lit This call is being recorded for quality. By onfundraising.blogspot.com Published On :: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 09:34:00 +0000 Call center technology is constantly improving. Most modern call-centers record at least some portion of the conversations they initiate. Who listens to these recordings. And what eventually happens to them?What does this mean for charitable solicitations?A typical call for me starts something like this;Me: Hello I'm Henry calling from XXX organization on behalf of the Save the Giant Sequoia Tree foundation. Hows it going today Mr X?Mr X: Fine, how are you today?Me; I'm good thanks for asking, not a lot of people do. (this gets a chuckle as often as not, and its true.)Me: Mr X, I'm going to try to keep things quick today but first I do need to know that this call could be monitored and is recorded for my quality.Mr X: Ah go ahead the damn government is recording everything we say anyway....Conversations can go into anywhere from a mild rant against the Bush administration to an all out call for violence made in jest, typical stuff you might hear on The Bill Mahr show. But what the Donor may not realize is that that conversation doesn't necessarily go away, ever.Ive done fundraising for organizations like the Democratic National Committee, The A.C.L.U and the Human Rights Campaign. At the start of each call we inform donors that their call could be recorded to ensure quality control.A.C.L.U donors are the most likely to hang up the phone at that point caring too much about their right to privacy to allow themselves to be recorded.But what about the callers who don't hang up? Ive spoken to extremely opinionated people whohave pulled no punches when it come to their opinion on the current presidential administration, the war on terror, and other highly charged issued.Politicians have been cursed threats have been made as well as off color jokes.Could this information be used against a person?With the warrant-less wiretapping that we know is going on in this country,how smart is it for organizations to save recordings of people?Donors tend to say anything to an anonymous fundraiser on over the phone. But is it really anonymous. Do the donors have a right to know what becomes of their voice recordings.I think that call-centers, especially in the fundraising industry, should have a published policy on what they will and will not do with Donor's information, including voice recordings.Technology and political realities have raced beyond past practices. Its time for call-centers to catch up.What I can tell you as a professional fundraiser is that.You have the right to end the conversation at any time, although I and your organization wish you wouldn't.You have the right to request more information about where I'm calling from and what my particular call-center will do with any of your information, including recordings of your voice. ( If your the curious type this might be fun to do anyway)The Front-line people who call you, me, have no control over when or why you are called; its all done by computer.The national no call-list has little bearing on non-profits, or their agents, (me). Call-centers that do fundraising have their own internal do-not-call lists; ask to be on it and we are obligated to put you on it. You should also let your charities know, by phone, or in writing, that you don't want to be called, or to have your name sold or traded to other organizations.Reputable fundraisers charge a flat fee per call. Yes or no, we get the same amount for making the call. It doesn't have to be this way however, Some fundraising agents can keep 80% (or more!) of the revenue a solicitation campaign generates. You have the right to know just what those percentages are; if the person you are speaking to doesn't know, ask for a supervisor. Some states also have laws that obligate fundraising groups to send a written copy of this information to any donor that asks, you'll need to contact your attorney general's office to see if your state is one.Last note; Federal law prohibits us from recording your credit card information, this is the one part of the call that isn't recorded.I hope this quick rundown of the issues stirs some discussion. Ill follow up with more on telephone fundraising in the coming days. Full Article abortion aclu fbi fundraising government hrc human rights campaign iraq naral non-profits privacy reproductive healthcare war on terror wiretapping
lit Biblical and Budai Taiwanese: vernacular, literary; oral, written By languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu Published On :: Sun, 10 Nov 2024 12:21:52 +0000 [This is a guest post by Denis Mair] Cai Xutie was a Taiwanese woman who ran a family farm with her husband in a village near Jiayi in central Taiwan. She was a rice farmer and had never attended a public school. After her husband died in middle age, she sold some of the land, […] Full Article Language and entertainment Language and religion Literacy Topolects
