Name the fantasy flat world on which the 2015 posthumously published novel The Shepherd's Crown is set?

Turtles All the Way: Sir Terry and Rhianna Pratchett – DVS Turtles All the Way: Sir Terry and Rhianna Pratchett We review the career of the woman at the helm of the new Tomb Raider: Rhianna Pratchett The long running Tomb Raider series saw a reboot in 2013 after Square Enix took over Eidos Interactive in 2009.  At the helm of the story writing is Rhianna Pratchett, the only daughter of the world renowned English fantasy author, Sir Terry Pratchett, OBE. Sir Terry Pratchett was the creator of the award winning Discworld series.  He started out in journalism publishing his first ever novel The Carpet People in 1971.  He wrote the first ever Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic in 1983.  He has sold more than 83 million books world wide in 37 different languages, was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1998, and was knighted for his services to literature in the 2009 New Year Honours (hence the title "Sir").  Sir Terry died on the 12th of March 2015 after an eight year battle with Alzheimer's Disease.  He was very much into electronics and computer games, introducing his daughter Rhianna to them at a young age: I was six when Dad brought home Mazogs on the Sinclair ZX81. He told me recently that I was scared of it. Then, when I realised the little pixelated man had a little pixelated sword and he could kill little pixelated crabbie creatures, I fell in love. Sir Terry and Rhianna Pratchett at the launch of Sir Terry's production company Narrativia in 2012 Rhianna Pratchett has cemented herself as a prolific writer over the last 15 years after having started her career writing video game reviews for Minx magazine.  She then moved on to PC Zone, the first ever magazine dedicated to games for IBM personal computers. She subsequently went into script writing and narrative design in video games, story editing the game Beyond Divinity as well as writing an accompanying novella.  She then went on to co-write Heavenly Sword and write and audio co-direct Overlord both in 2007.  She was nominated for a BAFTA for her work in Heavenly Sword, and later won a Writer's Guild of Great Britain 'Best Videogame Script' award for Overlord. In 2008 Rhianna wrote Mirror's Edge, which won the 2009 'Adventure Game of the Year Award' at the Interactive Achievement Awards.  She wrote an accompany six part miniseries published by DC Comics.  By now she had cemented herself as a well respected writer in the video game industry, having numerous nominations for her work.  She went on to write and voice direct the sequels for Overlord, before being brought on as an additional writer for Bioshock Infinite in 2013. 2013's Tomb Raider reboot sold more than 1 million copies in 48 hours, and was the UK's biggest selling game on 2013.  In the US Tomb Raider was second only behind Rhianna's other work Bioshock Infinite.  Tomb Raider set a new record for the franchise, doubling the debut sales of it's previous biggest selling title Tomb Raider: Legend. Rhianna wrote the story and cinematics for 2014's Thief before going on to lead writer of Rise of the Tomb Raider.  The second installment of the series was released as an Xbox exclusive in November 2015, selling 1 million copies in 2 months before being released on PC in January 2016, reportedly tripling the Xbox sales in less than a month . Rhianna's career as a video game writer also included work on Stronghold Legends (writer, 2006), Prince of Persia (additional writer, 2008), Risen (co-writer, 2009), CSI: Fatal Conspiracy (writer, 2010) and Beat Buddy: Tale of the Guardians (writer, 2013). In 2012, Sir Terry Pratchett announced that he would be leaving all intellectual rights for the Discworld series to Rhianna.  He had said in the past that he would not mind if Rhianna continued writing the series, however Rhianna stated last year that she would not be continuing the series .  The posthumously published 41st Discworld novel The Shepherds Crown being the last of Sir Terry's work.  Rhianna has been praised by fans of the series stating that neither she, nor her father's assisant, Rob


What word commonly follows Plastic, Food, Saran, Glad and Cling in its geographical variations?

English Language differences between Australia, USA and UK. Words with different meanings around the world. "Arvo" is used in Australia meaning "Afternoon", American's just say "Afternoon".   "Homely" means ugly to     Americans whereas it means cosy, unpretentious, unsophisticated, or unassuming in the U.K. Contributed by Frances. "Homely" in America does not mean ugly, simply very plain, like a woman who is     not pretty, but not necessarily ugly, she would be called homely.  Anon The following have all been contributed   by Anne who, I am sure you will agree, has a way with words:-     In Australia, "pissed" means drunk. In America, it means very angry. This is an interesting one as in     the U.K. "pissed" means drunk and "pissed off" means angry. "Aubergine" is the word     everyone but America uses for a type of large vegetable with purple skin. Americans call it "eggplant". I have no idea why. Both "aubergine" and "eggplant" are used in New Zealand and    Australia. In my experience, eggplant is more    common.     Amanda In Australia, a "napkin" is a     women's sanitary product. In America, it's a piece of paper or cloth you use to wipe     your face and hands when you eat. Ask for a "napkin" at an Australian     restaurant... heheheheh. In Australia, a "nappie" is     what you put on your baby's bottom to catch the poo. In America,  it's called a "diaper". In Australia, "barbie" is     what you put beef, shrimp and chicken on to grill it outside. In America, it's an     anatomically incorrect female doll that comes in a pink box. In England and Australia, a "flat" is a place people live with one or two bedrooms. In America, this is     called an apartment. Kim Spence has sent in her comments as follows:-  A ‘flat’ in the UK is not a place with one or two   bedrooms – it can have any number of bedrooms, as can a house – you   can have a luxury four bedroom flat, or a little one-bed house   (often referred to as a ‘two up two down’ – kitchen and living room   on the ground floor, two bedrooms upstairs). What defines ‘flat’ from ‘house’ is that there is more than one residence within one   building and they have a shared entrance. So, a house can be   converted into flats (usually by just sealing the top floor off from   the bottom and refitting), or flats can be purpose built in blocks.   Where flats are built in blocks but have separate entrances they are   called maisonettes.   In the UK we also have terraces, which I think are   called ‘row houses’ in the US, although I think row houses in the US   are only ever quite humble, whereas a terrace in the UK can range   from two up-two down miners' housing to the four and five storey   curved grand terraces in Bath and London (I think they are ‘townhouses’ in the US, which is a usage creeping in to the UK,   also). More observations on this subject   can be found on our other language related pages links to which can   be found at the foot of this page. In Australia, the roads are called "bitumen". Americans have no idea what this is. It confuses them. The American     term is "asphalt". This confuses Australians. Yet again I have    been brought to task over the above entries.  Aymie from Australia    disagrees with some of the above definitions as follows:- Firstly,      Australians both say 'pissed' to mean angry or drunk, depending on      context, we also say 'pissed off' for angry. We say      'eggplant' not Aubergeine, I've never met someone to call it that. A      napkin is a piece of paper used to clean hands or face, not some      woman's sanitary product, we call those 'pads' or 'tampons', so      dancing around the words there. :) Very, very rarely it may be called      a 'sanitary napkin,' but so rarely its never said but the meaning      would be understood, if that makes sense. We do      know the difference between a barbie and a Barbie doll. It is called a      barbie or BBQ, and the doll is called a Barbi


In 1964, the first commoner featured on a British postage stamp was?

Shakespeare becomes first commoner on GB stamps - Britain By continuing to use this site, you agree to our use of cookies. Find out more Britain      Shakespeare becomes first commoner on GB stamps By James Mackay The Shakespeare Festival set of 1964 broke new ground with its portrait of a commoner, and with its presentation pack, postmarks and aerogrammes     The exact date on which William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon is unknown, but tradition says it was on St George’s Day, April 23, 1564. The Post Office’s long-standing refusal to countenance stamps in honour of famous people gave it a problem in 1964 when there was agitation for a special issue of stamps to mark the 400th anniversary. But it found a way around its discomfort. It argued that its special issue was to celebrate an event of international importance (the annual Shakespeare Festival at Stratford), rather than the man himself. Nevertheless, this was a real break with previous policy, in that the four lower denominations featured the first portrait of a commoner to appear on British stamps. In the original version of the Droeshout portrait the poet faced left. On the stamps it was reversed so that he faced towards the centre, balancing the familiar Dorothy Wilding portrait of the Queen. Scene on stage Designed by David Gentleman and photogravure-printed by Harrison & Sons, each of the four low values also depicted a 16th-century set from one of Shakespeare’s plays. The 3d had Puck cavorting round Bottom from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and the 6d showed Feste, the clown in Twelfth Night. The 1s 3d depicted the famous balcony scene from Romeo & Juliet, while the 1s 6d portrayed the King kneeling in prayer on the eve of Agincourt from Henry V. All the figures were reproduced from woodcuts. In contrast, the 2s 6d was the first commemorative since the £1 Postal Union Congress stamp of 1929 to be line-engraved. Designed by the brothers Robin and Christopher Ironside, and recess-printed by Bradbury Wilkinson, it showed Hamlet contemplating the skull of his father’s court jester, Yorick. This was the only stamp in the set to bear the name of the play. Three precedents


What is the fourth root of 16? | Reference.com What is the fourth root of 16? A: Quick Answer The fourth root of 16 is 2. In mathematics, the fourth root of a number is a number r that yields z when raised to power 4, where 4 is the degree of the root. Full Answer Roots are usually written in mathematics using the radical symbol. Any expression that contains a radical is referred to as a radical expression. Roots are important in various theories, particularly the theory of infinite series. The origin of roots is mostly speculative, but it is believed Arabic mathematicians started to use it as early as the 13th century. The square root is the most common root operation.


Name the artist-owned music streaming service launched in 2015 by rapper Jay-Z?

