The following are multiple choice questions (with answers) about security studies.

Why, in the contemporary studies of security, is the subject of energy security so important?
A. There exists an array of contemporary challenges to energy security, ranging from resource scarcity concerns to dangers of political instability.
B. The existence of reliable supplies of energy determines the ability of a nation to achieve economic development.
C. Energy security encompasses a broad range of issues that are both contemporary and fundamental to security, ranging from the local and individual to the global scale.
D. All of these options.
Answer: D<|endoftext|> had his Ohio gun charges magically dropped and his bond zeroed out in December 2015. The Sheriff refused to state why. A couple of weeks later Santilli shows up in Oregon a free man, with expensive broadcasting equipment and the will of a weasel to worm his way into the middle of Ammon’s actions. Apparently, he didn’t experience any cell jamming or other NSA communications interference like other broadcasters experienced while trying to get the truth out.

      What should become apparent is that Ammon and his team’s quest for freedom and justice was DOOMED from the start, because his team was more riddled with paid feds than swiss cheese is with holes. It appears that the brunt of the plan was actually cooked up by the feds working inside the camp. I deeply regret the loss of Lavoy’s life and the fact that Victoria Sharp was placed in harm’s way by well-intentioned, but profoundly naive occupiers. I also deeply regret that Ammon and his few true occupiers put much more stock in listening to paid federal fomenters who lived among them, than they did to the hard-won, tactically-sound knowledge of proven patriots on the scene – those who warned Ammon repeatedly about the foolhardiness of his actions.

      Make no mistake about it: the feds involved in this despicable plot have BLOOD on their hands, and that includes some of the men posing as occupiers and broadcast radio hosts. But Ammon and his surviving leaders must bear some of the blame as well. Their actions were the height of simple-minded, overly-idealistic foolishness. What good is a brave patriot is he is also a foolish one who refuses good counsel and sound reason?

  27. This was definitely murder. Occupy, destroyed public and personal property and the leo’s did not confront them. The thugs that make up Black Lives Matter burned cars, businesses and assaulted individuals and leo’s did not confront them. These men took over a building that was not being used to get attention to start a dialogue about the unconstitutional control that the federal government has over the land that belongs to states and the citizens that live in them and the traitors in our government send a large group of psychopathic thugs to murder them. I hope every leo involved in this up to the director but not limited to that point are [Eighteen words deleted by Elias Alias, editor]

    1. Here’s one of the places that you lose potential allies. Technically the building was not in use because it was not a work day when they entered the building. Much has been made about the cost to taxpayers of having to pay people who aren’t able to get in there and do their work – about how the environmental efforts have been impacted (in a costly manner ) due to the interruption and so on. When I heard that the building was not in use I expected to see an unkempt cobweb filled shack. You make excellent points concisely otherwise but people who have no issues with shooting a man in the back will shoot down your whole point based on the one flaw.

  28. Speaking of reference points. LaVoy or any others had broken any laws that this countries founders faught to establish. They say it’s a living document, I say it’s dead. They say our country is dead, I say it’s alive. They say Lavoy killed himself, I say they killed him. I say they killed him because they are scared or the Justice system. They are scared of constitutional freedoms, freedom of religion, speech, the right to bear arms, and most importantly, the right to do on to others as they do on to you. I don’t really know scripture well but I remember a commandment or 2. 5-1

    1. “the right to do on to others as they do on to you”? friend that is not a constitutional freedom. how do that even make any sense?

  29. Crispus Attucks died March 5, 1770, first casualty of the American Revolution. three others died that day at the hands of the British redcoats in what was named in 1771, the Boston Massacre. July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence. It’s already written. It doesn’t need to be rewritten. The same Continental Congress appointed George Washington Commander of the Continental Army. So, six years, between 1770 and 1776. Do we have that long? We can skip the writing of Founding Documents, the ones we have are still valid. Is LaVoy Finicum our Cripsus Attucks? Will 26 January 2016 go down in history as the start of the 2nd American Revolution? Will it take an armed revolution to restore the Constitution?

  30. I looked at this ten times,what I saw was a ambush this man was shot down with his hands in the air Now the FBI has some thing to anser for they killed a men whit his hans in the air Now the government will have to pay for the shit did by the FBI

  31. The quick release of video by the FBI was good. Unfortunately the video raises more questions than it answers. Why no audio? Why did they say that they wouldn’t release photos of the truck? Will they release full autopsy reports? How many agents were on the ground? How many vehicles were involved? Where’s the video on the ground? They could at least show the parts that confirm, with more detail, what happened from the air?

    This is a beginning but there better be more information released, and soon, as this has NOT stopped the anger that’s fomenting because the way this was handled.

  32. Does anyone think that maybe the Grant County sheriff got flipped by the FBI. That picture of him laughing and smiling during the road blockade after the shooting looks kinda of condemning. I know he is in full blown denial right now.

  33. It is really sad this father had to die for nothing. All of this was just complete nonsense, pointless and silly, and he went down believing all of it.

    It was a series of bad choices on his part that led to his demise. I hope others learn from this.

    1. You’re exactly right. What did his unfortunate choices accomplish? Maybe it’s too soon to tell today. I don’t think anyone doubts his courage and conviction, but his choices are so difficult to understand. He was a Husband, Dad of 11, Grandpa of 19, and he had multiple other young people who had lived with him and looked up to him. He had so much to live for and his choices negatively impacted every one of his loved ones! Why would he throw his life away on a strategically-bungled, short-lived suicide mission that resulted in ZERO change except the imprisonment of several of his friends? Regardless of how he was killed or what he was doing while shot, he HAD to have known that his actions and those of the other occupiers at the Refuge were going to be short-lived and stopped with brute force by a government which tolerates precious little dissent. The Hammonds are still in prison, and now the Bundys are as well. The whole mess casts aspersions on the character of some of the men who gained the victory that was Bundy Ranch.

      And for pity’s sake, why are Oath Keepers and the PPN so danged quiet about the cordon and any other tactical ops that were supposed to have been put in place?

  34. This is a great tragedy… The bigger picture, as Red Blooded American Patriots we need to standup to this Tyrannical regime and vote them out of office! I disagree with the tactics of this deliberate killing by the FBI, and State police. They follow orders from up above, the government… Some of you may not know some of the reasons behind the government overreach, Mr. Harry Reid, yes the senator has been to China brokering a deal, to let the Chineese buy a huge parcel of land so that they can build a Solsr panel manufacturing plant! The Federal gov’t does not own this land and has no right to sale it! On another note, on one talks about when Sec. of state Hillary Clinton brokered a deal with a Russian invester to sale 51% of the U.S.’s uranium deposits, this alone should be a criminal act also. People we need to vote these CRIMINALS out of office, NOW!!!

    1. I agree with you Jack……Did you know that under the Hammonds property is possibly Uranium? Did you know that Hammond went to a Conference in the 1990’s to Douglas County OR to talk about the Land Grab and they have been after him ever since? Check with the Roseburg Beacon….they know the story.

  35. He was stumbling in the snow trying to put his hand up and was shot in cold blood police should be charged with murder and where’s the outrage ? Pretty clear his was unarmed

  36. [Twenty-four words deleted by Elias Alias, editor] saying it was 10 minutes after

 had his Ohio gun charges magically dropped and his bond zeroed out in December 2015. The Sheriff refused to state why. A couple of weeks later Santilli shows up in Oregon a free man, with expensive broadcasting equipment and the will of a weasel to worm his way into the middle of Ammon’s actions. Apparently, he didn’t experience any cell jamming or other NSA communications interference like other broadcasters experienced while trying to get the truth out.

      What should become apparent is that Ammon and his team’s quest for freedom and justice was DOOMED from the start, because his team was more riddled with paid feds than swiss cheese is with holes. It appears that the brunt of the plan was actually cooked up by the feds working inside the camp. I deeply regret the loss of Lavoy’s life and the fact that Victoria Sharp was placed in harm’s way by well-intentioned, but profoundly naive occupiers. I also deeply regret that Ammon and his few true occupiers put much more stock in listening to paid federal fomenters who lived among them, than they did to the hard-won, tactically-sound knowledge of proven patriots on the scene – those who warned Ammon repeatedly about the foolhardiness of his actions.

      Make no mistake about it: the feds involved in this despicable plot have BLOOD on their hands, and that includes some of the men posing as occupiers and broadcast radio hosts. But Ammon and his surviving leaders must bear some of the blame as well. Their actions were the height of simple-minded, overly-idealistic foolishness. What good is a brave patriot is he is also a foolish one who refuses good counsel and sound reason?