lit Pizza a Day Diet: Maggiano's Little Italy By greglsblog.blogspot.com Published On :: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 05:30:00 +0000 Today's Pizza a Day Diet pizza is technically not a pizza. It's a flatbread. NB: All pizzas are flatbreads but not all flatbreads are pizzas (A flatbread has an unleavened crust). I happened to be up north during rush hour so I decided to find the closest Italian place and see what they had that resembled a pizza. :-). This happened to be the Maggiano's in the Domain. The place has sort of a Disney-fied feel of a downtown Italian restaurant, which is not surprising since the first Maggiano's was founded in Chicago by the Lettuce Entertain You chain whose specialty is theme restaurants. Anyway, I took a table in the bar and ordered a Caesar salad and the sausage flatbread. The sausage was removed from the casing but still distributed in large chunks and had that good Italian-sausage flavor. The cheese was also abundant and flavorful. And the crust? Nice and crispy at first and then steamed through. Here are a couple pics: Full Article pizza a day Pizza a Day Diet
lit Glitter and glow By www.planetary.org Published On :: Fri, 04 Oct 2024 07:30:00 -0700 This week we look forward to launches, gaze at glowing auroras, and get creative with glitter. Full Article
lit 3 Children, 3 Women Missing After 10 Suspected Kuki Militants Killed In Encounter In Manipur's Jiribam - NDTV By news.google.com Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 11:11:01 GMT 3 Children, 3 Women Missing After 10 Suspected Kuki Militants Killed In Encounter In Manipur's Jiribam NDTVManipur on boil: 2 more bodies found, 6 missing The Times of IndiaAdditional paramilitary forces rushed to Manipur amid spike in ethnic violence Hindustan TimesLetters to The Editor — November 13, 2024 The Hindu2 men found dead, 6 of family missing day after militants killed in Manipur India Today Full Article
lit Hallo kroket! Mike De Decker vermorzelt Michael Smith en treft Luke Littler in Grand Slam of Darts - Gazet van Antwerpen By news.google.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 05:28:38 GMT Hallo kroket! Mike De Decker vermorzelt Michael Smith en treft Luke Littler in Grand Slam of Darts Gazet van AntwerpenSterke Van den Bergh en De Decker stoten door in Grand Slam of Darts, onverwachte exit Van Gerwen sporza.beVIDEO. Hallo kroket! Mike De Decker vermorzelt Michael Smith en treft Luke Littler in 1/8ste finale Grand Slam of Darts Het NieuwsbladVIDEO. Dimitri Van den Bergh flitst naar 1/8ste finales Grand Slam of Darts, met dank aan een muntje: “Ik ga iets uit mijn achterzak pakken...” Gazet van AntwerpenMike De Decker bij laatste 16 op Grand Slam of Darts RTV Full Article
lit Amerikaanse militair Jack Teixeira (22), die geheime informatie over oorlog lekte, krijgt 15 jaar cel - Het Nieuwsblad By news.google.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:22:28 GMT Amerikaanse militair Jack Teixeira (22), die geheime informatie over oorlog lekte, krijgt 15 jaar cel Het NieuwsbladJonge Amerikaanse militair die Pentagon-documenten lekte veroordeeld tot 15 jaar cel VRT.beLive - Oorlog in Oekraïne. Jack Teixeira, die geheime documenten over oorlog lekte, veroordeeld tot 15 jaar cel • Noord-Koreaanse soldaten betrokken bij gevechten, zeggen VS De Morgen15 jaar cel voor Amerikaanse militair die geheime documenten lekte NOS15 jaar cel voor Amerikaanse militair die geheime informatie op internet deelde NU.nl Full Article
lit Izegem zet verder koers richting coalitie met Vlaams Belang: “We hebben hier een omgekeerd cordon sanitaire” - Gazet van Antwerpen By news.google.com Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 15:12:44 GMT Izegem zet verder koers richting coalitie met Vlaams Belang: “We hebben hier een omgekeerd cordon sanitaire” Gazet van AntwerpenHele verhaal bekijken via Google Nieuws Full Article
lit what 'polite' means: Culpeper, O'Driscoll & Hardaker (2019) By separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com Published On :: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:20:00 +0000 I've studied the word please off and on for a few years now.* Currently, I'm trying to finish up a study that I started an embarrassing number of years ago. Now that I've returned to it, I have the pleasure of reading all the works that have been published on related topics in the meantime. They couldn't inform my study design, but they must now inform the paper I hope to publish. One of these is a chapter by Jonathan Culpeper, Jim O'Driscoll and Claire Hardaker: "Notions of Politeness in Britain and North America," published in the book in From Speech Acts to Lay Understandings of Politeness, edited by Eva Ogiermann and Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (Cambridge UP, 2019). Their question, what does polite mean in the UK and US, was a research project on my to-do list. When I was a younger scholar, I'd have been (a) royally annoyed with those authors for getting to it first, (b) sad, sad, sad that I didn't get to do a fun piece of research, and (c) consumed with self-loathing for not being quick enough to do the project myself. It is both the blessing and curse of middle age that I now look at anything anyone else has done with gratitude. Good! Now I don't have to do it! Let's start with why it's interesting to ask about "notions of politeness" in the two countries. Here's a clue from an earlier post about use of please when ordering at restaurants. I asked:So, how can it be that Americans think of themselves as polite when they fail to extend this common courtesy word?I argued that Americans (subconsciously) find the lack of please in these contexts "more polite." In the comments section for that post, some people—mostly British people—could just not accept that a food order without a please could be described as polite. To them, to be polite includes