selling price = s Cost = 22 Profit = 50% of the selling price = 50% $\times$ s = 0.5s So, s = 22 + 0.5s 0.5s = 22 Divide both sides by 0.5 s = 44 The retailer should charge 44 dollars for the book.


How should we tackle it?
Millions of people live in extreme poverty: Who are they?
According to the International Poverty Line, people are considered to be in 'extreme poverty' if they live on less than $1.90 per day, or the equivalent amount after converting currencies and adjusting for price differences between countries. This is the definition used by the World Bank and many other international institutions.
About 700 million people in the world live below this low threshold. And about 4.7 billion people (more than half of the global population) live on less than 10 dollars per day.
People living in extreme poverty are concentrated in certain regions.
The country where you happen to be born makes a huge difference to your expected living standards.
If we focus on the intensity of poverty, we see a similar pattern: The countries where a large share of people live in extreme poverty are also the countries where people tend to have the largest shortfall from the poverty line (i.e. the 'poverty gap' is largest in these countries).
In other words: People below the International Poverty Line tend to have much worse living standards in low-income countries.
In 1820 there were just under 1.1 billion people in the world, of which more than 1 billion lived in extreme poverty.
Over the next 150 years, the decline of poverty was not fast enough to offset the very rapid rise of the world population, so the number of non-poor and poor people increased.
Since around 1970, however, we are living in a world in which the number of people who are not living in extreme poverty is rising, while the number of people who are living in extreme poverty is falling.
In fact, in today's rich countries a large share of the population lived in extreme poverty until fairly recently.
Actually, in most of these countries the majority of the population lived in extreme deprivation only a few generations ago. Progress was made at a fast pace — in some cases even at a constant pace.
And this progress is not only about incomes moving marginally above the extreme poverty line.
In recent decades the global poverty rate has been going down independently of whether we set the poverty line at 1.90 or 10 dollars per day.
The experience of China is remarkable in this respect.
In 1984 more than two-thirds of the population lived in extreme poverty; and over the course of just one generation the share in extreme poverty declined to less than 2%.
The Gallup World Poll asked people around the world what they thought about their standard of living—not only about their income.
The following chart compares the answers of people in different countries with the average income in those countries. It shows that, broadly speaking, people living in poorer countries tend to be less satisfied with their living standards.
And there is a similar correlation in terms of subjective well-being.
As this chart shows, low-income countries tend to have lower self-reported life satisfaction; and richer people within these countries tend to have higher self-reported life satisfaction.
Poverty is complex. It's not just about monetary incomes.
This chart shows a proxy of 'multidimensional poverty' weighing ten household-level indicators of deprivation in the context of education, health and living standards.
As we can see, monetary and multidimensional poverty are related, but clearly not one and the same.
But higher incomes do make a huge difference to living standards. It's no coincidence that in the last decades, when we have reduced poverty globally, we have also witnessed important economic growth.
Indeed, the correlation between GDP per capita and extreme poverty is strong, both across countries at any point in time, as well as within countries across time.
Note: This 'connected scatter plot' shows country-level changes in GDP per head and poverty rates over time; specifically, over the period specified in the slider. You can move the marks on the slider to change the length of the time window for which changes are plotted. When the beginning and end marks coincide, the chart plots a traditional cross-sectional scatter plot.
Social policy and direct household-level support, too, make an important difference.
Social policy is important both because it can contribute to promote income growth, and because it often makes the wait for growth less painful.


Is playing a concert solo without any rhythmic or chordal accompaniment such an unnatural way to perform? As instrumentalists, it’s not like we never play by ourselves. Just think of how much time we spend sitting alone in the practice room or warming up before a gig in solitude. And compare that to the amount of time that a musician spends playing with others during a concert.
A professional jazz musician probably practices in solitude anywhere between one and three hours a day--college students probably a little more. And of course this is going to vary depending on how much he or she performs. Now let’s compare this to the amount of actual playing time during a gig: An average performance in a jazz club lasts anywhere between 45 minutes to an hour per set, and it’s usually two sets per nightly performance. During a one hour performance by a jazz quartet, the average group might play anywhere between five to seven tunes--sometimes fewer, for those particularly inspired moments. During those five to seven tunes, a horn player--including playing the melody, taking an improvised solo, trading fours with the drummer, and playing the melody out—probably plays a total of five minutes per tune. Which averages out to 30 minutes of playing time per set, and 60 minutes for a two-set gig.
