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Automata theory
Automata theory is the study of abstract machines and automata, as well as the computational problems that can be solved using them. It is a theory in theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics (a subject of study in both mathematics and computer science). The word automata (the plural of automaton) comes from the Greek word αὐτόματα, which means "self-acting".
The figure at right illustrates a finite-state machine, which belongs to a well-known type of automaton. This automaton consists of states (represented in the figure by circles) and transitions (represented by arrows). As the automaton sees a symbol of input, it makes a transition (or jump) to another state, according to its transition function, which takes the current state and the recent symbol as its inputs.
Automata theory is closely related to formal language theory. An automaton is a finite representation of a formal language that may be an infinite set. Automata are often classified by the class of formal languages they can recognize, typically illustrated by the Chomsky hierarchy, which describes the relations between various languages and kinds of formalized logic.
Automata play a major role in theory of computation, compiler construction, artificial intelligence, parsing and formal verification.
- 1 Automata
- 2 Variant definitions of automata
- 3 Classes of automata
- 4 Hierarchy in terms of powers
- 5 Applications
- 6 Automata simulators
- 7 Connection to category theory
- 8 See also
- 9 References
- 10 Further reading
- 11 External links
Following is an introductory definition of one type of automaton, which attempts to help one grasp the essential concepts involved in automata theory/theories.
Very informal description[edit]
An automaton is a construct made of states designed to determine if the input should be accepted or rejected. It looks a lot like a basic board game where each space on the board represents a state. Each state has information about what to do when an input is received by the machine (again, rather like what to do when you land on the Jail spot in a popular board game). As the machine receives a new input, it looks at the state and picks a new spot based on the information on what to do when it receives that input at that state. When there are no more inputs, the automaton stops and the space it is on when it completes determines whether the automaton accepts or rejects that particular set of inputs.
Informal description[edit]
An automaton runs when it is given some sequence of inputs in discrete (individual) time steps or steps. An automaton processes one input picked from a set of symbols or letters, which is called an alphabet. The symbols received by the automaton as input at any step are a finite sequence of symbols called words. An automaton has a finite set of states. At each moment during a run of the automaton, the automaton is in one of its states. When the automaton receives new input it moves to another state (or transitions) based on a function that takes the current state and symbol as parameters. This function is called the transition function. The automaton reads the symbols of the input word one after another and transitions from state to state according to the transition function until the word is read completely. Once the input word has been read, the automaton is said to have stopped. The state at which the automaton stops is called the final state. Depending on the final state, it's said that the automaton either accepts or rejects an input word. There is a subset of states of the automaton, which is defined as the set of accepting states. If the final state is an accepting state, then the automaton accepts the word. Otherwise, the word is rejected. The set of all the words accepted by an automaton is called the language recognized by the automaton.
In short, an automaton is a mathematical object that takes a word as input and decides whether to accept it or reject it. Since all computational problems are reducible into the accept/reject question on inputs, (all problem instances can be represented in a finite length of symbols)[citation needed], automata theory plays a crucial role in computational theory.
Formal definition[edit]
- Automaton
definition of finite state automata[edit]
- A deterministic finite automaton is represented formally by a 5-tuple <Q, Σ, δ,q0,F>, where:
- Q is a finite set of states.
- Σ is a finite set of symbols, called the alphabet of the automaton.
- δ is the transition function, that is, δ: Q × Σ → Q.
- q0 is the start state, that is, the state of the automaton before any input has been processed, where q0∈ Q.
- F is a set of states of Q (i.e. F⊆Q) called accept states.
- Input word
- An automaton reads a finite string of symbols a1,a2,...., an , where ai ∈ Σ, which is called an input word. The set of all words is denoted by Σ*.
- Run
- A sequence of states q0,q1,q2,...., qn, where qi ∈ Q such that q0 is the start state and qi = δ(qi-1,ai) for 0 < i ≤ n, is a run of the automaton on an input word w = a1,a2,...., an ∈ Σ*. In other words, at first the automaton is at the start state q0, and then the automaton reads symbols of the input word in sequence. When the automaton reads symbol ai it jumps to state qi = δ(qi-1,ai). qn is said to be the final state of the run.
- Accepting word
- A word w ∈ Σ* is accepted by the automaton if qn ∈ F.
- Recognized language
- An automaton can recognize a formal language. The language L ⊆ Σ* recognized by an automaton is the set of all the words that are accepted by the automaton.
- Recognizable languages
- The recognizable languages are the set of languages that are recognized by some automaton. For the above definition of automata the recognizable languages are regular languages. For different definitions of automata, the recognizable languages are different.
Variant definitions of automata[edit]
Automata are defined to study useful machines under mathematical formalism. So, the definition of an automaton is open to variations according to the "real world machine", which we want to model using the automaton. People have studied many variations of automata. The most standard variant, which is described above, is called a deterministic finite automaton. The following are some popular variations in the definition of different components of automata.
- Input
- Finite input: An automaton that accepts only finite sequence of symbols. The above introductory definition only encompasses finite words.
- Infinite input: An automaton that accepts infinite words (ω-words). Such automata are called ω-automata.
- Tree word input: The input may be a tree of symbols instead of sequence of symbols. In this case after reading each symbol, the automaton reads all the successor symbols in the input tree. It is said that the automaton makes one copy of itself for each successor and each such copy starts running on one of the successor symbols from the state according to the transition relation of the automaton. Such an automaton is called a tree automaton.
- Infinite tree input : The two extensions above can be combined, so the automaton reads a tree structure with (in)finite branches. Such an automaton is called an infinite tree automaton
- States
- Finite states: An automaton that contains only a finite number of states. The above introductory definition describes automata with finite numbers of states.
- Infinite states: An automaton that may not have a finite number of states, or even a countable number of states. For example, the quantum finite automaton or topological automaton has uncountable infinity of states.
- Stack memory: An automaton may also contain some extra memory in the form of a stack in which symbols can be pushed and popped. This kind of automaton is called a pushdown automaton
- Transition function
- Deterministic: For a given current state and an input symbol, if an automaton can only jump to one and only one state then it is a deterministic automaton.
- Nondeterministic: An automaton that, after reading an input symbol, may jump into any of a number of states, as licensed by its transition relation. Notice that the term transition function is replaced by transition relation: The automaton non-deterministically decides to jump into one of the allowed choices. Such automata are called nondeterministic automata.
- Alternation: This idea is quite similar to tree automaton, but orthogonal. The automaton may run its multiple copies on the same next read symbol. Such automata are called alternating automata. Acceptance condition must satisfy all runs of such copies to accept the input.
- Acceptance condition
- Acceptance of finite words: Same as described in the informal definition above.
- Acceptance of infinite words: an omega automaton cannot have final states, as infinite words never terminate. Rather, acceptance of the word is decided by looking at the infinite sequence of visited states during the run.
- Probabilistic acceptance: An automaton need not strictly accept or reject an input. It may accept the input with some probability between zero and one. For example, quantum finite automaton, geometric automaton and metric automaton have probabilistic acceptance.
Different combinations of the above variations produce many classes of automaton.
Automata theory is a subject matter that studies properties of various types of automata. For example, the following questions are studied about a given type of automata.