Jay Z promotes 'artist-owned' music streaming brand - BBC News Jay Z promotes 'artist-owned' music streaming brand 31 March 2015 Read more about sharing. Close share panel Media captionPeter Bowes reports: "Some of the biggest names in the industry have a stake in the company" Some of the biggest names in entertainment have re-launched the music subscription service Tidal, which they are billing as the first artist-owned platform for music and video. At an event in New York on Monday, Madonna, Beyonce, Kanye West, and 13 other performers announced they had become co-owners of Tidal. The service launched last October, but was recently bought by rapper Jay Z. It is hoping to compete with the likes of Spotify, Deezer and Google Play. However Tidal offers 25 million music tracks, fewer than the 30 million offered by many rival services. As well as a standard subscription for $9.99 a month, Tidal offers a "high fidelity" option for $19.99, which claims to deliver better sound quality. Image copyright AFP Image caption Alicia Keys said they would make history Singer Alicia Keys spoke on behalf of the artists as they all lined up on stage at Skylight at Moynihan Station in Manhattan. Describing the event as a "graduation", she said the artists hoped Tidal would alter musical evolution. "So we come together before you on this day, March 30th, 2015, with one voice in unity in the hopes that today will be another one of those moments in time, a moment that will forever change the course of music history." Their mission, she said, goes beyond commerce and technology. "Our intent is to preserve music's importance in our lives,'' she said. Notably, the majority of the company will be owned by artists, a symbolic move in a business where musicians often have little control over how their work is distributed and consumed. Jay Z's strategy will include encouraging artists to lobby their labels to give Tidal new music a week in advance of other services, giving it a short window of exclusivity. He told Billboard : "We didn't like the direction music was going and thought maybe we could get in and strike an honest blow. "Will artists make more money? Even if it means less profit for our bottom line, absolutely. That's easy for us. We can do that. Less profit for our bottom line, more money for the artist; fantastic."


The traditional Turkish jelick or yelek, the derivation of an Anglicized French garment name is a?

Project MUSE - Women’s Fashions in Transition: Ottoman Borderlands and the Anglo-Ottoman Exchange of Costumes Women’s Fashions in Transition: Ottoman Borderlands and the Anglo-Ottoman Exchange of Costumes * Onur Inal Abstract Following the considerable increase in the interactions between Ottomans and Europeans, Ottoman port cities, referred to here as “borderlands,” became meeting places of distinct worlds. Ottoman and British people met, clashed, and grappled with each other in the borderlands of the Ottoman Empire. There was unbalanced, disparate, and disproportionate, but also mutual and constant interchange between the two societies. This article discusses one facet of this interchange: the Anglo-Ottoman exchange of women’s costumes. Who could have foreseen the effects of a revolution which took possession, so to speak, of the domestic sanctuaries, of that which is the most private and sacred in the nation, of that which most touches the heart and the life of society? While waiting for the ladies of Stamboul to start following the fashions of France or England, we have seen, just recently, young princesses, daughters of the sultan going for walks in the street with clothing and finery that appeared to be novelties from the West; I ought to tell you that this attempt has not succeeded, and we have seen there but a grotesque travesty. It will probably remain thus. 1 —Joseph Fr. Michaud and Jean-Joseph-François Poujoulat [End Page 243] Fundamental changes have taken place in political practice, economic systems, and social structures, which all together facilitate the process of globalization. The movement of people, technology, capital, information, ideas, and commodities has become much easier and faster than it was in the past. Thereby, borders, if not completely brought down, have become far more porous and permeable than in the past. All these globalizing trends have broken down “hardcore” barriers for information, money, and labor, and given rise to a new narrative of interregional and cross-cultural interactions, deterritorialized spaces, transboundary networks, and transnational communities. This narrative has had a profound impact on historical studies, encouraging historians to trace the origins of globalization and cross-cultural and cross-border interactions in the past. This research is an attempt to explore the interchanges between “Eastern” and “Western” worlds in the past and to contribute to the continuing theoretical and historical debate about the process of globalization. In an attempt to provide an insight into cross-cultural exchanges between the Ottoman and British societies, it emphasizes the stimulus of the Ottoman port cities on the eastern Mediterranean and the people living in these places to the interchange of costumes between Ottoman and British women. It attaches crucial importance to Ottoman women, primarily those living in port cities, since significant changes in fashion, as in philosophy, literature, arts, and architecture, initially affected the lives of port city dwellers rather than rural populations. On the other hand, it also examines British elite women who pioneered the introduction of new Eastern fashion trends in Britain. The relationship between the Ottoman Empire and Great Britain is particularly significant and enduring. It started in the late sixteenth century and developed extensively. Especially from the first half of the eighteenth century onward, encounters between the Ottomans and the British multiplied, bringing sweeping change to the lives of people, especially those living in urban centers. These encounters deepened the significance of the regions that were meeting places of reportedly distinct worlds, and these “borderlands” became places of visible interaction. [End Page 244] Cross-cultural exchanges through Ottoman borderlands tremendously changed the lives of individuals. Among the many values, goods, and ideas exchanged via merchants, diplomats, travelers, and other itinerant people were costumes and manners. There was continuous cross-cultural exchange of fa


'Badi Bhabhi', meaning ‘eldest brother’s wife’, refers typically to the senior female in family groups common in?

Genders OnLine Journal - Presenting innovative theories in  art, literature, history, music, TV and film. Jyotirmoyee Devi's Writings on the Partition By DEBALI MOOKERJEA-LEONARD Introduction [1] Drawing upon oral histories and official records, recent feminist        studies by Ritu Menon, Kamla Bhasin, Urvashi Butalia, and Veena        Das document Hindu and Sikh families' and communities' refusal to        accept women subjected to sexual violence in the riots that accompanied        the Partition of British India in 1947. Contextualizing the desertions        of abducted and raped women within the social production of a discourse of honor and of women's sexual purity, I examine the rejections        through a reading of the Bengali feminist author Jyotirmoyee Devi's        (1894-1988) short story "Shei Chheleta" ("That Little        Boy") and novel Epar Ganga Opar Ganga (The River        Churning). Jyotirmoyee Devi does not raise the vexed question:        Why are women's bodies subjected to a gendered form of communal        hostility? Rather, she analyzes how women's bodies are made the        preferred sites for the hieroglyphics of power diffused throughout        everyday domestic life. She critiques the over-emphasis on chastity        and tabooed social contacts among Hindus that led to their abandoning        the women abducted and/ or raped during the communal riots. In doing        so, her work sunders the silence surrounding the sexually-victimized        women that has operated as an effective denial of their citizenship.        Her writings address the representational deficiency in the social        and cultural historiography of the 1947 partition of Bengal of the        large-scale gendered violence—except for token references        in fiction. The locus of the trauma in research studies has been        the loss of homeland, migration, dispossession and refugee dilemmas.        Unlike Bengali udvastu (refugee) fiction that deals primarily with        the memories of a time and place that was and that will never be,        of refugees surviving on the platforms of the railway station at        Calcutta, and the ensuing economic struggle, Jyotirmoyee Devi focuses        on the society-wide repression of memory of the negotiations of        national borders performed on the bodies of women. Her concern for        raped women is evident as early as the dedication of her Partition-novel Epar Ganga Opar Ganga: "To dishonored, violated and        humiliated women everywhere, and of all times." Her repeated        demands for accountability for the tragic consequences of Partition,        interrogating the meaning of Independence, and skepticism about        the gendered-nature and class-character of its privileges resonate        with the concurrent leftist view expressed in, "Yeh azadi jhuta        hai" (This independence is a lie). [2] Jyotirmoyee Devi's writings address the ellipses of history,        and especially women's histories that are inextricable from the        histories of nation-formation but which have been until recently        only a few glosses in the margins, if not wholly omitted. She critiques        the political process that encouraged this forgetting and "restore[s]        women to [national] history" (Kelly, 1). After the feminist        scholarship of the last twenty years, the critique of the absence        of gendered national histories might not seem absolutely cutting        edge, but at the time the short story and the novel were published,        the 1960s, it was radical. More radical was her embedding of these        histories in the context of the national struggle at a time when        the euphoria of Indepe


What is MIPS? Webopedia Definition instruction set Acronym for million instructions per second. A old measure of a computer's speed and power, MIPS measures roughly the number of machine instructions that a computer can execute in one second. However, different instructions require more or less time than others, and there is no standard method for measuring MIPS. In addition, MIPS refers only to the CPU speed, whereas real applications are generally limited by other factors, such as I/O speed. A machine with a high MIPS rating, therefore, might not run a particular application any faster than a machine with a low MIPS rating. For all these reasons, MIPS ratings are not used often anymore. In fact, some people jokingly claim that MIPS really stands for Meaningless Indicator of Performance. Despite these problems, a MIPS rating can give you a general idea of a computer's speed. The IBM PC/XT computer, for example, is rated at ¼ MIPS, while Pentium-based PCs run at over 100 MIPS.


What sort of sports shoe is the Adidas Stan Smith?