saying please. If you're not using the word please, it's just not polite. Now, part of the reason for that disagreement is that I was using the word polite in linguistic-theory-laden ways. The distinction between how the word politeness is used in linguistic discussions and how it's used in everyday life has become such a problem for us linguists that we now talk about polite1 and polite2 to distinguish commonplace understandings of polite (1) from our theoretical uses (2). The failures of communication in my previous blogpost probably stemmed from having three understandings of politeness at play: the linguist's polite2, American polite1, and British polite1. Postcard from the How to be British series Culpeper et al. set out to contrast British and American polite1. They point out that academic research on the topic of British/American politeness is "full of stereotypes that have largely gone unexamined." These stereotypes hold that British culture favo(u)rs maintaining social distance by using indirectness and avoidance in interaction, while Americans are more interested in creating interactional intimacy by being informal and open. The authors asked: how do AmE and BrE speakers use the word polite? If differences exist, then do they conform to the stereotypes, or do they tell us something new? To investigate this, the authors used two sets of data.Part 1: clustering 'polite' words in the OECFirst, they searched the Oxford English Corpus, where they found thousands of instances of polite. In AmE, it occurs 6.8 times and in BrE 8.8 times per million words. They then used corpus-linguistic tools to determine which words polite was most likely to co-occur with in the two countries' data. They then used statistical tools to group these collocates into clusters that reflect how they behave linguistically. (I'll skip over the detail of the statistical methods they use, but it suffices to say: they know what they're doing.) For example in the British data, words like courteous, considerate, and respectful form a courteous cluster, while words like cheery, optimistic, and upbeat are in the cheerful cluster. The British and American datasets were similar in that polite co-occurred at similar rates with words that formed cheerful and friendly clusters. This seems to go with the common stereotype of American politeness as outgoing and inclusive, but contradicts the British stereotype of reserved behavio(u)r. The most notable difference was that British polite collocated with words in a sensible cluster, including: sensible, straightforward, reasonable, and fair. This cluster didn't figure in the American data. The British data also had a calm cluster (calm, quiet, generous, modest, etc.), which had little overlap with American collocates. British polite, then, seems to be associated with "calm rationality, rather than, say, spontaneous emotion." Other clusters seemed more complex. Courteous and charming came up as British clusters, while American had respectful, gracious, and thoughtful clusters. However, many of the words in those clusters were the same. For example, almost all the words in the British courteous cluster were in the American gracious cluster. That is, in American courteous and attentive were more closely associated with 'gracious' words like open-minded and appreciative, while British courteous and attentive didn't intersect with more 'gracious' words. Respectful is a particularly interesting case: it shows up in the courteous cluster for the British data, but has its own respectful cluster in American (with words like compassionate and humane). Looking at these clusters of patterns gives us a sense of the connotations of the words—that is to say, the associations those words bring up for us. Words live in webs of cultural assumptions. Pluck one word in one web, and others will reverberate. But it won't be the same words that would have reverberated if you'd plucked the same word in the other web. It's not that compassionate wasn't in the British data, for example—it's that its patterns did not land it in a cluster with respectful. In American, respectful seems to have "a warmer flavour" with collocates relating to kindness and positive attitudes toward(s) others, while in the British data respectful has "older historic echoes of courtly, refined, well-mannered behaviour." Part 2: 'politeness' and sincerity on TwitterTheir second investigation involved analy{s/z}ing use of polite and its synonyms in a particular 36-hour period on Twitter. The data overall seemed to go against the stereotypes that American politeness is "friendly" and British is "formal", but once they looked at the data in more detail, they discovered why: US and UK words differed in (in)sincerity. In the British data, respectful seemed to "be used as a vehicle for irony, sarcasm and humour", while in the American data friendly "appears to have acquired a negative connotation" about 17% of the time, in which "friendly" people were accused of being untrustworthy or otherwise undesirable. This also underscores the idea that American respectful has a "warmer flavour" than British respectful. It's intriguing that each culture seems to be using words stereotypically associated with them (American–friendly; British–respectful) in ironic ways, while taking the less "typical of them" words more seriously. Yay for this study! I'm grateful to Culpeper, O'Driscoll and Hardaker for this very interesting paper, which demonstrates why it's difficult to have cross-cultural discussions of what's "polite" or "respectful" behavio(u)r. The more we're aware of these trends in how words are interpreted differently in different places, the better we can take care in our discussions of what's polite, acceptable, or rude. *If you're interested in the fruits of my please labo(u)rs so far, have a look at:Routine Politeness in American & British Requests (Murphy & De Felice 2019)Defining your P's & Q's: Describing and Prescribing Politeness in Dictionaries (Murphy 2019) Blog posts with the 'politeness' label Full Article politeness stereotypes