- Which class of formal languages is recognizable by some type of automata? (Recognizable languages)
- Are certain automata closed under union, intersection, or complementation of formal languages? (Closure properties)
- How expressive is a type of automata in terms of recognizing a class of formal languages? And, their relative expressive power? (Language hierarchy)
Automata theory also studies the existence or nonexistence of any effective algorithms to solve problems similar to the following list:
- Does an automaton accept any input word? (Emptiness checking)
- Is it possible to transform a given non-deterministic automaton into deterministic automaton without changing the recognizable language? (Determinization)
- For a given formal language, what is the smallest automaton that recognizes it? (Minimization)
Classes of automata[edit]
The following is an incomplete list of types of automata.
|Recognizable language
|Nondeterministic/Deterministic Finite state machine (FSM)
|regular languages
|Deterministic pushdown automaton (DPDA)
|deterministic context-free languages
|Pushdown automaton (PDA)
|context-free languages
|Linear bounded automaton (LBA)
|context-sensitive languages
|Turing machine
|recursively enumerable languages
|Deterministic Büchi automaton
|ω-limit languages
|Nondeterministic Büchi automaton
|ω-regular languages
|Rabin automaton, Streett automaton, Parity automaton, Muller automaton
|ω-regular languages
Discrete, continuous, and hybrid automata[edit]
Normally automata theory describes the states of abstract machines but there are analog automata or continuous automata or hybrid discrete-continuous automata, which use analog data, continuous time, or both.
Hierarchy in terms of powers[edit]
The following is an incomplete hierarchy in terms of powers of different types of virtual machines. The hierarchy reflects the nested categories of languages the machines are able to accept.[1]
|Deterministic Finite Automaton (DFA) -- Lowest Power
(same power) (same power)
Each model in automata theory plays important roles in several applied areas. Finite automata are used in text processing, compilers, and hardware design. Context-free grammar (CFGs) are used in programming languages and artificial intelligence. Originally, CFGs were used in the study of the human languages. Cellular automata are used in the field of biology, the most common example being John Conway's Game of Life. Some other examples which could be explained using automata theory in biology include mollusk and pine cones growth and pigmentation patterns. Going further, a theory suggesting that the whole universe is computed by some sort of a discrete automaton, is advocated by some scientists. The idea originated in the work of Konrad Zuse, and was popularized in America by Edward Fredkin. Automata also appear in the theory of finite fields: the set of irreducible polynomials which can be written as composition of degree two polynomials is in fact a regular language.[2]
Automata simulators[edit]
Automata simulators are pedagogical tools used to teach, learn and research automata theory. An automata simulator takes as input the description of an automaton and then simulates its working for an arbitrary input string. The description of the automaton can be entered in several ways. An automaton can be defined in a symbolic language or its specification may be entered in a predesigned form or its transition diagram may be drawn by clicking and dragging the mouse. Well known automata simulators include Turing's World, JFLAP, VAS, TAGS and SimStudio.[3]
Connection to category theory[edit]
One can define several distinct categories of automata[4] following the automata classification into different types described in the previous section. The mathematical category of deterministic automata, sequential machines or sequential automata, and Turing machines with automata homomorphisms defining the arrows between automata is a Cartesian closed category,[5][6] it has both categorical limits and colimits. An automata homomorphism maps a quintuple of an automaton Ai onto the quintuple of another automaton Aj.[7] Automata homomorphisms can also be considered as automata transformations or as semigroup homomorphisms, when the state space, S, of the automaton is defined as a semigroup Sg. Monoids are also considered as a suitable setting for automata in monoidal categories.[8][9][10]
- Categories of variable automata
One could also define a variable automaton, in the sense of Norbert Wiener in his book on The Human Use of Human Beings via the endomorphisms . Then, one can show that such variable automata homomorphisms form a mathematical group. In the case of non-deterministic, or other complex kinds of automata, the latter set of endomorphisms may become, however, a variable automaton groupoid. Therefore, in the most general case, categories of variable automata of any kind are categories of groupoids or groupoid categories. Moreover, the category of reversible automata is then a 2-category, and also a subcategory of the 2-category of groupoids, or the groupoid category.
See also[edit]
- ^ Yan, Song Y. (1998). An Introduction to Formal Languages and Machine Computation. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. pp. 155–156.
- ^ Ferraguti, A.; Micheli, G.; Schnyder, R., Irreducible compositions of degree two polynomials over finite fields have regular structure, The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, Oxford University Press
- ^ Chakraborty, P., Saxena, P. C., Katti, C. P. 2011. Fifty Years of Automata Simulation: A Review. ACM Inroads, 2(4):59–70. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2038893&dl=ACM&coll=DL&CFID=65021406&CFTOKEN=86634854
- ^ Jirí Adámek and Vera Trnková. 1990. Automata and Algebras in Categories. Kluwer Academic Publishers:Dordrecht and Prague
- ^ S. Mac Lane, Categories for the Working Mathematician, Springer, New York (1971)
- ^ Cartesian closed category Archived November 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The Category of Automata Archived September 15, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ http://www.math.cornell.edu/~worthing/asl2010.pdf James Worthington.2010.Determinizing, Forgetting, and Automata in Monoidal Categories. ASL North American Annual Meeting, March 17, 2010
- ^ Aguiar, M. and Mahajan, S.2010. "Monoidal Functors, Species, and Hopf Algebras".
- ^ Meseguer, J., Montanari, U.: 1990 Petri nets are monoids. Information and Computation 88:105–155
Further reading[edit]
- John E. Hopcroft, Rajeev Motwani, Jeffrey D. Ullman (2000). Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation (2nd Edition). Pearson Education. ISBN 0-201-44124-1.CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)
- Michael Sipser (1997). Introduction to the Theory of Computation. PWS Publishing. ISBN 0-534-94728-X. Part One: Automata and Languages, chapters 1–2, pp. 29–122. Section 4.1: Decidable Languages, pp. 152–159. Section 5.1: Undecidable Problems from Language Theory, pp. 172–183.
- Elaine Rich (2008). Automata, Computability and Complexity: Theory and Applications. Pearson. ISBN 0-13-228806-0.
- Salomaa, Arto (1985). Computation and automata. Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Its Applications. 25. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-30245-5. Zbl 0565.68046.
- Anderson, James A. (2006). Automata theory with modern applications. With contributions by Tom Head. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-61324-8. Zbl 1127.68049.
- Conway, J.H. (1971). Regular algebra and finite machines. Chapman and Hall Mathematics Series. London: Chapman & Hall. Zbl 0231.94041.
- Sakarovitch, Jacques (2009). Elements of automata theory. Translated from the French by Reuben Thomas. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-84425-3. Zbl 1188.68177.
- James P. Schmeiser, David T. Barnard (1995). Producing a top-down parse order with bottom-up parsing. Elsevier North-Holland.CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)
- Igor Aleksander, F.Keith Hanna (1975). Automata Theory : An Engineering Approach. New York: Crane Russak. ISBN 0-8448-0657-9.CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)
- Marvin Minsky (1967). Computation : Finite and infinite machines. Princeton, N.J.: Prentice Hall.
- John C. Martin (2011). Introduction to Languages and The Theory of Computation. New York, NY 10020: McGraw Hill. ISBN 0-07-319146-9.
External links[edit]
- Visual Automata Simulator, A tool for simulating, visualizing and transforming finite state automata and Turing Machines, by Jean Bovet
- dk.brics.automaton
- libfa


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Update at 8:35 p.m.
