Question: Hey, what's Continuum?

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Continuum - Meet people from all over the world...then kill them.
Ever imagine what it'd be like to play Asteroids against your friends? Want to savor the satisfaction of blasting people out of space in some addictive side-scrolling 2D spaceship shooter action?
Slap on some snazzy graphics, guns, bombs & big explosions and the beautiful revelry of flying past your enemy's debris as they cuss at you, and you have Continuum, the longest running massively multiplayer spaceship shooter game running today.
Were you the reigning soda-shop champion in Asteroids? Sick of tending to your Nintendogs? Prepared to go up against 10-year veterans and show them what perfecting headshots in Counterstrike has done for your aim?
Swing by Continuum and see how crappy you really are. Ooooh, pwned! Angry now? Download the game and prove us wrong!
We can always use new pilots! Please spread these banners around. And if you have other banners, drop us a line and we'll put them up!
Continuum is the offshoot of MMO pioneering shooter, SubSpace, published in 1997 by Virgin Interactive Entertainment and abandoned soon thereafter. Because the game consumed so many lives, we couldn't let it die. So a few passionate pilots rebuilt the client, cleaned up the servers, and established a user-driven renaissance for one of the greatest games ever to grace the PC. Their efforts resulted in the game now known as Continuum.
Continuum began with a few zones, referred to as SVS zones, where ship settings kept true to their SubSpace origins. These classic zones retain the oldest populations and most skilled players, along with extremely competitive and balanced league play and some of the craziest personalities out there.
Since re-launching as Continuum, there's been significant growth in custom zones, where the ships' looks and settings often vary widely. The action is usually more fast-paced and casual.
If you're looking to develop your own game, Continuum provides server, developer, and game designer tools so you can customize Continuum into any kind of side-scrolling 2D shooter action game you can imagine!
Continuum has been around since 1995, so there's obviously much more to this amazing game than we can place on this page. We've got intense leagues, a great community, awesome squads, and some of the most addicting gameplay you'll find online. It's lasted this long for a reason.
So download Continuum, drop by a zone, and indulge. And bring some friends too. And don't forget to digg us!
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Log in, kill someone, and make some friends.
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Question: What's your take on the evolution of the guitar?

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Greta Van Fleet’s Jake Kiszka: "I think the guitar still has a lot of evolving to do"
WORLD GUITAR DAY 2018: Anyone with a vague interest in rock music and a working Internet connection will have seen some sort of footage of Greta Van Fleet over the last few years, a young Michigan quartet with a Led Zeppelin-rivalling knack for heavy riffs, seismic mid-tempo grooves and skyscraping vocals.
Despite being in their late teens/early 20s, the four members - comprised of the three Kiszka brothers and drummer Danny Wagner - possess a musical maturity that stretches far, far beyond their collective years. Those who feel rock is dead, or rapidly on its way to becoming obsolete, could learn a lot from the two EPs Greta Van Fleet have put out so far – and their debut album landing this October could very well have the final say on the matter.
It’s World Guitar Day! What do you immediately think of when you hear the word ‘guitar’?
I think the guitar still has a lot of evolving to do!
Do you remember the moment you were first drawn to music?
Was there one specific player that first inspired you on this journey?
How much did switching to electric guitar change your playing?
“Once I got my first electric, a Fender Squier, everything changed. I must have been in fourth grade and my teacher played us something from her generation, which was Jimi Hendrix’s Star Spangled Banner. That was another really critical moment where, despite never having heard it before, something really clicked, even though it seemed like most of the other kids didn’t really get it. But I felt I could understand it from all the traditional music I had heard growing up… I get goosebumps now just thinking about it.
As for the mental health side of playing guitar, have there ever been moments where the instrument has picked you up when feeling down?
“I was thinking about this just yesterday. I was watching an interview with Paul McCartney where he said the guitar, or any instrument, but especially the guitar is a tool of meditation. There’s a very transient quality when you are playing. So absolutely, there have been points in my life where I’ve felt depressed or confused or unhappy, and I’ve picked up the guitar to figure things out whenever I’ve felt like that.
Like many of the 60s/70s legends like The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin or Free, your music weaves through both major and minor tonalities. Is that a conscious thing?
“I was told it was fairly uncommon to go from minor to major. But it became this subconscious thing for me, because I’d write things like Edge Of Darkness which has verses that are in minor but when it hits the chorus it all goes into major, and same goes for the solo. It’s all about dichotomy of the two.
“It’s almost like you learn more about yourself through the guitar you are playing. It’s not like you go out to find the guitar, it’s more like it finds you in one way or another – and that’s kinda what happened with me and that classic pair of brands. My dad would take me to the music shop and would tell me not to worry about what amp was what, he told me just to pay more attention to the quality of the tone and what I was hoping to hear. We spent a year or so trying to find my first amp and it ended up being a Marshall. After my first guitar, I ended up with an SG Standard with P90 pickups… I guess I was just drawn to the tonal qualities.
What’s the story behind the ‘61 Les Paul you’ve used extensively on stage?
“I was gifted that 61 Les Paul by the CEO of a music store called the Chicago Music Exchange. He invited me over when we were in Chicago and took me up into this room called The Vault, pulling out all these half million dollar guitars.
Is there much in between your guitar and amp?
“While we were making the album, there were quite a few pedals I used to diversify my sound. I have two Holy Grail reverbs – one to create the general reverb and another that sounds more like a spring being dropped, which is fun to toy around with. There’s a song we have called Brave New World that has this fuzzy, crackly tone that really overdrives the pre-amp where I used a Jext Telez Face.
You’re just about to release your long-awaited debut album. What was the writing/recording process like and what can we expect from it?
“There were quite a few objectives in making this album. For the most part, we wanted to try and build on what we’d previously released… I think we achieved that. From touring consistently and playing every night, there’s been this evolution of skill level that we might not have been conscious of. It’s hard to identify with, but people that caught us at one show and then four months later have told us they’ve seen a lot of growth – which adds this whole existential perspective on this album. We’ve become better musicians and more studio-savvy, as well as better songwriters. We’ve added to the diversity of our sound as we’ve grown – which was one of the objectives.