  27. This was definitely murder. Occupy, destroyed public and personal property and the leo’s did not confront them. The thugs that make up Black Lives Matter burned cars, businesses and assaulted individuals and leo’s did not confront them. These men took over a building that was not being used to get attention to start a dialogue about the unconstitutional control that the federal government has over the land that belongs to states and the citizens that live in them and the traitors in our government send a large group of psychopathic thugs to murder them. I hope every leo involved in this up to the director but not limited to that point are [Eighteen words deleted by Elias Alias, editor]

    1. Here’s one of the places that you lose potential allies. Technically the building was not in use because it was not a work day when they entered the building. Much has been made about the cost to taxpayers of having to pay people who aren’t able to get in there and do their work – about how the environmental efforts have been impacted (in a costly manner ) due to the interruption and so on. When I heard that the building was not in use I expected to see an unkempt cobweb filled shack. You make excellent points concisely otherwise but people who have no issues with shooting a man in the back will shoot down your whole point based on the one flaw.

  28. Speaking of reference points. LaVoy or any others had broken any laws that this countries founders faught to establish. They say it’s a living document, I say it’s dead. They say our country is dead, I say it’s alive. They say Lavoy killed himself, I say they killed him. I say they killed him because they are scared or the Justice system. They are scared of constitutional freedoms, freedom of religion, speech, the right to bear arms, and most importantly, the right to do on to others as they do on to you. I don’t really know scripture well but I remember a commandment or 2. 5-1

    1. “the right to do on to others as they do on to you”? friend that is not a constitutional freedom. how do that even make any sense?

  29. Crispus Attucks died March 5, 1770, first casualty of the American Revolution. three others died that day at the hands of the British redcoats in what was named in 1771, the Boston Massacre. July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence. It’s already written. It doesn’t need to be rewritten. The same Continental Congress appointed George Washington Commander of the Continental Army. So, six years, between 1770 and 1776. Do we have that long? We can skip the writing of Founding Documents, the ones we have are still valid. Is LaVoy Finicum our Cripsus Attucks? Will 26 January 2016 go down in history as the start of the 2nd American Revolution? Will it take an armed revolution to restore the Constitution?

  30. I looked at this ten times,what I saw was a ambush this man was shot down with his hands in the air Now the FBI has some thing to anser for they killed a men whit his hans in the air Now the government will have to pay for the shit did by the FBI

  31. The quick release of video by the FBI was good. Unfortunately the video raises more questions than it answers. Why no audio? Why did they say that they wouldn’t release photos of the truck? Will they release full autopsy reports? How many agents were on the ground? How many vehicles were involved? Where’s the video on the ground? They could at least show the parts that confirm, with more detail, what happened from the air?

    This is a beginning but there better be more information released, and soon, as this has NOT stopped the anger that’s fomenting because the way this was handled.

  32. Does anyone think that maybe the Grant County sheriff got flipped by the FBI. That picture of him laughing and smiling during the road blockade after the shooting looks kinda of condemning. I know he is in full blown denial right now.

  33. It is really sad this father had to die for nothing. All of this was just complete nonsense, pointless and silly, and he went down believing all of it.

    It was a series of bad choices on his part that led to his demise. I hope others learn from this.

    1. You’re exactly right. What did his unfortunate choices accomplish? Maybe it’s too soon to tell today. I don’t think anyone doubts his courage and conviction, but his choices are so difficult to understand. He was a Husband, Dad of 11, Grandpa of 19, and he had multiple other young people who had lived with him and looked up to him. He had so much to live for and his choices negatively impacted every one of his loved ones! Why would he throw his life away on a strategically-bungled, short-lived suicide mission that resulted in ZERO change except the imprisonment of several of his friends? Regardless of how he was killed or what he was doing while shot, he HAD to have known that his actions and those of the other occupiers at the Refuge were going to be short-lived and stopped with brute force by a government which tolerates precious little dissent. The Hammonds are still in prison, and now the Bundys are as well. The whole mess casts aspersions on the character of some of the men who gained the victory that was Bundy Ranch.

      And for pity’s sake, why are Oath Keepers and the PPN so danged quiet about the cordon and any other tactical ops that were supposed to have been put in place?

  34. This is a great tragedy… The bigger picture, as Red Blooded American Patriots we need to standup to this Tyrannical regime and vote them out of office! I disagree with the tactics of this deliberate killing by the FBI, and State police. They follow orders from up above, the government… Some of you may not know some of the reasons behind the government overreach, Mr. Harry Reid, yes the senator has been to China brokering a deal, to let the Chineese buy a huge parcel of land so that they can build a Solsr panel manufacturing plant! The Federal gov’t does not own this land and has no right to sale it! On another note, on one talks about when Sec. of state Hillary Clinton brokered a deal with a Russian invester to sale 51% of the U.S.’s uranium deposits, this alone should be a criminal act also. People we need to vote these CRIMINALS out of office, NOW!!!

    1. I agree with you Jack……Did you know that under the Hammonds property is possibly Uranium? Did you know that Hammond went to a Conference in the 1990’s to Douglas County OR to talk about the Land Grab and they have been after him ever since? Check with the Roseburg Beacon….they know the story.

  35. He was stumbling in the snow trying to put his hand up and was shot in cold blood police should be charged with murder and where’s the outrage ? Pretty clear his was unarmed

  36. [Twenty-four words deleted by Elias Alias, editor] saying it was 10 minutes after the shooting. More like 18-20 minutes because they’re not even touching him until plane, drone, or whatever pans over and cops are running to the vehicle, and that is passed the 18 minute mark.
    And as to the question on the enhanced video weather he was shot with his hands up? Yes!!!!! Looks to me as if. He’s stumbling in the snow and yes his arms would drop reaching for a gun? Don’t know, but looks like he may be wounded at that moment then hears, or is already being shot at from behind, and turns to see, at that


The following are multiple choice questions (with answers) about business ethics.

The relationship between ethics and the law can be described as…
A. Incredibly close, in fact, in all instances what is ethical is also what is legal and vice versa.
B. Not close, ethics and the law share a small amount of overlap, but fundamentally address differing questions and themes.
C. Close, as there is considerable overlap between ethics and law, but the two are not equivalent.
D. Not at all close, ethics and the law are virtually incompatible.
Answer: C<|endoftext|> customers.

It's a model that has in many ways worked incredibly well for the business, which Segars joined way back in 1991 only months after it was founded. In the subsequent decades it has built itself a privileged position as a kind of trusted non-combatant in the otherwise hyper-competitive smartphone wars. Its customers may be deadly rivals with one another but they all buy their chip designs from ARM.

And buy they certainly do - an estimated 99% of the world's mobile devices have ARM tech at their hearts, including every generation of iPhone and very nearly all Android ones, up to and including the new Samsung Galaxy S8. ARM was even voted Britain's Most Admired Company in the coveted MT poll last year.

When it was announced that the firm was to be sold to SoftBank last July, it was concern about this hard-won independence which was uppermost in Segars' mind. 'It was always hard to get your head around who might acquire ARM that wouldn't spoil us,' he says. 'But the deal progressed pretty quickly to the point where as a board you just can't say no.

'But in my mind I'm also thinking, what does this mean to our partners? To our employees? To the business we've built up?'

SoftBank is the giant Japanese telco-turned-investment-vehicle ruled over by the charismatic Masayoshi 'Masa' Son, Japan's richest man who enjoys a reputation as a risk-loving 'crazy guy addicted to the future'. He takes big bets, loves a good aphorism and claims to be driven by a '300-year vision' for his empire, centred on the rise of AI as a transformational force for good. Those cute Pepper robots with the big manga-style eyes? They're one of his, and barely even the tip of the tip of the iceberg.

So Segars wasn't the only one to be worried - there were plenty of others who feared that any purchase might compromise ARM's neutrality, undermining its ability to sell to allcomers. Those worries are unfounded, he says. 'When you are being courted, you never know quite how it is going to pan out, but I have to say that everything Masa said about how he wasn't going to come and interfere (with running the business day-to-day), they have been absolutely true to their word. They haven't spoiled the neutrality and our discussions are all about strategy and growth.'

It helped that Segars knew his new boss already, 'I first met him in 2006, they had just acquired Vodafone in Japan,' and also knew that he had wanted to buy ARM for a decade or so, but hadn't quite been able to afford it.

But in the intervening years Son had not been idle, an early $20m bet on Chinese ecommerce start-up Alibaba having come spectacularly good to the tune of an estimated $58bn.

Shifting stakes in a couple of smaller gaming firms plus $8bn worth of his precious Alibaba stock got the ARM deal over the line.

All the same, Segars admits that when the approach was made, it was a bit of a spit your coffee out moment. 'He rang me up and said he'd like to meet with me and my chairman. So we ended up having lunch in Turkey, of all places.'

An avid dealmaker, Son holds stakes in a dizzying array of businesses including a Japanese baseball team. A listed company, SoftBank's market cap rose by a whopping 577% between 2009-2014. But fuelling his ambition has led him to rack up $120bn in debt. And the first dotcom crash cost him $77bn, reckoned to be the biggest single personal loss ever.

The news was not only a surprise to employees and customers - the sale of the UK's largest homegrown tech firm to a foreign buyer inevitably attracted a lot of negative comment. Would a British buyer going after Sony or Toshiba be so welcome in Tokyo, asked critics?