Here are the latest evacuations ordered by the Shasta County Sheriff's Office:
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Update at 7:57 p.m.
The Creek Fire has destroyed two structures, CalFire spokeswoman Cheryl Buliavac said Sunday evening. She had no further information.
Meanwhile, CalFire officials also have announced evacuations for the following areas:
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Authorities are issuing new mandatory evacuations for residents in the area of the Creek Fire.
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Update at 7:04 p.m.
The Shasta County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help in locating a gold or tan 1990s model Chrysler-type minivan in connection to the Creek Fire.
The sheriff's office on Facebook said the series of wildfires off Clear Creek Road started under suspicious circumstances.
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After a 10-episode competition that saw contestants quit and a finale with four finalists competing instead of three, Oxygen's The Glee Project crowned its first winner.
[Warning: This story contains spoilers.]
All four finalists won – in some fashion: Damian McGinty and Samuel Larson each won seven-episode arcs, while fellow finalists Lindsay Pearce and Alex Newell will appear in a pair of episodes of Glee.
STORY: 'Glee Project' Winner May Not be the Only One Heading to Fox Hit
In the penultimate episode, Murphy and Brennan opted not to send one of the four final contestants home, and with all four contestants going head-to-head in the finale, the Glee duo wanted a little bit of everyone for the Fox hit.
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While there's no word yet on what role each of the four will be playing, Murphy in recent episodes has taken a liking to Larsen's Catholic background — his tattoos include a few Bible verses.
Murphy also dubbed Newell "the best singer" among the four finalists, and called him the "lovechild of Kurt [Chris Colfer] and Mercedes [Amber Riley]."
For McGinty, Brennan said he'd likely come in to the show as a freshman. How Pearce will come in, however, is more unclear.
Murphy told The Hollywood Reporter in July that the writing staff was in the midst of scripting the part for the winner and that he was open to having more than just one contestant from the series appear on the Fox hit.
"Some of [the contestants] are so talented," he told THR. "We're in the middle of writing Glee Season 3 and I don't want to have a lot of guest stars this year, but we're writing a lot of kids' stories and I'm thinking, 'You know who would be good for those two lines is [eliminated contestant] McKynleigh, who got kicked off might be good for something like that.' It's definitely being discussed but we haven't done anything yet. We're also writing the part for the winner and it's quite a great role. They're all talented and I think they all fit. They're all part of the Glee family."
Glee casting director Robert Ulrich — one of the three mentors on Glee Project — told The Hollywood Reporter in May that all 12 of the contestants could likely appear on the Fox series.
STORY: 'The Glee Project's' Lindsay and Alex Q&A
"I do think that all 12 of these kids could not only be on Glee but they will go on to do other things," Ulrich told THR. "We will see them all around whether it be in music or in acting, stage or film and theater. I'm hoping that we see more than just the winner on Glee."
STORY: 'The Glee Project's' Samuel and Damian Q&A
Oxygen has not yet renewed the reality competition series for a second season, but executive producer Michael Davies told reporters at this month's Television Critics Association's press tour that talks were under way for a new season. The series has continued to gain ratings in key demographics, further building its case for a renewal.
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help in understanding upcoming improved tracking protection
Hi, according to this news https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/06/04/firefox-now-available-with-enhanced-tracking-protection-by-default/
mozilla is going to block third-party tracking cookies by default (based on a blacklist). I don't understand the difference between the "trackers" and "cookies" -> "third party trackers" option in the firefox settings. The news tells me that "just" the cookie option will be enabled by default, meaning that the trackers are still loaded.
Lets talk about the effects in case of google analytics? When I activate the tracker-block option or use adblock, I will get errors in the developer console (or in add ons) that google analytics isn't found/loaded. When I activate the upcoming third party tracker cookie option I DON'T get this message - so analytics is still executed. Isn't analytics simply not working anymore at all because it is using its cookies OR are there only SOME functions of analytics that will not work anymore?
Could anyone clarfiy this for me?


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Aug 13, 2015
Divination using an eyelash
In Bosnia there is an interesting divination among the Bosnian with the help of an eyelash. When someone notices that someone has lost an eyelash, he picks it up using his thumb and index finger and says to that person: "make a wish!" Then both of them make a wish, each their own, and then both of them blow three times into the connected fingers which are holding the eyelash. Then they choose fingers, i.e. one says that his is the index finger and the other the thumb. The person that held the eyelash separates the fingers and looks on which finger did the eyelash stay glued. Finger which has the eyelash forecasts that the wish will come true to the person who chose that specific finger. To make sure that it will be so, the eyelash is placed on the chest, underneath the clothes, and is brought with them in order not to lose it.


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Review Essay
The Liberal Lion
Edmund Burke, the eighteenth-century British politician and writer, is today best known for Reflections on the Revolution in France, published in 1790. In it, Burke denounced the revolutionaries in France and their supporters in Great Britain for what he considered their misplaced faith in principles such as "abstract liberty" and "the rights of men" and for their rejection of more pragmatic, procedural paths to ending the tyranny of hereditary monarchy. As Burke put it:
"Property with peace and order; with civil and social manners . . . are good things too; and, without them, liberty is not a benefit whilst it lasts, and is not likely to continue long. The effect of liberty is to [let] individuals . . . do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risque congratulations, which may be soon turned into complaints."
In a sense, the debate between Burke and his antagonists—between conservatism and radicalism, broadly defined—has shaped political debate in the Western world ever since, and Burke himself has become known as "the father of modern conservatism."
David Bromwich is not fond of that phrase. "No serious historian today would repeat the commonplace that Burke was the father of modern conservatism," writes the esteemed scholar of literature in his magnificent, beautifully written new study of the first half of Burke's career, which is the most notable addition to a recent crop of books about Burke. The trouble is not only that the line between Burke and modern conservatism is hardly straight but also that Burke's legacy is far too complex to be captured by any such phrase. Part of the problem, as Bromwich makes clear, are the tensions (and even paradoxes) within Burke's own thinking and writing. His condemnation of the French Revolution was preceded by his sympathy for the American one that took place two decades earlier. This gave ammunition to his radical foes, such as the critic William Hazlitt, who later wrote that by rejecting the French Revolution, Burke "abandoned not only all his practical conclusions, but all the principles on which they were founded. He proscribed all his former sentiments, denounced all his former friends, [and] rejected and reviled all the maxims to which he had formerly appealed as incontestable."
Burke's champions were (and still are) quick to defend him against such charges of inconsistency and hypocrisy, and with some justification. And yet it is impossible to ignore the fact that Burke's writings have inspired a remarkably wide range of ideologies and political programs. Nineteenth-century liberals praised Burke for reconciling the principles of constitutionalism with a kind of utilitarian pragmatism. Twentieth-century Cold Warriors appropriated Burke for their own ends, casting their communist foes as modern-day incarnations of the radical French Jacobins whom Burke excoriated. Economic liberals have painted Burke as a champion of the virtues of the free market; at the same time, others have used his writings to argue for more state intervention in the economy in the interests of social cohesion.