Now my point is not to inundate you with averages and percentages, but to demonstrate that when you look at the amount of time that a horn player spends playing alone, compared to playing with others, on average he or she spends twice as much time playing solo or in solitude. Leaving me to conclude that playing solo is a state in which we are equally as comfortable, if not more. Yet, it’s a musical setting few of us get a chance to perform in.
But who knows, maybe one day this will all change. Steve Lacy's vast body of unaccompanied work could be just the tip of the iceberg. It's not such an anomaly is classical music. In fact, it's pretty commonplace. Maybe soon this "ugly duckling" format in jazz will grow up to be a beautiful swan.
The first time I met David S. Ware was in the spring of 1999 in Paris. I can’t remember the name of the festival, I think it was the Banlieues Bleues Festival, but I can’t be sure. He was there with his energy-charged quartet with Matthew Shipp on piano, William Parker on bass, and Guillermo E. Brown, who had just replaced Susie Ibarra on drums. We both had new CDs out on Columbia/Sony at the time, so a couple of the record label people from their France division took me to the concert. I was on tour with the Jacky Terrason group, and we just happened to have that particular night off. The timing couldn't have been better.
Before David's group played that evening, several free jazz/improvised music groups went on before him. I remember that a lot of it sounded very weird to me at the time. I hadn’t really gotten into improvised music back then. For me to listen to esoteric ensembles made up of just two saxophones; or trumpet, cello and drums playing noise and texture, and squeaks and squawks--not caring whether you liked it or not--was way too outside of my post-young-lions comfort zone. I would probably dig that type of thing much more now, and in some cases, possibly prefer it. You might say it was my first live experience with Euro-free jazz.
When David’s quartet finally played, it probably sounded the tamest of all the bands I heard that night, which is saying a lot considering the raw, unapologetic recklessness with which his quartet would often swarm the bandstand. Being that they had all of the conventions of a typical jazz group---a melody instrument supported by a rhythm section, they were playing over grooves, forms, and chord changes, in the loosest sense of the word—they were by far the most conventional group on the bill. And I guess it’s all relative. If that very quartet played at the Village Vanguard, Smalls, or The Jazz Standard, it would have sounded far from "tame."
"John Coltrane. 1967. I was there. Don’t tell me. I was there. 1967.” It was like someone remembering meeting a messiah. Someone who after meeting once, totally changed your life. It reminded me of when I was growing up in Virginia, and I used to witness people in the church find Jesus during the Sunday morning service.
Hearing him speak this way, even three decades later, you get an insight into how Coltrane’s music, mainly from the album Expression, recorded months before his death, shaped David’s aesthetic. This recording with Pharoah Sanders, Jimmy Garrison, Rashied Ali, and Alice Coltrane, was by far some of his most spiritually reaching music. In some ways, it bypassed much of the complexity found in a lot of his previous work. It has the calmness, tranquility, and contentedness of someone who has finally seen peace with himself and was ready to take that long-awaited journey home.
After David had come out of his Coltrane-induced trance, we were finally introduced. And when he found out that we were both on the same label, his eyes developed a little sparkle of interest. David told me that Branford Marsalis, who was the acting A & R person at the time, and who was one of the people instrumental in signing us, gave him a stack of CDs of new Columba/Sony releases. He said that he hadn’t yet heard mine, but he was looking forward to checking it out.
Unfortunately, our paths never did cross again after meeting him on that memorable evening. However, his bright spirit and uninhibited music will be forever engraved in my memory. His imposing height, his wardrobe of African garb and basketball sneakers, the cryptic-like metaphors he used when talking about music, his slow and confident walk with a slight limp, the way he would canvass the room with his eyes, as though he was trying to size up everything and everyone in his periphery, it all symbolized a man who was as individualistic off the bandstand as he was on. Matthew Shipp summed it up best when he said that David was "the last of the Mohicans." And I’m sure wherever his spirit is now, he’s impacting everyone and everything along the way, the way he influenced all who stood in his dressing room that night, the way Coltrane obviously changed him during that vital concert in 1967. R.I.P.
Now the moral of the story is “keep it simple,” no matter how complicated the circumstance. Which seems to be easier said than done. Whenever I’m conducting a master class or directing a jazz ensemble, I’m always amazed at the difficulty students have playing simple ideas. It's as though anything that's obvious or easily recognizable is not worth playing. That way of thinking could not be further from the truth. It's the easy to recognize and easy to play types of ideas that grounds the music. It provides a neutral territory for everyone to musically convene. If the basic premise of jazz is that the sum of the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, then our job as soloists and accompanists is to make everyone comfortable. It's OK to push your fellow man, but you have to be careful not to knock him over.