The History of the adidas Stan Smith - The Drop | Champs Sports | The Drop The History of the adidas Stan Smith Tweet “I’m a tennis player, but a lot of people think I’m a shoe.” – Stan Smith Such is the dilemma for American tennis icon Stan Smith, a former world No. 1 player and a two-time Grand Slam singles champion. Because of the greatness of names like Rafa Nadal, Novak Djokovic, and Roger Federer pushing the male tennis tour to unseen heights (Hopefully you watched the Wimbledon final between the Joker and Fed. Unreal tennis. And then Nadal is probably on his way to becoming the greatest ever.), we often forget many old heads say the game is dying. With powerful baseline players dominating, no one plays at the net anymore. No one uses the volley anymore, or at least not like they did back during Stan Smith’s days. Smith’s growth into the best player in the world was both surprising and predictable. While Smith was a three-time All-American player at USC and won the ’68 singles championship as well as the ’67 and ’67 doubles titles, he was also a late bloomer. As a child, he was reportedly rejected as a potential Davis Cup ballboy because the officials thought he was too clumsy. Yet in 1971 and ’72, Smith won both the U.S. Open and Wimbledon, the Wimbledon title coming a year after finishing as the tournament’s runner-up in ’71. He was a star, but didn’t truly become an icon until adidas approached him about wearing the sport’s first leather shoe, a sneaker still on sale even today at Champs Sports . It was in a Paris nightclub at around midnight that Smith met with adidas founder, Horst Dassler, who presented him with the idea of wearing this new shoe and how adidas planned to tap into the U.S. market. At the time, it was named after pro Robert Haillet, but the Frenchman was retiring and the powers that be thought they needed a new face. As the top-ranked player, and as an American, Stan Smith was an obvious candidate. The sneaker in question was revolutionary, featuring the aforementioned leather and a herringbone bottom for better traction on the court. Ironically, the Smith logo on the tongue featured his mug without his trademark mustache, one of the few times in his adult life that Smith rocked the clean look. Over the years the sneaker continued to change and improve, moving towards a new sole and more support for the Achilles’ tendon. By 1978, the shoe received the official adidas Stan Smith name. Over the next 30 years, adidas re-released the classic sneaker multiple times, often giving it names like the adidas Stan Smith II and the adidas stan smith 80s. It fell out of favorite among tennis players as the game moved toward more advanced footwear (although the Stan Smith Millenium helped rectify that), yet the sneaker is probably more popular now than it ever was. Somewhere along the way, it crossed over from a playing shoe into a cultural phenomenon. Everyone wears it now — women, men, style newbies, and even diehard sneakerheads — in part because it is so versatile and simple. Sneaker companies often work too hard at creating something out of the box. This shoe’s lasted because of its simplicity. Even Jay Z name-dropped the Stan Smith in numerous songs (“Jigga That N****”) throughout his career. “Over the years, my shoe became not just a performance shoe but a lifestyle shoe,” Smith once said. “So now there’s a smorgasbord of shoes out there, different colors, different styles.” Since it’s debut, we’ve seen the Stan Smith release in everything from pointed toe versions to wear with suits to baby shoes to Smith’s personal favorite, an all-black suede edition. Because of its white base, it’s also become a magnet for sneaker artists to customize. In 2014, the shoe reappeared after a few years out of production. Through Champs Sports , which has the original white/green colorway as well as multiple suede editions available, you can collect and rock a history lesson on your feet. “I think it’s a good example of something very simple, very classic, goes with just about everything and has it’s own distinct perso


What medieval term, whose venues are now mostly 'town' halls (UK, Netherlands, Belgium) refers to a merchant association?

Belgium facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about Belgium FLAG: The flag, adopted in 1831, is a tricolor of black, yellow, and red vertical stripes. ANTHEM: La Brabançonne (The Song of Brabant ), named after the Duchy of Brabant. MONETARY UNIT: The euro replaced the Belgian franc in 2002. The euro is divided into 100 cents. There are coins in denominations of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, and 50 cents and 1 euro; and 2 euros. There are notes of 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, and 500 euros. €1 = $1.25475 (or $1 = €0.79697) as of 2005. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES: The metric system is the legal standard. HOLIDAYS: New Year's Day, 1 January; Labor Day, 1 May; Independence Day, 21 July; Assumption Day, 15 August; All Saints' Day, 1 November; Armistice Day, 11 November; Dynasty Day, 15 November; and Christmas , 25 December. Movable religious holidays are Easter Monday, Ascension, and Whitmonday. TIME: 1 pm = noon GMT. LOCATION, SIZE, AND EXTENT Situated in northwestern Europe , Belgium has an area of 30,510 sq km (11,780 sq mi) and extends 280 km (174 mi) se–nw and 222 km (137 mi) ne–sw. Comparatively, the area occupied by Belgium is about the same size as the state of Maryland . Belgium borders on the Netherlands to the n, Germany and Luxembourg to the e, France to the s and sw, and the North Sea to the nw, with a total boundary length of 1,385 km (859 mi). Belgium's capital city, Brussels, is located in the north-central part of the country. TOPOGRAPHY The coastal region, extending about 16–48 km (10–30 mi) inland, consists of sand dunes, flat pasture land, and polders (land reclaimed from the sea and protected by dikes), and attains a maximum of 15 m (50 ft) above sea level. Eastward, this region gradually gives way to a gently rolling central plain, whose many fertile valleys are irrigated by an extensive network of canals and waterways. Altitudes in this region are about 60–180 m (200–600 ft). The Ardennes , a heavily wooded plateau, is located in southeast Belgium and continues into France. It has an average altitude of about 460 m (1,500 ft) and reaches a maximum of 694 m (2,277 ft) at the Signal de Botrange, the country's highest point. Chief rivers are the Schelde (Scheldt, Escaut) and the Meuse (Maas), both of which rise in France, flow through Belgium, pass through the Netherlands, and empty into the North Sea. CLIMATE In the coastal region, the climate is mild and humid. There are marked temperature changes farther inland. In the high southeasterly districts, hot summers alternate with very cold winters. Except in the highlands, rainfall is seldom heavy. The average annual temperature is 8°c (46°f); in Brussels, the mean temperature is 10°c (50°f), ranging from 3°c (37°f) in January to 18°c (64°f) in July. Average annual rainfall is between 70 and 100 cm (28 to 40 in). FLORA AND FAUNA The digitalis, wild arum, hyacinth, strawberry, goldenrod, lily of the valley, and other plants common to temperate zones grow in abundance. Beech and oak are the predominant trees. Among mammals still found in Belgium are the boar, fox, badger, squirrel, weasel, marten, and hedgehog. The many varieties of aquatic life include pike, carp, trout, eel, barbel, perch, smelt, chub, roach, bream, shad, sole, mussels, crayfish, and shrimp. ENVIRONMENT About 520 sq km (200 sq mi) of reclaimed coastal land is protected from the sea by concrete dikes. As of 2000, Belgium's most significant environmental problems were air, land, and water pollution due to the heavy concentration of industrial facilities in the country. The sources of pollution range from nuclear radiation to mercury from industry and pesticides from agricultural activity. The country's water supply is threatened by hazardous levels of heavy metals, mercury, and phosphorous. It has a renewable water supply of 12 cu km. Pollution of rivers and canals was considered the worst in Europe as of 1970, when strict water-protection laws were enacted. Air pollution reaches dangerous levels due to high concentrations of lead and hydrocarbons. Belgium is also among the 50 nations that emit the


Pat Pending, Rufus Ruffcut, the Slag Brothers and Sergeant Blast are lesser known characters in what popular 1960s TV franchise?

Wacky Races (Western Animation) - TV Tropes All Balloons Have Helium : In the "The Great Cold Rush Race", Dastardly inflated an inflatable version of the Mean Machine from inside it to overtake the other cars into first place, but it backfired when Muttley tapped him on the back, inflating Dastardly. In "Whizzin' to Washington", Dastardly uses his breath to inflate a giant balloon hoping to send the other cars away by popping it. The balloon floats while Dastardly is inflating it, allowing the cars to pass. All Stereotype Cast : Features a couple of stereotypical cavemen, a Red Baron expy, a couple of army stereotypes, a mob of stereotypical gangsters, a supergenius scientist inventor, a lazy hillbilly with a pet bear, a stereotype lumberjack with a pet beaver, The Chick who is a Girly Girl obsessed with her looks, and a Dastardly Whiplash -style villain. There's also a racer whose main trait is being a racer, who serves as this cast's "Normal Guy". The Alleged Car : Ironically, Peter Perfect's Turbo Terrific is possibly the most fragile of the racecars, seeing as it falls in a heap at the slightest provocation. Alliterative Name : Almost everyone and everything either alliterates or rhymes. Penelope Pitstop, Peter Perfect, Dick Dastardly, the Creepy Coupe... Alternative Foreign Theme Song : The Japanese version had this . Catch Phrase : "Drat and double drat!" for Dick Dastardly; "And the wacky beat goes on" for the Narrator . The Latin American Spanish dub has "¡Caracoles!", which was commonly heard in Latin American Spanish dubs of a number of Hanna-Barbera shows at least in the 1960s and 1970s. Chronic Backstabbing Disorder : Muttley, most notably in "Race to Racine", where he's supposed to sabotage the Ant Hill Mob from within, but ends up sabotaging Dastardly. Cheaters Never Prosper : Partly subverted. Almost everyone on the show cheats to some extent. However, Dastardly, who is outright malicious about it and deliberately tries to sabotage the other racers, does not prosper. Circus Episode : In "Whizzin' to Washington", the Ant Hill Mob elude a motorcycle policeman by posing as a troupe of circus acrobats. Afterward, Dick Dastardly assumes the character of a circus ringmaster and has the mob perform a dangerous high dive. Comic-Book Adaptation : Seven issues by Gold Key Comics , plus an appearance in Golden Comics Digest #2 and Hanna-Barbera Fun-In #5. Also two issues by Archie Comics and a few by DC Comics . In the Gold Key issues, the cars are shown running from left to right, whereas they go right to left on the TV show. Also, a running gag on some stories loosely adapted from TV episodes has Penelope Pitstop managing to eliminate Peter Perfect and Red Max by getting them to fight over her. Peter's car in the Gold Key series was called the Varoom Roadster (its working name) and the Ant Hill Mob's car was the Roaring Plenty (identified in the show as such once). Contemporary Caveman : The Slag Brothers. Their design was recycled for Captain Caveman (except there was only one of him). Cool Car : Eleven of them, in fact. Dastardly Whiplash : Dick Dastardly is, of course,one of the Trope Namers . Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat : The Trope Namer . In many cases, Dick Dastardly might actually win a race if he wasn't so insistent on setting traps to sabotage the other racers (which always end up backfiring on him). In most episodes it could be argued that he got that all-important lead not by having the fastest car or sabotaging the other racers, but by taking a short cut on the non-linear route. He'd technically still be in last place, but could place his traps ahead of all the other cars. When they were out of the race, he could return via his shortcut and drive the route properly. But there are also several races that are straight marathons, where it wouldn't work, AND HE STILL CHEATS! Averted by the Ant Hill Mob in "Free Wheeling to Wheeling" (which does win them the race): Clyde: We'll never win at this rate unless we— Ring-A-Ding: Cheat! Right, boss? Clyde: Wrong!! Unless we lighten the load, you dum-dum! Ring-A-


European Union production quotas, established in 1984, were abolished in 2015 for?

