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Career Clusters: Forecasting Demand for High School Through College Jobs, 2008-2018
Anthony P. Carnevale
Nicole Smith
Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce
James R. Stone, III
Pradeep Kotamraju
Bruce Steuernagel
Kimberly A. Green
Career Clusters: Forecasting Demand for High School Through College Jobs, 2008-2018, a joint report co-authored by the NRCCTE in conjunction with the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce and NASDCTEc, identifies 16 career clusters that represent the full array of related occupational opportunities and education requirements. Findings show that for those with high school diplomas, decent jobs still exist but there are not enough to go around. Only one in three of high school-level jobs will pay wages of $35,000 or more; although in some cases, with experience, these jobs can provide up to $50,000.
High school-level jobs are found in four male dominated career clusters: manufacturing, construction, transportation, and hospitality. Of these four clusters, only jobs in manufacturing and construction still pay relatively good wages; particularly for those who obtain on-the-job-training. The study confirms that women need postsecondary education to earn the same wages as men with only a high school diploma. For instance, whereas a man can earn $35,000 with a high school diploma in the manufacturing career cluster, a woman must obtain a postsecondary credential and work in healthcare to earn as much.
In many industries, the overall number of jobs will decline through 2018 but there will still be job openings available due to retirement. For example, the study finds that there will be 181,000 fewer manufacturing jobs over the decade but there will be 3 million job openings in manufacturing by 2018.
Middle-skill jobs have promise for those who acquire some level of postsecondary education or training but not a Bachelor's degree. For women, middle-skill jobs are the minimum threshold for a better career. One in two of these middle jobs provide career pathways leading to median wages of roughly $40,000. Such jobs are concentrated in six career clusters: manufacturing, marketing, transportation, healthcare, business and hospitality. The fastest growing career clusters for middle-skills are in healthcare (21%) and hospitality (12%).
Workers with Bachelor's and graduate degrees have the most positive outlook. Five out of six jobs available for workers with Bachelor's pay more than $35,000 a year and average $60,000. Seventy-two percent of jobs available for workers with a Bachelor's degree or better are found in nine occupational clusters. Yet at this education level, all career clusters are essentially accessible.
Career Clusters has been covered by Inside Higher Ed , The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Bloomberg News.
Note: The Full Report and State Data have been updated since the original release of Career Clusters. You may find a list of errors that have been corrected here.
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Download Executive Summary (PDF)
Carnevale, A. P., Smith, N., Stone, J. R. III, Kotamraju, P., Steuernagel, B., & Green, K. (2011, November). Career clusters: Forecasting demand for high school through college jobs, 2008-2018. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce.


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Job Postings
How to create a job posting
1. Login to your account. Make sure you are the primary representative by checking for all the menu options. If you have fewer than eight options at the top of the screen (as below), you are not the primary rep for your company. To correct this issue, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
2. If you are the primary rep, select "Job Postings" in the left menu.
3. In the new screen (below), select the blue button "Add Job Posting" in the top right corner.
4. Fill out the following information for your job posting:
- Title
- Job description
- Contact information
- Time frame (in weeks) for listing
- Category (e.g., Vape Store, Manufacturing Plant )
- Website for company or position
- Image (optional)
5. You may save your job posting as a draft or submit your event for approval by clicking the "Submit for Approval" button at the bottom of the page (shown below). All job postings must be approved by a staff member before they will be posted.
6. A new screen will appear confirming that your submission was successful (below). To check on the status of your submission, contact Ross Morrell at firstname.lastname@example.com
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TX6000 Data Transmitter
The TX6000 Radio Module is a long range credit card sized, half watt Transmitter. It has a fast attract time and low power consumption. The radio module RF power can be adjusted from 5mW to 500mW with a frequency range of 420MHz to 470MHz.
Product Details
• No operating licence required.
• Range 10-20km line of sight, 1-3km in buildings.
• RF frequency range: 458.50 MHz to 458.95 MHz 420.00 MHz to 470.00 MHz.
• RF power output . 5mW to 500mW.
• Data rates: up to 10Kpbs.
• TX6000 transmitter power 5.5 - 8.5V at 170 mA.
• RX6000 receiver power 5V at 15mA.
• Approvals: ETSI 300-220, MPT1329.
• Size 36mm by 51mm by 12.5mm.
The TX6000 transmitter and RX6000 receiver are compact crystal controlled modules capable of transmitting data at 10Kbps for a distance of up to 20km line of sight and 1-3km in buildings.
The modules are crystal controlled for fast response, low power consumption and frequency stability. They are supplied tuned to a specific frequency in the range 420MHz to 470MHz and 869 MHz. Modules with different set frequencies are easily interchanged by means of a pcb mounting socket.
The radios are ideal for general telemetry applications. The TX6000 will transmit analogue data such as FSK, FFSK, GMSK and PWM from its analogue input or accept direct TTL digital data from its digital input. The RX6000 will receive analogue and digital data and present it to its analogue and digital outputs in the same format as it was transmitted.
The units conform to MPT1329 and ETSI 300-220. In addition they comply with EMC Directives EN 50 081-1 for emissions and EN 50 082-1 for immunity.
Power Supply:
Transmit: 5.5 - 8.5V at 170 mA
Standby: 5.5 - 8.5V at 20 mA


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What Do Employees Want? [a Quiz]
What is the main factor in retaining employees? When are employees most willing to relocate? Take this quiz to find the answer to these questions… and more! While labor statistics are constantly changing, these are some interesting factoids to see where you as a job hunter, employer, or both compare to the average respondent. *All


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Let's say you're digging through the sock drawer one day when you make a startling discovery. Way in the back, lies a brand new Cohiba Cuban cigar. Your mind races and a hazy memory pierces the brain fog. Your best bud had given it to you months ago upon returning from his honeymoon in Cancun. Unfortunately, the drunken celebration that followed this wonderful expression of bromance resulted in a lost treasure.
Now as you eagerly open up the container, you find to your horror, that it has turned into a dried stiff stick. Can anything be done to this hunk of petrified tobacco that might restore it to a shade of its former glory? It's certainly worth a try.
Before you start the cigar rehabilitation realize that this is not a quick fix. Rehydrating a cigar on the cheap is a slow process. Trying to do this too quick may cause the cigar to split like an overcooked wiener. Look, I like instant gratification too. But without some patience you might as well just throw it in the fire pit and let the tears drip into your Rolling Rock.
But if you're game, let's try to rescue that cigar. Get a good quality freezer food storage bag, one that tightly zips shut. Take a piece of new sponge, you can cut a generic rectangle kitchen sponge in half, and wet it. Squeeze out the excess water, making sure it remains damp. Put cigar and sponge in the freezer bag making sure they do not touch. Zip seal it shut and put it out of sight and light. Away from excessive heat or cold.
Now some folks might say that this trick will work using apple or lemon slices. Possibly, but it wll also impart a fruit flavor to your stogie. Do you really want to be smoking a lemony fresh Montecristo? I didn't think so.
After a few days check for signs of life. Open the bag a little and take a good sniff. If the smell is stronger it means then all is not lost. There shouldn't be any puddle of water in the bag. Check the cigar to make sure that it's not getting too much moisture too fast. If you're unsure simply remove the sponge for a day. After a couple more weeks inspect the sponge again. If you detect any signs of mold (another reason not to use fruit), or fuzziness, toss it immediately. You can always replace the sponge with the other clean half.
Remember that shot of patience? You might want to make it a double.
This entire process usually will take 6 to 8 weeks. Essentially, what you are making is the poor man's version of a humidor. Instead of pricy climate controls you are using a little common sense and household objects.
What if after a couple months it just isn't working? Well, it happens. Occasionally, a cigar is just too far gone. Sad, but true. Sometimes the natural oils are completely dried out. Then what? Time to grab that beer and a hankie. I'll see you down by the fire pit.