As I get older, I find myself using space a lot more and playing fewer complicated ideas. It can be pretty humbling to find that your comfort zone isn't as vast and complicated as you thought or hoped it would be. But once you recognize and embrace your limitations, that's when you're truly on your way to getting to your thing. Otherwise, you will embark upon a lifetime journey of hit or miss performances.
So the next time, you decide to go out on a limb like a tight-rope walker from the circus, just remember that the real you is probably down below waiting for you with open arms.
Jazz critic Ben Ratliff gave my new CD, The Art of the Soprano, Vol. 1, a great review in today's New York Times, Arts & Leisure section.
It was nice that he was able to trace the arc of growth between the three solo CDs: Monk Abstractions (2007), Blue Soliloquy (2010) and The Art of the Soprano, Vol. 1 (2012). And let me just say that this is one of the benefits of being a do-it-yourself artist. No label will just sit back and patiently let you work out your thing, over the course of five years, while you make three solo soprano saxophone recordings. And understandably so. Art and commerce don't mix. Sort of like oil and water.
What's really interesting, is that I almost didn't release it. Like with most recordings, after I made this one, I went through Post-Recording-Depression (PRD). This is where after you record it, you think, "Wow, this is a great CD!" Then three-months later, you're wondering how you could have allowed such a tragedy to take place. You start to focus on that one note that was out of tune, that one phrase played slightly out of time, that extra chorus of rambling, that second take, which may have been the better of the two, and the list goes on and on.
So I guess the lesson is: You just never know.
At one point I even told myself--as I tried to rationalize why I should just go ahead and release it--that if it does get trashed, I'll just try to learn from my mistakes and do a better job the next time. When I sent it to Disc Makers, I literally closed my eyes as I dropped it in the mailbox.
I'm glad I didn't listen to Mr. Voice of Doubt. Once again, he would have led me down the wrong path.


A surgical team kept a man alive with CPR for 90 minutes after suffering a heart attack.
While most patients stop responding within 20 minutes due to insufficient blood flow to the brain, this rare case in Denmark lasted more than an hour.
Every time they stopped pumping, the 69-year-old man would fall unconscious. But every time they started again, he would once again be able to respond to questions by moving his eyes.
However, during the hour and 30 minutes scans revealed no movement in his heart, and blood shifting between the layers of his aorta, which even surgery would not be able to fix.
Ultimately, they were forced to give up - but the team has now presented the case at a medical conference in Copenhagen, showing we may still have much to learn about CPR.
'At this time, paramedics were still in the room, and CPR was initiated immediately,' the anesthesiologist Dr Rune Sarauw Lundsgaard told CNN.
'Due to a recent event with another patient, the cardiac arrest team was in the next room, and advanced CPR was initiated shortly after.
'This means that two paramedics and four hospital porters were shifting in pairs of two at performing the CPR.
CPR is an emergency technique that will supply blood to the brain and other organs of a person who is suffering a cardiac arrest and the heart has stopped beating.
Trained staff do chest compressions and may use an automated external defibrillator (AED) to deliver a shock if needed.
Studies have found that continuing CPR for longer than 35 minutes leads to better survival rates in children, but generally hospitals stop after 20 minutes.
'Normally, chest compressions are stopped once the patient shows signs of life or spontaneous breathing. [When] the patient moved, we stopped CPR, and immediately the patient went unconscious due to his nonfunctioning heart. This was done several times with the same result,' Dr Lundsgaard told CNN.


I have taken this idea of Click-Through Rate and applied it Maps Listings, Videos and Websites.
In the world of YouTube and Google this is how they tell if something is of interest to the searcher and if it should be at the top of the search engine or not. The more CTR there is the more likely it will be moved to the top of the searche engine.
1) Rank in Google Maps.
2) Rank a Video in YouTube.
3) Rank a Video in Google.
4) Rank a Website in Google.
You provide 10-20 keywords. Not just any keywords. These keywords must be keywords that your Map can be found for in Google Maps. Or your Video can be found for in YouTube and/or Google. Or your Website can be found for in Google.
Google Maps - A keyword is typed in to he search bar and up come all the Maps Listings for that keyword. The only Maps Listing we are interested in is your listing. So no matter where you are in Google Maps your listing is searched for, found and then clicked on. Then we either Click two Call or Click to Website and stay on your site for 60 secs or so.