Print Comments1 European Union milk quotas were lifted yesterday (31 March), after more than 30 years, creating expansion opportunities for some dairy farmers, while potentially threatening the livelihood of others. Phil Hogan, the Commissioner for Agriculture, told a press conference that European dairy farmers will be better poised to benefit from demand for their products, particularly in Asia. But Hogan added he will “remain vigilant” in case of a threat to Europe’s milk producers as he acknowledged the risk of price volatility. The quotas on cow’s milk, which ended on Tuesday, were introduced in 1984 to prevent over-production that led to “milk lakes” and “butter mountains” when farmers dumped surplus products, spurred by high prices (see background). Regardless of demand, EU dairy farmers have been guaranteed a price for their milk that has been much higher than on world markets, though this has been reduced in recent years. “We’re going to take advantage of the opportunities that the abolition of milk quotas gives towards enhancing the potential of value-added processing which will create a lot of jobs and growth in rural areas,” Hogan said. “We have new market opportunities … particularly in the Far East,” he added. He said Europe failed to seize these opportunities in the last 30 years while other countries like New Zealand did. Farming groups in top producer Germany and key exporter Ireland welcomed the lifting of the quotas which were first introduced in 1984 to cope with infamous milk lakes and butter mountains as EU supplies far outstripped demand. But a vigil was held by some other dairy farmers outside the European Parliament in Brussels on Tuesday, lighting a “warning fire” and holding a funeral march. The EU regime included individual and national production quotas. If any producer exceeded their quota, then they had to pay a levy, although this was only applied if the national quota was also exceeded. The system of quotas, and the levy threat, helped to cap the expansion of EU production. The European Milk Board, a federation of dairy farmers with member organisations from 13 countries, said it was likely that the market would not be able to cope with significantly expanded production in a reasonable way. “Chronic price collapses are inevitable, the next crisis is on its way,” EMB president Romuald Schaber said. Germany’s national farmers’ association DBV, however, welcomed the end of quotas. “Milk producers will be freed from the costs of the quota,” the DBV said in a statement. “In the period of the quota, German farmers had to shoulder an estimated 15 billion euros in costs for levies, purchasing of quotas and quota fees,” the DBV said. “The end of quotas brings more freedom for commercial decision-making about how much milk to produce, gives more responsibility for developing your own farming company, but also more fluctuations in milk prices.” A study by the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) estimated the ending of quotas would create 9,500 extra jobs in Ireland, and upwards of 1.3 billion euros annual additional export revenue. “Facts would suggest that Irish dairy farmers are well placed to capitalise on the end of quotas, and in so doing help develop the dairy and agribusiness sector with major increases in direct and indirect employment,” IFA National Dairy Committee chairman Sean O’Leary said. The European Dairy Association, which represents milk processors, also backed the change. “It goes without saying that the end of the quota will lower the administrative burden on all levels. This will naturally further enhance the competitiveness of the whole sector,” EDA Secretary General Alexander Anton said.  Background First introduced in 1984, at a time when EU production far outstripped demand, the quota regime was one of the tools introduced for overcoming structural surpluses. Successive reforms of the EU's Common Agriculture Policy have provided a range of other, more targeted instruments to help support producers in vulnerable areas, such as mountain areas, where the costs of production are high


In 490BC Pheidippides ran fatally from Athens to Sparta to ask for help in the Battle of 'Where'?

The Real Story Of The Marathon - Event Editorial - Runner's World You are looking at: Home : Event Editorial The Real Story Of The Marathon We all think we know how the marathon started, but the full story tells of an even more spectacular running feat – and not just by Pheidippides Posted: 24 March 2003 by Michael Clark Everyone knows the original story of the marathon, right? This runner  whatsisname  ran 26 miles back from the Plain of Marathon to Athens, bringing news of the Athenian victory over the Persians, and he died of exhaustion after he gasped out his story. I have to say that Ive always found this an improbable tale, even when I was told it in school. Why should anyone run themselves to death to bring good news? And can you kill yourself by collapsing at the end of one 26-mile slog? In fact, the real story is better than the legend, and much more of an inspiration to todays runners. For the Greeks won the Battle of Marathon as much by their running as by their fighting. In 490BC a Persian army of over 25,000 men (some accounts put the figure as high as 60,000), plus cavalry and some 600 ships, invaded Greece and began to ravage the coast of Attica. The target was always the city state of Athens and their plan was simple: to land at Marathon, 26 miles north of Athens; beat the small Athenian army; then sail round the coast to invade the city from the south, where they hoped the gates would be opened to them by traitors within. The Athenians could only put up an army of 10,000 men, with no cavalry and no ships. Their allies from the tiny city state of Plataia sent 1000 soldiers. The Greeks were hopelessly outnumbered, but when the Persians landed, the Athenians and Plataians marched out to Marathon, a narrow plain by the sea where they could block the road to Athens. It was then about August 5 or 6. This is where the running epic began. The Athenians needed help from Sparta  the Peloponnese city near the present-day town of Argos. Before they marched to Marathon the Athenians had sent the runner Pheidippides to beg the Spartans for assistance. He was a professional military messenger and must have been quite an athlete; able to cover dangerous ground alone, look after himself, commit accurate messages to memory and answer questions when he arrived. If the situation was so desperate why didnt he use a horse? Because the quickest route to Sparta was too rough. It had to be done on foot. The distance from Athens to Sparta is 140 miles and Pheidippides apparently did it inside two days. This is feasible  in 1982 three RAF officers (including a 56-year-old) tried the likely route and did it in 35 hours. The Spartans would not send forces immediately. It was a religious festival in Sparta and they refused to set out until the full moon  this would have been August 11-12. They could not have reached Athens sooner than August 20-21. It was vital that the Athenians knew the bad news as soon as possible, and Pheidippides must then have run another 140 miles back to Athens with the dire news. We dont know how long he took, but by August 11 the Athenians and Plataians certainly knew they were on their own. Pheidippides had covered 280 rough miles in, at most, 10 days. He might have ridden some of the time, near to the Athens road, but he still covered almost a marathon a day, allowing for the time he spent fruitlessly in Sparta. Faced with Pheidippides news, the Athenians decided that their best chance was a rapid attack of their own. At dawn, probably on August 12, they formed a phalanx and, to the astonishment of the Persian host, ran at them in a fierce assault. The Greeks deliberately left their centre weak and allowed it to fall back, but their strong flanks broke through the Persians and then wheeled inwards to trap the main body of the enemy in the centre of the plain. Once the Persians had been broken up in this way, they were routed and the Greeks pursued them over the three miles back to their ships at the north end of the plain. The Persians rallied at the ships and a second battle developed whic


Mathematicians Leonhard Euler and Augustus Mobius pioneered 'geometria situs' ('geometry of place'), later called?

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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's famous 1969 personal change concept is called the Five Stages of?

Elizabeth Kubler Ross Grief Cycle model, five stages of grief in       death, dying and bereavement elisabeth kübler-ross - five stages of grief kubler-ross model for death and bereavement counselling, personal             change and trauma Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (which is the correct spelling;               Elizabeth Kubler Ross is a common incorrect form and used above for               search-engine visibility). Incidentally, 'counselling' is UK English and               'counseling' is US English. Dr Elisabeth Kübler-Ross pioneered methods in the support               and counselling of personal trauma, grief and grieving, associated with death               and dying. She also dramatically improved the understanding and practices in               relation to bereavement and hospice care. This is quite aside from the validity               of her theoretical work itself, on which point see the note, right. Her ideas, notably the five stages of grief               model (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance), are transferable               to varying degrees and in different ways, to personal change and emotional               upset resulting from factors other than death and dying. See for example John Fisher's Personal Transition               Theory . We can often very clearly observe similar reactions to those               explained by Kübler-Ross's grief model in people confronted with far less               serious traumas than death and bereavement, such as by work redundancy,               enforced relocation, crime and punishment, disability and injury, relationship               break-up, financial despair and bankruptcy, etc. This makes the model worthy of study and reference far outside               of death and bereavement. The 'grief cycle' is actually a 'change model' for               helping to understand and deal with (and counsel) personal reaction to trauma.               It's not just for death and dying. This is because trauma and emotional shock are relative in               terms of effect on people. While death and dying are for many people the               ultimate trauma, people can experience similar emotional upsets when dealing               with many of life's challenges, especially if confronting something difficult               for the first time, and/or if the challenge happens to threaten an area of               psychological weakness, which we all possess in different ways.   Note that the 'Five Stages of Grief' model, and                 Kübler-Ross's methods in developing and defining her ideas, are subject to                 debate and criticism. Some of this is reasonable and balanced; much is extreme                 and angry. The topic of death, including our reactions to death, attracts                 serious and passionate interest, and may be understood, rationalized, and                 'treated' in many ways. Accordingly, this article does not propose Kübler-Ross's                 ideas and the Five Stages of Grief as an absolute or wholly reliable scientific                 concept. The explanation here is offered as an interpretation and series of                 possibilities by which to appreciate situations involving traumatic loss. Death, as life itself, means different things to different                 people. Take from this what is helpful, and encourage others to treat                 this information in the same spirit. One person's despair (a job-change, or exposure to risk or phobia,               etc) is to another person not threateni


What ancient instrument did Orpheus play to charm creatures, rivers, and Hades in the Underworld?

Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice - Greeka.com Discover the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice Orpheus, talented at playing music Orpheus is known as the most talented music player of the ancient times. It is said that god Apollo was his father, from whom took his extreme talent in music, and the Muse Calliope was his mother. He was living in Thrace, on the northeastern part of Greece. Orpheus had a divinely gifted voice that could charm everyone who heard it. When he was presented first the lyre as a boy, he had it mastered in no time at all. The myth says that no god or mortal could resist his music and even the rocks and trees would move themselves to be near him. According to some ancient texts, Orpheus is accredited to have taught agriculture, writing and medicine to the mankind. He is also attributed with having been an astrologer, a seer and founder of many mystic rites. The strange and ecstatic music of Orpheus would intrigue the mind of people to things over natural and had the power to broaden the mind to new unusual theories. However, apart from a musical talent, Orpheus also had an adventurous character. He was believed to have taken part in the Argonautic expedition, which is the voyage of Jason and his fellow Argonauts to get to Colchis and steal the Golden Fleece. In fact, Orpheus played a vital role during the expedition because, playing his music, he put to sleep the "sleepless dragon" that was guarding the Golden Fleece and thus Jason managed to get the Fleece. Moreover, the music of Orpheus saved the Argonauts from the Sirens, the strange female-like creatures who were seducing men with their nice voice and then they were killing them. Love at first sight Orpheus used to spend much of his early years in the idyllic pursuits of music and poetry. His skill had far surpassed the fame and respect of his music. Humans and beasts alike would be enchanted by it and often even the most inanimate of objects would yearn to be near him. Well into his youth he had mastered the lyre and his melodious voice garnered him audiences from near and afar. It was at one such gathering of humans and beasts that his eyes fell on a wood nymph. The girl was called Eurydice, she was beautiful and shy. She had been drawn to Orpheus enamored by his voice and such was the spell of beauty in music and appearance that neither could cast their eyes off each other. Something inexplicable tugged the hearts of the two young people and soon they feltl dearly in love, unable to spend a single moment apart. After a while, they decided to get married. Their wedding day dawned bright and clear. Hymenaios, the god of marriage, blessed their marriage and then a great feast followed. The surroundings were filled with laughter and gaiety. Soon the shadows grew large, signaling an end to the revelry that had lasted much of the day and the wedding guests all took leave of the newly-weds, who were still sitting hand-in-hand and starry eyed. They soon both realized that it was time they were on their way and departed for home. The snake-bite However, things would soon change and grief would ensue happiness. There was one man who was despising Orpheus and desired Eurydice for his own. Aristaeus, a shepherd, had plotted a plan to conquer the beautiful nymph. And there he was, waiting in the bushes for the young couple to pass by. Seeing that the lovers were approaching, he intended to jump on them and kill Orpheus. As the shepherd made his move, Orpheus grabbed Eurydice by the hand and started running pell-mell through the forest. The chase was long and Aristaeus showed no signs of giving up or slowing down. On and on they ran and suddenly, Orpheus felt Eurydice stumble and fall, her hand slipping from his grasp. Unable to comprehend what had just happened, he rushed to her side but stopped short in dismay, for his eyes perceived the deathly pallor that suffused her cheeks. Looking around, he saw no trace of the shepherd for Aristaeus had witnessed the event and had left. Few steps away, Eurydice had stepped on a nest of snakes and had been bitten by a deadly vi


What pluralised food term and allusion to Hansel and Gretel refers to a website navigation feature?

Buffy-Speak | All The Tropes Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia All The Tropes Wiki Share Ad blocker interference detected! Wikia is a free-to-use site that makes money from advertising. We have a modified experience for viewers using ad blockers Wikia is not accessible if you’ve made further modifications. Remove the custom ad blocker rule(s) and the page will load as expected. —Toby Ziegler, The West Wing Buffy-Speak is that thing where they say that a guy is saying things too fast , or can't figure out what the thing they want to say is, or doesn't have enough learning and stuff to say what the thing they mean is. A thing you see a lot with this is when they don't know the right words and stuff, so sometimes you see noun and verb things combined like in "shooty-gun thing", and stuff that goes in a cycle thing in frustration: "That idea went over like... like... like a thing that doesn't go over very well." That thing where you go on and on and forget the stuff you were trying to say comes up a lot. Sometimes it uses that verb-noun-ing dealie thing, and sometimes that name thing where it's like, descriptive, but not really their name, because you don't really know their name? Or are trying to make a point? I dunno, just click on the link. The dude who's bad at naming things does this stuff a lot. This Buffy-Speak thing would be called Dialogue-Where-The-Speaker's-Intent-Exceeds-Their-Powers-Of-Vocabulary-For-Comedic-Effect or something if he was the word guy person, but he's not, so it isn't. If you do things right, Buffy-Speak can seem like teenager talk stuff without actually being like real-world wordy stuff. (Which is kind of why people do this thing. Slang words, especially for kids and stuff, change really fast-like. Buffy speak makes all that stuff sound less fake and it'll maybe help not sound like they're trying too hard with that talk...stuff. ) If you do things wrong, it can sound as fake as a... really totally fake thing and can break the thing where people don't worry about if the story-thing is real. Named for the way the teenagers and stuff talk in Buffy the Vampire Slayer . The show's creator guy, Joss Whedon, is sometimes said to have made this kind of writing stuff (also called Whedonspeak), but in terms of the thing where arty stuff, like, imitates life? it's been around since waaay before Buffy. Relative to this trope, however, it was appropriate that Sunnydale was in, like, California . Edit In the Yu Yu Hakusho dub, on the way to Sensui's hideout, Yuusuke ask Kurama what the seeds he's spreading around are for, and our favourite red-haired Bishounen goes into an explanation about lighting their way, trailing off into phosphorus and bread crumbs. In that case, it sounded more like Kurama (who is a Really Seven Hundred Years Old Chessmaster and former White Haired Pretty ) was trying to Buffy-Speak so that Yusuke would understand him. It's likely that the bread crumbs are a reference to " Hansel and Gretel ", who leave a trail of bread crumbs through the forest that they can follow back, though it gets eaten by birds. From the Excel Saga dub: "I have built this wooden underling-like puppet with an optional soy sauce puffy thingy!" In Fate/Zero , Rider calls stealth bombers 'big black B-2 thingies,' and he describes the Gate of Babylon as 'showing off with a lot of shiny-goldy things.' Ali Al-Saachez from Mobile Suit Gundam 00 uses this trope to refer to his enemies, "Celestial-Whatchamacallit!". Not like "Being" is a hard word to say or remember, but try telling that to his face. In Tempest in a Teapot Arthur describes his feelings for Merlin as "very un-prince-ly." King Superman : Both the characters and author seem to use these from time to time, particularly the word 'scorpony'. At one moment in the Mass Effect RP, "The Council Era", krogan Overlord Tikrog Kurvok makes use of buffy speak when referring to coffee, saying, "Give me a stimulant drink, to go. With extra energizer thingies." Kurvok repeatedly uses Buffy-Speak throughout the storyline. In the fanfic "Princess", Julien describes female lemu


US mathematician Edward Lorenz's 1963 paper Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow referred to a seagull, which he subsequently changed to (What creature?), representing his chaos theory observation?