lit mobility By separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com Published On :: Sun, 26 Nov 2023 01:57:00 +0000 Smylers got in touch recently with this observation:I found myself being surprised by the word “mobility”, and was wondering if there's a BrE/AmE difference? Enterprise Rent-a-Car emailed to say they're introducing a new brand: Enterprise Mobility. That made me think of vehicles adapted for wheelchair users, or those who otherwise have limited personal mobility. But apparently it's the overall brand for various transport services; “mobility” is being used to mean “travelling in a vehicle”, rather than “travelling on foot”.There's no reason why the unqualified word should have one or the other meaning. But to my British brain, “mobility” makes me think of “mobility scooters” or “mobility aids” — such as those provided by Mobility People, whom you linked to in 2008:It's an interesting one. The word mobility seems a bit more common in BrE in the the News on the Web corpus: you find about 11 mobility per million words in the US, versus about 13 per million in the UK. Those British uses tend to relate to a couple of domains: physical (dis)ability and social class.It's not that Americans don't use mobility in that way. You can definitely find phrases like mobility scooter (as can be seen at this US electric wheelchair retailer) in AmE. (Though when I asked my brother what those things are called, he didn't use the word mobility, just scooter.) Nevertheless, this (dis)ability-related use of mobility used a lot more in BrE:The (dis)ability-related uses of mobility really take off in this corpus after 2021. For instance, mobility issues (which could refer to different kinds of mobility, but mostly doesn't) had only 0.30 per million (across countries) in 2019, but 0.85 per million in 2022. Both AmE and BrE use mobility for metaphorical movement, as in social mobility. Why so much more talk of social mobility in the UK? Because the Tory government had appointed a "Social Mobility Tsar" during the period that this corpus was collected. (The hits for tsar in BrE are similarly out-of-whack.) If instead of asking the corpus for particular phrases like these and instead ask it to tell us which combinations with mobility are statistically "most American" and "most British", the results are interesting. On the left are the "most American" ones*—the greener, the more not-British they are. And vice versa on the right. *This doesn't mean that these are the most common phrases with mobility in either country. And it doesn't mean that the other country doesn't use these phrases. It means that one country uses them surprisingly more than the other.mobility + nounNoun + mobilityAdjective + mobilityThe thing to notice here is how much longer the green lists are on the American side of the second two charts, where mobility is modified by another word. AmE writers seem to have more kinds of mobility than BrE writers do. Where you see something like this, it's reasonable to suspect that more phrases = more meanings, or at least more domains in which the word is used. Sure enough, the BrE side is almost entirely characterized by phrases used in talking about physical (dis)ability and social mobility. (Green Mobility there refers to an electric car [BrE] hire /[AmE] rental company in continental Europe.) But the AmE side has other themes coming through: family mobility is about the Massachusetts Work and Family Mobility Act, which is about what kind of paperwork you need to get a (AmE) driver's/(BrE) driving licen{c/s}e. Electrophoretic mobility refers to a chemistry thing that I'm not going to try to understand. Mobility wing mostly refers to sections (Air Mobility Wings) of the US Air Force Reserve. And so forth.Some of the uses, for example, commercial mobility, refer to means of transport(ation), and that's the use that Enterprise is picking up on in their branding. So there we go! It does look like branding that would work better in the US than the UK. Thanks, Smylers! Full Article bureaucracy disability transport(ation)
lit Fourteen Joe Biden Memes For The Political Satirists By cheezburger.com Published On :: Fri, 06 Dec 2019 19:00:00 -0800 Look, we definitely don't want to hate on any particular candidate or take sides in this presidential election cycle, but Joe Biden has just been so meme-able this election season that we really had to take advantage of the material handed to us. We think that Biden supporters and haters alike will be able to laugh at these. Full Article 2020 president Democrat presidential election barack obama election joe biden politics