Videos in YouTube - Same procedure. A keyword gets typed in to the YouTube search bar. The only video we are interested in is your video. Your video is searched for and when found is clicked on. Most of the video will be watched. What I mean by that is that random times are chosen so that it is not always the same time. If your video is 2 minutes long then one time your video will get watched until 1 minute and 52 seconds. Next time 1 minute and 57 secs etc. Then your video is re-watched from the beginning. This gives huge engagement signals to YouTube and you can clearly see the results of this in the analytics section of your YouTube channel.
YouTube Videos in Google - If you need to get that video moving in Google then the same procedure applies. The video must already be in Google within the first 5 pages. If it can't be found in the first 5 pages for the specific keyword then it wont work. But providing you give 10-20 keywords and your Video can be found in Google for these keywords then your video will again be clicked on, watched and then re-watched.
Website in Google - Again the same thing applies here when wanting to rank a website. Keywords are typed in and providing your website shows up in the first 5 pages for a specific keyword then your website will be found and clicked on and stayed on for several mins.
Well a key ranking factor is engagement. When Google and YouTube see that your Videos are being searched for found, watched and re-watched. Or when your Maps listing is found and then there is a Click to Call or Click to Website. Or when your Website is found in Google visited and stayed on what do you think this tells Google and YouTube?
Yep - this thing is hot and people love it so we need to rank it higher.
How much does this CTR Service cost?
Let me set the correct expectations. This process is resource heavy. There are cheaper ways to do it but as they say you get what you pay for and in CTR cheap services typically result in tanked listings, sandboxed websites and videos buried.
2 campaigns will be created. One for Click to Call and one for Click to Website. No reports are provided as to the number of CTR. Before we start you will have taken screenshots of your Google Dashboard. Then the campaigns will run for 30 days and you will be given the option to continue for another 30 days.
2 campaigns will be created. One for YouTube and one for Google providing your Video an be found in both search engines for the keywords you provide. No reports are provided as to the number of CTR. Before we start you will have taken screenshots YouTube Analytics for that Video. The campaigns will run for 30 days and you will be given the option to continue for another 30 days.
A campaign will be created for your home page URL and the keywords added that your website can already be found for in Google. Before we start you will have taken screenshots of your Google Dashboard. Then the campaigns will run for 30 days and you will be given the option to continue for another 30 days.
Google Maps - $197 p/m up to 1500 Traffic Credits using 1 x Click to Call and 1 x Click to Website Campaigns.
YouTube Video - $197 p/m up to 1500 Traffic Credits p/m using 1 x Youtube and 1 x Google Campaigns.
Website - $197 p/m up to 1500 Traffic Credits.
Combo Deal - $547 p/m meaning I can do a Video and Website. Or a Maps listing, Video and Website etc.
P.S. This is not a promise to rank you but if done long enough I can't see why it wouldn't epecially if you order one of my other Gigs to go with it. Custom orders can be created to suite your needs. These prices are a guidline. The method has been thorougly tested over the last two years and special advanced software has been coded and is constantly updated to make sure this method, using residential proxies, is totally safe for your assets.


Looks like Warner Bros. is hoping they can replicate the success Columbia had with '21 Jump Street' with a small-to-big screen reboot of their own: the studio has hired Dax Shepard to write, direct, and star in a film version of the classic cop series 'CHiPS,' and he's bringing Michael Pena along for the ride.
Deadline reports that Shepard has been tapped to revive 'CHiPS' for the big screen, given the duties of writer, director, and star, with Michael Pena serving as his co-star. The film is based on the classic hit NBC series of the same name which ran from 1977 to 1983, and followed two motorcycle cops in California as they hit the pavement to stop crime on a weekly basis.
Shepard will take the role of Officer Jon Baker originated by Larry Wilcox, while Pena will play the part of -- you guessed it -- Frank Poncherello (aka "Ponch"), originally played by Erik Estrada.
While most big screen versions of classic TV shows have been largely comedic ('Starsky and Hutch,' '21 Jump Street'), this new adaptation of 'CHiPS' is said to be more action-heavy. Shepard does have some experience mixing action and comedy, as he recently wrote and directed the indie 'Hit and Run,' which co-starred his wife, Kristen Bell.


In the past, "mind reading" systems have been able to guess what single-digit number a person might be thinking of, but deeper thoughts have been beyond the technology's reach. Now, a team from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has developed a way to accurately read more complex concepts from a brain scan, and even piece together entire sentences.