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 size(px) Chaos theory is a mathematical field of study which states that non-linear dynamical systems that are seemingly random are actually deterministic from much simpler equations. The phenomenon of Chaos theory was introduced to the modern world by Edward Lorenz in 1972 with conceptualization of ‘Butterfly Effect’. As chaos theory was developed by inputs of various mathematicians and scientists, it found applications in a large number of scientific fields. The purpose of the project is the interpretation of chaos theory which is not as familiar as other theories. Everything in the universe is in some way or the other under control of Chaos or product of Chaos. Every motion, behavior or tendency can be explained by Chaos Theory. The prime objective of it is the illustration of Chaos Theory and Chaotic behavior. This project includes origin, history, fields of application, real life application and limitations of Chaos Theory. It explores understanding complexity and dynamics of Chaos. Download Chaos Theory: An Introduction Transcript 1.Sardar Patel Institute of TechnologyA ReportOn S.E. Information Technology Group C2 (Roll Numbers: 54-60) A report submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement of Communication and Presentation Techniques syllabus: Report Writing October 2012 2. CERTIFICATEThis to certify that the work on the project titled Chaos Theory has been carried out by thefollowing students, who are bonafide students of Sardar Patel Institute of Technology,Mumbai, in partial fulfilment of the syllabus requirement in the subject “Communication andPresentation Techniques” in the academic year 2012-2013: 1. Gajanan Shewale 2. Nayana Shinde 3. Aditya Shirode 4. Suntej Singh 5. Jayesh Solanki 6. Madhuri Tajane 7. Gaurav TripathiProject Guide: ____________________ (Madhavi Gokhale)Principal: _________________________(Dr.Prachi Gharpure) 3. PREFACEThe trouble with weather forecasting is that its right too often for us to ignore it and wrongtoo often for us to rely on it.- Patrick YoungThe quote perfectly fits. Whenever our meteorological department predicts some kind ofweather, we know that nature is going to do exactly opposite. But why does this happen? Ifwe can exactly predict at what time any astronomical body is going to enter earth’satmosphere and where it is going to strike, why can’t weather? Does God really play dice?Not quite. The unpredictability of weather can be explained by Chaos Theory.The word “Chaos” comes from the Greek word “Khaos”, meaning "gaping void". Chaos inother words means a state of utter confusion or the inherent unpredictability in the behaviorof a complex natural system.Chaos theory is a field of study in mathematics, with applications in several disciplinesincluding physics, engineering, economics, biology, and philosophy which primarily statesthat small differences in initial conditions (such as those due to rounding errors in numericalcomputation) can yield widely diverging outcomes for chaotic systems, rendering long-termprediction impossible in general.Acknowledging the fact that chaos theory is widely used in many spheres of life and isknown to very few people inspired us to prepare a report on this topic to make the massesaware regarding this phenomenon. We hope that this project serves as a useful tool foranyone who is interested in understanding this topic. 4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSWe, as a group, have taken efforts in this project. However it would not have been possiblewithout the kind support and help of many i


What US popular culture magazine title, founded 1967 by Jann Wenner, was inspired by three so-named 1950s/60s musical sources?

Today in history. - Page 18 - WorldStart Tech & Computer Help Forums 1st day of 2008 - 365 remaining. Tuesday, January 1, 2008 NEW YEARï¿½S DAY. 2008 The worldï¿½s most celebrated holiday, New Yearï¿½s Day, has been observed on January 1 in most English-speaking countries since 1751 when the British calendar act was passed. Before that, folks wished everyone a Happy New Year on March 25, to coincide, approximately, with the beginning of spring. In many other countries, it is customary to wish everyone a Happy Birthday (rather than Happy New Year) on January 1st since the day is called Everymanï¿½s Birthday; the day when everyone gets a year older whether itï¿½s their real birthday or not. For some unknown reason, this rule also applies to race horses. No matter when they were born, all race horses become a year older today. So, wish a horse and your friends, ï¿½Happy Birthdayï¿½ today, and donï¿½t nag them about their ages. Happy New Year and Happy Birthday (especially to those of you born on this day) -- this could get confusing -- from everyone at 440 International. We wish you and yours a New Year filled with peace, prosperity and good health. Events January 1st. 1764 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played for the Royal Family at Versailles in France this day. In fact, he was even given the honor of standing behind the Queen at dinner. Not odd, really -- for Mozart was only eight years old. 1890 - The very first Tournament of Roses Parade was staged in Pasadena, California. Horse-drawn carriages decorated in flowers made up the parade. 1892 - Ellis Island opened this day to begin the processing of what would amount to more than 20 million immigrants to the United States. The immigration center was also used as a deportation station, and later, a Coast Guard Station, and then, a national park. Ellis Island is now a museum. 1898 - Happy birthday Big Apple. The five boroughs of New York became the city of New York this day. It was called ï¿½the consolidationï¿½ as the five boroughs were fused into a single, powerful city. 1902 - The very first Rose Bowl collegiate football game was played in Pasadena this day. Michigan trounced the Stanford Cardinal, 49-0. It would be 14 years before another Rose Bowl game was held. One is being held today, in fact; following the Tournament of Roses Parade; where all floats in the parade are created using only flowers, fronds, leaves and seeds. Youï¿½re probably watching it on TV right now if you didnï¿½t camp out in Pasadena overnight. 1923 - The very first radio broadcast of the Rose Bowl was beamed in Los Angeles over KHJ radio -- some 42 years before 93/KHJ became Boss Radio. 1924 ï¿½ At five seconds past midnight, while the shouts of Happy New Year were still ringing out, Robert N. Cronk entered the world in Savannah, Georgia. Cronk was the first person to be born in the United States that year. He spent his adult years, at least 36 of them in government service and as a private pilot. Cronk added to his 15 minutes of fame by composing music, penning stories and poems, and entertaining country music fans for nine years as a disc jockey by the name of Bob Norwood (primarily on WQIK in Jacksonville, Florida.) Think about this ï¿½ when Bob was born, there werenï¿½t any radio deejays. 1924 - Frank B. Cooney of Minneapolis, Minnesota was made very proud this day, when he received a patent for ink paste. Mmm, good! 1925 - Lucrezia Bori and John McCormack of the famous Metropolitan Opera in New York City made their singing debuts on radio this day. The broadcast over what was WEAF Radio (now WABC) encouraged others to sing on radio. People like: Hootie and the Blowfish, Fat Head Todd and Toad the Wet Sprocket, to name a few. Oh, and Barry Manilow. 1925 - The Four Horsemen of the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame played together for the last time as the Irish downed Stanford (which apparently enjoyed losing in the Rose Bowl) 27-10. The Four Horsemen were Jim Crowley, Elmer Layden, Don Miller and Harry Stuhldreher. When it comes to bowl games, the Rose Bowl is ï¿½the granddaddy of them allï¿½. The Oran


Which nation has the coastal state of Tabasco?

Tabasco - Mexico - HISTORY.com Tabasco A+E Networks Introduction This low, flat state still has a large indigenous population that lives primarily in rural areas. Contrary to popular belief, Tabasco was not named after the spicy peppers of the same name, though the state is a major producer of other farm products, including cacao, coconuts, corn (maize), sugarcane and tropical fruits. The commercial and manufacturing center of the state is Villahermosa. Food processing plants and companies producing wood products, cigars, soap and clothing are located throughout the city. History Early History Beginning around 1500 B.C., the Olmec civilization established itself in Tabasco, reaching its cultural and economic peak around 500 B.C. The Olmecs were noted for their superb stone carvings, which ranged from small, finely detailed jade objects to colossal carved-basalt heads that frequently combined human and jaguar features. The state was once the location of La Venta, the largest Olmec city, which contained 18,000 inhabitants at its peak between 800 and 500 B.C.Between 100 and 1000 A.D., the Mayans emerged as the dominant culture in the region, followed by the Toltecs in the 13th century. The word Toltec means master builders, and evidence shows that they were brilliantly skilled architects and artists who smelted metals and created highly sophisticated stonework. The Toltec’s polytheistic religion seems to have centered on the god Quetzalcóatl and featured ceremonies that included human sacrifice, sun worship and a sacred ball game. They are believed to have discovered pulque (a fermented drink) and had considerable astronomical knowledge, as shown by their calendar cycle of 52 years of 260 days each. Did You Know? The variety of peppers used in Tabasco sauce (capsicum frutescens) do not actually grow in this Mexican state. In the 14th century, the Chontales appeared in the Tabasco area; historians believe they may have migrated there from Nicaragua. Chontales is the Mayan name for alien, which is probably the origin of the tribe’s name. Commerce between the Chontales and Mayans led to the development and rise of sizeable cities like Cimatán and Teapa. By 1500 A.D., 135,000 people inhabited the area. In the present-day municipality of Nacajuca, the Chontales represent most of the local population; other Chontales communities are scattered throughout Centla, El Centro, Jonuta and Macuspana. Middle History Spanish explorer Juan de Grijalva’s five-ship expedition in the Caribbean was the first to reach the Tabasco territory in 1518. Soon after, the Spaniards made contact with the Chontales natives who gave them utensils made of gold. The gifts motivated the Spaniards to explore the territory in search of gold mines. A year later, Spanish explorer Hernán Cortés reached the region and successfully defeated the Chontales. A native woman named Malinche became Cortés’ mistress and mother of his son Martín. Malinche learned to speak Spanish and is often accused of providing Cortés with information vital to the defeat of the Aztecs . Complete conquest of Tabasco by the Spaniards was delayed until the late 16th century due to indigenous uprisings and the Spanish preoccupation with dominating the central valley of Mexico . By the end of the 16th century, however, the native population had dwindled to less than 7,500, and fewer than 100 Spanish colonists remained in the area. As part of an initiative to promote the development of agriculture, the Spanish introduced African slaves into the region. Uprisings by these slaves and the indigenous population over their deplorable living conditions hindered the area’s economic development. New uprisings during the 18th century provoked the Spaniards to increase the slave trade and promote new settlements by colonists. Recent History Mexico’s 1810 independence movement had little effect on the citizens of Tabasco. Nevertheless, the country’s liberation led to the state’s freedom from Spanish rule in 1821. Three years later, Tabasco joined the federation of states. Like the rest of the country, 19t


Maltese physician Edward de Bono is noted for his pioneering work on?