lit 'Nancy Pelosi Ripping Paper' Proves The Political Memes Aren't Going Anywhere By cheezburger.com Published On :: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 07:00:00 -0800 While we would love for election season to be over right about now, we've gotta admit that the resulting political memes have been top-notch. The internet has been loving this particular dank meme, which shows Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi ripping up Donald Trump's State of the Union speech. Full Article politicians donald trump funny memes Nancy Pelosi political memes dank memes ignore trending politics
lit 'Far-Left Or Far-Right' Memes Poke Fun At Both Sides Of The Political Spectrum By cheezburger.com Published On :: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 07:00:00 -0700 Y'all, beware because this is the dumbest sh*tpost we've seen in a while. And the best part of it? People on both sides of the political spectrum can enjoy it. Click here to see more examples and more info! Full Article stupid memes political right wing funny memes dank memes trending memes shitposts trending politics
lit How employers can address increased gender inequality due to Working From Home By www.diversityjobs.com Published On :: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 19:34:21 +0000 The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the nature of work as we know it. Between flexible work arrangements, part-time contracts, and side gigs, it’s been difficult to gauge just how many people are working from home as a result. But according to Stanford’s research, 42% of the U.S. labor force was working from home full time […] The post How employers can address increased gender inequality due to Working From Home appeared first on DiversityJobs.com. Full Article Diversity Statistics Workplace Diversity
lit NFPA and ESFI work to reduce fatalities caused by electric shock drowning in pools and at marinas By www.nfpa.org Published On :: 22 Jun2017 19:37:24 GMT With summer in full swing, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and Electrical Safety Foundation International (ESFI) are joining forces to remind people about the potential electrical hazards in swimming pools, hot tubs and spas, on board boats and in the waters surrounding boats, marinas and launch ramps. Full Article
lit Creative Commons Launches TAROCH Coalition for Open Access to Cultural Heritage By creativecommons.org Published On :: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 13:34:45 +0000 Creative Commons (CC) is proud to launch the TAROCH Coalition (Towards a Recommendation on Open Cultural Heritage), a collaborative effort to achieve the adoption of a UNESCO standard-setting instrument to improve open access to cultural heritage. We are grateful to the Arcadia Fund for supporting this initiative. Below we share an overview of TAROCH and… The post Creative Commons Launches TAROCH Coalition for Open Access to Cultural Heritage appeared first on Creative Commons. Full Article Open Culture Open Heritage open culture open heritage TAROCH
lit Likely future German coalition divided on energy, climate By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:08:24 GMT Germany's conservative CDU/CSU, led by Friedrich Merz, is expected to win the snap election on 23 February according to the latest polls but remains at odds on energy and climate policy with its most likely coalition partner: Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD). Merz's Union is currently leading… Full Article
lit RWE Plans €1.5 Billion Buyback as US Politics Cloud Investments By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 08:03:27 GMT Full Article
lit Dogecoin Trade Goes From Meme to Reality as Donald Trump Confirms D.O.G.E By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:27 GMT In an X post, Musk said that all Department of Government Efficiency actions will be posted online for maximum transparency. Full Article
lit Elon Musk wades into Italian political drama over Albanian migrant deal By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:39 GMT In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about new polls showing growing support for Czechia's populist Motorists party, billionaire Elon Musk slamming Italian judges in row with Meloni, and so much more. Full Article
lit A look at Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct, which Alibaba claims to match GPT-4o's coding capabilities and is small enough to run on a MacBook Pro M2 with 64GB of RAM By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:51:20 GMT Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Mac 12th November 2024 There’s a whole lot of buzz around the new Qwen2.5-Coder Series of open source (Apache 2.0 licensed) LLM releases from Alibaba’s Qwen research team. On first impression it looks like the buzz is well… Full Article
lit German lithium plant hopes to turbo-charge Europe’s EV makers By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:01:46 GMT Vulcan Energy says its new plant west of Frankfurt, now in its pilot phase, plans to soon produce lithium for batteries used by auto manufacturers including Volkswagen, Renault and Stellantis. Full Article
lit Teraco Taps Absa for $442 Million Loan for AI-Ready Facility By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:12:58 GMT In This Article: (Bloomberg) -- Teraco Data Environments Ltd. hired Absa Group Ltd. to syndicate an 8 billion rand ($442 million) loan as the company gears up for a new facility to meet rising demand from artificial intelligence applications. Most Read from Bloomberg The facility will push… Full Article