Even the most basic sentence is loaded with more information than you might realize: each word represents a new concept, and their placement and relationship to each other can drastically change the meaning of the whole. The CMU team found that the "building blocks" the mind uses to construct thoughts are made up of concepts, rather than being based on words themselves. That suggests the brain processes concepts in a universal way, regardless of a person's language and culture.
"One of the big advances of the human brain was the ability to combine individual concepts into complex thoughts, to think not just of 'bananas,' but 'I like to eat bananas in evening with my friends'," says Marcel Just, lead researcher on the study. "We have finally developed a way to see thoughts of that complexity in the fMRI signal. The discovery of this correspondence between thoughts and brain activation patterns tells us what the thoughts are built of."
The study tested how the brain codes complex thoughts, and how an fMRI scanner, with a little help from machine learning algorithms, can decode them. The researchers put together 240 "complex events," which are sentences like "The witness shouted during the trial." These events were made up of 42 different building blocks, or meaningful components like person, setting, size, social interaction and physical action.
Each of these different kinds of information are processed in different parts of the brain, so CMU's system can pick out the general category of what's on a person's mind. To test its prowess, the researchers had seven participants read the sentences, recording the brain activation patterns that went along with them. After training the algorithm on 239 of the sentences and the matching scans, it was then able to put together the last sentence based solely on the brain data.
The team ran that test 240 times, systematically leaving out each of the sentences in turn, and found that the algorithm was able to predict the missing sentence from a brain activation pattern with 87 percent accuracy. Going the other way, the researchers could feed the program a sentence and it would spit out an accurate brain activation pattern.
"Our method overcomes the unfortunate property of fMRI to smear together the signals emanating from brain events that occur close together in time, like the reading of two successive words in a sentence," says Just. "This advance makes it possible for the first time to decode thoughts containing several concepts. That's what most human thoughts are composed of. A next step might be to decode the general type of topic a person is thinking about, such as geology or skateboarding. We are on the way to making a map of all the types of knowledge in the brain."


Why does Sade have such a poor reputation in the UK?
They call her music a "quiet storm" but there hasn't been much of a storm, quiet or otherwise, about the huge success of Sade's first album in a decade, Soldier of Love – not in this country anyway. It sold 1.5m copies worldwide in its first week of release – including 500,000 in the US, where it enjoyed the best sales-week since AC/DC's Black Ice in November 2008 – and went to No 1 in 14 countries.
In the UK, however, it "only" reached No 4, and give or take a few "lead" reviews lightly praising the music's "beautiful balance" between "toughness and hauteur", there doesn't seem to have been much of a fuss made about the achievement. True, Sade hardly gives interviews, but neither do/did Michael Jackson, Madonna and Prince, and they've been scrutinised to death (literally, in Jacko's case). Since when did a lack of original quotes and face-time with an artist stop people writing about them? A few journalists have likened Sade to Kate Bush, that other reclusive musician who emerges once in a blue moon, but the space given to Sade's return is nothing compared to the coverage afforded Bush's comeback with the Aerial album in 2005, whether they got the exclusive interview or not.
In the States, anticipation for Soldier of Love, Sade's first album since 2000's Lovers Rock, was considerable, especially among rappers. Kayne West blogged about it, declaring, "This is why I still have a blog ... to be a part of moments like this". Meanwhile, Lil Wayne was heard talking it up, and new boy Drake, having confirmed Jay-Z, Kanye and Wayne as collaborators on his album, said he was most excited about a mooted team-up with the Nigerian-born singer originally known as Helen Folasade Adu.
Now, this could simply be A Flock of Seagulls syndrome, whereby a group deemed a joke in Britain is revered in the States. But more likely it's because, historically, rap's most wanted have liked nothing better than to wind down after a hard day's dissing with some gentle MOR-R&B – I distinctly remember interviewing Snoop Dogg at home in LA as he reached for a Sade album, considered the epitome of class and sophistication in such circles.
Perhaps "class" is a class thing. American rappers, largely working-class, seek it in their favourite music – they've got all the edge they need in their lives. British rock writers, middle-class boys to a man (and woman), on the other hand, demand the roughness that was missing as they grew up and mistrust classiness, seeing it as the bourgeois enemy of insurgent creativity.
Then there's Sade's background as a model and cover star of 80s style bibles such as the Face to contend with – stylishness and conventional good looks can make a musician seem insubstantial. She might have emerged out of a post-new romantic/peacock-rejecting club culture synonymous with what her former boyfriend Robert Elms once dubbed "hard times" chic, but Sade herself never seemed to suffer much on the way to success.