Readers without such agendas often have trouble drawing clear political lessons from Burke because his writing took the form of polemic commentary rather than systematic political theory. Burke himself frequently disparaged "abstract theory," and his insights—although often brilliant—can seem aphoristic, even ad hoc. Complicating matters further, Burke was more concerned with moral psychology and aesthetics than with politics during the early stages of his career. A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, which Burke wrote in 1757, is a systematic treatise, a contrast to his later, looser writing about politics. As Hazlitt noted in a backhanded compliment, "Mr. Burke's literary talents were, after all, his chief excellence."
And so anyone hoping to understand Burke is confronted with an array of historians and philosophers of aesthetics, politics, and political theory; social conservatives and free-market liberals; and even closet radicals—all claiming that they hold the key to the "real" Burke. Undaunted, Bromwich sets out to demonstrate "the originality and continuities" of Burke's thought. The result is an intellectual biography of the best kind. Bromwich seeks to convey "what it meant to think like Edmund Burke" and to demonstrate the coherence and relevance of Burke's moral and political vision. With a remarkable level of detail and sensitivity, Bromwich makes a virtue out of what others lament as problematic: the relationship between Burke's political activity and his written works. Bromwich is convinced that people today can still learn from Burke, not as political partisans but as "thoughtful readers." In Bromwich's hands, Burke offers better lessons about how to think than about what to think.
The British have their own version of Burke's sobriquet, referring to him as "the father of English conservatism." This is also an uneasy fit, though, since Burke was actually an Irishman. Born in Dublin in 1729 to a family with a Catholic background, he was raised as an Anglican only because his father, a lawyer, had converted to escape the restrictions on Catholics practicing law. After graduating from Trinity College Dublin, the young Burke made his way to England, intending to follow his father's footsteps into a legal career. He soon abandoned that goal to pursue writing full time. His work attracted the attention of members of England's literary and artistic elite, including the writer Samuel Johnson and the painter Joshua Reynolds. Eventually, Burke's rising profile brought him into contact with the political elite as well, and he ultimately became private secretary to Lord Rockingham, who served as prime minister in the mid-1760s. Around the same time, Burke launched his own political career and soon became nationally prominent as a member of Parliament. Two of the areas he represented, Wendover and Malton, were "pocket boroughs," with tiny electorates and controlled by local landowners. But a third, Bristol, was the kind of big metropolitan district where modern electoral politics was emerging, and its populist dynamism and trading economy had an important impact on Burke's political writing.
In Parliament, Burke joined Rockingham's faction, known as the Rockingham Whigs. The Whigs were an association of aristocratic politicians who identified themselves with the principles of the Glorious Revolution of 1688—a parliamentary (and Protestant) coup that had replaced King James II, whom the plotters suspected of aspiring to a continental (and Catholic) type of monarchical absolutism, with the co-regents William III and Mary II. Although the Whigs were inspired by their predecessors' suspicion of royal power, their political instincts were paternalist, not populist.
Within this group, Burke acted as a developer of policy, a fixer, and especially as a spokesman; indeed, in an age of formidable orators, many considered him the country's greatest. Much of his fame rested on speeches he delivered dealing with basic questions of parliamentary government, a form that was still just emerging. He defended the concept of a political "party," which was at the time a suspect term; insisted that members of Parliament act as representatives of their constituents, rather than as mere delegates; pushed for the British crown to take a consensual, rather than coercive, approach to the American colonies; and argued for parliamentary control of royal finances.
Bromwich gives Burke's views on such matters their due, but he is interested in something deeper. He rejects the view of Burke as "an anti-theoretical critic of modern politics, a 'pragmatic' adapter to local needs." According to Bromwich, Burke was no mere improviser but rather "cherished certain abstract ideas unconditionally." To unearth those ideas and to recover Burke's thought processes, Bromwich performs sincere, disciplined readings of Burke's work, albeit ones that bear the imprint of a scholar of English literature who is more likely to notice an allusion to Shakespeare than one to Machiavelli. Above all, Bromwich contextualizes Burke, explaining the terms in which Burke understood and responded to the political situations he faced and revealing how those responses formed a coherent view of politics.
Of course, rescuing Burke from charges of partisanship and theoretical flimsiness has its own dangers. Constructing a coherent theory from disparate tracts on controversial issues of the day risks distorting his views. Anyone seeking to understand Burke's legacy faces a basic question: To recover the historical Burke, must one sacrifice a politically usable view of him?
Bromwich's book suggests that the answer to that question is no, and it offers a revealing portrait of Burke's mind. If there is one underlying principle that Bromwich seizes on, it is Burke's oft-repeated claim that "the principles of true politics are those of morality enlarged." This does not mean that Burke was interested in simply reconciling moral principles and political practices. For Burke, knowledge of human nature (and culturally acquired "second" natures) set limits on what people could reasonably demand of themselves and others. Political theorists and politicians should not try to close the gap between lofty moral goals and the mundane, grubby reality of everyday politics but rather work within that very space, recognizing it as the realm of the possible. As Burke remarked in 1782, "The touchstone of all theories which regard man and the affairs of men [is,] Does it suit his nature in general? Does it suit his nature as modified by habit?" Radical revolutionaries, he complained, "are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man, that they have totally forgotten his nature."
Despite Burke's own insistence that he mistrusted abstract ideas, Bromwich draws attention to Burke's understanding of their power and the way they operate—especially ideas Burke considered wrong or misunderstood. For example, Burke was less interested in whether such a thing as a "natural right" existed than in understanding why someone would believe in such an idea and what would follow from that belief. In this sense, "ideology" was one of Burke's major concerns, even though that term was not coined until a few years after he died. Burke perceived that any theory that loses touch with people's natures risks perverting them, just as any theory that simply accepts people as they are is helpless to improve their condition.
Bromwich also explores Burke's thoughts about the responsible uses of power. Today, democratic discourse and values rely so heavily on the principles of the French Revolution, especially the idea of individual human rights and the need to institutionalize them, that it requires a huge effort to conceive of a worldview that did not include them. Burke did not seek to make state institutions conform to precise moral ideals, much less to achieve the abstract goal of democracy. Instead, he pushed for what people today might call "good governance." At its most basic, this means considering whether policies are suitable to the customs and nature of the people to whom they apply and considering the likely effect of any particular policy before establishing it. To prevent abuse, Burkean good governance requires constraining political power, even—perhaps especially—the influence of majorities. And it requires regularity, consistency, and predictability when it comes to interpreting and enforcing laws.
This vision of government is difficult to turn into anything resembling a rule; it might sound like mere common sense. But for Burke, such objectives—and not more abstract quests, such as maximizing equality, liberty, or wealth—represented the important stuff of politics. Burke's goals cannot be achieved through the mere application of logic; instead, they require the use of political persuasion and the exercise of that rare skill, judgment. This is what Bromwich means by thinking like Burke: understanding how leaders arrive at the right decisions in particular cases and how they ensure that decision-making in the future will also be guided by good judgment.
Burke's political thought resists the modern assumption that a thinker can achieve consistency only by subscribing to a single organizing principle or set of values. The lack of such a principle in Burke's thought partially explains why it has proved so hard to accurately transpose Burke onto contemporary politics. But Bromwich has managed to illuminate a different kind of consistency in Burke's thought.