ARM's progenitor and paterfamilias of the Cambridge tech scene, Hermann Hauser, even went so far as to describe the sale as 'A very sad day for technology in Britain'. In another recent interview he cautioned, 'What happens when he (Son) retires? Will his successor have the same attitude to ARM?' A new boss could well mean new favourites in the SoftBank stable.

Segars isn't having any of this - there are no barbarians at ARM's gates as far as he is concerned. 'People were writing things like "All the profit's going to be sucked out of ARM and the UK isn't going to benefit" but we're still hiring like crazy here. This is still our HQ and we're growing it, just like we said we would.'

It's a good deal for ARM and the UK, he says, both because of the guarantees offered (SoftBank says it will double the number of ARM employees in the UK, currently around 1,600, and that the firm's nerve centre will remain in Cambridge) and also because of the freedom of action that no longer being a plc affords.

'All that's really happened is that we've gone from having thousands of shareholders to having one. And even when we had thousands, about half of the shares were held overseas anyway - the perceptions about ARM's ownership and the reality were slightly different.'

One shareholder means faster decision-making, less time spent managing investor expectations and more time for thinking big thoughts about the future of technology.

'We will be able to grow more quickly and to do more. Now, if there's something we want to do or someone we want to go and acquire, it's a conversation with Masa and we go and do it. For me and my team that has been pretty liberating and motivational.'

Why was SoftBank so keen to get its hands on ARM's tech in the first place? Well, unlike conventional processors, the ones that Segars and his colleagues design offer a double whammy of key attributes: plenty of processing muscle, plus very low power consumption for decent battery life. Without ARM our phones would run flat in minutes rather than hours.

But Son is famous for his grand plans, and it is likely that he has a bigger role in mind for his new toy. It's hardly the sort of early stage bet SoftBank is best known for after all, the chances of discovering a vast well of hidden value in a FTSE 100 firm that analysts have been poring over for 18 years being pretty small.

Read more: ARM is Britain's Most Admired Company 2016

The next big boom sectors will be the connected and then autonomous car, says Segars, plus the much vaunted Internet of Things, which will see devices, from cars to toasters, hooked up to the internet over the coming decades. 'There are going to be a trillion connected devices ranging from mining in South America to a light bulb there in this building. So there's a growing opportunity to deploy ARM-based technology in all sorts of computers - big ones in the cloud, and tiny ones in the devices that are going to create the Internet of Things.'

ARM needs to catch this wave, not only because the world has probably got almost as many smartphones as it wants now, but also because bigger and noisier chip giants like Intel are starting to move in on its territory and produce their own low-power consumption designs. But the miniature wireless sensors which will be required for the Internet of Things will have to run off even tinier currents, and that is where ARM can still win.

'Energy efficiency matters. It matters in your TV because it reduces the cost and it matters in a data centre because of the explosion of data that's coming. You've got to get more energy efficient so that society can benefit,' he says.

How big is the opportunity presented by the Internet of Things? 'It's going to be very big. People are predicting the end of the decimal system because there just aren't numbers big enough, there's no term to express the amount of data that is going to be flowing around.'

Taking full advantage of this next phase of growth requires not only agility and technical excellence, says Segars, but also absolute discretion, because the number of commercial rivals who are also his customers is only going to increase. Hence his insistence that ARM remains somewhat in the shadows and allows its customers to bathe in the limelight.

'I don't want anybody going "Well, I would use ARM, but they are such a bunch of arrogant so-and-sos,"' says Segars. There seems little chance of that - despite the fact that he and his senior colleagues shared a reported £54m bounty from the sale, ARM is still a company run by people who look and behave more like teachers or research profs than tech execs.

Segars himself is mild-mannered and unassuming, very much the ordinary bloke from Basildon, for all that he has lived in California for some years and has two degrees and several patents for 'embedded CPU architecture' to his

 customers.

It's a model that has in many ways worked incredibly well for the business, which Segars joined way back in 1991 only months after it was founded. In the subsequent decades it has built itself a privileged position as a kind of trusted non-combatant in the otherwise hyper-competitive smartphone wars. Its customers may be deadly rivals with one another but they all buy their chip designs from ARM.

And buy they certainly do - an estimated 99% of the world's mobile devices have ARM tech at their hearts, including every generation of iPhone and very nearly all Android ones, up to and including the new Samsung Galaxy S8. ARM was even voted Britain's Most Admired Company in the coveted MT poll last year.

When it was announced that the firm was to be sold to SoftBank last July, it was concern about this hard-won independence which was uppermost in Segars' mind. 'It was always hard to get your head around who might acquire ARM that wouldn't spoil us,' he says. 'But the deal progressed pretty quickly to the point where as a board you just can't say no.

'But in my mind I'm also thinking, what does this mean to our partners? To our employees? To the business we've built up?'

SoftBank is the giant Japanese telco-turned-investment-vehicle ruled over by the charismatic Masayoshi 'Masa' Son, Japan's richest man who enjoys a reputation as a risk-loving 'crazy guy addicted to the future'. He takes big bets, loves a good aphorism and claims to be driven by a '300-year vision' for his empire, centred on the rise of AI as a transformational force for good. Those cute Pepper robots with the big manga-style eyes? They're one of his, and barely even the tip of the tip of the iceberg.

So Segars wasn't the only one to be worried - there were plenty of others who feared that any purchase might compromise ARM's neutrality, undermining its ability to sell to allcomers. Those worries are unfounded, he says. 'When you are being courted, you never know quite how it is going to pan out, but I have to say that everything Masa said about how he wasn't going to come and interfere (with running the business day-to-day), they have been absolutely true to their word. They haven't spoiled the neutrality and our discussions are all about strategy and growth.'

It helped that Segars knew his new boss already, 'I first met him in 2006, they had just acquired Vodafone in Japan,' and also knew that he had wanted to buy ARM for a decade or so, but hadn't quite been able to afford it.

But in the intervening years Son had not been idle, an early $20m bet on Chinese ecommerce start-up Alibaba having come spectacularly good to the tune of an estimated $58bn.

Shifting stakes in a couple of smaller gaming firms plus $8bn worth of his precious Alibaba stock got the ARM deal over the line.

All the same, Segars admits that when the approach was made, it was a bit of a spit your coffee out moment. 'He rang me up and said he'd like to meet with me and my chairman. So we ended up having lunch in Turkey, of all places.'

An avid dealmaker, Son holds stakes in a dizzying array of businesses including a Japanese baseball team. A listed company, SoftBank's market cap rose by a whopping 577% between 2009-2014. But fuelling his ambition has led him to rack up $120bn in debt. And the first dotcom crash cost him $77bn, reckoned to be the biggest single personal loss ever.

The news was not only a surprise to employees and customers - the sale of the UK's largest homegrown tech firm to a foreign buyer inevitably attracted a lot of negative comment. Would a British buyer going after Sony or Toshiba be so welcome in Tokyo, asked critics?

ARM's progenitor and paterfamilias of the Cambridge tech scene, Hermann Hauser, even went so far as to describe the sale as 'A very sad day for technology in Britain'. In another recent interview he cautioned, 'What happens when he (Son) retires? Will his successor have the same attitude to ARM?' A new boss could well mean new favourites in the SoftBank stable.

Segars isn't having any of this - there are no barbarians at ARM's gates as far as he is concerned. 'People were writing things like "All the profit's going to be sucked out of ARM and the UK isn't going to benefit" but we're still hiring like crazy here. This is still our HQ and we're growing it, just like we said we would.'

It's a good deal for ARM and the UK, he says, both because of the guarantees offered (SoftBank says it will double the number of ARM employees in the UK, currently around 1,600, and that the firm's nerve centre will remain in Cambridge) and also because of the freedom of action that no longer being a plc affords.

'All that's really happened is that we've gone from having thousands of shareholders to having one. And even when we had thousands, about half of the shares were held overseas anyway - the perceptions about ARM's ownership and the reality were slightly different.'

One shareholder means faster decision-making, less time spent managing investor expectations and more time for thinking big thoughts about the future of technology.

'We will be able to grow more quickly and to do more. Now, if there's something we want to do or someone we want to go and acquire, it's a conversation with Masa and we go and do it. For me and my team that has been pretty liberating and motivational.'

Why was SoftBank so keen to get its hands on ARM's tech in the first place? Well, unlike conventional processors, the ones that Segars and his colleagues design offer a double whammy of key attributes: plenty of processing muscle, plus very low power consumption for decent battery life. Without ARM our phones would run flat in minutes rather than hours.

But Son is famous for his grand plans, and it is likely that he has a bigger role in mind for his new toy. It's hardly the sort of early stage bet SoftBank is best known for after all, the chances of discovering a vast well of hidden value in a FTSE 100 firm that analysts have been poring over for 18 years being pretty small.