Her poor reputation here might also stem from the fact that music writers, their ears dulled by years of exposure to noise, need things "spelled out" sonically. Soul divas from Aretha to Alicia are routinely eulogised because they are openly emotional in their work and so can be lauded for their depth and passion. Sade's vocals are utterly devoid of the grit and guts of regular soul; meanwhile, the music's lustrous surfaces and the players' cool efficiency have made it the ideal background sound for wine bars and dinner parties – places loathed by the rock criterati.
Nobody, with the possible exception of Spandau Ballet, reeks of 80s yuppie, conspicuous consumption and smooth operators doing deals over Asti Spumante like Sade. Maybe that's why, despite selling over 50m albums in her 26-year career, she is one of those artists, like Phil Collins (that other rappers' delight), who have tended to shift records without the approbation of the press.
Or maybe it's because the hardest thing to be in rock or pop, even soul, is soft. Sade's music is deceptively mellow, though – her best songs, such as the beat-less I Never Thought I'd See the Day, from 1988's Stronger Than Pride, are starkly beautiful, like an 80s apartment stripped of all but the most basic Habitat accoutrements.
But then, I always thought Sade was closer to trip-hop than torch muzak, an idea borne out by the title track of her new album, which approaches the metallic vigour of Tricky. It's just a shame the rest of Soldier of Love is so lacking in melodic lustre. Because it would have been fun, and not a little contentious, to proclaim her an idiosyncratic artist with a distinctive vision.


Who Should be Screened for Gestational Diabetes?
All pregnant women should be screened for gestational diabetes, except those deemed by the American Diabetes Association to be at very low risk.
When Should You be Screened for Gestational Diabetes?
There is no worldwide standard for screening and diagnosis of diabetes during pregnancy. The most popular approach in the US is a two stage screening test for gestational diabetes. Only those whose numbers are out of range in the first test need to continue to the second test.
On the day of the screening test you can eat and drink normally. You will be given 50 grams of glucose, usually in the form of a specially formulated orange or cola drink. You should drink the entire amount within a few minutes. One hour later, you will have a blood test to measure your blood sugar level.
If your blood sugar level is higher than normal, you will need another test to know confirm that you have gestational diabetes. Most doctors and nurses consider your blood sugar level to be high if it is more than 130 to 140 mg/dL (7.2 to 7.7 mmol/L).
If your blood sugar level is higher than 200 mg/dL (11.1 mmol/L), then you have gestational diabetes.
The second test for gestational diabetes is called an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT). It is done by measuring your blood sugar level before you eat anything in the morning (fasting), then again one, two, and three hours after you drink a glucose drink that contains 100 grams of glucose (twice the amount in the one-hour test).
Similar to the one-hour test, this is usually in the form of a specially formulated orange or cola drink.


A TEENAGE schoolgirl who committed suicide after she was taunted by bullies was laid to rest yesterday amid wreaths of red roses painted black and watched by her weeping family and school friends.
As Nicola Raphael, 15, went to her grave, the mother of one of her school friends, who has also been bullied at Lenzie Academy, said she would sue the school.
Nicola, who was found dead by her family on Sunday after taking an overdose of painkillers, was carried into St Columba's church in Kirkintilloch in a white coffin trimmed with black ribbons as more than 400 mourners, including many of her school friends wearing goth outfits, gathered to say a final farewell.
Nicola had been bullied at school because of her goth style of clothes and make-up.
Her mother, Mrs Rona Raphael, 48, supported by brothers Christopher, 18, and David, 22, and her father David Raphael, 49, led family mourners.
They wept openly as their daughter's coffin was laid at the foot of the altar while Eric Clapton's Tears In Heaven - the song he wrote in tribute to his son who died in an accident - played.
Nicola's friends comforted each other as the Rev Mark Johnstone paid tribute to her wacky sense of humour and dress sense.
He said the circumstances of her death were particularly tragic and would be difficult for many to understand. But he urged mourners not to apportion blame or seek simple answers.
''There are so many unanswered questions. What was going through her mind that day, that night? Why did this happen? But I do not believe there are any simple answers.
During the 50-minute service, Mr Johnstone also compared Nicola to her favourite characters in the cartoon South Park.
The traditional service included readings from the Book of Wisdom and the gospel of John as well as conventional hymns.
Scores of floral tributes and numerous single white orchids were left at the graveside after the interment at Old Aisle Cemetery, Kirkintilloch.
Four single red roses, left by Nicola's parents and brothers, and a Korn (an American rock band) T-shirt, left by a school friend, were laid on her coffin.