Sheridan College aims to brand itself the Creative Campus | Toronto Star Schools Sheridan College aims to brand itself the Creative Campus Yes, you can learn to think in fresh new ways, says the college, which is going a little nutty proving creativity is a set of teachable (and recession-proof) skills. Students do some stretching in their Creative Thinking class at Sheridan College. Creativity, explains instructor Mary Ann Maruska, "is not just about the brain."  (Aaron Harris / For the Toronto Star)   Teaching creativity at Sheridan College means stretching some muscles - physical and mental - that tend to atrophy after childhood, when pressures to conform tend to deplete our imaginations.  (Aaron Harris / For the Toronto Star)   By Louise Brown GTA, Education, Schools Fri., Sept. 20, 2013 The professor climbs onto her desk and leads the Sheridan College class in stretching. Then Mary Ann Maruska has her adult students glue bits of cut-up magazine onto paper. Even the desks are unusual swirly-shaped “puddle tables” meant to ensure that students talk to each other in class. Stretching. Cut-outs. Gabbing. What course can this possibly be? Article Continued Below It’s called Creative Thinking — one of the hot “soft skills” employers are screaming for — and it’s part of a growing move on campuses to teach students how to come up with fresher ideas. Forget the Muses of ancient Greece or divine inspiration; a growing body of research suggests creative juices can be brewed, and economists say we need to crank up production. It seems people can be taught to think more creatively using step-by-step exercises said to break down dusty mental habits and open the mind to ideas from other disciplines. It’s a tough sell. “When I saw this course online, I thought: How do you teach creativity? It’s impossible,” said media studies student Alastair Sinclair. But like his other 40 classmates — from programs as varied as marketing, cosmetics, film studies and computer engineering — he figured it’s a skill that could give him an edge. Essam Nadeem is in first-year marketing: “I’m a big fan of Steve Jobs and the Apple commercials are so creative, so I figured I’ll take the course and see if it can help in my program.” Even Sheridan Provost Mary Preece said she laughed when she first heard the notion expressed that you can teach people to be creative. “You think of creativity as being airy-fairy, but it turns out it’s not as free-wheeling a process as I thought. It isn’t just whimsical. There are 20 years of research into the tools we’re weaving into the curriculum,” she said. “Our institutional challenge is to make sure it’s not just a cliché; that we put legs under creativity so it’s very real.” Buzzwords of “innovation” and “creativity” are everywhere, from Richard Florida’s “creative cities” concept to China’s recent move to beef up creativity in its curriculum. Many universities and colleges are boosting their focus on innovation and entrepreneurship — putting creative ideas into action. But Sheridan has elevated the C-word to a calling; an actual creativity brand believed to be a first in North America. It hired a professor of Creativity and Creative Thinking this summer who will help write more courses about creativity — its history, the psychology of it, creativity in organizations, the sociology of creativity. It tapped associate dean Yael Katz to be special advisor for the Creative Campus, and a Creative Campus Work Group is looking for ways to make buildings more conducive to creativity — think Ryerson’s Digital Media Zone, said Preece; places where people from different disciplines can “bump into each other” and come up with the unexpected. President Jeff Zabudsky has started an annual student contest for the most creative solution to a community need — and a team of Exercise Science majors won for dreaming up an intergenerational sports league in Brampton as a way to help seniors age ... creatively. The community college just west of Toronto is poised to unveil a new logo and slogan that puts creativity front and centre. And Sher


What takes roughly 23 hours, 56 minutes, 4 seconds?

How Long is a Day on Earth? - Universe Today   Universe Today How Long is a Day on Earth? Article Updated: 23 Dec , 2015 by Fraser Cain Video I’m going to ask you how long a day is on Earth, and you’re going to get the haunting suspicion that this is a trap. Your instincts are right, it’s a trap! The answer may surprise you. How long is a day on Earth? Or more specifically, how long does it take for the Earth to turn once on its axis? For all the stars to move through the sky and return to their original position? Go ahead, and yell your answer answer at the screen… 24 hours? Wrong! It only takes 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.0916 seconds for the Earth to turn once its axis. Unless that’s what you said. In which case, congratulations! I’m sure you’re now stumbling around in an incoherent state, trying to understand how you could have possibly messed this up. Were you reprogrammed by the hidden chronology conspiracy? Have time travellers been setting back all your clocks every day by 4 minutes? How was your whole life a lie? Here’s the deal. When you consider a day, you’re probably thinking of your trusty clock, or maybe that smartphone lock screen that clearly measures 24 hours. What you have come to understand as a “day” is classified by astronomers as a solar day. It’s the amount of time it takes for the Sun to move through the sky and return to roughly the same spot. This is different from the amount of time it takes for the Earth to turn once on its axis – the 23 hours, 56 minutes. Also known as a sidereal day. Why are these two numbers different? Imagine the Earth orbiting the Sun, taking a full 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds to complete the entire journey. At the same time, the Earth is spinning on its axis. Each day that goes by, the Earth needs to turn a little further for the Sun to return to the same place in the sky.… And that extra time is about 4 minutes. If we only measured sidereal days, the position of the Sun would slip back, day after day. For half of the year, the Sun would be up between 12am and 12pm, and for the other half, it would be between 12pm and 12am. There would be no connection between what time it is, and whether or not the Sun is in the sky. Axis of the Earth’s pole. Credit: NASA / Mysid Can you imagine teaching your children how to read a clock, and then getting them to multiply that by the calendar to figure out when My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic starts? Madness. Better to keep them in the dark, teach them that a day is 24 hours, and deny all knowledge when they get a little older, and start to ask you challenging questions. But pedants among you already knew that, didn’t you? You already knew that a sidereal day is a little shorter than a solar day, and that everyone else has been living a lie. You’re the only one who can read the signs and know the terrifying truth. Aren’t you? Well, I’m here to tell you that you’re wrong too. There’s a deeper conspiracy that you’re not a part of. Dear Pedant, your life is also a lie. The axis of the Earth’s pole, the imaginary line that you could draw between the south pole and the north pole is currently pointed roughly at Polaris, aka The North Star. But we’re wobbling like a top, and where the axis is pointing is slowly precessing westward over the course of 26,000 years. This means that a sidereal day is actually 0.0084 seconds shorter when you account for this extra movement of the Earth’s axis. Earthquakes. Credit: USGS / Google Maps / AJAX / SODA There are other events that can increase or decrease the length of an Earth day. Because of our tidal interactions with the Moon, the length of a day on Earth has increased by about 1.7 milliseconds over the last 100 years. Powerful earthquakes can change the Earth’s rotation time by a few microseconds depending on how the tectonic plates shove around. Even as the glaciers melt, the rotation speed slows down a little more. So, if someone asks you how long a day is, make sure they clarify whether it’s a solar day or a sidereal day. And then ask if they’d like you to incorporate the Eart


What's the common technical term for the removal of a president from office, due to wrong-doing?

Impeachment     |        US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives “The President, Vice President and all Civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” — U.S. Constitution, Article II, section 4 /tiles/non-collection/i/i_origins_impeach_stevens_lc.xml Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives About this object Representative Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania, a Radical Republican, gave the last speech during House debate on articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson on March 2, 1868. Johnson became the first president impeached by the House, but he was later acquitted by the Senate by one vote. The Constitution gives the House of Representatives the sole power to impeach an official, and it makes the Senate the sole court for impeachment trials. The power of impeachment is limited to removal from office but also provides for a removed officer to be disqualified from holding future office. Fines and potential jail time for crimes committed while in office are left to civil courts. Origins Impeachment comes from British constitutional history. The process evolved from the 14th century as a way for parliament to hold the king’s ministers accountable for their public actions. Impeachment, as Alexander Hamilton of New York explained in Federalist 65, varies from civil or criminal courts in that it strictly involves the “misconduct of public men, or in other words from the abuse or violation of some public trust.” Individual state constitutions had provided for impeachment for “maladministration” or “corruption” before the U.S. Constitution was written. And the founders, fearing the potential for abuse of executive power, considered impeachment so important that they made it part of the Constitution even before they defined the contours of the presidency. Constitutional Framing During the Federal Constitutional Convention, the framers addressed whether even to include impeachment trials in the Constitution, the venue and process for such trials, what crimes should warrant impeachment, and the likelihood of conviction. Rufus King of Massachusetts argued that having the legislative branch pass judgment on the executive would undermine the separation of powers; better to let elections punish a President. “The Executive was to hold his place for a limited term like the members of the Legislature,” King said, so “he would periodically be tried for his behaviour by his electors.” Massachusetts’s Elbridge Gerry , however, said impeachment was a way to keep the executive in check: “A good magistrate will not fear [impeachments]. A bad one ought to be kept in fear of them.” Another issue arose regarding whether Congress might lack the resolve to try and convict a sitting President. Presidents, some delegates observed, controlled executive appointments which ambitious Members of Congress might find desirable. Delegates to the Convention also remained undecided on the venue for impeachment trials. The Virginia Plan, which set the agenda for the Convention, initially contemplated using the judicial branch. Again, though, the founders chose to follow the British example, where the House of Commons brought charges against officers and the House of Lords considered them at trial. Ultimately, the founders decided that during presidential impeachment trials, the House would manage the prosecution, while the Chief Justice would preside over the Senate during the trial. The founders also addressed what crimes constituted grounds for impeachment. Treason and bribery were obvious choices, but George Mason of Virginia thought those crimes did not include a large number of punishable offenses against the state. James Madison of Virginia objected to using the term “maladministration” because it was too vague. Mason then substituted “other high Crimes and Misdemeanors” in addition to treason and bribery. The term “high Crimes and Misdemeanors” was a technical term—again borrowed from British leg


Name the live video streaming app bought by Twitter for $100m in 2015?