Read more: ARM is Britain's Most Admired Company 2016

The next big boom sectors will be the connected and then autonomous car, says Segars, plus the much vaunted Internet of Things, which will see devices, from cars to toasters, hooked up to the internet over the coming decades. 'There are going to be a trillion connected devices ranging from mining in South America to a light bulb there in this building. So there's a growing opportunity to deploy ARM-based technology in all sorts of computers - big ones in the cloud, and tiny ones in the devices that are going to create the Internet of Things.'

ARM needs to catch this wave, not only because the world has probably got almost as many smartphones as it wants now, but also because bigger and noisier chip giants like Intel are starting to move in on its territory and produce their own low-power consumption designs. But the miniature wireless sensors which will be required for the Internet of Things will have to run off even tinier currents, and that is where ARM can still win.

'Energy efficiency matters. It matters in your TV because it reduces the cost and it matters in a data centre because of the explosion of data that's coming. You've got to get more energy efficient so that society can benefit,' he says.

How big is the opportunity presented by the Internet of Things? 'It's going to be very big. People are predicting the end of the decimal system because there just aren't numbers big enough, there's no term to express the amount of data that is going to be flowing around.'

Taking full advantage of this next phase of growth requires not only agility and technical excellence, says Segars, but also absolute discretion, because the number of commercial rivals who are also his customers is only going to increase. Hence his insistence that ARM remains somewhat in the shadows and allows its customers to bathe in the limelight.

'I don't want anybody going "Well, I would use ARM, but they are such a bunch of arrogant so-and-sos,"' says Segars. There seems little chance of that - despite the fact that he and his senior colleagues shared a reported £54m bounty from the sale, ARM is still a company run by people who look and behave more like teachers or research profs than tech execs.

Segars himself is mild-mannered and unassuming, very much the ordinary bloke from Basildon, for all that he has lived in California for some years and has two degrees and several patents for 'embedded CPU architecture' to his name. Even when things go wrong, 'There are no people throwing teacups across the room. This is a pretty left brain place,' he admits.

All this modesty is very English, but can you take it too far? ARM's achievements are worth shouting about after all - an incredible 4.3bn people, 60% of the global population, touches a device with an ARM chip in it every day. By the end of this year, over 100bn of its chips will have been made since it set up shop 27 years ago. And you can buy ARM-powered gadgets


The following are multiple choice questions (with answers) about high school macroeconomics.

If the demand for our exports rises while our tastes for foreign goods falls off then
A. the value of the dollar will tend to appreciate.
B. the value of the dollar will tend to depreciate.
C. exchange rates will be affected but not the value of the dollar.
D. the exchange rate will not be affected.
Answer: A<|endoftext|> being told, "Kathy, are you just walking around flexing?  You look stupid." (Thanks, Gavin.)  But that's it!  NEVER did I encounter issues with other women.  Several others wore similar things, too.  I'd never experienced cattiness from women.  And here's my thought, right or wrong.  Keep in mind...if you don't like what I'm about to say, sorry.  You chose to read this after reading the disclaimer.  If you're unsure, then go back and read it again:

Why on earth would I wear that?  BECAUSE I CAN AND I EARNED IT!!!  The fact that a handful of women saw me working out and decided it was "inappropriate" and "distracting", then they don't know what the hell they are doing or why they're there.  "Oh my god, look at what she's wearing.  Jesus, she's doing an exercise that is so difficult to do and wearing that?!!  I can't even sit on this machine I'm not even using any longer.  She makes me sick.  I feel it is my civil duty to complain about her top!"  When I workout there, I don't shake my ass.  I don't shimmy my shoulders to make my boobs bounce around.  I NEVER stretch or do exercises that are where I'm horribly on display if anything I'm doing could be looked at as being even remotely provocative.  That just simply isn't my style.

Did it make those women feel better to tattle on my top?  Did it improve their workout skills?  Did it make it so their difficult areas were suddenly gone?  If I worked out in a bikini, I could see how that might be inappropriate and distracting.  Duh.  However, the clothes I wore were specifically developed for what I was doing!!  Otherwise, what's the god damn point that Nike, Reebok, REI, Adidas, Russel, or any other athletic company would make these?  Let's see what makes sense here...

EXACTLY what I wore today, only the top was black.

Normal workout attire...why else is it made?

Um...uh uh.

No, no, no.

So, there it is.  Not everyone is built the same way and not everyone can wear the same clothes, but give me a damn break.  If these women worked out at my gym, do I get to say something to the front desk about how my eyes are burning?  Sure I can.  But would I?  Hell no!!!  They are comfortable in what they are they are left alone.  As I should be, too!  Whatever...gonna buy a few sheer tank tops to go over my sports bra tops.  They say one word...I just might flip out.  And by flip out, I mean I'll do cartwheels all the way from one side of the gym to the other...then they can complain about how I'm "distracting" or acting "inappropriate".

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  3. Hello, I have a question about your comments. When you say "Heart Beating", do you mean a feeling of heartbeat when using Imigran (sumatriptan) or is that feeling prolonged in time after using it? Thanks and best regards.
  4. Hello folks, Hypericum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypericum_perforatum Does anyone have experience or knowledge of this substance, and if it can have any interaction with the CH? I have been recommended to treat anxiety. I read that it has effects on the levels of serotonin in the brain and the MAO. Thank you very much and greetings to all. Nico
  5. Hi nicolas, Thanks for the "Like"

  6. In my current cycle of CR I used much Sumatriptan injection. Individual experiences are not a reliable indicator. But in this cycle, which is approaching the three months, the first month I started with Prednisone and Sumatriptan and get to have crises every 3/4 h. One of the worst in my history of cycles. This summer they are still very hot. The second month I had access to oxygen, same amount of Prednisone and very few doses of Sumatriptan; less crisis, short and smooth. End of the second month reduction in withdrawal of Prednisone and start doses of 160mg Verapamil (the nerurologo not want
  7. Thank you for your comments. When I say "the muscle", I am using a subcutaneous, short needle. In the upper arm as in the video that you show me. I really do not know if I get to the muscle, much less a vein (never be made into a vein). It should be in adipose tissue. As you indicate, pinching the skin. It is delicate to talk about this without knowledge. I'll delete that part of my commentary, to avoid generating confusion to others. The advantage I see to do it in another syringe is to achieve precision to ensure the 2mg per dose, and not keep one last very short dose. Use the syrin
  8. I tried the "hacking" of Imigran / Imitrex. This is my initial and personal experience, I have no medical knowledge and these comments are not valid indications. It is important to do it with a syringe of the type used to inject insulin. Small and narrow to measure the dose well. With subcutaneous needle. The first time I did it with a larger syringe and I could not measure either the amount. I've done several tests and for the moment ... it works !!! 2mg (At this point I'm retiring Prednisone and introducing Verapamil). In my case, 2mg takes longer to take effect and the process is
  9. Thank you very much for your reply and information. I'll try the three things you mention me. Regarding Sumatriptan, it would be great if with 3 mg is enough to stop the pain, for my health and my pocket (!). Prescription Social Security costs 11 â‚¬ each Imigran (with two doses of 6mg), without prescription â‚¬ 26 If it works, I'll explain here my experience. Thanks and regards.
  10. Hello to all forum members. I appreciate if someone can answer the following questions. I'm from Barcelona and I can not see my specialist neurologist in Cluster until the end of August. I can only see a neurologist Social Security, he has no idea Cluster or oxygen ... I am 36 years old, episodic every 1 or 2 years. For 1 or 3 months. It is the first time I use oxygen, for a week. It's very, very effective. 15l Oxygeno 100% for 15 or 20 min. The question: After 10 minutes of applying the oxygen I feel a buzz / acute ringing in both ears. This feeling is lengthened during the day and g
  • Create New...<|endoftext|>Exactly how betting rewards a person?

There are lots of gambling rewards. The majority assume that betting is the biggest sin which a person commits. According to them people who go for gambling may get enslaved by it and one day these people become despondent and insolvent. However in reality a large majority of people who regularly participate in wagering never turn out to be dependent on this.

Gambling can be viewed as a enjoyable activity just like other amusement and pleasurable products and services. People taking part in wagering activities get implicit benefits from their investments. In the event that people are wagering for leisure then they buy gambling just as they buy movie seat tickets. Gambling could be fairly a lot less damaging entertainment that delivers a fun outlet for customers. Betting can be http://www.caledobook.com exciting and also socially appealing. People who are ambitious may take the risk associated with betting which can be equally stimulating and challenging. For a few people betting is actually motivating as there is concern of earning and losing.

There are various reasons for wagering. A few gamble for fun, some for generating and some for break up from their routine existence. Players get many offers at gambling websites which could deliver bliss to their existence. But sometimes they could likewise lose their cash.

Diverse wagering rewards

Gamblers may check out their expertise in numerous games through gaming and get innate pleasure from the experience of the activity on its own.