Nicola's heart, kidneys, and other organs were removed, and have already saved the lives of three children in Manchester and London.
Meanwhile, the mother of a school friend of Nicola yesterday promised to sue Lenzie Academy.
Barbara Evans said her daughter Ashley, 15, had also been bullied, and is threatening to take legal action against the education authority for failing to provide her daughter with a proper education in a safe environment.


a. I'm 20 years old. b. I've 20 years old. c. I have 20 years.
a. I've hungry. b. I has hungry. c. I'm hungry.
a. It's of Peter. b. Peter's is. c. It's Peter's.
a. am talking. b. talk. c. talking.
a. still. b. already. c. yet.
a. for. b. .... c. since.
a. wills go. b. will goes. c. will go.
a. will arrive. b. arrives. c. arrive.
a. To smoke. b. To smoking. c. Smoking.


Should businesses invest in 3D printing technology? Only the use cases can answer that question, according to experts.
Businesses interested in adopting 3D printing will have a big decision to make out of the gate: whether to invest in the technology or rely on a third party for printing and, in some cases, modeling capabilities.
But when is insourcing more advantageous than outsourcing? "I always use a Stephen Covey quote to answer that question: 'Begin with the end in mind,'" said Pete Basiliere, a Gartner analyst.
CIOs, who will oversee the 3D printing infrastructure whether in-house or outsourced, and business users, the likely owners of the technology, should let the use cases drive the decision. And, experts added, restricting the 3D decision to either/or scenarios could be a misstep: In some cases, the best 3D printing strategy may be a combination of investment and reliance on a third-party service provider.
Three-dimensional printing, a type of additive manufacturing process using materials such as plastics, resins and metals to create 3D objects, is still a fledgling market, according to experts such as Shawn DuBravac, chief economist and the head of research at the Consumer Technology Association, based in Arlington, Va. He estimated 150,000 3D printers will be shipped worldwide this year. "That's not a big number," he said in November during his presentation at EmTech, an emerging technology conference hosted annually by the MIT Technology Review. "That number doubles, we think, by 2019."
Because the technology is so young, DuBravac and his colleagues see 3D printing as "less of a desktop computer and more of a service bureau technology," he said. The real test for the enterprise, however, depends on the business model.
"Any company that designs something physical will most likely have 3D printers," DuBravac said. That's especially true in cases of rapid prototyping, where 3D printing can provide significant efficiencies when bringing a product to market. But for businesses that aren't using the technology for that particular use case, the question of insourcing vs. outsourcing may be harder to answer.
Interior designers, for example, will likely rely on 3D printing technology to customize the look and feel of a room, but will they need to own the technology to provide that service to their customers? According to Vinod Baya, director at PricewaterhouseCoopers' Center for Technology and Innovation, that will depend on production.
For enterprises that have the volume to warrant an investment and drive the returns, setting up an internal 3D printing shop makes sense. But for businesses that don't produce enough to offset the costs of investing in the emerging technology, which could include midmarket manufacturers, the money may be better spent elsewhere, he said.
While the cost of entry for a 3D printer may be cheap, if the business is going to rely on the technology for full-scale production purposes, the price tag can go up considerably, according to Baya. Today's 3D printers are limited by the materials and processes they use, and enterprises looking to leverage 3D printing technology to produce finished products will "need a bank of printers, with all of the different processes and procedures, so that you can make a complete product," he said.
Vendors are working on ways to change that, experimenting with equipment that can use multiple processes in sequence and print in multiple materials, but that technology is still in the lab, Baya said.
One of the more novel use cases for 3D printing technology is in the kitchen. Startups, such as the Sugar Lab, are using three-dimensional design software to create elaborate designs, which are then transformed into sugary cake toppers and fancy sugar cubes.
Even if businesses don't plan on bringing the technology in-house, they can still build a 3D printing strategy and access the technology through 3D printing service bureaus. "I think bureaus play a core role in the ecosystem because they're bringing the cost down for people to access these services," Baya said.
Shapeways Inc., a service bureau founded in 2007 and headquartered in New York, gives enterprises, such as Target Corp. and Google, access to 3D printing technology on demand. In 2014, Target opened a shop on Shapeways that enabled customers to select and purchase customizable, 3D-printed keychains, jewelry pendants and Christmas ornaments. Google collaborated with Shapeways for its Made with Code initiative -- helping girls translate zeros and ones into tangible objects.