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Maturing Toward Wholeness in the Inner Life
God's Gift for Physically Expressing "One-of-a-Kind" Intimacy
1 – The human person, in rebellion against his Creator, declares his autonomy: Only I will decide how I will behave, or even who I will be—I alone!
2 – I can assume ultimate authority for my life. But this will have consequences. One area that will be affected is my relationship with my God-given sexuality.
3 – Throughout history men and women have expressed themselves sexually in a variety of ways. The common motivation has been strong desire—emotion.
4 – Choosing to allow emotion and desire to run freely may feel good at first. But such a lifestyle can turn out to be quite damaging in the long run.
5 – Sexuality, expressed in ways for which it was designed, delights and fulfills. Sexuality, expressed in ways for which it was not designed, deeply wounds.
6 – What I do with my body affects my soul. Human souls are wounded by sexual violation. A wounded soul hinders my maturing.
7 – Hanna and I visited an inner city church. The congregation, with love, acceptance and caring, was ministering to women trapped in the sex trade.
8 – Looking into their faces, I saw a profound emptiness. It was as if their souls were being hollowed out, their human dignity drained from them.
9 – One of God's purposes when he created us was to populate the earth. He chose to do this by giving each of us a gender. He created us male or female.
10 – "So God created man in his own image … male and female he created them…. And God said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply…'" (Genesis 1:27-28).
11 – I am not God. God is God. I do not decide what gender I will have. God—the One who created me—has decided what gender I have.
12 – God intended for a man and a woman to forge a "one-of-a-kind" intimacy. This relationship was to be characterized by love—agape—the kind of love God has.
13 – Jesus: "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh" (Mark 10:7-8a).
14 – This unique intimacy was to be built on mutual and permanent commitment, caring, kindness, respect. God made provision for it to be expressed physically.
15 – God created (designed) us so that the physical, sexual expression of this mutually committed intimacy would result in offspring—new people.
16 – God intended that a child's first experiences outside the womb would be in an environment of mutually committed love between a father and a mother.
17 – But humans, male and female, rebelled against God and the order he designed. Our hearts were filled with folly, arrogance, rebellion, darkness.
18 – "For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God … they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened" (Romans 1:21).
19 – These are delicate issues. We don't discuss them to condemn. Jesus did not come to condemn. He came to save—to forgive, to heal, to transform.
20 – Jesus: "For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him" (John 3:17).
21 – To be "saved" requires that we face what is true. Nothing changes until it becomes what it is. Sexual acts that violate God's design deeply damage.
22 – "For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature" (Romans 1:26).
23 – "And the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another…" (Romans 1:27a).
24 – "…men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error" (Romans 1:27b).
25 – "Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality…. Those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God" (Galatians 5:19a, 21b).
26 – What I do with my body impacts my soul. Sexual immorality—of all kinds—wounds the soul. Jesus came to heal the soul. It happens in discipleship with him.
27 – How do I respond to sexual violations…
- that I may have committed?
- that may have been committed against me?
28 – I tell myself the truth. This may require an extended process. It probably will be hard work, and painful. I may need prayer and support from trusted others.
29 – I tell God the truth. I cannot tell God the truth until I tell myself the truth. It may not feel like it, but God is by my side—waiting for me, accepting me, loving me.
30 – Jesus is saying: Let me carry the sin that has damaged you. It is too heavy for you. This is why I came—to be the One who bears your guilt, your pain.
31 – In prayer, I bring each sin to Christ on the cross—the sin I may have committed, and/or the sin that may have been committed against me.
32 – With the sin I have committed, I tell Jesus the truth. I lift my sin to him on the cross. I ask for his mercy, forgiveness, cleansing, healing. I practice his Presence.
33 – With sin committed against me, I tell Jesus the truth. I lift the sin to him on the cross. I ask for his grace to forgive—to allow God to be the Judge of my abuser.
34 – Should I speak with one I have wronged? Do I confess my sin and ask for forgiveness? This can be powerfully healing, but also risky. How might I proceed?
35 – In prayer I seek the Lord's guidance. How does he want to lead me? What circumstances might he want to arrange? What might be his timing?
36 – Am I ready? Have I told myself, and God, the truth? Have I brought my sin to the cross? Am I prepared not to justify myself but rely on God to be my Defender?
37 – Is the one I have wronged ready? This might be traumatic for them. I ask for their permission to speak about this. I respect and honor their response.
38 – I have dishonored the one I have wronged. I now want to go out of my way to treat them with utmost dignity and respect.
39 – I consider asking a mature, mutually trusted person to meet with us for wisdom and protection. The one I have wronged must fully agree and also trust this person.
40 – I acknowledge the wrong I have committed. I am as transparent as I can be. This does not require many words. I speak with gentleness and humility.
41 – I ask for forgiveness. I respect and honor the response. He or she may not be able or ready to forgive. I "request" forgiveness; I do not "demand" it.
42 – If forgiveness is extended, I accept it with tenderness and gratitude. In Christ, healing has begun. The door has been opened for reconciliation.
43 – Should I speak with the one who has wronged me? Do I seek to bring what is hidden in darkness into the light and give healing a chance? How might I proceed?
44 – In prayer I seek guidance from the Lord. This will be delicate communication and interaction. I want to be very careful not to cause further pain.
45 – Am I ready? I practice God's Presence. Experiencing his love for me furthers my healing. I test my heart. Am I prepared to leave "pay back" in God's hands?
46 – Words of truth, spoken in love, open the way for healing. This is not about condemnation. Christ did not come to condemn; he came to save.
47 – Is the one who has wronged me ready? Offenders often seek protection behind a wall of denial. Only one who has erected such a wall can choose to remove it.
48 – I consider asking a mature, mutually trusted person to meet with us for wisdom and protection. The one who has wronged me must fully agree and also trust this person.
49 – I ask the one who has wronged me for permission to speak about this. I respect and honor the response.
50 – If the one who has wronged me responds with denial or self-justification, I leave this with God. I don't argue. I am only responsible for my own responses.
51 – If the one who has wronged me responds by owning the truth, then the ball is in my court. I have been given the opportunity to extend forgiveness.
52 – Love beckons me to offer the one who has wronged me the chance to receive God's forgiveness and healing. How he or she responds is his or her responsibility.
53 – Destructive sexual behavior can become compulsive. If I am concerned that I am in danger of this being true of me, I can respond by:
- Becoming (or re-committing to live as) a disciple of Jesus—Chapter Two.
- Re-orienting my being before God in humility—Chapter Three.
- Allowing Jesus to teach me how to live in God's kingdom—Chapter Four.
- Practicing God's Presence—Chapter Five.
- Seeking God for healing—Chapter Seven.
- Undertaking spiritual practices—Chapter Eight.
- Asking the Lord to provide others who will walk with me in my deliverance.
"…neither the sexually immoral…nor adulterers…nor men who practice homosexuality…will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God" (I Corinthians 6:9-11).
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Featured: Top 10 Best Android Apps for Runners
A lot of us go for a run everyday, while some of us are just lazy. And with Thanksgiving being today, we need to burn off some of those calories. Now with Android Wear being a big deal, a lot of these apps do have Android Wear integration, which is pretty awesome as well. Especially the Sony Smartwatch 3 which has built-in GPS, meaning you don't need to bring your phone with you on your run.
Endomundo Sports Tracker
Endomundo tracks more than just running. It can track cycling, walking and other distance-based activities as well. There are over 18 million people already using Endomundo, so why not be one of them? There is a paid version of Endomundo as well as a free one. The free one includes features like tracking any outdoor sport including duration, distance, speed, and calories. Enter a workout manually and much more.
This one is an app that will help you train to be a good runner. It even has a few trainers for you to choose from to get you motivated. You can edit and log your workouts, as well as prepare for a 5k run. So get off that couch and get ready to run a 5k. They have training plans designed by active trainers and you can choose from 5 different motivating virtual coaches. Which include Constance, Billie, Sergeant Block, Johnny Dead, and Pumpkin.