Wagering advantages can be seen in travel

 being told, "Kathy, are you just walking around flexing?  You look stupid." (Thanks, Gavin.)  But that's it!  NEVER did I encounter issues with other women.  Several others wore similar things, too.  I'd never experienced cattiness from women.  And here's my thought, right or wrong.  Keep in mind...if you don't like what I'm about to say, sorry.  You chose to read this after reading the disclaimer.  If you're unsure, then go back and read it again:

Why on earth would I wear that?  BECAUSE I CAN AND I EARNED IT!!!  The fact that a handful of women saw me working out and decided it was "inappropriate" and "distracting", then they don't know what the hell they are doing or why they're there.  "Oh my god, look at what she's wearing.  Jesus, she's doing an exercise that is so difficult to do and wearing that?!!  I can't even sit on this machine I'm not even using any longer.  She makes me sick.  I feel it is my civil duty to complain about her top!"  When I workout there, I don't shake my ass.  I don't shimmy my shoulders to make my boobs bounce around.  I NEVER stretch or do exercises that are where I'm horribly on display if anything I'm doing could be looked at as being even remotely provocative.  That just simply isn't my style.

Did it make those women feel better to tattle on my top?  Did it improve their workout skills?  Did it make it so their difficult areas were suddenly gone?  If I worked out in a bikini, I could see how that might be inappropriate and distracting.  Duh.  However, the clothes I wore were specifically developed for what I was doing!!  Otherwise, what's the god damn point that Nike, Reebok, REI, Adidas, Russel, or any other athletic company would make these?  Let's see what makes sense here...

EXACTLY what I wore today, only the top was black.

Normal workout attire...why else is it made?

Um...uh uh.

No, no, no.

So, there it is.  Not everyone is built the same way and not everyone can wear the same clothes, but give me a damn break.  If these women worked out at my gym, do I get to say something to the front desk about how my eyes are burning?  Sure I can.  But would I?  Hell no!!!  They are comfortable in what they are they are left alone.  As I should be, too!  Whatever...gonna buy a few sheer tank tops to go over my sports bra tops.  They say one word...I just might flip out.  And by flip out, I mean I'll do cartwheels all the way from one side of the gym to the other...then they can complain about how I'm "distracting" or acting "inappropriate".

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  3. Hello, I have a question about your comments. When you say "Heart Beating", do you mean a feeling of heartbeat when using Imigran (sumatriptan) or is that feeling prolonged in time after using it? Thanks and best regards.
  4. Hello folks, Hypericum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypericum_perforatum Does anyone have experience or knowledge of this substance, and if it can have any interaction with the CH? I have been recommended to treat anxiety. I read that it has effects on the levels of serotonin in the brain and the MAO. Thank you very much and greetings to all. Nico
  5. Hi nicolas, Thanks for the "Like"

  6. In my current cycle of CR I used much Sumatriptan injection. Individual experiences are not a reliable indicator. But in this cycle, which is approaching the three months, the first month I started with Prednisone and Sumatriptan and get to have crises every 3/4 h. One of the worst in my history of cycles. This summer they are still very hot. The second month I had access to oxygen, same amount of Prednisone and very few doses of Sumatriptan; less crisis, short and smooth. End of the second month reduction in withdrawal of Prednisone and start doses of 160mg Verapamil (the nerurologo not want
  7. Thank you for your comments. When I say "the muscle", I am using a subcutaneous, short needle. In the upper arm as in the video that you show me. I really do not know if I get to the muscle, much less a vein (never be made into a vein). It should be in adipose tissue. As you indicate, pinching the skin. It is delicate to talk about this without knowledge. I'll delete that part of my commentary, to avoid generating confusion to others. The advantage I see to do it in another syringe is to achieve precision to ensure the 2mg per dose, and not keep one last very short dose. Use the syrin
  8. I tried the "hacking" of Imigran / Imitrex. This is my initial and personal experience, I have no medical knowledge and these comments are not valid indications. It is important to do it with a syringe of the type used to inject insulin. Small and narrow to measure the dose well. With subcutaneous needle. The first time I did it with a larger syringe and I could not measure either the amount. I've done several tests and for the moment ... it works !!! 2mg (At this point I'm retiring Prednisone and introducing Verapamil). In my case, 2mg takes longer to take effect and the process is
  9. Thank you very much for your reply and information. I'll try the three things you mention me. Regarding Sumatriptan, it would be great if with 3 mg is enough to stop the pain, for my health and my pocket (!). Prescription Social Security costs 11 â‚¬ each Imigran (with two doses of 6mg), without prescription â‚¬ 26 If it works, I'll explain here my experience. Thanks and regards.
  10. Hello to all forum members. I appreciate if someone can answer the following questions. I'm from Barcelona and I can not see my specialist neurologist in Cluster until the end of August. I can only see a neurologist Social Security, he has no idea Cluster or oxygen ... I am 36 years old, episodic every 1 or 2 years. For 1 or 3 months. It is the first time I use oxygen, for a week. It's very, very effective. 15l Oxygeno 100% for 15 or 20 min. The question: After 10 minutes of applying the oxygen I feel a buzz / acute ringing in both ears. This feeling is lengthened during the day and g
  • Create New...<|endoftext|>Exactly how betting rewards a person?

There are lots of gambling rewards. The majority assume that betting is the biggest sin which a person commits. According to them people who go for gambling may get enslaved by it and one day these people become despondent and insolvent. However in reality a large majority of people who regularly participate in wagering never turn out to be dependent on this.

Gambling can be viewed as a enjoyable activity just like other amusement and pleasurable products and services. People taking part in wagering activities get implicit benefits from their investments. In the event that people are wagering for leisure then they buy gambling just as they buy movie seat tickets. Gambling could be fairly a lot less damaging entertainment that delivers a fun outlet for customers. Betting can be http://www.caledobook.com exciting and also socially appealing. People who are ambitious may take the risk associated with betting which can be equally stimulating and challenging. For a few people betting is actually motivating as there is concern of earning and losing.

There are various reasons for wagering. A few gamble for fun, some for generating and some for break up from their routine existence. Players get many offers at gambling websites which could deliver bliss to their existence. But sometimes they could likewise lose their cash.

Diverse wagering rewards

Gamblers may check out their expertise in numerous games through gaming and get innate pleasure from the experience of the activity on its own.

Wagering advantages can be seen in travel and leisure. Lavish casinos in many cases are noticed by folks from other town as a terrific weekend break or even vacation destination simply because they provide them the best way for their gaming activity, commonly a fun experience. The greater the vacationers visit areas with casinos, the more cash may come to the place where casinos happen to be. This boosts the local economic climate of a area.

Along with tourism careers may also be enhanced in the regions


 policies than to tack and turn according to whether or not you imagine something will be popular.

Secondly, it makes a big difference if the movement supporting Corbyn clearly and publicly articulates left-wing arguments and policies – reaching out to millions of people in doing so - rather than getting stuck in arguments about internal party democracy, allegations of abusive behaviour or the dubious issue of ‘electability’. All of these need to be addressed, but in developing a mass campaign the focus needs to be on political alternatives. The leadership campaign is an opportunity to champion the left-wing ideas that inspired so much hope and enthusiasm last summer. This is where we on the left are at our strongest.

Finally, it’s also important to have a sharp focus on popular mobilisation – like protests and rallies - not merely treating this as an internal Labour Party battle. It’s bigger than that. Such mobilisations facilitate mass participation in the Corbyn campaign. They also provide a link between the campaign and broader grassroots social movements, feeding a two-way relationship between Labour’s left-wing leadership and the role of popular movements.

Ultimately, the social change we on the left want to see will come, above all, through mass activity in protest movements and trade unions, not simply (or even primarily) through the field of parliamentary politics. A victory for Corbyn will embolden the movements. It will, for example, give encouragement and hope to everyone building the national anti-austerity demonstration outside Tory Conference on 2 October, to teachers and junior doctors contemplating strike action in the autumn, and to anti-racists campaigning against Islamophobia or in defence of migrant rights or refugees.

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Mr. Jones rolls a six-sided cube numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. What is the probability he rolls a three?
A. 6-Jan
B. 5-Jan
C. 3-Jan
D. 2-Jan
Answer: A<|endoftext|>Tuesday, March 08, 2011

Variable Authority

Up to now in my career, I have flown airplanes that I steered on the ground through pure mechanical linkages powered by my own muscles. I was using levers to physically shove the nosewheel into pointing the way I wanted to turn the airplane. The Screaming Whippet one is too big for me to kick around by myself, or they don't want to make levers that big, so it uses electrically controlled, hydraulically activated, variable authority nosewheel steering. I have to remember that description in case I'm asked about it on the ride. (Ride is pilotspeak for flight test). I also have to remember a whole lot more about how it works.