"In the last couple of years, we've seen some interest from larger organizations, companies like Target, [that are trying] to figure out how we can help bring 3D printing into their product office," said Matt Boyle, vice president of engineering at Shapeways.
In some cases, a combination of insourcing and outsourcing 3D printing technology may be in order. Metal-printed objects are one example suited to this strategy, according to Gartner's Basiliere.
Businesses may want to invest in cheaper 3D printers for rapid prototyping in-house. Designers can then construct models out of, say, plastic, and quickly tweak and refine as necessary. Once the design has been perfected, they can outsource the design to a service bureau that specializes in metal printing. "Investing hundreds of thousands of dollars to over $1 million in a metal 3D printer may not be practical at this point in time," Basiliere said.
Even Shapeways, which advertises that it can print products in more than 50 different materials, uses a hybrid 3D printing strategy. Projects that call for nylon or plastics are printed on equipment Shapeways owns, but it also relies on service bureaus to handle overflow capacity and to print in specialized materials, such as precious metals.
Owning a full range of 3D printers and the expertise required to maintain the equipment would be expensive, but not out of the question for the startup. "It's just not the business direction we've chosen," Boyle said. "We're really interested in enabling consumers to create the product they want."
Having that kind of clarity around the use cases and how they enable the business is key for CIOs and for the enterprise, according to experts. "This will dictate what technology to use and whether you want to buy a printer from one of a number of companies or engage in the services of a service bureau," Basiliere said.
How will your company insource or outsource 3D printing? Or, is this an emerging tech that's not yet on the radar?
Typically, the businesses that outsource their core value (expertise, service, or manufacturing) don't end up well. If a business is specialized in prototyping, they should look into investing in 3D printing. If a business orders manufactured parts they can keep doing so.
I think the firms involved in that particular domain must invest in it and do not go for outsourcing into the other domain. For example, metal printing company should look out for outsourcing into the metal domain, prototyping, in the same domain etc. It could benefit them from reducing the cost and also stick to their very own original specialization.


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You are proposing to designate Crystal Palace as a Strategic Outer London Development Centre. Is this area identified for exogenous growth, to create new significant growth opportunities, or endogenous, to enhance existing growth trends?
In the terms developed by the Outer London Commission, the area has potential for both 'exogenous' growth providing a strategically significant new cultural destination for South London and 'endogenous' growth by restoring the wider park environment and complementing opportunities to strengthen nearby town centres.


After looking at many photos of estates in Great Britain where the Tudors lived, I was just wondering about the gardens that are seen now. Did they mow the lawns in the 1600s? It seems a huge job now. I can't imagine how they kept them up without current technology.
A superb question, and one that historians have only recently begun to examine, oddly enough. The history of gardens in Tudor England has become a very trendy topic only in the past 5 years or so! It is so newly trendy, in fact, that only a handful of books have been published about it. Did people in the Tudor era "mow" their lawns in the modern sense, with wheeled mechanical lawn mowers? No. But they did use animals, usually sheep, to keep whatever grass they had in their gardens short, and they also used scythes and other single-bladed cutting tools to hand-cut the grass where they wanted to do so. But mechanical mowers, even the "old" push type with whirling spiral blades, are modern inventions and were not available in the 16th century.
How did they keep up the gardens? lots and lots of servants.
Really - I kind of knew the servants kept up with it - just wnated to know the mechanism. Strangely, I never even thought about sheep, even though we still use this today in large fields in the state of Texas. Thanks.
thanks goodness someone asked this question, it was driving me crazy. but one point/comment to make, if they were using animals to do the lawn work, would they really take the time to pick up after them? I can't envision the "servants" stopping to pick up droppings. And would this be done during the day? If this was done at night, it seems like messes would missed.
Im pretty sure the royals and nobility cared little that servants had to pick up poop. They never show this in film but hell, people were pooping in the corners of castles. London and Paris had literal rivers of human feces and urine running through the streets, I imagine servants and peasants weren't squeamish when it came to defecation - from any source.
I'm pretty positive the royals and nobility cared very little that servants had to choose up poop. They ne'er show this within the film, however, hell, individuals were pooping within the corners of castles. London and Paris had literal rivers of human feces and piddle running through the streets, I imagine servants and peasants weren't overnice once it came to voiding from any supply.
Please, continue your good work in the future!
Thank you so much for your information!! I didn't even think about it that livestock were used yo maintain short grass. Thank you again!
I believe that geese (the small variety) were used to keep down grass. They also fertilize the soil (no serious cleaning up of waste to do; especially after rain) and there's the bonus of eggs.