Adidas miCoach
With Adidias miCoach you can turn your phone into a personal coach. As miCoach uses GPS and real time voice coaching in your ear to pace you through easy to understand workout zones. So you can do much more than just running. It also all syncs back to the miCoach.com website so you can see a detailed analysis of all your workouts.
This is probably the easiest app out there. And for some people, all they want to do is track their jog. They don't need all the fancy features. Which is exactly what Jog Tracker does. It will display in miles or kilometers, calculate calories burned and more.
MapMyRun GPS Running
This is another app that can easily map your run. You can also track cycling and over 600 other types of activities with pace, GPS route mapping, distance, route navigation, calorie counting and much more. The app is completely free and does have a relatively easy to use interface, which is nice to see.
My Tracks
Here's Google's own run tracking app, it's My Tracks. It uses Google Maps to track your run and show where you have ran in the past. You can also share your runs with other people. It use the GPS sensor in your device to record the geographic and velocity statistics.
Sports Tracker
This is another app that can do more than just record your runs. It can also track and analyze many other outdoor distance-based activities. As well as store all training data in your personal workout diary. Keep track of everything from calories burned to average training speed and altitude. And much more.
Nike+ Running
Nike has a pretty good app, even if they won't make the Fuelband compatible with Android. But you can go ahead and track your runs and see how much you've ran over the past week, month and even year. You can also set goals and share your runs on Facebook and Twitter. It's a pretty nice app.
With Runkeeper you can keep track of your runs, just like the name eludes to. Additionally you can see how you're friends are doing and encourage them to do more running. After all running is healthy. This app is feature packed, hence why it's #2 on our list.
Runtastic Running & Fitness
With Runtastic you can do more than just track your runs. But you can also keep track of your workouts as well. There's a paid and a free version of Runtastic. In the free or lite version, you get the ability to track workouts in real time with built in GPS, runtastic earth view, personal workout diary and metrics, and much more. Runtastic also integrates with Android Wear, so you can track your run on your watch as well.
The post Featured: Top 10 Best Android Apps for Runners appeared first on AndroidHeadlines.com |.


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Express Massage $55
Focuses on the back, neck, and shoulders for focused relaxation.
30 minutes
Signature Massage $95
A full body massage that is customized to your individual needs. Often includes a combination of Swedish, circulatory, and Shiatsu techniques to help melt away tension and stress leaving you with an over all sense of balance.
60 minutes
Deep Tissue $110
Deep tissue massage is aimed at the deeper tissue structures of the muscle and fascia, also called connective tissue. Deep tissue massage uses many of the same movements and techniques as Swedish massage, but the pressure will generally be more intense. It is also a more focused type of massage, as Linda works to release chronic muscle tension or "knots" (also known as "adhesion's.")
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Scott Raney focuses his practice on commercial real estate, finance and development. He advises clients regarding purchase and sale agreements, commercial leases, and loan documents, among other things.
Before joining Flora Pettit, Scott spent three years practicing with a prominent New Orleans-based law firm. Scott has represented developers, contractors and builders, and his experience includes negotiation and drafting of purchase agreements and leases, resolution of title issues, and counsel related to zoning compliance and variance requests. In addition to his transactional experience, Scott's past experience also includes litigation of complex issues arising out of a variety of contracts.
A native of Virginia Beach and a proud graduate of Hampden-Sydney College, Scott worked three years in sales for Ferguson Enterprises in Charlottesville before deciding to attend law school in Louisiana. After receiving his J.D. cum laude from the Paul H. Herbert Law Center at Louisiana State University, Scott practiced law in Baton Rouge and New Orleans before returning to Charlottesville.
The call of their Virginia roots brought Scott and his wife, Liz, along with their sons, Scott, Jr. and Wyn, back to Charlottesville. Outside of the office, Scott enjoys spending time outdoors with his family, playing golf, cooking, and hunting game birds.
Professional Involvement
Community Involvement
Paul M. Hebert Law Center
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana
J.D. and C.L., cum laude, 2013
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How To Get Rid Of Fruit Flies
These tiny, pesky critters are brown and appear to have no fear of people (often it seems they're trying to get up your nose and in your mouth) but they're mostly just clumsy fliers. The good news is that getting rid of and killing them is not difficult, you just need to do some cleaning, find their food source so you can remove it and lay out a trap to bait them with.
Below I have a few cleanup and prevention tips plus a handful of easy & natural homemade traps you can make that will capture and kill them–no need to run out for supplies since it's likely you have all that's needed in the kitchen already.
Fruit flies love sweets, ripe vegetables and fresh fruit, especially if it's overripe (the fermenting process is a strong attraction for them).
If they're in your house, they've found a food source to feed from and lay their eggs on. To effectively get rid of them, you need to find their food source and remove it immediately.
- Wash kitchen counters and surfaces daily with soap and water. Wipe up sauces and spills immediately, look under heavy appliances.
- Make sure to keep kitchen sinks and drains clean, if dirty the residue can attract them. If you think your kitchen sink drain is where they're gathering, pour boiling water down the drain each day.
- Make sure all food dishes are washed and put away (do not leave dirty dishes out). If food is eaten throughout the house rather than just at the kitchen table, look for dirty plates, pits, rinds and peels that may be left out in another room. Look under furniture.
- Don't leave beverage bottles, cans and glasses filled with juices, soda pop, wine, sweet liquors or beer sitting out–these are big attractions.
- On hot summer days, tie up and remove garbage from the kitchen daily, the refuse and kitchen scraps start turning faster in the heat and the smell attracts them. Or make sure the garbage bin has a tight fitting lid to keep them out.
- Make sure to rinse out all cans and bottles before placing in the recycling bins.
- Keep food wrapped in plastic or in the refrigerator (especially overripe fruit, this is like a magnet to the little pests). These guys love to lay their eggs on food.
- Watch the pantry, bags of potatoes and onions are quicker to turn in the heat and this will attract them. Keep pantry shelves clean of all drips and spills.
Homemade Traps
These are one of the easiest little pests to bait and kill, no elaborate setups required. Here are a handful of DIY ideas you can try, all of them are free from harsh chemicals.
Quick & Easy
- An easy & effective trap is to set out a bowl of vinegar with a couple drops of citrus smelling liquid dish detergent. This attracts them and they drown. Lay a fresh bowl out each day to keep the smell strong enough to keep them coming.
Cider Vinegar
1 cup water
1 cup cider vinegar
2 tsp dishwashing liquid
- Directions: Pour into a jar or bottle and set out close to fresh produce. The smell will attract them and they will come investigate, getting themselves covered with soap and then drown.
Fresh Bait
- Place a piece of cut fruit in a jar (use a ripe/overripe banana if you can, this seems to be their favorite). Roll a piece of paper into a funnel (cutting the bottom tip so there's an entry) and place into the top of the jar to trap them. Make sure the bottom opening of the funnel doesn't touch the food (you don't want them to have an easy exit) and that the sides of the funnel fill the jar opening completely (no cracks for them to escape). Make sure to remove and replace the fresh produce every two days to avoid breeding new critters. You could also skip the funnel and just cover the jar with plastic wrap, poking a few small holes in the top for them to enter.
- Leave an inch or two of Classic Coke in the bottom of a pop bottle and twist on the cap. Take a hammer and nail or drill to make a small hole in the cap (about 1/4″ diameter). Set the bottle in the room where the flies are heaviest. They will crawl in and won't be able to get back out.
Beer (Works With Wine Too)
- Fill a mason jar about 2″ to 3″ deep with beer, cover opening with a piece of plastic wrap secured with a rubber band. Poke a few holes in the top of the plastic so they can get into the jar to get at the beer–they won't be able to get out.
- In a mason jar, sprinkle active dry yeast over 1/3 cup warm water. Add 1 teaspoon of sugar and stir.
- Once the yeast is activated and starts to foam, cover the jar top tightly with plastic wrap (try to keep the surface wrinkle free), secure with a rubber band.