First pass, what I remember and understand from the class and the reading without looking anything more up:

Nosewheel steering is on the non-essential DC electrical bus. It must be armed and activated to be used. You arm it with a toggle switch, the location and position of which I can't picture now and it becomes activated when the squat switch indicates that you are on the ground and one of the following things happens. Either a) the right speed lever is moved into the low position or b) a button on the side of the left power lever is pressed and held. (Yes, I have both speed and power levers: resolving units, you'd think you'd get a power lever by forcing the speed lever, but that would be a geeky joke and not the reality of this airplane). Once the system is activated, you steer with the rudder pedals, just like old times.

Moving a rudder pedal sends a signal to a potentiometer. There's a pile of potentiometers, I think it was four. One of them represents the input you gave to the rudder pedal, one the position of the nosewheel, one the target position and one for good luck. So maybe it was three. The difference between the target and the position is sent to a selector valve which shuttles the appropriate way to send hydraulic fluid to a piston operating rack and pinion steering to pivot the nose gear in the appropriate direction. The channels in the shuttle valve go straight through for left turns and criss-cross to reverse the pressure for right turns. When the commanded steering meets the actual steering, the system holds that input until a new input is received or the system is disarmed. In the later case it smoothly recentres. The maximum steering in this mode is ten degrees either side of centre, but you can get up to sixty-three degrees deflection in park mode, by pressing and holding the park button. This is for manoeuvring into a tight parking spot. I really hope I don't often have to parallel park this airplane.

There's an annunciator for the system being armed, an annunciator for it activated and a flashing one if it fails. Because it's an electrical system, there is a chance of transient weirdness, and transient weirdness is not something you want to see in large vehicle steering If there's a three degree disagreement between two of the potentiometers, representing some form of where it's requested to be and where it thinks it is going, the system disconnects. You can still steer with braking and power.

Now let me see if by re-reading the chapter I can fix that up, and add things I forgot.

There is a command potentiometer (my "input you gave the rudder pedal") on the left side of the rudder pedal linkage, and a fault protection monitor potentiometer (my "target position") on the right side. There are two more potentiometers on top of the steering actuator, a control follow-up potentiometer (my "position of the nosewheel") and another one for the fault protection monitor circuit. So I was right, there are four, and if monitoring faults is good luck, I got them all right. Well, let's see.

There is a "Nose Steer Computer/Amplifier" which "contains Servo Valve Solenoid drive circuitry to initiate steering based on Rudder Pedal Potentiometer and Nose Gear Follow-up Potentiometer Position." (Why yes, this training manual is apparently so old that it predates the late eighteenth century English move to distance itself from its Germanic roots and not capitalize all nouns).

Okay, reading the quasi-incunabulum more closely, I surmise that the follow-up potentiometer simply turns with the nosewheel steering column, and has the same type of electrical connections as the rudder pedal potentiometer. When the "wiper resistance," a term I am not familiar with, but which I'll read as "the combined effect of the electrical connection and the turning," of the two is the same, the steering is deemed to have turned as far as commanded. The hydraulic supply ports close, so the wheel is locked in the position it was steered to.

I think the Rudder Pedal Monitor Potentiometer must be at the same wiper resistance as the Rudder Pedal Potentiometer--perhaps one potentiometer can only be compares with one other potentiometer, so the latter needs the former to shadow it. My manual names former, and the fourth potentiometer, the Hydraulic Actuator Monitor Potentiometer only once, in the sentence, "In either case, if a difference greater than approximately 3 degrees exists between the Rudder Pedal Monitor Potentiometer and the Hydraulic Actuator Monitor Potentiometer, the protective circuitry within the computer will shut down the system." I can't quite follow that all the way, but I know it means that if the monitor circuit thinks that the commands sent to the hydraulic system are incorrect, it will disconnect the steering to avoid having an electrical irregularity steer an airplane off a runway.

Absent positive steering, you still have directional control of an airplane through braking and differential power, so this is better than definitive by incorrect steering inputs. The "in either case" above refers to the case of a wheel being locked in place despite commanded steering versus uncommanded steering occurring.

The arming switch is located on the left hand console.

I also need to remember the fault test switch and that the system acts as a shimmy damper when not activated, but left in what is known as castoring mode, and that on retraction it automatically centres because the centre position is the low point in the race ... ah I guess I don't understand that well enough to explain it clearly. Also variable authority. I'll say that again to make sure I remember it.

Today is, I believe, International Women's Day. There is one male on our course and the rest are females, who happened to all be connected. The man had a eureka moment when the women all had connections to one another, either having previously met, knowing people in common, or just the familiarity of being females in aviation. We were all talking about then and catching up. He suddenly realized what it must feel like to not be part of the "old boys' network," and the girls saw it at about the same time. We promised not to exclude him from our network, and of course had no intention to do so, but through the week I noticed that our conversations would drift into discussions of female interest topics like clothing, or career planning in the context of postponing or forgoing pregnancy and he would be unintentionally excluded by dint of not having experience or opinions. It must have been for him exactly as it is for me when my usually all male colleagues start discussing football, or someone getting

 to put forward coherent and consistent left-wing policies than to tack and turn according to whether or not you imagine something will be popular.

Secondly, it makes a big difference if the movement supporting Corbyn clearly and publicly articulates left-wing arguments and policies – reaching out to millions of people in doing so - rather than getting stuck in arguments about internal party democracy, allegations of abusive behaviour or the dubious issue of ‘electability’. All of these need to be addressed, but in developing a mass campaign the focus needs to be on political alternatives. The leadership campaign is an opportunity to champion the left-wing ideas that inspired so much hope and enthusiasm last summer. This is where we on the left are at our strongest.

Finally, it’s also important to have a sharp focus on popular mobilisation – like protests and rallies - not merely treating this as an internal Labour Party battle. It’s bigger than that. Such mobilisations facilitate mass participation in the Corbyn campaign. They also provide a link between the campaign and broader grassroots social movements, feeding a two-way relationship between Labour’s left-wing leadership and the role of popular movements.

Ultimately, the social change we on the left want to see will come, above all, through mass activity in protest movements and trade unions, not simply (or even primarily) through the field of parliamentary politics. A victory for Corbyn will embolden the movements. It will, for example, give encouragement and hope to everyone building the national anti-austerity demonstration outside Tory Conference on 2 October, to teachers and junior doctors contemplating strike action in the autumn, and to anti-racists campaigning against Islamophobia or in defence of migrant rights or refugees.

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Variable Authority

Up to now in my career, I have flown airplanes that I steered on the ground through pure mechanical linkages powered by my own muscles. I was using levers to physically shove the nosewheel into pointing the way I wanted to turn the airplane. The Screaming Whippet one is too big for me to kick around by myself, or they don't want to make levers that big, so it uses electrically controlled, hydraulically activated, variable authority nosewheel steering. I have to remember that description in case I'm asked about it on the ride. (Ride is pilotspeak for flight test). I also have to remember a whole lot more about how it works.

First pass, what I remember and understand from the class and the reading without looking anything more up:

Nosewheel steering is on the non-essential DC electrical bus. It must be armed and activated to be used. You arm it with a toggle switch, the location and position of which I can't picture now and it becomes activated when the squat switch indicates that you are on the ground and one of the following things happens. Either a) the right speed lever is moved into the low position or b) a button on the side of the left power lever is pressed and held. (Yes, I have both speed and power levers: resolving units, you'd think you'd get a power lever by forcing the speed lever, but that would be a geeky joke and not the reality of this airplane). Once the system is activated, you steer with the rudder pedals, just like old times.

Moving a rudder pedal sends a signal to a potentiometer. There's a pile of potentiometers, I think it was four. One of them represents the input you gave to the rudder pedal, one the position of the nosewheel, one the target position and one for good luck. So maybe it was three. The difference between the target and the position is sent to a selector valve which shuttles the appropriate way to send hydraulic fluid to a piston operating rack and pinion steering to pivot the nose gear in the appropriate direction. The channels in the shuttle valve go straight through for left turns and criss-cross to reverse the pressure for right turns. When the commanded steering meets the actual steering, the system holds that input until a new input is received or the system is disarmed. In the later case it smoothly recentres. The maximum steering in this mode is ten degrees either side of centre, but you can get up to sixty-three degrees deflection in park mode, by pressing and holding the park button. This is for manoeuvring into a tight parking spot. I really hope I don't often have to parallel park this airplane.

There's an annunciator for the system being armed, an annunciator for it activated and a flashing one if it fails. Because it's an electrical system, there is a chance of transient weirdness, and transient weirdness is not something you want to see in large vehicle steering If there's a three degree disagreement between two of the potentiometers, representing some form of where it's requested to be and where it thinks it is going, the system disconnects. You can still steer with braking and power.

Now let me see if by re-reading the chapter I can fix that up, and add things I forgot.

There is a command potentiometer (my "input you gave the rudder pedal") on the left side of the rudder pedal linkage, and a fault protection monitor potentiometer (my "target position") on the right side. There are two more potentiometers on top of the steering actuator, a control follow-up potentiometer (my "position of the nosewheel") and another one for the fault protection monitor circuit. So I was right, there are four, and if monitoring faults is good luck, I got them all right. Well, let's see.