Consider the seeming contradiction in Burke's implicit defense of the rebellious colonists in the American colonies and his explicit opposition to the revolutionaries in France. During the 1770s, Burke opposed British policies in the Colonies (such as the imposition of taxes on the American settlers) and at home (such as the use of royal finances to buy influence in Parliament) that he thought undermined the constitutional and institutional structures that safeguarded liberty. Two decades later, he argued that the principle of liberty as espoused by the French Revolution lacked an institutional framework that could restrain the revolutionaries themselves, who showed little concern for the quality of representation, failed to foster links to established communities, and created no "upper" legislative chamber to ensure continuity and stability in governance.
In both cases, Burke sought to create or defend institutional structures that could protect liberty (in the American case) and also constrain it (in the French one). For Burke, liberty was not a paramount principle; nor, he warned, should it be imposed without regard to existing institutions and practices. Praising the British style of government, and contrasting it with the approach of the French revolutionaries, he claimed, "We compensate, we reconcile, we balance. We are enabled to unite into a consistent whole the various anomalies and contending principles that are found in the minds and affairs of men."
Burke's fundamental objection to revolutions inspired by rationalistic ideals was their arrogance. As he wrote in Reflections, "We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations, and of ages." In Burke's view, knowledge is held not individually but collectively—in institutions, in customs, and even in shared prejudices. Maintaining a population's allegiance to and trust in such institutions is a more important goal than promoting efficiency or rationality. Almost any theory, even those espoused by self-proclaimed conservatives, can be held in an absolutistic way such that it poses a threat to institutional and political stability. That is perhaps the most crucial lesson Burke has to offer modern politics.


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Bandh Gobi Ka Achar ( Indian Pickled Cabbage)
Attempting pickles the north Indian style was totally new to me until a year ago but it opened a whole new world of flavors for a pickle addict like me. Unlike the conventional lemon and mango which is expensive if not seasonal, there are a lot of options in perennial vegetables like cabbage for instance. This is the easiest pickle ever and the fact that you don't need to peel or core parts of this vegetable adds to its volume when you want to make huge quantities. The same recipe can be used for pickling onions.
Preparation Time:
30 Min
Cooking Time:
15 Min
Very Easy
Cabbage - 5 cups
Aniseed crushed- 2 tbsp
Fenugreek crushed- 2 tbsp
Split yellow mustard- 2 1/2 tbsp
Turmeric powder- 1/2 tsp
Chilli powder- 2 tsp
Salt- 2 tsp
Mustard oil- 200 ml
Vinegar- 5 tbsp
Asafoetida- 1 tsp
Chop the cabbage into chunks. Wash them and then pat them dry. You can leave it spread on a newspaper for some time but ensure its completely dry.
Coarsely crush or powder aniseed, fenugreek and yellow mustard.You get split mustard and fenugreek seeds at shops but if you do not have access to these prepare them by coarsely crushing these spices.
Add vinegar and salt to the chopped cabbage and store in a plastic container with a lid for an hour.
After an hour add the coarsely crushed powders, asafoetida, chili and turmeric powder to the cabbage and let it sit on the counter top for a day.
Transfer the pickle to sterile jars the next day.
Heat the mustard oil in a pan and let it cool down. Pour it onto the pickle in jars.Keep the bottles in sunlight for a week before storing them in a cool place.
See that oil tops the pickle this prevents it from getting spoilt.
The same recipe goes for pickling chilies as well as onion.


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Cryptract - A Beginner's Guide
Cryptract is a strategy RPG. That means it has about a billion working parts, including units, currencies, levels, star ratings, quests, not to mention all manner of runes, spell books, and so on. The only way to get a handle on all that is to play the game for yourself.
But we can help get you off to a decent start with this beginner's guide to the main elements of the game.
Units, Attributes, Skills
Your units are basically your soldiers. Each unit has a number of characteristics, but the ones you need to worry about during battles are HP, Attack Power, Defense Power, and Speed. At the most rudimentary level, these are the qualities that determine how effective a unit is.
Then there's type, which roughly determines what a unit's role is. There are thieves, archers, heroes, monks, knights, lancers, paladins, and more, all with their own specific strengths, weaknesses, and duties in battle.
Each unit also has an attribute – fire, water, wood, light, or dark. These attributes work on each other a bit like rock, paper, and scissors. That is, wood is powerful against water, but weak against fire, while fire is weak against water.
Light and dark are slightly different, in that they only affect each other. Light is strong against dark attribute units, but weak against dark attribute attacks. Same goes in reverse.
The key with attributes is to work out who you're fighting and ensure the party you put up has the best possible attributes for the job.
Units also have up to four skills. These are leader skills, which apply certain buffs to the whole party depending on the unit that's been designated leader; two different force skills, which include stuff like powerful fire attacks and invincibility. Finally, there are passive skills, which apply buffs.
There's a dazzling amount of detail in how these skills interact with different units in different contexts, but you've got the gist.
Force skills can be leveled up and – segue! – so can units. To increase a unit's skill level you can use lesser units in a process called strengthening fusion. This gives you experience points, which in turn level a unit up, improving its stats.
Once a unit hits its max level, you can evolve it using evolution materials and gold. Evolution makes a unit even more powerful. Obviously.
Finally, units each have their own star rating, with rarer units having more stars. 3-star units are super rare, while 5-star units are gods, and 6-star units are galaxies. Don't mess with them.
Summoning Units
There are two ways to get hold of new units. You can either win them in battle, or you can summon them, gacha style. While the outcome is random, summoning is the most reliable way by far to get your hands on rare units.
To perform a special gacha you need to spend orbs, at a rate of five per summon, though there are certain summons that require crystals instead. Alternatively, you can use Kizuna points for a normal gacha spin, which will net you mostly low-level creatures that you can fuse to level-up a stronger base unit.
You can get hold of orbs in two different ways. The first is through the reward system. By logging in daily, completing missions, and fulfilling various other criteria you'll receive free orbs to spend on summoning.
The second way to get hold of orbs is to buy them with real money.
Completing Quests
There are several different quest types in Cryptract, including main quest missions, beast battles, event quests, arena battles, union battles, Dinas quests, and more.
In each of them you have a party of four units, including a leader. The leader applies buffs to the whole party. On top of that, you can also use a support unit – a supplementary unit that becomes active if it belongs to one of your in-game friends. Using a support unit grants you Kizuna points.
Main quests, beast battles, and event quests all have the potential to be double quests, with a secondary quest opening up after you've got through the first round. To open up this second quest you need to have space in your unit box and your material box, and be in possession of the necessary items.
The more difficult the quest, the more AP it costs to enter, the flipside being that you'll earn more EXP, gold, units, and evolution items for successfully completing a quest at a higher difficulty.
Download the app now on the App Store. It's also available for Android devices on Google Play.


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That time we hired mopeds and got lost in the Sacred Valley.
Where? Sacred Valley, Peru
When? August 2018
With whom? Martin and Daan.
In Cusco we were staying in a party hostel called Wild Rover. We had had recommendations of this place from an Irish couple we befriended in Banos who had said that this hostel is Irish owned and offers a great view of the ancient historical part of Cusco. It did not disappoint.
Our Irish friends also suggested hiring a moped on one of our acclimatisation days; most Machu Picchu tour companies suggest a few days in Cusco to acclimatise to the high altitude at 3,400m so that you don't suffer from altitude sickness during your hike or visit. Martin and I both felt it a little on the first day in Cusco, I had what felt like growing pains in my legs and Martin felt very sick and had lots of headaches. We decided for once to follow advice and set aside two days and three nights for our bodies to adjust and we were grateful for it.