- Make a small hole in the top so they can find their way in, most will be unable to get out.
- If you have an especially heavy infestation, set out a trap in a small room with the light left on overnight. Although they are most active during the day, they will be attracted to the light and make their way to the room (and their tempting trap bait).
- Once it seems you've gotten rid of them, you may notice a fresh batch flying around–these are likely those that have hatched from the eggs of the previous infestation (the gestation period is about 7 to 10 days). Repeat the cleaning process and lay out the traps until there's no recurrence. This is why it's important to find all their food sources, they lay eggs on the food that will hatch later.


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The drop in employment rates among workers — and especially men — without college degrees has been widely noted. The employment rate for men over the age of 25, with just a high school diploma is down by more than 5.0 percentage points compared with its pre-recession level in 2007. It is down by more than 7.0 percentage points when compared to its 2000 level.
While this drop in employment rates is not in dispute, the explanation is. The predominant view in the economics profession is that the drop is explained mostly by changes in the labor market and changes in the motivations of this group of men.
The labor market explanation hinges on the idea that the spread of technology has reduced the need for workers without more education. We need fewer people now to dig ditches or to turn screws on assembly lines. This argument holds that the declining employment rate among men is part of a long-term trend, so we shouldn't find the drop in recent years surprising.
The motivation explanation is that these workers spend their time playing video games and watching internet pornography, which they find preferable to work. Proponents of the motivation explanation also point to the real and growing problem of opioid use, which can make workers both unable to work and unable to pass a drug test. The data on employment and unemployment rates for different groupings of young men with just a high school education provides valuable insights on the issue.
The figure below shows the change in employment rates between 1988 to 2000, 2000 to 2015, and 2015 to 2017 (first seven months) for three different age groupings of men with just high school degrees.
There are two noteworthy points about these figures which apply to all three age groupings. The first is that the drop in the employment rate from 2000 to 2015 was far larger than the drop that took place from 1988 to 2000. For men between the ages of 25 and 34, the decline in EPOPs was one percentage point between 1988 and 2000; it was 9.3 percentage points between 2000 and 2015. For men between the ages of 35 and 44, the drop was two percent in the first period, compared to 6.4 percent in the second period. And for men between the ages of 45 and 54, the drops were 5.2 percent and 5.9 percent, respectively.
The other point worth noting in these figures is the substantial increase in the employment rates for all three age groupings between 2015 and the first seven months of 2017. This could be viewed as surprising given that the economy was thought to be at or near full employment by many economists at the time. The 5.3 percent year-round average unemployment rate for the year was somewhat below the Congressional Budget Office's 5.4 percent estimate of the NAIRU at the time. If this estimate was accurate than any substantial reduction in unemployment below this 5.4 percent target should have led to a sharp uptick in the rate of inflation. As it has turned out, the unemployment rate has dropped by roughly a full percentage point and there has been no uptick in the rate of inflation.
This drop in unemployment has been associated with a 0.8 percentage point rise in employment rates for men with just high school degrees between the ages of 25 and 34, an increase of 1.2 percentage points for men between the ages of 35 and 44, and a rise of a rise of 1.4 percentage points for those between the ages of 45 and 54. This suggests that many of the less-educated workers who were thought to be structurally unemployed in 2015 were willing to put aside the Internet porn and video games when more jobs opened up over the next two years. It certainly raises the possibility that even more workers will take this leap if the labor market offers additional opportunities.


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|conscious-doubtful (8:58am est wed nov 12 2003)
why even have this discussion. if it were ever possible, it is still decades away. – by dj
|not true (9:30am est wed nov 12 2003)
ai is not decades away. erroneous comment. computer processor technology is fast-forwarding at an exponential rate. we all know that there will be a time when computer speeds will match or surpass a human brain's computing speed of 5 trillion calculations per second. when this happens, computers will achieve self awareness it's as simple as that.
what the political, social, economic, religious, and otherwise effects of that change needs to start getting debated now so that when it happens it doesn't surprise us and cause chaos.
one simple issue for example worth exploring: will sentient self-aware computer be allowed to vote? how about more ethical treatement of computers? will it be a crime, or should it be a crime to shut down your computer? and how will this issue of living computers affect the way we prosecute computer crimes, or more importantly how we deal with hackers and people that create and spread viruses? and will we finally arrest and ipprison bill gates for his terrible terrible faulty unstable crappy software?
ai will be here before we know it. it is easy to scoff and pretend it'll never happen out of fear. fear will drive people into denial. i say fear them not and embrace them as companions and fellow intelligent beings. i love my computer, but i hate windows and bill gates.
email@example.com – by robert ovalle
|i'll take the bait. (9:31am est wed nov 12 2003)
first, i believe john searle's chineese room argument forces into question a major premise of intelligence and epistemology but is not an attack against ai itself. in the example, we are allowed to choose one of two options. either we can deny the turing test as a sufficient identifier of intelligence, or we can assert that intelligence is a great facade almost in conjunction with putnam's "brains in a vat" argument. thus, the only thing you can assert about intelligence is that you have it and even that could be difficult if you don't know the nature of the self. i guess in a more cartesian sense you could assert the cogito and have it be consistent with both putnam and searle, but that is netiher here nor there.
second, and the more interesting point, is that the debate over intelligence and sentience is at this point mainly a debate over definition. if everyone decided to define intelligence as x, or say the ability to pass the touring test, programs liek elisa could be considered intelligent. the problem here is that most people have overinflated and grand criteria for what intelligence is. even worse, there is no reason to think that there is a such thing as sentience. for those who disagree, i implore you to show me a satisfactory definition of such. if you try to take the route of intelligent being, we fall into a viscous circle. if autonomy and free will and all that hooey gets put into the mix, i will deny that any such free will exists. if you take the empirical investigative route and claim that a being is sentient iff they are capable of having experience and process sensory data, then i must argue that our concept of sense is limited as nagel's bat argument claims any sensory/conscious state is. and, if you even think about envoking god or religion or that junk into this, i will laugh at you. the major roadblock in creating ai is simple. we don't know what intelligence is just like we do not know what knowledge is or how it is constructed. until we create valid and clear definitions on what an intelligent thing is, we will constantly be forced into this debate with no ability for a winner. – by sdb
|applause to sdb (10:07am est wed nov 12 2003)
imo, sdb named the real problem.
everybody uses words like "intelligence" / "artificial intelligence" / "sentinent" etc. but what are these things?
how can humans or (other) animals describe something as complex as a "universal concept of intelligence?
i don't think that there is an easy solution to that kind of problem, even if the computers get more powerful. – by patthebaker
|consious ai's are decades away (10:12am est wed nov 12 2003)
yes, the possibility of getting close to conciousness is decades away. – by dj
|if speed would matter… (10:22am est wed nov 12 2003)
… we would have ais in every living-room.
but what is speed when it is paid with structural fault and simple instruction sets?
compared to the human brain, seen as the source of our individual human intelligence, todays and tomorrows computers all look quite simplistic.
we don't even understand exactly how our brain works and how it develops, so how can we produce something that emulates our brain without knowing?
that seems a bit paradox to me.
and programming a tool to "simulate" intelligence, to beat a certain test or in a fixed environment can be helpful but no proof.
cheaters! – by nointelhere2
|i love the way people (10:23am est wed nov 12 2003)
think that just because a computer can perfom 50 billion trillion calculations a second that it will "just become aware". this is bullshit.
dogs and apes are conscious on many levels (all be it much lower than a human). so why isn't the current power of computers not enough to replicate even the lowest forms of consciousness?
yes that was a rhetorical question (for the dip shits without the computational power =p)
– by god
|debate – i'll take the bait back, thank you [lol] (10:31am est wed nov 12 2003)
sdb – excellent points. i was vaguely amused that kant, hayakawa, fukimori, and bloody ol' plato didn't get into the mix. well, no matter – they pro'lly shouldn't have.