Question: Could you tell me something about Karl Gerok?

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Karl Gerok (January 30, 1815 Vaihingen - January 14, 1890 Stuttgart) was a German preacher and religious poet.
He studied at Tübingen, and became chief court preacher and chief consistorial councillor in Stuttgart in 1868.


Question: What can you tell me about climate change's impact on the boreal region?

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The percentage of land suitable for agriculture in boreal regions could increase from 32% to 76% by the end of this century, according to researchers from Canada and the UK.
An international team of scientists have assessed the impact of climate change on land that could support agriculture in the boreal region, which includes large sections of Canada, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States. They found that the upper edge of land suitable for crop growth could shift as far north as 1,200 km (745 miles) from its current position. The most dramatic changes would occur in the inner-continental regions of North America and Eurasia.
As of 2018, only 32% of the boreal region falls into 'growing degree days' – the climate parameter linked to crop growth – and rainfall requirements for small cereal crops, such as oats and barley. However, based on detailed climate models, more than three-quarters (76%) of the boreal region could provide suitable conditions for agriculture by the year 2099. The researchers present their work in the peer-reviewed journal Scientific Reports.
However, the study also warns that while total rainfall will generally increase on an annual basis, a warmer climate will also lead to more evaporation with potentially dramatic impacts on the climatic water balance – both geographically and across seasons. For example, while regions around the oceans' rims could see an increase in water available to crops, inner continental regions may suffer drought conditions during the summer. Additionally, regions that would suffer temporary summer droughts might see wetter autumns, which would have a negative impact on the harvest season.
Projected advances of the boundary suitable for agriculture in the boreal regions. Credit: Myron King, et al.
"Climate change will have a profound impact on our agricultural regions," says Professor Joseph Holden, who works in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Leeds. "A projected consequence is the loss of farmland and crops from areas that are currently productive, which is cause for concern regarding long-term global food security. Therefore, we need to know whether in northern high latitudes, new areas will become suitable for crops.
"Understanding future environmental conditions will be vital for agricultural production. But any plans for northward agricultural expansion must be done carefully and with long-term environmental sustainability in mind."
"We must not forget that any changes in land use have extensive impacts on the entire natural ecosystem – impacts that must be understood and included in any planning effort," says co-author Dr Adrian Unc, from Grenfell Campus, Memorial University Canada. "After all, we must insure that a short-term gain does not come at the cost of a long-term loss in ecosystem sustainability."


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LOWELL -- A dog attack left a woman and her own dog injured Tuesday, according to Lowell police.
The incident occurred at 53 Loring St., according to Police Capt. Paul Laferriere. He said a 29-year-old woman was in the yard with her dog about 10:17 a.m. when a large, unleashed pitbull entered her yard and attacked her dog.
The woman, and the male owner of the pitbull, tried to separate the dogs, which is when the woman was bitten, Laferriere said in an email.
The man and pitbull left the scene, and were located later, he said. Animal control is following up on the attack, Laferriere said.
The woman and her dog both needed medical attention, he said.
In October 2017, a 7-year-old Lowell boy was killed by a pitbull. The Middlesex District Attorney's Office reported the young boy entered a fenced in area on Clare Street one evening where there were two pitbulls. The one pitbull who attacked the child was later euthanized.
Police did not yet have information on whether the pitbull owner in Tuesday's incident will face any charges.