On our first evening, we tried out an Indian Peruvian fusion restaurant called Korma Sutra. Honestly, we only went because the name made us giggle but it was such a good place to eat. As soon as you walk in, the smell is so thick you can taste the curry and it was delicious. Here we tried Guinea pig, a Peruvian delicacy.
Afterwards we checked out the bar at the hostel where we took part in a pub quiz, making friends with fellow travelers. Enter Daan, as one of the people we chatted to that night and happened to also be in our dorm. He started chatting to us at the bar and as soon as he said he was from the Netherlands, I counted to 21 in Dutch. That was possibly the pisco talking as this guy who was fluent in English picked up on how he was meant to be impressed with my 21 Dutch words, and I must say he played the part well.
The three of us explored Cusco the next day, stopping in at the San Pedro Market to buy some alpaca wool goods, because you haven't really been to Cusco until you've haggled over a jumper. We asked every stand the cost of alpaca socks and got answers ranging from 6 soles to 28 soles, so make sure you shop around!
We passed a man called Frank with a few mopeds in his truck and got chatting to him, and he said we could hire one for a day for 70 soles (about 15GBP). Deal. We met him early in the morning and signed our lives away, hiring two mopeds between the three of us with their logic being I'm small so won't be noticeable. Frank let us follow him out of town so hat he could put us on the road to our first planned stop, Pisac. He said goodbye and to follow this one road for 45 minutes.
It was beautiful. First, we climbed. Climbing out of the city gave us amazing views of the city, before we crossed over to the other side of the mountain to begin our descent into the valley. It was cold, so we stopped at a mirador (viewpoint) where some ladies were selling their wares, including alpaca wool gloves. I bought these for 4 soles, so much cheaper than in Cusco that I forgot to haggle! But if I think it's a good deal and so does she, then everyone's a winner.
The descent had us passing many tour buses doing the same route as us, but they stopped only at the tourist mirador, whereas we were able to choose our own, and these were obviously had much better views. It was liberating to have the independence to stop when we we wanted as well as the wind in our hair and the peaceful stops without the crowds.
We arrived at Pisac and parked up. We ahd to buy tickets here, and decided to get the 70 soles ticket that included a few other stops that we intended to make on our excursion.
Pisac was breathtaking. It was perfectly situated in the mountain range to give us an amazing view of different colours down the side of the mountain opposite, almost untouched by man, then had tiered agricultural planes carved into the mountain on which we were standing.
Short on time with a 60km/hr top speed on our mopeds and our required hiking group meeting in Cusco at 6pm, we ran around the top of this mountain, making sure we got to see everything but sprinting upstairs at an altitude of 4,000m was no easy feat. To reward ourselves we stopped at a traditional stonebaked empanada stand where we watched our food get made and cooked.
We wanted to go directly to Calca but Google maps was not our friend. We ended up on a dirt track for 10 miles on the opposite side of the river to the main road where we could have maxed out our top moped speed. We longingly stared at the trucks, buses and cars zipping off in the distance on the perfectly smooth tarmacked road as we took it very slowly on our narrow, rocky and treacherous alternative.
We found a bridge which joined the main road but had to skip Calca and Urubamba, where we planned to stop for lunch and head straight towards Moray and Salinas, prioritising the coolest looking attractions from our options. We stopped for fuel and experienced Peruvian temporary traffic lights, which involved two traffic wardens with walkie talkies and reversible stop/go signs.
Driving up the mountain out of the valley gave so many potential miradors, but pushed for time I haphazardly pointed the camera in the general direction hoping for a semi decent shot of the great views!
We almost got lost on our way to Moray, but you have to keep going until it feels like you've gone too far. Moray is made up of concentric circle terraces, and it's only when you see a human standing in the middle that you truly appreciate the sheer magnitude of the place. That is, until the guard with a very loud whistle starts telling you off for straying from the path..
We saved the best for last; Maras salt mines consists of hundreds of salt baths clothing the hill all the way down the mountainside. It costs and extra 10 soles but is well worth the extra cost. We were so astounded as we rounded the corner to the first sight of all of the baths that we stopped to take it all in.
We walked among the baths admiring the locals as they reaped the salt as the water evaporated. We followed the path, occasionally straying. We tried the salt, and I don't know what else I was expecting than it tasting very salty..
Our journey back to Cusco was rushed, so we took a shortcut passing Huaypo Lake, one of the few lakes that surround Cusco at altitude. It was stunning, but again, we didn't have the time to stop for it. We not only needed to get back to Cusco, but had to get there in time to give the mopeds back and get to our briefing across town. In our haste, Daan had an accident and fell off his moped. This serves as a reminder that there are dangers and activities like this should be taken seriously with all the safety equipment. Ensure that your Frank provides helmets.
Info: it doesn't need to be booked in advance before you get to Cusco, but try to sort out the arrangements the previous day so that you have the whole day to explore the valley. There are plenty of tour operators in the historical part of town (the tourist area) that will rent mopeds so shop around!
We stayed in three hostels when we were in Cusco, all of them so called "party hostels". We are a bit older than the gap yahs who were drinking all night and sleeping all day, plus that's not our style of travel because we actually want to see things and have experiences like we did exploring the Sacred Valley. The hostels went out of the way to ensure that it caters for our types too, by having a great bar with rooms in a separate building or further away so that when we want to sleep, we can. I can recommend both Pariwana and Wild Rover. I won't mention the third one, as I wouldn't recommend staying there.
If you are going on a tour, most hostels will hold your bags for you for a few days while you go to Machu Picchu or Lake Titicaca at no extra cost.
Tip of the week: In Cusco there are a lot of bars and restaurants aimed at tourists, so if you fancy pizza, have pizza. A Guinness? Try the highest 100% owned Irish bar in the world. We had been travelling for a while by the time we got there and indulged in a few home comforts like Korma Sutra, and visiting the Irish bar to get a free poster! Try not to forget immersing yourself into the local delicacies, like guinea pig and beef heart on a stick. The guinea pig was lovely.
Product of the week: make sure you get yourself some alpaca wool clothes. They come in jackets, socks, glove, and hat form, and probably other things too. It is so effective at keeping humans warm as well as alpacas, and altitude makes things very cold. San Pedro Market used to be where it's at with buying alpaca wool but Cusco has become so touristy that you can find alpaca wool clothes anywhere you look.


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Bhavan's Rajaji Vidyashram, a co-educational school in Chennai is a prominent offspring of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, an institution of national repute and Indian Culture. Founded by the exceptional and eminent Indian Dr. K.M. Munshi. The Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan has its Main Office in Mumbai and successfully manages its academic institutions nationwide.
Having blossomed from humble beginnings, Bhavan's Rajaji Vidyahsram which began in 1977, is today a prestigious learning centre managed by the Bhavan's Chennai Kendra. The institution boasts of a spacious campus in Kilpauk, which was donated by Shri.V.Pattabhiram a distinguished citizen of India.
The Vidyashram is affiliated to CBSE, New Delhi and has a student strength of about 3200 students from LKG to Grade XII. Bhavan's Rajaji Vidyashram has been constantly pursuing and achieving excellence on both scholastic and non-scholastic fronts. Apart from achieving consistently 100% results in the Xth and XIIth boards, our students have been recipients of several other academic awards. Their accomplishments in sports, dramatics, elocution, debates, fine arts among others has been significant by the many awards and accolades won.