lit Breaking the Fourth Wall: Fiction Meets Reality in ARG Trust No One By news.xbox.com Published On :: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 20:00:00 +0000 The post Breaking the Fourth Wall: Fiction Meets Reality in ARG Trust No One appeared first on Xbox Wire. Full Article Games ID@Xbox triomatica games Trust No One
lit Get Affordable Quality Directory Listing Service By linkworxseo.wordpress.com Published On :: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 22:00:06 +0000 Link Worx Seo provides you the most effective way to improve your site’s link building through its directory listing service. Whether you are a start-up enterprise or a well established company, you will certainly need powerful techniques to increase your site’s online visibility. All the search engines today are becoming gradually tighter about website positioning […] Full Article DIRECTORY SUBMISSION SERVICE LINK BUILDING add-url directory submission services directory-submission listings marketing online-advertising seo-link-building web-directories
lit How QR Codes Enhance Computer Use and Accessibility By thinkcomputers.org Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 07:00:04 +0000 QR codes are widely used for quick access to websites and information, but they’re also a helpful tool for simplifying tasks on computers. With a QR code generator, users can connect mobile devices to computers, share files, link to online resources, and even enhance security. The post How QR Codes Enhance Computer Use and Accessibility appeared first on ThinkComputers.org. Full Article Articles Computers QR Codes tech
lit Examination of Cantor’s proofs for uncountability and axiom for counting infinite sets By blogs.scienceforums.net Published On :: Sun, 11 Sep 2022 18:51:41 +0000 I do a detailed analysis of Cantor’s theory of uncountable sets. The logic of his proofs has some weaknesses. I propose an axiom and a solution to continuum hypothesis. The main idea is: Assumption of Cantor’s proofs: All real numbers (set R) are in a list (list L). This assumption means R=L, considering L as... Full Article SFN Blogs Uncategorized
lit Examination of Cantor’s proofs for uncountability and axiom for counting infinite sets By blogs.scienceforums.net Published On :: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 13:02:45 +0000 An analysis of Cantor’s theory of uncountable sets: The logic of his proofs has some weaknesses. Cantor assumes for both his proofs that all real numbers (set R) are in a list (list L). Considering L as a set this assumption assumes R belongs to L. This makes the claim “a real number is constructed... Full Article SFN Blogs Uncategorized
lit Polarization of American politics By blogs.scienceforums.net Published On :: Sun, 12 Mar 2023 16:13:12 +0000 Polarization of American Politics Ah politics… fun fun fun ‘til Daddy takes the T-Bird away, the polarization of America is getting out of hand. Everyone can buy a gun? State religion? No taxes? Unbridled Capitalism? Socialism? Libertarianism? Communism? Extremism! Oh My! Has everyone lost their collective minds? We live in a society, supposedly a free... Full Article SFN Blogs Uncategorized
lit What helps women who have learning disabilities get checked for cervical cancer? By lx.iriss.org.uk Published On :: Monday, September 7, 2015 - 13:47 This is a paper produced as part of the PROP2 (Practitioner Research: Outcomes and Partnership) programme, a partnership between the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR) at the University of Edinburgh and IRISS that was about health and social care in Scotland. This paper was written by Elaine Monteith from ENABLE Scotland who participated in the PROP2 programme. What this research paper explores: All women are asked to go to the doctor every few years to get a check for cancer but women who have a learning disability don’t go for these checks as often as other women. The paper explore what barriers there are for women attending for checks and also looks at what could be done to encourage women them to attend. Full Article
lit With a little help from my friends: The ‘Circle of Friends’ approach By lx.iriss.org.uk Published On :: Sunday, September 27, 2015 - 22:33 This is a paper produced as part of the PROP2 (Practitioner Research: Outcomes and Partnership) programme, a partnership between the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR) at the University of Edinburgh and IRISS that was about health and social care in Scotland. This paper was written by Raymond Brennan from ENABLE Scotland who participated in the PROP2 programme. This research is an attempt to understand the difficulties people with learning disabilities face around friendships and relationships. Recent evidence produced in the ‘Keys to Life’ highlights the impact social isolation has on people with learning disabilities. This research is concerned with the experiences parents and children have when choosing their options of schooling, and if the ‘Circle of Friends’ approach would make the option of mainstream school less daunting. Full Article
lit Impact of antiretroviral therapy on liver disease progression and mortality in patients co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C: systematic review and meta-analysis By lx.iriss.org.uk Published On :: Friday, November 20, 2015 - 12:29 Systematic review produced by the EPPI-Centre in 2015.This systematic review aimed to evaluate the effect of HAART and ARV monotherapy on liver disease progression and liver-related mortality in individuals co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C, including in patients with haemophilia. Full Article