Question: What is Bunyan?

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Bunyan is a locality in the Snowy Monaro Region, New South Wales, Australia. It lies on the eastern side of the Murrumbidgee River and on both sides of the Monaro Highway about 110 km south of Canberra and about 10 km north of Cooma. At the , it had a population of 152.


Question: Mt. Tajumata

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is a mountain located in the Hidaka Mountains, Hokkaidō, Japan. The mountain is made from ultramafic rock of unknown age.


Question: What was the 1970 Georgia gubernatorial election? Respond in 4 sentences.

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The 1970 Georgia gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1970. It was marked by the election as Governor of Georgia of the relatively little-known former state Senator Jimmy Carter after a hard battle in the Democratic primary. This election is notable because Carter, often regarded as one of the "New South Governors", later ran for President in 1976 on his gubernatorial record and won.
Under the Georgia constitution of 1945, incumbent Democratic Governor Lester Maddox was prohibited from seeking re-election.


Question: Write a description of R. William Funk & Associates.

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R. William Funk & Associates, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is an executive search firm, specializing in higher education. Privately owned, R. William Funk and Associates works with universities on searches for positions such as president, chancellor, vice president, provost, and dean.


Question: Please share the closing message for the show.

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… just to name a few. Jon is currently working on the successfully Kickstarted At the Gates, which you can play an early access version of here.
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Question: Respond in 2 sentences. Provide information about the village of Suvi Do in Serbia.

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Suvi Do is a village in the municipality of Blace, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 389 people.


Question: Respond in detail. What do you think of the government's decision to fire Professor David Nutt?

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Alan Johnson: "His role (was) to advise rather than criticise government policy on drugs"
Colleagues of the government drugs adviser sacked by Alan Johnson say they have "serious concerns" about his decision and whether they can continue.
Two drugs advisory panel members quit in protest when Prof David Nutt was fired for comments on cannabis policy.
Others have questioned whether they can continue in "good conscience".
The home secretary denied reports that there will be a review of the council's role and told MPs he would meet members to discuss the situation "shortly".
Prof Nutt, chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, was sacked on Friday after using a lecture to say that cannabis was less harmful than alcohol and tobacco.
He also said it had been upgraded from class C to class B - against the council's advice - for political reasons.
Earlier in the year he suggested that taking ecstasy was no more dangerous than horse riding.
In a statement to MPs, Mr Johnson said the reason for sacking Prof Nutt was not "the work of the council but because of his failure to recognise that... his role is to advise rather than criticise".
He added that he had "lost confidence in the professor's ability to be my principal adviser on drugs".
Mr Johnson said Prof Nutt had "acted in a way that undermined the government rather than supporting its work".
But he added that the advisory council, set up in 1971, had been "invaluable to the successive governments it has served".
The letter sent by the council to the home secretary says that, while not all remaining 28 members have been reached, "it is clear that a majority of the council have serious concerns" about Prof Nutt's dismissal and the body's future.
It also says: "For some members these matters are of such seriousness as to raise the question whether they can, in good conscience, continue on the council.
"In this situation members wish for clarity and assurances about how the ministers view the council's advice and will view the council's advice in the future."
One member, Dr Les King, resigned on Sunday in protest at Prof Nutt's sacking. Another, pharmacist Marion Walker, has also resigned.
Dr King told the BBC he did not think the panel could continue. He said ministers had used the council as "a rubber stamp, as a poodle, by coming to the advisory council with a pre-determined agenda about drug classification".
The prime minister's spokesman said Mr Brown fully supported Mr Johnson but said Mr Brown had not been personally involved.
For the Conservatives, shadow home secretary Chris Grayling said Mr Johnson's decision had been "the right one", as some of Prof Nutt's comments had been "particularly ill-judged", but criticised the "unseemly row".
But Liberal Democrat spokesman Chris Huhne said Prof Nutt's comments had been "in no way contrary" to the code of practice for advisers.


Question: What is a Parascyllium? Respond in 20 words.

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Parascyllium is a genus of carpetsharks in the family Parascylliidae. Species in this genus are distributed in waters around Australia.