your challenge to show sentience is perhaps best answered by quoting your quizzical paragraph as a major piece of evidence (supposing it was not itself clipped from some other reference) as that the author was sentient, in so far as rhetorical dialectic contained therein provides. or perhaps take that, and this paragraph, and voila.
well "not" i hear you huff. and rightly so: hooey (is there a 'w' in that?) regarding religion, autonomy, free will, existential dialecticism, the abiltiy to cogitate the meaning of navel fuzz, or whatever hardly individually construe the ergo et sum that conclusively posits sentiece. perhaps it is something more base, less concrete: the ability (facility, learned skill, innate talent, opportunity to exercise, and desire to do so) to communicate via abstract constructs that do not necessarily exist de novo. well, that wouldn't work either, now would it? computers are communicating with each other endlessly in formalized data constructs all the time, and they're hardly sentient (hah! but who are you to say? not me! lol)
assuming that i'm not an a.i. (which some posters have theorized), and that you're nto an a.i., we're left with a simple conundrum: there is no way to tell (with any communication stream) whether the phrase-stream is literally a 'knee-jerk' lookup of previously plagerized and well indexed canned responses, or the novation of sentience, intelligence, and a thinking being.
in fact, i've succussfully argued on a number of occasions that much (most, and possibly – sadly – nearly all) of intelligence is a vastly well indexed 'lookup table' of responses and metaresponses to the inputs of our being. certainly some individuals in my, your and our experience exemplify the 'brilliant parrot' parody, whereas others – even at the most backward meters of the iq scale – just as clearly are impeded by having no memory, only profoundly baseless logic. madness! you say? indeed, we all are.
yet let's pull free from the 'sentience is undefinable' argument, and settle back on basics. kurzweil (and a whole bunch of others) are casting their lot with the unstoppable singularity crowd (tho' they'd never admit so as openly as that) which presupposes that computing power is not only going ballistic, exponentially, and with no end in sight, but also that machine(d) intelligence will begin to feed upon itself, re-inventing more well honed versions with e'er rapid cycle … reaching criticality (nasty connotation, but possibly accurage) with the convergence of nanocomputing, quantum computing, and so on in the next decade. some predict 2020, or thereabouts.
i say this – it will not be the mere existence of vast computing power that will give machine(d) sentience its kick in the pants. it will be the programmers, the researchers and top-flight cybersurgeons that breathe life into frankenstein. unfortunately (or just the obverse, if you take my meaning), perhaps the aggregated rarefraction of computer science is so lofty so as to exclude any but the as yet unrealized cyber einstein from pushing it significantly forward past where we've gotten to date. maxwell, goetel, chomksy, descartes … all good dudes, but einey took the world by surprise with his decade long way-far-out goofings.
– by goatguy
|conscious machines (11:23am est wed nov 12 2003)
i found an interesting read by marvin minsky here.
minskey suggests that consciousness may be a result of the processes that govern short-term memory.
|douglas hofstedder test (11:44am est wed nov 12 2003)
when you assign the computer a task and it replies, "i don't feel like it today." – by jj brannon
|does putnam play 4 the bengals? (12:42pm est wed nov 12 2003)
computers are just the ultimate expressions of determinism (which is fatally limited). even quantum computers are once someone reads the output.
as soon as you can derive "intelligence" from the limited definition of a deterministic universe then you'll have "intelligent" computers. course you'd also have a pretty good toe.
it ain't gonna happen guys, our light-cones are insufficient.
– by anglophile
|roger penrose and jimi hendrix (1:19pm est wed nov 12 2003)
penrose's book, "the emperors new mind," is just a bunch of hand-waving to distract from a weak argument. it's some of the most interesting hand-waving i've read, to be sure, but — penrose (like many (most?) academics) spends too much time around well-behaved, even ideal, computers.
my suspicion is that "intelligence" may well be a bug. like (other) products of evolution which begin as a dna copying error. some of the most fascinating behavior of "non-intelligent" matter occurs during "fault" conditions: the ways steel can break, the amazing things that a tornado can do, and my personal favorite — an electric guitar, with the signal clipped and feedback a-howlin'! academics will cite chaos theory, metallurgy, and fourier — but while they can *characterize* phenomena, do they *explain* them?
"intelligence" is (perhaps) just matter's way of handling failure modes. as explained by the nutritionist nietzsche, "what does not kill me, makes me stronger." all matter is to some extent "intelligent." all our human "intelligence" is, and all that "artificial intelligence" can be, is an evolutionary magnification of these mechanisms.
astonishing that the madhyamika prasangika developed this view six hundred years ago! – by unix daemon
|if i comput there for i am ? (1:31pm est wed nov 12 2003)
big question on that, everybody on this page seems to have there on "opinion" but i would rather ask a few questions :
first do you really think that having more speed processing capability will give a computer sentient life ?
or that we has man invented this intelligence mesuring stick that works for every creature or machine on this planet ?
or event better, that we actually can define what intelligence really is ?
i don't know about you guys but i think we are really close into having machine capable to speak and react with humans but to be able to call them intelligent and conscious i think this is a philosiphical question that will not be answered quickly. – by frosty
|oh good grief (1:47pm est wed nov 12 2003)
i cant believe that seemingly "reasonable" people still believe that computers will someday have "reasoning" capability.
what goes in comes out. if a program is written to "learn" it does not mean that it is aware… it is still working within the confines of its programming.
– by danny e.
|adaptive programming (1:58pm est wed nov 12 2003)
ai will not happen until the computer can make decisions on it's own to change it's programming.
a "set" program is not "ai"
an adaptive program that changes in response to changing conditions – that is the foundation for the beginnings of ai.
i just don't see it happening. and if it did happen – wouldn't we all be shocked. :) – by john m
|lookup table (2:00pm est wed nov 12 2003)
if sentience / intelligence is a vastly indexed lookup table, then i've lost my index. i would be more efficient and could write long philosophical debates on geek.com if i could only remember the facts.
forget ai, i want flash ram in my head. – by mr. wizard
|danny e. (2:06pm est wed nov 12 2003)
by that argument you could say that humans just respond to stimuli and that we just work within the confines of our genetics.
-being self aware is a very tricky thing to determine espsialy when you look so close to the line like this, as it stands we already have software that can make it's own choces (voice/character/image recognition software) and that is the first step – by gila
|love (2:24pm est wed nov 12 2003)
one cannot define a subjective word such as intelligence.
just like love people have been for centuries trying to define the undefinable.
in time we will come to some loose consensus on machine intelligence.
i believe there is nothing wrong with searching for the answer for it helps us better understand the question. – by hal 9000
|cyberdyne will kill you!!! (2:41pm est wed nov 12 2003)
hasnt anybody ever seen the terminator or even the matrix movies?!? all these ai computers will realize that humans are dumb and will kill us all!!! get the canned beans and fallout shelters ready!!! – by t1000
|love a new puppy (2:44pm est wed nov 12 2003)
our new rot-dobe mutt is 70lb 4 month old. aware of herself, smart. we use, whistle, clicker, treat/non-negative conditioning. she will never think.
my 96lb 12 year old son has written a half a dozen video games, has 2 web sites he updates in html, and likes writing in python.
i don't hold degrees in medicine or legal (bs in bio, ee in cs), and yet i proof and have written programs that proof documents that drs, and judges use.
do brains cause minds? does syntax suffice for semantics? is a library smart? computers just simulate thought. their seeming understanding isn't real understanding, their seeming calculation is as-if calculation.
i work with professional vertical dictionaries, voice recognition and vision systems. they will never think. – by tech
|see what dope does to you kids. (2:51pm est wed nov 12 2003)
i think the answer has to do with graviton sparticle string theory. – by tech
|rewriting your own code (3:22pm est wed nov 12 2003)
john m wrote on adaptive programming…this feels like the right direction to look for intelligence. when any mechanism, biological or computer, has the ability to take new information and use that to modify the way it performs existing processes then it's heading towards intelligence. my only question is, at what level do humans rewrite their own code? we can clearly learn and adapt our behaviors, people who do that well are often considered to be intelligent – at least in layman's terms. we can hardly do it by choice though, if we could consciously rewrite our own code at will, then we could all just write out bad habits or other faulty programming. we often even find ourselves at odds with our own programming – trying to figure out how to learn something or how to stop a behavior.