lit Coalition of Care and Support Providers in Scotland (CCPS) By lx.iriss.org.uk Published On :: Friday, November 27, 2015 - 09:31 CCPS is the Coalition of Care and Support Providers in Scotland. Their mission is to identify, represent, promote and safeguard the interests of third sector and not-for-profit social care and support providers in Scotland, so that they can maximise the impact they have on meeting social need. Full Article
lit Scottish Consortium for Learning Disabilities (SCLD) By lx.iriss.org.uk Published On :: Friday, November 27, 2015 - 10:06 SCLD brings together some of the most respected practitioners and thinkers from across the learning disability sector who work alongside people who have learning disabilities and their families and carers.The team at SCLD is focused on delivering real change through influencing policy, identifying and sharing evidence and good practice and challenging public attitudes. SCLD aims to be a knowledge hub – offering support, information and new ideas about learning disability in Scotland. Full Article
lit British Institute of Learning Disabilities By lx.iriss.org.uk Published On :: Friday, November 27, 2015 - 10:55 British Institute of Learning Disabilities services help develop the organisations who provide services, and the people who give support. Full Article
lit Capability Scotland By lx.iriss.org.uk Published On :: Friday, November 27, 2015 - 14:06 Capability Scotland campaigns with, and provides education, employment and care services for disabled children and adults across Scotland. Full Article
lit A Few Little Convos By lamebook.com Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 16:45:00 +0000 Full Article Personal Problems
lit Forced to Carry: The Reality of Rape-Related Pregnancies in a Post-Roe World By feminist.org Published On :: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 17:37:32 +0000 Photo by freestocks The issue of rape-related pregnancies is a crucial yet often-overlooked aspect of the broader debate surrounding abortion access. As more states implement strict abortion bans, the implications for survivors of sexual violence become increasingly severe and far-reaching. When Hadley Duvall was just 12 years old, she was raped and impregnated by her stepfather. […] The post Forced to Carry: The Reality of Rape-Related Pregnancies in a Post-Roe World appeared first on Feminist Majority Foundation. Related posts: Abortion Rights on the 2024 Ballot: Key States Where Voters Will Decide the Future of Reproductive Freedom Full Article Abortion abortion news sexual assault
lit The Alt-Right Pipeline and the Rise of Trump: How Digital Radicalization Found Its Political Voice By feminist.org Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 18:54:00 +0000 When Trump descended the escalator at Trump Tower in 2015 to announce his presidential campaign, he tapped into something that had been brewing in online spaces for years. What made Trump unique wasn’t just his message, but his ability to speak the language of internet culture – his unfiltered tweets, his willingness to be politically […] The post The Alt-Right Pipeline and the Rise of Trump: How Digital Radicalization Found Its Political Voice appeared first on Feminist Majority Foundation. No related posts. Full Article Politics alt right Gen Z news podcasts
lit Charter Schools II: Choice & Quality By blog.talkingphilosophy.com Published On :: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 13:00:52 Embed from Getty Images In the previous essay on charter schools I considered the monopoly argument in their favor. On this view, charter schools break the state’s harmful monopoly on education and this is a good thing. It is worth …Read more » Full Article
lit Makes You Want To Throw The Book At Him. Literally. By clientsfromhell.tumblr.com Published On :: Tue, 04 Jan 2022 09:00:17 -0800 My boss is a seventy-something-year-old man with barely a clue on how to get a computer to boot. He gave me an old book and wanted me to convert it into an ebook to sell. And mind, this was a thick, large-format book chock-full of maps and other illustrations with tiny blackletter script. Me: “Sure, I can do it, but I’d have to scan it in a massive resolution so the detail isn’t lost. The final file would be massive; it wouldn’t be practical to download it, and a normal ebook reader wouldn’t be able to display it correctly.” Boss: “So, we’d have to make it less detailed.” Me: “How do you mean?” Boss: “It wouldn’t be possible with the illustrations; you’ll just have to make the writing bigger on all the pages.” Me: “…” Boss: “As for the pages with only text on them, you will just convert them into a Word document.” Me: “That’s not how that works.” Boss: “Why not?” Me: “It’s just straight-up not possible, at least not with the software we have.” Boss: “Can you do it on the Internet?” Me: “No.” Boss: “How do you know?” Me: “I know.” Boss: “Show me.” I showed him that it’s not possible to convert a scanned book page into a text document on some random converter found on page one on Google. Boss: “Okay, so you will instead cut the text out in Photoshop, make it larger, and arrange it on a new Photoshop file the same size, with less of a rim around it so the number of pages doesn’t get much higher.” I flat-out refused, telling him it would be months of absolutely pointless work. He didn’t believe any of my claims, anyway, so I just converted the whole d*** thing into an ebook, which, in the end, was like 8GB in size. Since our server had 10TB, he also didn’t believe me when I tried to tell him that it was an absurdly massive file that few people would want to buy on that account. Ah, well. At least I didn’t have to rearrange like 300 pages of text. Full Article