There is a "Nose Steer Computer/Amplifier" which "contains Servo Valve Solenoid drive circuitry to initiate steering based on Rudder Pedal Potentiometer and Nose Gear Follow-up Potentiometer Position." (Why yes, this training manual is apparently so old that it predates the late eighteenth century English move to distance itself from its Germanic roots and not capitalize all nouns).

Okay, reading the quasi-incunabulum more closely, I surmise that the follow-up potentiometer simply turns with the nosewheel steering column, and has the same type of electrical connections as the rudder pedal potentiometer. When the "wiper resistance," a term I am not familiar with, but which I'll read as "the combined effect of the electrical connection and the turning," of the two is the same, the steering is deemed to have turned as far as commanded. The hydraulic supply ports close, so the wheel is locked in the position it was steered to.

I think the Rudder Pedal Monitor Potentiometer must be at the same wiper resistance as the Rudder Pedal Potentiometer--perhaps one potentiometer can only be compares with one other potentiometer, so the latter needs the former to shadow it. My manual names former, and the fourth potentiometer, the Hydraulic Actuator Monitor Potentiometer only once, in the sentence, "In either case, if a difference greater than approximately 3 degrees exists between the Rudder Pedal Monitor Potentiometer and the Hydraulic Actuator Monitor Potentiometer, the protective circuitry within the computer will shut down the system." I can't quite follow that all the way, but I know it means that if the monitor circuit thinks that the commands sent to the hydraulic system are incorrect, it will disconnect the steering to avoid having an electrical irregularity steer an airplane off a runway.

Absent positive steering, you still have directional control of an airplane through braking and differential power, so this is better than definitive by incorrect steering inputs. The "in either case" above refers to the case of a wheel being locked in place despite commanded steering versus uncommanded steering occurring.

The arming switch is located on the left hand console.

I also need to remember the fault test switch and that the system acts as a shimmy damper when not activated, but left in what is known as castoring mode, and that on retraction it automatically centres because the centre position is the low point in the race ... ah I guess I don't understand that well enough to explain it clearly. Also variable authority. I'll say that again to make sure I remember it.

Today is, I believe, International Women's Day. There is one male on our course and the rest are females, who happened to all be connected. The man had a eureka moment when the women all had connections to one another, either having previously met, knowing people in common, or just the familiarity of being females in aviation. We were all talking about then and catching up. He suddenly realized what it must feel like to not be part of the "old boys' network," and the girls saw it at about the same time. We promised not to exclude him from our network, and of course had no intention to do so, but through the week I noticed that our conversations would drift into discussions of female interest topics like clothing, or career planning in the context of postponing or forgoing pregnancy and he would be unintentionally excluded by dint of not having experience or opinions. It must have been for him exactly as it is for me when my usually all male colleagues start discussing football, or someone getting drunk while hunting and rolling his truck. It's hard to get into a conversation when you can't identify with the decisions being made or discussed. I can sort of feel for the men who feel threatened about women in traditionally male-dominated fields, but I don't think it will hurt them to learn to say "aww" when


The following are multiple choice questions (with answers) about anatomy.

Examination of a patient indicates that they have a medially directed strabismus (squint). This could be due to damage to the
A. oculomotor nerve.
B. trochlear nerve.
C. ophthalmic trigeminal nerve.
D. abducens nerve.
Answer: D<|endoftext|> moment, so take stock of what's going on around her. For instance, is she particularly cranky when you spend a couple of hours at the mall or running errands around town? "A visit to the grocery store can be very stressful for infants because of the onslaught of noise, light, and strangers," says Dr. Chansky. To ease her anxiety, you might plan only one stop per trip out of the house. And while you're out and about, talk to her about what you're doing, the things you're seeing, even narrate your to-do list. Make direct eye contact and use lively facial expressions and vocal tones. The point is to connect with your baby. When you trade smiles, talk, coo, and play with her, you build her sense of security.

One of the best ways to make your baby feel safe is to comfort her whenever she cries. "Some parents think the attention will make a baby more dependent and clingy, but the opposite is true," says Megan Gunnar, PhD, professor at the University of Minnesota's Institute of Child Development, in Minneapolis. Research shows that a crying baby who is soothed quickly tends to cry less, not more. "When your child is upset, just holding her calms her down, especially if you can take a relaxing breath first," adds Marcy Axness, PhD, an early-development specialist in Los Angeles. "Plus, interacting and connecting with your baby wires her brain in a way that eventually helps her calm herself. Babies who haven't been comforted don't develop that internal capacity to self-soothe."

Toddlers: Encourage Exploration

Once your child is walking, he'll want to explore and push his limits -- and that alone invites a certain amount of stress. "Toddlers are trying to master challenges like reaching the sink or manipulating a tricky toy without help," says Dr. Chansky. "Even these everyday strains can stress a child out if they add up. And if you get frustrated with your child for not being able to do something, it only intensifies that anxiety." This is also prime time for tantrums -- and the way you react to meltdowns can teach him a lot about handling pressure. If you tense, he'll feel anxious too. A child who is overwhelmed at this age may hit, pinch, or throw toys when he plays. In addition, he can have trouble settling down at bedtime.

To ease the angst, empathize with your child and be patient. "You might say, 'I know stacking those blocks is tough -- it was hard for your brother too,' " says Dr. Chansky. Once he knows you understand how he feels, he'll be more likely to calm down, and you can talk about how best to tackle building together.

Dr. Gunnar has found that children who are frightened by something out of the ordinary, such as a clown, become even more anxious when parents push them to confront their fears ("Don't be so scared -- it's just a clown"). It's better to get down to his level and explain in a calm voice who the clown is and why he's there. In Dr. Gunnar's research, children whose parents tried this were more likely to muster the courage to approach whatever they found upsetting.

If your child attends daycare, just the long hours of commotion may be tough to handle. Between 70 and 80 percent of toddlers in daycare show increasing levels of stress hormones as the day wears on, partly because toddlers have few social skills and find interacting with others to be hard work. If your child seems clingy and fussy, spend time observing the daycare setting. "There should be a warm feeling of community," says Dr. Gunnar. How big is the group? Do the kids receive a lot of attention from the provider? Are the shyer kids getting support? Are there enough breaks for quiet time between activities? If you're satisfied with your childcare setting, take a look at your mornings. Are they a chaotic rush? Try getting up 15 minutes earlier and playing with your toddler for a bit before you leave. When you pick him up, make sure you spend some quality time just focused on him -- turn off your phone, put the mail aside, and open a book to read together, or get out some paper and crayons so you both can unwind from the day.

Preschoolers: Help Them Adjust to the Big World

At this age, your child's active imagination is likely to trigger new kinds of stress. "Her magical thinking may transform a shadow into a scary monster or a curtain into a ghost," says Dr. Chansky. Though these fears may seem irrational to adults, they are very real to kids. Some signals that stress is a problem for your child: She begins to backslide in her potty training, regresses to babyish behavior like sucking her thumb, and acts up by breaking the rules. Preschoolers are also more likely than younger kids to complain of headaches and tummy aches.

To calm your child down, make it clear you take her worries seriously, and use her anxiety to teach her about the world. "If your child is afraid of storms, go to the window and explain how to count the seconds between the lightning flash and the thunder," says Dr. Chansky. "That helps a child feel in control."

Also, minimize exposure to upsetting TV programs such as news shows. "Preschoolers are old enough to be frightened by scary scenes; plus, they think it's happening right outside their door," says Nancy Ryan-Wenger, PhD, professor of nursing at Ohio State University College of Nursing.

It's always important to talk to your child about what she's feeling, what worries her, and how you can help. "She may forget exactly what you tell her, but she'll get the message that you care and that's what's important," says Dr. Chansky. To ease transitions that you know are on the way -- starting preschool, your upcoming business trip -- you might count down the days on a calendar that you decorate with pictures showing what will happen.

The good news: At every age, giving your child support is a great stress antidote. "Meet your child's basic emotional needs and he'll reach school age with a good sense of himself and an ability to handle stress, which will make him resilient throughout life," says Dr. Essex. "Basically, being sensitive and responsive to your child's needs prevents much of the damaging effects of stress."

Stress During Pregnancy

Feeling anxious when you're pregnant is normal -- after all, you're about to take on a major new responsibility. And although short-term worry isn't harmful, women whose stress hormones soar due to severe anxiety or depression are more likely to deliver premature or low birth weight babies (probably because stress hormones help trigger labor). Also, high levels of maternal stress hormones may have an impact on a child's psychological development. A 2005 University of Rochester Medical Center study found a link between excessive stress during pregnancy and increased levels of cortisol in kids at age 10. One theory suggests that anxiety in pregnancy increases the mother's own levels of cortisol, which crosses the placenta and influences the baby's brain development, including its stress-response system. These changes may make children more susceptible to anxiety. A more recent study, led by the same investigators, found that feeling anxious during pregnancy may affect your baby's sleep patterns. The researchers suspect that Mom's elevated stress hormones may alter fetal brain development, leading to early-life sleep problems.