– by icarus
|adaptive programming (3:48pm est wed nov 12 2003)
is there a formal construct out there about that? or do we have to start it al up with some language? and which language is best?
these are some questions that are worth answering if one intends to do some work in the field.. (cue to post out answers…) – by da
|why? (4:00pm est wed nov 12 2003)
i havnt read all your posts, i might still comment.
for me persnally inteligance can be defined in one word "why" if the computers knows why it does something or wants toknow why somethign happens then it is intellligence. the question why is what drives up. why did the apple fall sir newton asked himself. and untill the computer ask "why did the apple fall" for me its not inteligent.
|re: john m (4:30pm est wed nov 12 2003)
john what on earth are you talking about?
clearly this is one of the worst misconceptions that the public has about ai.
first of all a computer program that can reprogram itself is childs play and can be done with less than 1 kilobyte of code. programs can indeed learn in a very real way. not just rote learning or superficial learning but do the kind of learning that we would regard as exprience and such.
what do you think genetic algorithms do?
no in fact the real problem with ai is not that at all, but the reality of the complexity of the human being.
language is extremely complex and that is aparently the less daunting challange in ai. getting computers small enough (as you know its not just a hardware issue it is a software issue also) to fit androids and building androids to do physical labor the way humans do in general is far off because it is complex.
– by peter.
|goatguy mumbojumbo (4:37pm est wed nov 12 2003)
"your challenge to show sentience is perhaps best answered by quoting your quizzical paragraph as a major piece of evidence (supposing it was not itself clipped from some other reference) as that the author was sentient, in so far as rhetorical dialectic contained therein provides. or perhaps take that, and this paragraph, and voila."
thats some major mumbo jumbo people – by ???
|ai pseudo intellectual nonsense (4:39pm est wed nov 12 2003)
yes, thats what these articles are always about. they keep popping up.
let's face it, either machines can be 'sentient or not.' either aibo is sentient or not. it isn't a mystery to build an intentional system that mimics emotions nor is that really neccessarily appropriate for ai. my point is either we already have them or we never will.
it is however very challenging to build a system that understands language as well as humans do. cyc is the closest thing that i am aware of. douglas lenat and his team have already spent more than a 1000 years working on this.
it isn't going to be achieved by a couple of people smoking a pipe making flip arguements for and against the soul or sentient computer.
– by peter.
|start-up (5:10pm est wed nov 12 2003)
interesting article. i am actually working on a start up to attempt to 'put to code' thinking software. the theory/structure/process of it has been running through my head for a few years now. we are laying it out on the drawing board. i will keep geek.com posted in ai related forums as new things emerge from my findings. i will also be setting up a domain with email/newsletter for contact if anyone is interested.
brain – by time
|antivirus (8:08pm est wed nov 12 2003)
the first ai will be a antivirus program- self learning, adaptive, and able to change itself. so basically smarter than most of your coworkers – by some guy
|philosophy, not science (10:48pm est wed nov 12 2003)
computers will some day inevitably be able to emulate the human brain. we have to ask ourselfs what is sentionce, emotion, and "spirituality". are we even really contious? – by jz
|peter (5:48am est thu nov 13 2003)
before we can infuse "artificial" intelligence into computers, we first have to develop intelligence in human beings.
before humans can develop intelligence they must first recognize their lack of intelligence.
my father used to say "you don't know what you don't know" and if you ponder that long enough you might realize that we don't have a clue. (and i am including the sum of the total knowledge of every human being on this planet)
it is not how much we know that causes our problems today – it is how much we don't know and never will as long as we think we already "know it all"
– by john m
|intelligence vs consciousness (6:26am est thu nov 13 2003)
awareness isn't concsiousness.
intelligence is a purely relational phenomenon, and as such can exist on a computer.
consciousness, or the ability to feel reality, is a physical property. a computer can understand information about colors and use it but it cannot actually experience a color.
our consciousness allows us to experience some of the intelligence and thinking processes in our brains, but even so some of the processes or thinking are sub-conscious. this proves that thinking & intelligence can exist without consciousness.
unfortunately many people lacking sufficient self awareness could be easily tricked into thinking of intelligent machines as being a sort of "person". if something can not feel existence then it does not exist, it is either inanimate or a machine and should be treated accordingly.
the old saying "i think therefore i am" isn't entirely accurate…
|mmm (7:09am est thu nov 13 2003)
humans are more or less programmed from birth so why not machines? simple coding then they must learn on there own and share information with other computers, obvious, well hopefully this would be done at a fast rate thats the key to genuine intelligence – by matt
|soul and mind (2:25pm est thu nov 13 2003)
hey guys i've read somewhere that intelligence and consciousness are products of the human mind and the human mind is given substance and meaning by the human soul. now where can we get this machine soul.
and these things have to be ultra-mega efficient, since our human brain functions with power consumption less than the power that a single led in a digital wrist watch needs.
and the computer virus is truly the first ai, "self learning, adaptive, and able to change itself. so basically smarter than most of your coworkers" if i may quote 'some guy' so. =) – by singuy
|i feel therefore i am (2:50pm est thu nov 13 2003)
i like that!
now the feeling machines…
basically humans… that's it i think,
and its easy to create, produce and manufacture…. copulate.. hehehe. – by singuy
|re: i feel therefore iam (5:48pm est thu nov 13 2003)
put your bible away. you feel because nerve response sends electrical jolts to your brain. your brain then interpets the signals accordingly. have a nice day. – by elite
|singuy (5:51pm est thu nov 13 2003)
nothing intelligent about a virus with a preprogrammed course of action. – by elite
|to elite: (4:48am est fri nov 14 2003)
bible? i'm not speaking of mysticism.
you speak of the signals being interpreted by the brain, and that being the source of feeling.
interpreting patterns is a relational issue, something computers can do too.
but which component in a computer will "feel" anything? there would have to be a connection between the signals/waveforms & a physical singularity state of some sort. bosen-einstein condensate perhaps?
i actually do believe that once the physical (not religious) basis of the physical consciousness state is fully understood that it would be possible to create a truely conscious robot. but it would have to be specifically made that way.
and btw: please don't fall for the illusion that having your mind copied into a computer would in any way transfer "you" into the computer. "you" would still be looking out from your current body afterwards, doing whatever you could to talk the technicians into not disposing of your body…
|to elite (10:03am est fri nov 14 2003)
what about your actions don't you think they're preprogrammed from birth? – by singuy
|i feel therefore iam (10:34am est fri nov 14 2003)
no need to explain. the whole point of this discussion of thought comes down to lack of intelligence on one side. that's what religion is through history. to many users, the computer is smarter than themselves, already. there is a point where explaining to them the answer is enough. for some the clothes/food/sleep issues are as far as they choose to go.
if tachyons travel backward in time and strings width create a 4th dimension, why have we never been contacted by the future? – by tech
|re: determanism (3:02pm est fri nov 14 2003)
someone wrote:
"by that argument you could say that humans just respond to stimuli and that we just work within the confines of our genetics.