lit What can you do in your own home to improve air quality? By inhabitat.com Published On :: Thu, 06 Jul 2023 17:30:00 +0000 If you live in an urban area with cars, industry and unpleasant city smells, you might retreat to your house for safety from environmental pollutants. But how good is your air quality at home?[...] Full Article Air quality Health air pollution home air quality Avoiding Toxins
lit All-encompassing hotel in San Francisco is quality ecotourism By inhabitat.com Published On :: Fri, 14 Jul 2023 17:30:00 +0000 San Francisco has long been a destination for those who enjoy natural wonders. The incredible bay and sandy beaches, the towering redwoods, the mountains, it all gives this city a look that no other place has. And now, finally, the Bay Area will have a sustainable hotel that celebrates the environment of San Francisco with 1 Hotel San Francisco.[...] Full Article San Francisco Eco Tourism ecotourism hotel Hotels
lit New Washington library is encompassed in sustainability By inhabitat.com Published On :: Tue, 25 Jul 2023 16:30:00 +0000 Sustainable construction and design have become a trendy topic in real estate, with homebuyers now proudly showing off their graywater systems and solar panels. But the new Mount Vernon Library Commons by HKP Architects in Mount Vernon, Washington proves that sustainable design can be used by any company, any government and anyone who wants to make an impression.[...] Full Article washington library greywater system community center ev charging station post-format-gallery Public Spaces
lit Never Discuss Politics At Family Reunions By cheezburger.com Published On :: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 01:58:22 -0700 divine creation evolution discussing politics during a family reunion is never a good idea Full Article animals art funny illustration politics
lit Oh, ye of little faith By cheezburger.com Published On :: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 17:43:59 -0800 Full Article future typewriter
lit Episode 780- Demolition Derby By shows.acast.com Published On :: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 09:53:52 GMT In this episode I'm joined by Andrew Allen to look back to Arsenal's 5-0 demolition of Chelsea on Tuesday night. We chat about the quick opening goal which made Anne Hathaway happy, the red card Chelsea should have had, and missed chances from the Gunners. We also look at how we were more solid in the second half, with two goals from Kai Havertz and Ben White – with the former Chelsea man celebrating his strikes with gusto. There's discussion of how Havertz has grown into this team, the Martin Odegaard performance, the significance of the result, and lots more.Follow Andrew @aallensportHere's the link for general sale tickets to the live show, on sale today at 3pm: https://comm.tix.to/ArsecastLiveGet extra bonus content and help support Arseblog by becoming an Arseblog Member on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/arseblog – this month we're donating every penny of our Patreon revenue to UNICEF, so you get great content and help kids all around the world too. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Full Article
lit Google’s AI Tool Big Sleep Finds Zero-Day Vulnerability in SQLite Database Engine By thehackernews.com Published On :: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 15:34:00 +0530 Google said it discovered a zero-day vulnerability in the SQLite open-source database engine using its large language model (LLM) assisted framework called Big Sleep (formerly Project Naptime). The tech giant described the development as the "first real-world vulnerability" uncovered using the artificial intelligence (AI) agent. "We believe this is the first public example of an AI agent finding Full Article
lit Google Warns of Actively Exploited CVE-2024-43093 Vulnerability in Android System By thehackernews.com Published On :: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 09:00:00 +0530 Google has warned that a security flaw impacting its Android operating system has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-43093, has been described as a privilege escalation flaw in the Android Framework component that could result in unauthorized access to "Android/data," "Android/obb," and "Android/sandbox" directories, and their respective Full Article
lit Cisco Releases Patch for Critical URWB Vulnerability in Industrial Wireless Systems By thehackernews.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 14:38:00 +0530 Cisco has released security updates to address a maximum severity security flaw impacting Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (URWB) Access Points that could permit unauthenticated, remote attackers to run commands with elevated privileges. Tracked as CVE-2024-20418 (CVS score: 10.0), the vulnerability has been described as stemming from a lack of input validation to the web-based management Full Article