Twitter Buys Live Streaming App Periscope | TechCrunch Twitter Buys Live Streaming App Periscope Posted Even With Delays, Building A 12.9-Inch iPad Could Be The Easy Part If you looked at this week’s sudden Meerkat phenomenon and thought “hey, Twitter should buy this,” then you’re on the right track. According to sources we’ve spoken with, Twitter has been in talks to purchase live streaming app Periscope , which many private beta users have compared to Meerkat. Update 3/13: Twitter today confirmed that it had acquired Periscope. Title updated to reflect the acquisition. Here’s our follow up story on how sources say Periscope works and how it’s different than Meerkat. The talks are in early stages, but it’s clear that Periscope and Meerkat are doing similar things in a similar space. One source pegs a possible deal at around $100M, another source says the deal is worth a fraction of that. Live streaming on the backbone of the Twitter user graph is certainly intriguing, as the uptake of Meerkat has proven. Periscope is a similar arrangement. It allows people to fire up live video wherever they are and broadcast it to allow people to watch it. The design is more ‘polished’ than Meerkat, which resembles Snapchat in its minimal — even roughshod — aesthetic. But the general principles are very similar. It would be a natural fit for Twitter to acquire one of the apps in this space. It’s right in line with its real-time tentpole and feels inevitable. While much of Twitter’s efforts have been put toward ensuring that its bottom line benefits from users that don’t tweet, or even log into its service, offering core ‘creators’ a 1-to-many broadcast option a button away is certainly a no-brainer. In many ways, a product like Periscope aligns with something like Apple’s FaceTime. It’s just video chat, which had been around for ages — but it’s the lubrication of that process that has made it so popular. When it’s institutionalized, in a platform like Snapchat, Facebook or Twitter, it becomes just another sharing option. If you’re one tap away from sharing a cool live experience, won’t you be more likely to try it out? Especially in a way that taps into the ephemerality and informality of Snapchat. Over the past week I used Meerkat to stream a live roller coaster ride to around 30 people, which was a very interesting feeling. It had the same feel as a Twitch broadcast, but instead of a game, it was your life you were commentating. Periscope and Meerkat face the same challenges as any live-streaming product. There is a narrow window of opportunity for a live event, and it’s completely synchronous — unable to be consumed out of line with its creation. That’s both compelling and limiting. Live video like this seems like it would be incredibly difficult to scale, but that’s not a problem if you already have scale and you just want to leverage it in a new way. Now is the right time for something like this to be a part of Twitter for a variety of reasons. High-bandwidth, mobile cellular networks are far more prevalent than ever before, as are powerful mobile devices with great cameras. There is also Twitter’s history of facilitating transparency in events like the Arab Spring, the Ferguson protests in the wake of the killing of Michael Brown and many others. Live video streaming would be a boon to activists, reporters and documentarians. We have reached out to Twitter and Periscope and will update if we receive a response. This story updated with more pricing details and disclosure.


What process improvement method, pioneered by Motorola Corp in the 1980s, is named after a number and the Greek letter 's'?

Motorola services Motorola Services Motorola services EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Motorola is one of the world's foremost providers of wireless communications, semiconductors and sophisticated electronic systems, mechanism and services. Major equipment businesses include cellular telephone, two-way radio, paging and data communications, personal communications, automotive, defense and space electronics and computers. Motorola semiconductors power communication devices, computers and millions of other products. However, in the early 1980s, the onslaught of Japanese firms penetrating the U.S. market with low-priced, high-quality mobile telecommunication devices shook Motorola from its complacency in being "the No. 1." Faced with aggressive Japanese companies, Motorola began a serious effort to address the competition and reinvent itself from top to bottom. This study had identified Total Customer Satisfaction at the forefront of Motorola's goals. Specific objectives are: 1) to achieve Competitive Advantage by becoming Best in its class, 2) to regain lost market share and expand globally, and 3) to achieve Superior Financial Bottomlines and improve Shareholder Value. The study focused on satisfying the customer satisfaction by meeting the specific objectives. Foremost was to modify the organizational direction of Motorola towards a Quality Path. "A product with superior quality makes a satisfied customer." Hence, the study aimed to establish a Total Quality Improvement for Motorola. Methods employed in developing a Quality Improvement Program were: 1) an appropriate Training and Education Mix, 2) Benchmarking and Best-Practices Modeling, and 3) setting attaining a new standard of quality known as the Six Sigma Quality. Six Sigma is a quality measure of near perfection: 3.4 Defective Parts Per Million (DPPM). Motorola achieved Six Sigma quality excellence and was awarded the Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award in 1988. Other initiatives undertaken to deliver quality and customer satisfaction were: 1) Total Cycle Time Reduction, 2) Product, Manufacturing and Environmental Leadership, 3) Profit Improvement, and 4) Empowerment for Members of the Organization. Finally, the study recommended a global cost leadership strategy attained primarily through Motorola's quality achievements and continuing quality improvement program, and thereby effectively throwing the challenge at the feet of its Japanese competitors. CHAPTER I I. PROBLEM STATEMENT The problem identified for this particular case study can be stated as follows: "How should Motorola respond pro-actively to the competitive pressure initiated by aggressive Japanese firms that flooded the U.S. market with low-priced, high-quality consumer electronics and wireless communication devices(cell phones?)?" Although Motorola has first-mover advantage in the emerging U.S. market for mobile communication technology in the 1980s, the company, like many of its contemporaries in the electronics industry, became complacent in its market position and did not assert leadership over foreign products that have just penetrated U.S. shores. When Japanese firms like NEC, Toshiba and Hitachi struck out, the onslaught caught Motorola unaware. Before the company knew it, Japan-made cellular telephones and pagers were overtaking the Motorola-made devices. Reacting instinctively, Motorola cried foul on the Japanese manufacturers, launched a public campaign against "unfair" competition, and even went as far as to call for political protection. But in the end, executives at Motorola had to admit that the Japanese supplied products that are far more superior than their own, and they simply had to say "our quality stinks." Motorola's top management then realized that they had to take the competition seriously in order to stay in the game, become pro-active instead of being reactive, and set out to changing the way they do their processes and procedures at the shop-level. II. OBJECTIVES AND SCOPE Motorola's fundamental objective, then and now, is Customer Satisfaction. Hence, the same main objective is adopted for thi


What controversial politician sought to sell AC Milan in 2015 to finance his quest for rehabiliation and power?

The Nigerian Political Class And Their Foreign Counterparts - Politics - Nigeria Is President Obama the worst President in History? By Ben Shapiro: There are only two other true contenders for the title of “worst president in U.S. history”: Jimmy Carter and James Buchanan. Warren G. Harding’s tenure was corrupt but not disastrous, and Andrew Johnson’s presidency failed because of his Southern roots and wrongful adherence to extreme states rights concepts in the aftermath of the Civil War, not because his administration effectuated any grave damage to the nation. Only Buchanan matches the record of incompetence, failure and wrongheadedness pursued by Obama. Take Jimmy Carter, for example. He was responsible for the fall of the Shah in Iran and the subsequent rise of the Ayatollahs. He emboldened the Soviets to invade Afghanistan. He oversaw the Three Mile Island incident and presided over a high unemployment rate of 7.1 percent and staggering inflation and interest rates, both of which topped 18 percent by early 1980. His presidency saw gas rationing and shortages, the surrender of the Panama Canal and the boycott of the 1980 Olympics. Pretty bad by any measure. [b]During his entire first term, Carter’s record doesn’t touch the Obama administration’s record in its first year and a half. [/b]Obama already has tacitly OK’d the Iranian nuclear program and derided Israel’s nuclear program. He has allowed Iranian protestors to be slaughtered in the streets without so much as a peep for days on end. Obama has allowed the Russians to sponsor an uprising in Kyrgyzstan that resulted in the removal of a U.S. airbase. He has lent legitimacy to an Islamist Turkish government and sold American debt to a communist Chinese government that supports North Korea. He has presided over the largest oil spill in world history in the Gulf of Mexico and spent his efforts blaming everyone but himself. Obama is poised to raise our taxes at the end of the year. He’s pushing for comprehensive “immigration reform” that will really act as an amnesty for illegal immigrants. He has denigrated Arizona before Mexico, bowed before the king of Saudi Arabia and the Chinese president and the Japanese emperor, hugged a Venezuelan quasi-dictator, and undermined a constitutional uprising in Honduras. He has pushed carbon taxes and gas taxes and estate taxes. He has propped up unfit mortgage borrowers and penalized those who pay their mortgage on time. He has bailed out his buddies in the banking industry and nationalized the auto and health industries for the benefit of his union friends. Obama has insulted the Cambridge police and defended Muslim terrorists like Maj. Nidal Hassan. He has utilized advisers who are Marxists (former Green Jobs Czar Van Jones), anti-Semites (foreign policy adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, special adviser Samantha Power, National Security Adviser Adm. James Jones), racists (Attorney General Eric Holder), sycophantic pro-Islamists (Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John Brennan), kooks (Director of White House Office of Science and Technology John Holdren), perverts (Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings), and paid thugs (Rahm Emanuel). [/b]When Obama took office, the national debt was just under $10 trillion. Now it is $12 trillion, and by 2015, it will be at least $19.6 trillion. Unemployment under Obama increased to 9.7 percent, up from 7.6 percent when Bush left office. The inflation rate has yet to explode, but most economists believe it will have to unless Obama drastically raises taxes, destroying the economy even further. [/b] Carter can’t touch this guy. As for Buchanan, the man was a symptom of his times—an active supporter of admitting Kansas to the Union as a slave state and of Chief Justice Roger Taney’s execrable opinion in Dred Scott. He was also responsible for a near-war in Utah against the Mormons, inflation of the currency, and the abominable state of the Union’s military position at the beginning of the Civil War. It would be difficult for Obama to top this record of pure disgrace—