-being self aware is a very tricky thing to determine espsialy when you look so close to the line like this, as it stands we already have software that can make it's own choces (voice/character/image recognition software) and that is the first step"
if it were possible to know the exact state of the human brain at a given moment, and the exact input, you could calculate the next response within the brain. of course, due to the heisenburg uncertainty principle, we cannot know the exact state of the brain, but we know it exists. the brain is an extremly complecated organic computer. we could debate "free will vs. determanism", or question whether we really are sentiant. it should be possible for computers to eventually ask themselfs these same questions. part of what makes us "contious" is our ability to doubt that we are contious, our free will lies within realizing that we have no free will. i probably sound like an acid head. for good reason. – by jz


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Observations in the Strait of Hormuz (26.26 degrees N, 56.08 degrees E) during 1997-98 showed substantial velocity fluctuations, accompanied by episodic changes in the salinity outflow events with amplitude varying between 1 and 2 psu on time scales of several days to a few weeks. These events are characterized by a rapid increase in salinity followed by an abrupt decline. The mechanisms behind these strong pulses of salinity events are investigated with a whigh-resolution (similar to 1 km) Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM) with particular reference to the year 2005. In accordance with the observations, the simulated salinity events are characterized by strong coherence between the enhanced flows in zonal and meridional directions. It is inferred that most of the simulated and observed outflow variability is associated with the continuous formation of strong mesoscale cyclonic eddies, whose origin can be traced upstream to around 26 degrees N, 55.5 degrees E. These cyclonic eddies have a diameter of about 63 km and have a remnant of Persian Gulf water (PGW) in their cores, which is eroded by lateral mixing as the eddies propagate downstream at a translation speed of 4.1 cm s(-1). The primary process that acts to generate mesoscale cyclones results from the barotropic instability of the exchange circulation through the Strait of Hormuz induced by fluctuations in the wind stress forcing. The lack of salinity events and cyclogenesis in a model experiment with no wind stress forcing further confirms the essential ingredients required for the development of strong cyclones and the associated outflow variability.
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(2009). On the Mechanisms of Episodic Salinity Outflow Events in the Strait of Hormuz. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 39(6), 1340-1360.
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In this guide I will show how you can update Pokémon GO Game installed on your Android Smartphone. This method to update Pokémon GO is very important to those who have installed Pokémon GO Game on their phone by downloading APK file from other sites, due to unavailability of the Pokémon GO Game in their Country in Google Play Store.
Most of the users who had installed Pokémon GO Game on their phone by downloading APK file are facing difficulty in getting updated to latest version as when every time you open the game Pokémon GO it says update available. So there is no way to skip this update and start playing the game with old version. If you try to tap on update now you will be landed to Google Play Store Pokémon GO App page and on that page you will see message "this item is not available in your Country".
So to overcome from this update problem of Pokémon GO Game you will have to follow the below step by step guide on How to Update Pokémon GO Game on Android.
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Step By Step Procedure to Update Pokémon GO Game on Android
- To update the game get the latest version of Pokémon GO APK by clicking here.
- Once the APK file gets downloaded on your phone, just tap on the downloaded APK file to install the game.
- Pokémon GO Installation screen will flash up asking "Do you want to install an update to this existing application? Your existing data will not be lost. It does not require any special permission", so to update the game just tap on Install.
- It will process the Pokémon GO update installation and in few seconds you will get App Installed notification.
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I still had glitter in my head from my earlier plans, but rather than obscure the gradient with something more opaque, I went with OPI Pirouette My Whistle from the new NYC Ballet collection. Quick top of SV, and I'm actually pretty pleased with how my first gradient attempt came out.
It was raining pretty hard last night, and I was surprised to notice...I mean, I totally did it on purpose...that they looked a bit like the rainy, gray sky!


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The Moapa Valley OHV Roundup Spring Event was held March 25-26, 2016 in Moapa Valley and was a huge success.
On Friday, Partners in Conservation manned a booth at Lins Grocery Store and provided maps and information about the Logandale Trails, surrounding trails in Moapa Valley, and OHV Rules and Regulations. Traffic was steady at the booth throughout the day.
Saturday was the Easter Egg Hunt and Photos with the Easter Bunny. With a crowd of about 100, and 30 kids, this event generated some great response and the kids had a blast finding the 700 eggs hidden in the area. Crafts, coloring and hot dogs and chips followed the Egg Hunt.
Later in the day, the Easter Bunny visited Logandale Trails.
Maggie McMurray wrote an excellent article in the Moapa Valley Progress about the event, read the article here.
See the photos below that were entered in the Photo Contests.
- 1st Place went to Samantha Olson, she won $100 in cash!
- 2nd Place went to Roxanne Harris McFarlane, she won a Logandale Trails Flag and OHV Roundup T Shirt
- 3rd Place went to Kary Lenderman, she won a Moapa Valley OHV Roundup T Shirt
- Grand Prize won by Vanette Christensen, her prize is a Restaurant Gift Certificate, T Shirt, and Logandale Trails Flag.
We would like to thank all the people who came out to participate in the event, and of course all the people and organizations who supported it. We are looking forward to the Moapa Valley OHV Roundup in November 2016.


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Dr Gan C E was the Course Instructor, together with fellow Facility Management practitioners. I was there as the Course Facilitator. What I enjoyed most were the class discussions where the Instructor share his knowledge and sharing of valuable experiences among participants.
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The "Egyptian Gazette," which was the first newspaper to announce Professor Reisner's remarkable discoveries "in a temple within the Sphinx's head," now asserts that the whole story of the "discoveries" was fabricated by American journalists.
Several weeks ago a report appeared in the English newspapers in the following terms:-
The results of the investigations of Professor G. A. Reisner, the Harvard Egyptologist, of that mysterious Egyptian monument known as the Sphinx, have been communicated to the authorities of the Harvard Semitic Museum and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
Inside the Sphinx the professor found a temple dedicated to the sun. It is
older than any of the pyramids, and its date is somewhere about 6,000 B.C., the most ancient in Egyptian history. Mena, or Menes, as his name is sometimes spelled, was the first king of Egypt of whom modern scientists have discovered historic record.
The tomb of Mena, the king who made himself a god, and who fashioned the Sphinx, is also within it. There are tunnels leading into caverns which have not yet been penetrated, for the work has only been gong on for six months. The Sphinx is carved out of the natural rock, but within are the caves and buildings of a city of gold, which was, perhaps, once open to the air.
Inside the Sphinx are also tiny pyramids, although the Sphinx was built long
before the Great Pyramids. A pyramid in those days was a sundial, according to Professor Reisner, and the Sphinx was a sun god. The pyramid of' Cheops is an absolutely accurate timekeeper. According to Professor Reisner Egypt of to-day is one vast city, the edge of which has been scratched and the interior of which probably never will be disclosed.
Professor Reisner hopes to discover among the relics of the Sphinx the secrets of the Egyptian priests, whose magic is believed to have been marvellous. Pictures of the inside of the head are being made, and will be shown at Harvard and Lowell Institute courses next winter. Professor Reisner says he is having unusual difficulties in his work, for the Arabs who are assisting him refuse absolutely to sleep in the chamber. They say there are devils there, and that the man who sleeps there will die.
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I still wonder about the Romanian Sphinx in The Bucegi Mountains, where they have already found tunnels and such. Someone also claimed some kind of holographic hall of records was there. The threads can be found with the search function. I wonder if this is the one Edgar saw.


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Dingo has a huge heart for his Pdx community and a big appetite for high energy performance. A Clown for 18+ years, he joined the circus as a roustabout at 17 years old and has worked his way around the USA honing his entertainment craft in many mediums. He is a rockstar, a dad, a carnie, an activist, a small business advocate and a staple Portland personality. With his love & influence of rock and roll, classical music and circus sideshow, Dingo writes shows that leave folks coming back for another taste of AMAZING.
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When "Peter Pan" opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in London, in December of 1904, it had two performances daily—once in the afternoon and once in the evening. This image depicts an advertisement about the production. Historical image online via NBC.
When Frohman arrived in London, in late April, he liked everything about the play except its title which, he suggested, should be Peter Pan. There were issues, however.
How would a highly sophisticated, adult London audience react (on opening night) to a play where a dog draws a child's bath? And how, exactly, would children "fly" (this is the first poster) in the Duke of York's Theatre?
Frohman and Barrie wanted the play to be a complete surprise. Secrecy therefore surrounded rehearsals, but disaster paid a visit to the set on December 21, 1904 - the night before the play was scheduled to open. A mechanical lift collapsed, damaging half the scenery.