Signs that stress may pose a risk to you or your baby include: feeling like you can't shake your anxiety, frequent crying, social withdrawal, and lack of interest in things you usually enjoy. If you have any of these symptoms, talk to your doctor right away.

Copyright © 2007. Used with permission from the December 2007 issue of Parents magazine.

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The new software has all of the historical past of the old platform; nonetheless, bitcoin money blocks have a capability eight megabytes. Until simply before the decision, the answer often known as Segwit2x, which would double the size of bitcoin blocks to 2 megabytes, seemed to have universal support. But while fraudulent credit-card purchases are reversible, bitcoin transactions aren’t. Musk was responding to critical comments from Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy who questioned Tesla cashing in on a bitcoin “pump-and-dump” scheme. Coinbase Card, a debit Visa card that allows prospects to spend cryptocurrency wherever Visa cards are accepted. Coinbase provides products for each retail and institutional cryptocurrency investors, as well as different related cryptocurrency merchandise. The New York Times reported in December 2020 that based mostly upon knowledge up to girls at Coinbase have been paid a median of 8% lower than men at comparable jobs and ranks within the company, and Black employees have been paid 7% lower than these in related roles. Coinbase listed Bitcoin Cash on December 19, 2017 and the Coinbase platform experienced worth abnormalities that led to an insider trading investigation. In May 2016, the corporate rebranded the Coinbase Exchange, changing the name to Global

 moment, so take stock of what's going on around her. For instance, is she particularly cranky when you spend a couple of hours at the mall or running errands around town? "A visit to the grocery store can be very stressful for infants because of the onslaught of noise, light, and strangers," says Dr. Chansky. To ease her anxiety, you might plan only one stop per trip out of the house. And while you're out and about, talk to her about what you're doing, the things you're seeing, even narrate your to-do list. Make direct eye contact and use lively facial expressions and vocal tones. The point is to connect with your baby. When you trade smiles, talk, coo, and play with her, you build her sense of security.

One of the best ways to make your baby feel safe is to comfort her whenever she cries. "Some parents think the attention will make a baby more dependent and clingy, but the opposite is true," says Megan Gunnar, PhD, professor at the University of Minnesota's Institute of Child Development, in Minneapolis. Research shows that a crying baby who is soothed quickly tends to cry less, not more. "When your child is upset, just holding her calms her down, especially if you can take a relaxing breath first," adds Marcy Axness, PhD, an early-development specialist in Los Angeles. "Plus, interacting and connecting with your baby wires her brain in a way that eventually helps her calm herself. Babies who haven't been comforted don't develop that internal capacity to self-soothe."

Toddlers: Encourage Exploration

Once your child is walking, he'll want to explore and push his limits -- and that alone invites a certain amount of stress. "Toddlers are trying to master challenges like reaching the sink or manipulating a tricky toy without help," says Dr. Chansky. "Even these everyday strains can stress a child out if they add up. And if you get frustrated with your child for not being able to do something, it only intensifies that anxiety." This is also prime time for tantrums -- and the way you react to meltdowns can teach him a lot about handling pressure. If you tense, he'll feel anxious too. A child who is overwhelmed at this age may hit, pinch, or throw toys when he plays. In addition, he can have trouble settling down at bedtime.

To ease the angst, empathize with your child and be patient. "You might say, 'I know stacking those blocks is tough -- it was hard for your brother too,' " says Dr. Chansky. Once he knows you understand how he feels, he'll be more likely to calm down, and you can talk about how best to tackle building together.

Dr. Gunnar has found that children who are frightened by something out of the ordinary, such as a clown, become even more anxious when parents push them to confront their fears ("Don't be so scared -- it's just a clown"). It's better to get down to his level and explain in a calm voice who the clown is and why he's there. In Dr. Gunnar's research, children whose parents tried this were more likely to muster the courage to approach whatever they found upsetting.

If your child attends daycare, just the long hours of commotion may be tough to handle. Between 70 and 80 percent of toddlers in daycare show increasing levels of stress hormones as the day wears on, partly because toddlers have few social skills and find interacting with others to be hard work. If your child seems clingy and fussy, spend time observing the daycare setting. "There should be a warm feeling of community," says Dr. Gunnar. How big is the group? Do the kids receive a lot of attention from the provider? Are the shyer kids getting support? Are there enough breaks for quiet time between activities? If you're satisfied with your childcare setting, take a look at your mornings. Are they a chaotic rush? Try getting up 15 minutes earlier and playing with your toddler for a bit before you leave. When you pick him up, make sure you spend some quality time just focused on him -- turn off your phone, put the mail aside, and open a book to read together, or get out some paper and crayons so you both can unwind from the day.

Preschoolers: Help Them Adjust to the Big World

At this age, your child's active imagination is likely to trigger new kinds of stress. "Her magical thinking may transform a shadow into a scary monster or a curtain into a ghost," says Dr. Chansky. Though these fears may seem irrational to adults, they are very real to kids. Some signals that stress is a problem for your child: She begins to backslide in her potty training, regresses to babyish behavior like sucking her thumb, and acts up by breaking the rules. Preschoolers are also more likely than younger kids to complain of headaches and tummy aches.

To calm your child down, make it clear you take her worries seriously, and use her anxiety to teach her about the world. "If your child is afraid of storms, go to the window and explain how to count the seconds between the lightning flash and the thunder," says Dr. Chansky. "That helps a child feel in control."

Also, minimize exposure to upsetting TV programs such as news shows. "Preschoolers are old enough to be frightened by scary scenes; plus, they think it's happening right outside their door," says Nancy Ryan-Wenger, PhD, professor of nursing at Ohio State University College of Nursing.

It's always important to talk to your child about what she's feeling, what worries her, and how you can help. "She may forget exactly what you tell her, but she'll get the message that you care and that's what's important," says Dr. Chansky. To ease transitions that you know are on the way -- starting preschool, your upcoming business trip -- you might count down the days on a calendar that you decorate with pictures showing what will happen.

The good news: At every age, giving your child support is a great stress antidote. "Meet your child's basic emotional needs and he'll reach school age with a good sense of himself and an ability to handle stress, which will make him resilient throughout life," says Dr. Essex. "Basically, being sensitive and responsive to your child's needs prevents much of the damaging effects of stress."

Stress During Pregnancy

Feeling anxious when you're pregnant is normal -- after all, you're about to take on a major new responsibility. And although short-term worry isn't harmful, women whose stress hormones soar due to severe anxiety or depression are more likely to deliver premature or low birth weight babies (probably because stress hormones help trigger labor). Also, high levels of maternal stress hormones may have an impact on a child's psychological development. A 2005 University of Rochester Medical Center study found a link between excessive stress during pregnancy and increased levels of cortisol in kids at age 10. One theory suggests that anxiety in pregnancy increases the mother's own levels of cortisol, which crosses the placenta and influences the baby's brain development, including its stress-response system. These changes may make children more susceptible to anxiety. A more recent study, led by the same investigators, found that feeling anxious during pregnancy may affect your baby's sleep patterns. The researchers suspect that Mom's elevated stress hormones may alter fetal brain development, leading to early-life sleep problems.

Signs that stress may pose a risk to you or your baby include: feeling like you can't shake your anxiety, frequent crying, social withdrawal, and lack of interest in things you usually enjoy. If you have any of these symptoms, talk to your doctor right away.

Copyright © 2007. Used with permission from the December 2007 issue of Parents magazine.

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The new software has all of the historical past of the old platform; nonetheless, bitcoin money blocks have a capability eight megabytes. Until simply before the decision, the answer often known as Segwit2x, which would double the size of bitcoin blocks to 2 megabytes, seemed to have universal support. But while fraudulent credit-card purchases are reversible, bitcoin transactions aren’t. Musk was responding to critical comments from Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy who questioned Tesla cashing in on a bitcoin “pump-and-dump” scheme. Coinbase Card, a debit Visa card that allows prospects to spend cryptocurrency wherever Visa cards are accepted. Coinbase provides products for each retail and institutional cryptocurrency investors, as well as different related cryptocurrency merchandise. The New York Times reported in December 2020 that based mostly upon knowledge up to girls at Coinbase have been paid a median of 8% lower than men at comparable jobs and ranks within the company, and Black employees have been paid 7% lower than these in related roles. Coinbase listed Bitcoin Cash on December 19, 2017 and the Coinbase platform experienced worth abnormalities that led to an insider trading investigation. In May 2016, the corporate rebranded the Coinbase Exchange, changing the name to Global Digital Asset Exchange .

In January 2019, Coinbase stopped all trading on Ethereum Classic as a result of a suspicion of an assault on the community. In February 2019, Coinbase introduced that it had acquired “blockchain intelligence platform” Neutrino, an Italy-based mostly startup, for an undisclosed value. The acquisition raised concern amongst some Coinbase customers btc price to usd based mostly on