The school prides itself on State Level representation in cricket, volleyball, swimming, football, handball and so on. At the national and international level, the students have made landmark contributions in Skating, Fencing, Karate, Chess, Table Tennis and Squash.
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Survivor Pick of the Week:
TENNESSEE over Jacksonville
It happens once a year and Sunday was that "once a year." It being when a double-digit home favorite doesn't win and survivor pools suddenly don't have many survivors. It takes some luck, like Tennessee losing its QB to a fluke injury, but The Titans also didn't show up motivated because they knew they were playing the worst team in the league. Are you better off finding a team that would be slightly more motivated? I'd argue that a team fighting for a Wild Card playoff spot should be motivated enough. The few that still had the ability to choose Indianapolis over St. Louis ended up shit's creek without a paddle as well. At least you hadn't already spent your potential winnings on a new TV and are now forced to pick up a second job to pay for it. Oh you did? Ah shit….
But hey, some of you still had New Orleans to use or were ballsy enough to take a Giants team that hasn't played a good game all season. This week should be another fun one because the two biggest favorites, Seattle and Denver, have been used in most pools. The times are so tough that I really wanted to pick those worse-than-mediocre Giants against Scott Tolzein's Packers until I realized how many bad quarterbacks have beaten the Giants in New Jersey. If Craig Krenzel can do it, then maybe Tolzein can, too. I think the Saints are a much better team than the Niners, but they've probably been used already too. I also feel pretty good about Carolina handling New England, but I'd rather not go against Tom Brady.
That leaves us with two choices. Both the choices are home teams per usual, but I'll lean on Houston since I generally stay away from divisional matchups. Oakland is banged-up with Darren McFadden still out and Terrelle Pryor nursing an MCL injury. That's kind of a big deal since half of Pryor's value comes from running and J.J. Watt will be chasing him all day long. If Pryor doesn't play because of the injury and it ends up being Matt McGloin then consider it Christmas come early.
Teams used: Indianapolis, New England, Denver, New Orleans, St. Louis, Seattle, Green Bay, San Francisco, and Dallas, Tennessee
Thursday Night Pick:
Indianapolis -2.5 over TENNESSEE
Ironically, the two teams who massively disappointed in survivor last week get to face each other on short rest this week. One has to think Indianapolis won't show up flat on consecutive weeks, while Tennessee has the problem of losing Locker for the reason and having to roll with Ryan Fitzpatrick. While Fitzpatrick is a serviceable backup QB, the wind is out of Tennessee's sails. They lost all three games when Fitz filled in for Locker earlier this season.
Reggie: COLTS
Last Week: 6-8
Season: 65-81-2
Survivor: 8-2
Locks: 15-16
Reggie's Picks: 72-74-2
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Seasons by Shlomy offers poolside dining with a Mediterranean fusion menu. The menu consists of the abundant seafood in the area, a variety of vegetarian dishes along with several meat dishes. We also feature daily specials according to the daily catch as well as "you catch it -we cook it".
Some favorite menu items are the-"Sashimi' in which our version incorporates sizzling sesame oil, ginger, and scallions; or try the pan seared snapper filet with grilled eggplant and red pepper coulis. Our dessert menu offers homemade ice-creams and sorbets -(try the cinnamon!), as well as a white chocolate mousse topped with strawberries.
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Department of Justice
U.S. Attorney's Office
Middle District of Florida
For Immediate Release
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
, United States Attorney
Maria Chapa Lopez
Contact: William Daniels
Fort Myers Armed Career Criminal Sentenced to Fifteen Years for Firearms Offense
Tampa Field Division
Fort Myers, Florida – U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell has sentenced Jovon McClures (40, Fort Myers) to 15 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. The Court also ordered him to forfeit the firearm used during the offense. He pleaded guilty on October 31, 2017.
According to court documents, on January 29, 2017, officers from the Fort Myers Police Department located a loaded firearm in McClures's jacket pocket while investigating a loud argument in an apartment parking lot. As a previously convicted felon, McClures is prohibited from possessing firearms or ammunition under federal law.
This case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Fort Myers Police Department. It was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Simon R. Eth.
This is another case prosecuted as part of the Department of Justice's "Project Safe Neighborhoods" Program (PSN), which is a nationwide, crime reduction strategy aimed at decreasing violent crime in communities. It involves a comprehensive approach to public safety – one that includes investigating and prosecuting crimes, along with prevention and reentry efforts. In the Middle District of Florida, U.S. Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez coordinates PSN efforts in cooperation with various federal, state, and local law enforcement officials.


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Rhineland-Palatinate is a state of Germany in the south-western corner of the country, sharing borders with the other German states of Saarland, Hesse, Baden-Württemberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, and international borders with France, Belgium and Luxembourg. The major rivers flowing through the state are the Rhine and the Mosel and the Lahn.
The highest elevation is the Erbeskopf lying in the Hunsrück at 818 meters above sea level.
The capital and largest city is Mainz. Other major cities in Rhineland-Palatinate are Koblenz, Trier, Kaiserslautern, Mannheim, Worms and Bad Kreuznach.
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52 AF-1 Flashgun - Canon EOS
The Metz 52 AF-1 Digital Flashgun features all the benefits of the previous model (Mecablitz 50 AF-1) and includes further developments. The sophisticated design of the 52 AF-1 offers an increased guide number of 52 (ISO 100/21° at 105mm focal length) and an illuminated touchscreen display which rotates through 90°. This is particularly practical for operation and taking portrait shots. The 52 AF-1 supports the major special functions on digital cameras from Canon (E-TTL and E-TTL II), Nikon (i-TTL and i-TTL-BL flash mode), Olympus/Panasonic/Leica (four thirds TTL mode), Pentax (P-TTL) and Sony (DSLR-ADI). It allows precise light output tailored to each individual subject and provides plenty of power for all shooting conditions. Possibilities are opened up for individualised lighting thanks to a fully swivelling reflector system which also contains a flip-out reflector card and a diffuser. As well as the newly integrated master function, a slave function and servo function are also available. Maximum Guide Number: 52 (ISO 100 at 105mm) TTL: yes Flash Metering: E-TTL, E-TTL II, TTL Coverage: 24-105mm Movements- Bounce: Yes Swivel: Yes Zoom: Yes Power Source: 4 x AA Batteries Size (mm): 73 x 134 x 90 Weight (g): 346


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Kevin McLaughlin, co-founder of Total Image Signs, LLC, is an entrepreneur of necessity who believes in doing things the right way first. "My wife has been an artist since she was just kid and was working in the sign industry when we had a child who was very sick at birth," he said. "We started our own business so we could work out of the house while we took care of that child. My wife worked home and I went out to do all the marketing."
Nineteen years later, Total Image Signs remains successful offering a full range of sign design and installation in addition to being very actively involved in the West Volusia Chamber of Commerce. "We do storefronts, monument signs, banners, vehicle, trailer and boat lettering, site signs, posters, magnetics and more," McLaughlin explained. "We only sell quality materials. From design to production to install, we do it all – no subbing out. We give competitive prices and we have 25 years of knowledge in the business to get the job done right the first time."