The first production of the still-popular Christmastime play had to be delayed by six days.
The curtain went up for the first time at 8:30 p.m., on December 27, 1904, with few children in the audience and Nina Boucicault in the title role. Wendy was played by Hilda Trevelyan. Other key cast members from the first production were:
A nervous Charles Frohman, who had spent a fortune on the production and was awaiting news of the performance amidst a New York City snowstorm, could not have been more pleased when the cablegram finally arrived:
I went...to the first matinee...with George, Jack, Peter, and Michael Llewelyn Davies (Nicholas being too young)...we loved the play...Hook had become one of us, the Jolly Roger had cast its spell...On the way home George demonstrated his excited approval by pretending to fall out of the bus. (Quoted in JM Barrie and the Lost Boys, page 118.)
When Peter Pan finished its first London run, the public demanded more.
Charles Frohman announced it would reopen the following December, with advance bookings beginning in May, 1905. On November 6, 1905, Peter Pan opened in New York with Maude Adams in the role which Barrie had originally created for her.
Mark Twain was so entranced by it that he wrote to Maude Adams:
It is my belief that Peter Pan is a great and refining and uplifting benefaction to this sordid and money-mad age; and that the next best play is a long way behind it. (Quoted in JM Barrie and the Lost Boys, page 126.)
The American public agreed with Twain. Barrie was at the top of his game professionally.
But ... dual tragedies were about to strike the Llewelyn Davies family.
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thanksgiving centerpiece ideas: blossom & branch
Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday. The cozy notion of gathering together with friends and family (both related and chosen); the opportunity to marvel at and be grateful for the many wonderful aspects of my life; and all the time and effort people devote to traveling and cooking make this one particular day truly special and beautiful. In my family, our tradition was always to invite not just our nearest and dearest, but acquaintances, friends of friends, colleagues and others who had no place to go or who couldn't be with their own loved ones. Coming from a large family, we typically did the meal pot-luck style, with each relative or friend focusing on his or her special dish, craft or talent to make the evening complete. My signature was apple pie (using Martha's pate brisee recipe!) and, of course, the table decor.
For today's post, I created a Thanksgiving centerpiece in all creamy white flowers. I love the idea of clean, white blooms popping up from the center of a table that is brimming with the rich colors of autumn foods and linens. I also incorporated some chocolate brown flourishes (artichoke and dried lotus pods) and added a few decorative elements for the display. As always, I encourage you to undertake any creative project with a sense of fun and whimsy — there is no "right" way to make this centerpiece, and I promise it will look extraordinary as long as you enjoy yourself while you make it.
CLICK HERE for the full how-to after the jump!
To provide texture to this monochromatic arrangement, I decided to work with a range of open "face" flowers (flowers with round blooms) and more linear "tube" flowers (flowers with long, lean lines). I used (from left) hydrangea, ranunculus, white berries, creme de la creme roses, lisianthus, tulips, astilbe and mini calla lilies. I also added some enormous amaryllis, which you will see pictured in the detail shots below. For your centerpiece, use any combination of face and tube flowers that are available to you.
Note the fluffy round shape of the hydrangea bloom.
The tulip, astilbe and calla lily below are more tube-shaped. The great thing about tulips is that as they open, they transition from tube to face flowers, so your work of art can evolve!
I used a sturdy, wooden, brick-shaped box for the container. I liked the way the dark grain contrasted with the white flowers. I also like to create a longer and lower centerpiece for a holiday table, in the hopes that it might remain on the table through the meal, as opposed to being moved off to the side. I will demonstrate two options for designing in this type of container.
The first option is to create a grid with floral tape. Make sure to test your container (whether it is wood or tin or some other non-glass vase material) to see whether it holds water. If the seams leak water, you can use a sealant or a glue gun on the inside edges or line the container with cellophane (which I will demonstrate below).
Use the tape and scissors to create a strong tape grid in which to place the flowers. The grid is a great way to provide structure and is easy to manipulate as you go — if you need fewer or more openings, you can always redo the tape.
Cellophane can be used with the tape grid (simply line the container before creating the grid) or with floral foam, which is another option for this centerpiece. NOTE: Some people have concerns about using floral foam, as this foam is not biodegradable and contains some chemicals. Choose whatever materials make sense to you.
Drape a large piece of cellophane over the container.
Use your hand to tuck the cellophane into the corners of the container.
After you add the floral foam, you will cut the cellophane down to size, but leave it draping over the sides for now.
Soak one piece of floral foam in a bucket of water. Gently place the floral foam with the holes facing down into the water. NEVER submerge the foam with your hand (this can create dry pockets of air in the foam); let the foam sink down toward the bottom of the bucket on its own. Give the foam a few minutes of soaking (according to the instructions) and then you are ready to place it in your container.
Once the foam is settled into the container, trim the edges of the cellophane down to size.
Designing in floral foam can be a great way to learn how to structure an arrangement. Try to begin with some of the sturdier elements and create a "skeleton" for the shape of the arrangement. I like to create three to five points of interest in an arrangement and cluster flowers around those points.
Place heavier elements like artichoke and hydrangea in the foam first. You can use these as the focus for your points of interest and cluster flowers around them.
Play with various combinations of face flowers and tube flowers as you fill in the foam. Try placing each bloom into the foam as straight as possible, so that you are not tangling up the stems. Also, try placing each bloom only once so you avoid making Swiss cheese out of your foam! If you place something and really want to move it, pull it all the way out and make a brand new hole so it will drink fresh water.
I always like tendrils from lisianthus, astilbe, etc. emerging from the otherwise tightly designed arrangement. You may choose to stagger the height of elements like the lotus pods (as I have done here) or use them close to the other blooms.
The deep color and texture of the artichoke makes this arrangement more seasonal.
I love the bell shape of the amaryllis mixed in with the other blooms.
I used a white ceramic tray underneath the arrangement (to add another layer to the design and also to protect the table) and "garnished" with some soft dusty miller leaves.
The creme de la creme roses add a bit of blush color to the all-white theme.
I added some decorative spheres made from twigs and scattered them around the base of the arrangement, both on the tray and on the table.
For a shock of red, I added a single pomegranate!
The final decorative touch comes from a cluster of pheasant feathers, a nod to the Dutch Masters.
More amaryllis love.
There's my pomegranate friend!
Wishing you the warm embrace of family and friends . . . Happy Thanksgiving!


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So, so close to being done with the first part of Skillcrush's phase two. Phase two is where you choose a developer or design track. There's required courses for both tracks, and after you've done them, you have a counseling session, and then can continue on with some specialization courses. Since I want to learn ALL THE THINGS, I have signed up for some specialization courses (WordPress, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, etc.)
To get to my career counseling session, I needed to get done a "client project," which for me turned into re-vamping a friend's website, using stuff I've learned in Bootstrap. Took longer than I thought (why am I surprised by this?!) but I am thisclose to getting it up on a hosted Github page.
I also made a mock-up of the site using a template from one of the many mock-ups found online. Have wanted to fiddle with one of these for some time, so nice to actually get a chance to do it:
Once it's up, I can have my counseling session – talk one on one with a Skillcrush instructor – and move on the 2nd part of phase two, the specialization courses.
(And shout-out to Ann, one of the Skillcrush teachers who answers questions on the Git/Github Slack channel, for helping to me to figure out git weirdness – apparently I'd managed to put git on my main users file. How I managed to do that, not quite sure ….)
Also shared a bit in the Fears Slack channel about how I am sometimes overwhelmed by thought of – will I ever feel ready/confident to job hunt? Assuming I actually look, will anyone actually hire me? How can I learn ALL THE THINGS first?
This is by no means a new fear never expressed before; imposter syndrome comes up not infrequently in the channels in Skillcrush. Still pretty paralyzing while you're in it, though. And really, all I can do is keep on keeping on. Here I go!


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