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Arduino programming is very easy to learn, in this article, you will learn how to program Arduino boards easily. Even you don’t have any programming skills, you can program Arduino easily. By the end of this article, you will able to program any Arduino boards.
The programs written for Arduino are called sketches.
The setup() function is called once when your program starts. Use it to initialize pin modes, or begin serial. It must be included in a program even if there are no statements to run.
The function pinMode(pin, mode) is used in void setup() to configure a specified pin to behave either as an INPUT or an OUTPUT.
Pullup resistors would normally be used for connecting inputs like switches. Notice in the above example it does not convert pin to an output, it is merely a method for activating the internal pull-ups.
Pins configured as OUTPUT can provide 40 mA (milliamps) of current to other devices/circuits. This is enough current to brightly light up an LED (don’t forget the series resistor), but not enough current to run most relays, solenoids, or motors.
Short circuits on Arduino pins and excessive current can damage or destroy the output pin, or damage the entire Atmega chip. It is often a good idea to connect an OUTPUT pin to an external device in series with a 470Ω or 1KΩ resistor.
The loop() function runs continuously.
Outputs either logic level HIGH or LOW at (turns on or off) a specified digital pin. The pin can be specified as either a variable or constant (0-13).
Reads the value from a specified digital pin with the result either HIGH or LOW. The pin can be specified as either a variable or constant (0-13).
Reads the value from a specified analog pin with a 10-bit resolution. This function only works on the analog in pins (0-5). The resulting integer values range from 0 to 1023.
Note: Analog pins unlike digital ones, do not need to be first declared as INPUT or OUTPUT.
Writes a pseudo-analog value using hardware enabled pulse width modulation (PWM) to an output pin marked PWM. On Uno, this function works on pins 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, and 11. The value can be specified as a variable or constant with a value from 0-255.
A value of 0 generates a steady 0 volts output at the specified pin; a value of 255 generates a steady 5 volts output at the specified pin. For values in between 0 and 255, the pin rapidly alternates between 0 and 5 volts – the higher the value, the more often the pin is HIGH (5 volts). For example, a value of 64 will be 0 volts three-quarters of the time, and 5 volts one quarter of the time; a value of 128 will be at 0 half the time and 255 half the time; and a value of 192 will be 0 volts one quarter of the time and 5 volts three-quarters of the time.
Because this is a hardware function, the pin will generate a steady wave after a call to analogWrite in the background until the next call to analogWrite (or a call to digitalRead or digitalWrite on the same pin).
Note: Analog pins, unlike digital ones, do not need to be first declared as INPUT or OUTPUT.
Pauses a program for the amount of time as specified in milliseconds, where 1000 equals 1 second.
Returns the number of milliseconds since the Arduino board began running the current program as an unsigned long value.
Note: This number will overflow (reset back to zero), after approximately 9 hours.
Opens serial port and sets the baud rate for serial data transmission. The typical baud rate for communicating with the computer is 9600 although other speeds are supported.
Note: When using serial communication, digital pins 0 (RX) and 1 (TX) cannot be used at the same time.
Prints data to the serial port, followed by an automatic carriage return and line feed. This command takes the same form as Serial.print(), but is easier for reading data on the Serial Monitor.
Serial.print(value); // displays the value in serial monitor, the next value is displayed side of previous.
Serial.println(value); // displays the value in serial monitor, the next value is displayed in new line.
That’s a really concise and useful guide, both for beginners as well as a useful reminder for more advanced Arduino hobbyists.


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Świerczynki is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Łysomice, within Toruń County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately west of Łysomice and north-west of Toruń.


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Emmanuel Adriaenssen (c. 1554 in Antwerp – buried 27 February 1604 in Antwerp) was a Flemish lutenist, composer and master of music. He authored he influential "Pratum Musicum", which contains scores for lute solos, and more importantly settings of madrigals for multiple lutes and different ensembles involving lutes and voices. He also had an important influence on the next generation of lutists through his activity as a teacher of music in his own music school.


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ADISQ stands for Association québécoise de l'industrie du disque, du spectacle et de la video, which translates as "Québec Association for the Recording, Concert and Video Industries". It is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to support the independent music industry in Québec. It was created in 1978.