McLaughlin's advice to aspiring entrepreneurs is to be professional and make sure you have significant reserves before launching. "Years ago, you knew within one or two months if your business was going to succeed," he said. "Now you need eight to nine months of savings to last you while you grow the business to profitability. On top of that, you have to be honest and likeable. If something goes wrong, correct it right away. Don't make clients wait on it. If you do that, they will like you forever."


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December 21, 2017
Funding was set to expire midnight Friday.
The Senate voted to pass a government funding bill Thursday and avoided a government shutdown.
The Senate passed the bill 66-32, extending funding until Jan. 19.
The extension lets lawmakers settle long-term funding debates next year.
The Senate passed the bill just hours after the House voted for the measure. The House also passed an $81 billion disaster aid package.
The deadline to fund the government is midnight Friday.


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Award Nights for Companies. Usually hundreds of people at the event in a formal setting. Comedy magic to break up the evening. The CEO and prominent persons are involved in the show.
At the end of the year, staff and families like to have a great time together at the Christmas Party. There's nothing like a magician walking around the groups performing magic and then having a fun stage show where there is heaps of audience involvement.
Magical entertainment adds something that the bride, groom and guests will remember for a long time. I have magical pieces that I have designed specifically for weddings. These range from card and ring tricks to an illusion where the couple support each other throughout the illusion.
Strolling around the party guests, showing them tricks right up close. Then we have a fun stage show with plenty of audience participation. Of course the birthday person is involved in the final illusion. This is a great photo shot and a great memento of the occasion.30 minute Strolling40 minute Show
A fun show for all the kids. Heaps of interaction with the kids assisting me with the routines. A lot of fun, laughter and amazement. The Birthday child assists with an illusion. Everything is discussed with the parent(s) beforehand. The kids will talk about this for a long time.30 minute Show
Performing magic for individuals and groups at all types of functions. The magic is right up close and involves everyday items such as cards, rings, coins, notes, rope etc. People love to see magic up close.
My Pain Induced Learning Seminar is a tongue-in-cheek session on basic learning principles demonstrated with magic. It includes general magic, mind magic and a very painful learning activity (only for me). I don't like doing this one too often.
I have a highly original escape act. I am secured in a straitjacket, then put into a mail bag which is closed and bound with rope. Finally it is clasped and locked so it can't possibly be opened. I get out of this in full view of the audience, no curtains, nothing. Another act that I don't like doing as I am claustrophobic!!!
Presenting Psychic Marnie,the Greatest Mindreader in the world. She will tell you things about yourself even you didn't know.


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It's summer in Minnesota, and that can mean many things to many people. For me, it's not really summer until the road side stands pop up offering cucumbers, melons, potatoes and, of course, sweet corn. Now, it can't be just any kind of sweet corn. You see, I grew up spoiled. My Uncle Duane had a farm in Southern Minnesota where he raised beef cattle, soybeans and sweet corn, and when the corn was ripe, he'd call my dad and we'd grab a stack of paper bags, head out to the farm and load up. Most of the corn would end up frozen to be eaten over the winter, but we would always reserve a few dozen to be eaten fresh, usually within hours of being picked. I have to say that there is nothing sweeter than a fresh ear of sweet corn piping hot and eaten at a picnic table.
However, these days, Uncle Duane is retired, and I moved to the big city, but that doesn't mean that farm fresh sweet corn is out of reach. In fact, it's closer than ever. All I need to do is walk four blocks to the corner and lay down $6.50 for a bakers dozen that's almost as fresh as the corn of my youth.
There is one problem though. The most common way to cook sweet corn is with a few gallons of boiling water and, while this does yield a fine product, it also yields a couple of less desirable by-products, namely, heat and humidity. And if there was ever an antithesis of summer, in my opinion, it is the hot steamy kitchen.
Well guess what? I've cooked pineapple on the grill, asparagus too, also zucchini and peppers. Why not corn? Sure, why not corn. As it turns out, it is easy and better than the boiled version.
Ready? This one is going to go fast.
Sweet corn
The trick here is in the technique.
First, peel and remove any loose leaves. Only the loose ones, we'll need the rest later. This is the perfect time to get your kids involved. Everyone wanted to get their hands on their own ear of corn as we got them ready.
Next, as evenly as possible, split and fold back the remaining husks just enough to remove the silk, then close the husks back up around the corn.
Place the resulting product into a bucket or cooler full of cold water. Repeat this procedure on the rest of your ears. I've found that they don't really need to soak that long, maybe ten minutes.
In the mean time, light your grill and let it warm to about 400 degrees. Place the corn, still wet and in the husks directly onto the grill. Close the lid and let them cook for six to eight minutes.
After the allotted time, flip the ears over. You should notice that the kernels that were on the bottom have taken on a more vibrant yellow color, this means you are on the right track.
Let them cook for another seven minutes or so and check them for doneness. By this time you should be able to smell the husks crisping up and blackening – this is a good thing. It reminds me of the roasted corn booths at the state fair, very nostalgic.
I like to leave them a little on the firm side because there's nothing worse than mushy corn. Plus, they will continue to cook off the grill if you remove them to a covered foil pan which is what I do.
Wrapped in foil, they will stay hot for up to thirty minutes or more, which will give you plenty of time to prepare other sides, a main course and drinks. If your guests don't mind, leave the husks on and let them peel the corn themselves. The peeled leaves can also act as a handle of sorts.
We had this corn along side herb crusted beef tenderloin and toasted cheese bread tonight. The best part was, I didn't set out butter or salt or pepper, and no one even asked for it. The corn was that good on its own. The final product is sweet and firm with a distinct roasted flavor that you just can't get from boiling water.
So do yourself a favor, keep the heat outside and cook your sweet corn on the grill. I don't remember the last time I boiled corn, and I really don't care if I ever do it again.


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This innerspring unit has each individual coil wrapped. This was done by the mattress industry some years ago for two reasons. One of them being with each coil wrapped in its own fiber casing, this cut down on the reverberation from the springs making it a quieter sleep with no sound from the coils. And the other advantage is with each spring in its own case, after years of use "spring sway" is greatly reduced over time.
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New York City transit police arrested two people related to the disappearance of a 5-year-old New Hampshire boy last seen six months ago – including the kid's mom.
Danielle Denise Dauphinais, 35, and Joseph Stapf, 30, were slapped with charges of witness tampering and child endangerment for allegedly telling others to lie about where her son Elijah Lewis was living as child protection services tried to find him, the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office announced.
Although Elijah, or Eli, hasn't been seen in six months, he was only reported missing to New Hampshire child services and local cops on Thursday, the AG reported.
"The Merrimack Police Department immediately began an investigation, and was assisted later that day by the New Hampshire State Police and the New Hampshire Department of Justice," a news release from the AG said.
"Elijah was never reported missing to authorities prior to this time."
Authorities put out a call for the public's health to find Dauphinais and Stapf at that time, and cops caught up with them in the Bronx on Sunday, the AG's office said.
The search for the child continues with police dogs seen at the home Dauphinais and Stapf shared on Monday, WBZ-TV Boston reported. Investigators looked in the woods and around a pond in the area, according to the station.
"We're trying to find Elijah," assistant AG Benjamin Agati told WBZ. "We hope we're going to find him in good condition. But I would be less than honest if I didn't say that the chances of that are not looking good at this point."
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