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WASHINGTON — A day after President Trump took a swing at United States trading partners by threatening stiff and sweeping tariffs on steel and aluminum, they hit back. They promised to retaliate against quintessential American goods like Kentucky bourbon, bluejeans and Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
That is likely to turn into a wave of protest aimed at American products as other countries, including traditional allies, respond to Mr. Trump’s plan to clamp down on imports of metals from overseas.
Canada, China and the European Union have already said they would respond with tariffs of their own that could lead to billions of dollars in American export losses. Those levies would harm the farmers and business interests that the Trump administration has promised to protect and would fuel a trade fight that could undermine the president’s goal of strengthening American industry.
“It certainly will have a negative effect on our bilateral relationship,” he said.
American businesses are more tied to the global economy than ever before, and the Trump administration is seeking concessions from trading partners to put American companies on a more competitive footing. Negotiators from Canada, Mexico and the United States were meeting in Mexico City to hash out changes to Nafta, and Washington is trying to revise a trade deal with South Korea. The possibility of tariffs complicates both efforts.
Mr. Trump appeared unmoved by the blowback, posting a series of Twitter messages on Friday defending his proposal to impose tariffs of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on aluminum.
“We must protect our country and our workers. Our steel industry is in bad shape. IF YOU DON’T HAVE STEEL, YOU DON’T HAVE A COUNTRY!” Mr. Trump tweeted.
Yet the United States does not control the global economy, and the tariffs, which Mr. Trump is expected to sign next week, could incite other countries to challenge it at the World Trade Organization. If the organization rules against the United States, that will test the Trump administration’s willingness to follow global trade rules.
The tariffs rest on a little-used legal provision that allows Mr. Trump to restrict imports to try to bolster the American industrial base in the interest of national security. That power will face scrutiny by the World Trade Organization but, perhaps more significant, could prompt other countries to follow suit in using national security as a reason to wall off their markets.
American technology companies, agricultural producers and other industries could ultimately lose business abroad as nations seek to erect similar barriers.
Robert L. Shanks, Ford Motor’s chief financial officer, said commodities markets had already started to price in increases for steel and aluminum on the expectation that Mr. Trump would impose the tariffs. The effect on Ford, he said, is “not positive” given the automaker uses those metals in the cars they produce.
The European Union detailed a three-step plan to penalize $3.5 billion of American trade — the same amount of European steel and aluminum the bloc estimates would be harmed by the planned tariffs. It proposed taxing American exports including bourbon, bluejeans, orange juice, cranberries, rice and motorcycles. The European Union could then take action to protect their own metal makers from a surge in imports, and bring a case against the United States at the World Trade Organization.
A European Union official said that the bloc had been preparing for the announcement for months and that everything was in place for a swift, proportionate response.
The measures were intended to put pressure on politically sensitive areas, trade analysts said. Harley-Davidson motorcycles are made in the home district of Speaker Paul D. Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin. Orange juice comes from the swing state of Florida. Restrictions on Kentucky bourbon could add pressure on the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, who is from the state.
Retaliation could hit hardest in many of the rural communities that were strongholds for Mr. Trump. Farmers are among America’s largest exporters, and often become a target in trade spats, said Darci Vetter, the former chief agricultural negotiator for the United States trade representative. She said the agricultural community was “rightly nervous” about the prospect.
Canada and Mexico were America’s No. 1 and No. 3 largest agricultural markets in 2016, and South Korea is a major market for beef, corn, pork and fresh fruit, Ms. Vetter said. The United States exports cotton to Turkey and wheat and dairy to Brazil, other major suppliers of steel.
Other countries have been less specific, but no less emphatic, in their threats. Canada’s minister of foreign affairs, Chrystia Freeland, said that Canada stood ready to defend its trade interests, while the Australian trade minister, Steven Ciobo, said the tariffs would set off retaliatory measures that would hurt everyone.
American steel companies are a key constituency for Mr. Trump, who won the support of some blue-collar workers by pledging to revive United States industry. The steel industry has shed hundreds of thousands of jobs in the country in the past two decades, partly because of automation and partly because of a flood of production from China, which has driven down global prices to a level where some American mills cannot compete.
American steel and aluminum companies were the loudest in applauding the president’s efforts to help their industries. Labor unions and Rust Belt politicians, including Democrats, commended Mr. Trump for fulfilling an important political promise he made during the campaign.
“They know they’re cheating us, and all we’re doing is standing up for ourselves,” he added.
Mr. Trump’s announcement on Thursday was a clear signal to many observers that the pro-trade advisers in the Trump administration — who have tried to stay the president’s hand on tariffs and withdrawing from trade agreements — might have less influence than they believe. That could further fuel trade tensions and make it less likely that the United States will be able to reach the types of bilateral or multilateral agreements that have helped expand American exports.
Thomas Kaplan contributed reporting from Washington, Neal E. Boudette from Ann Arbor, Mich., and Patricia Cohen from New York.
Trade Wars Are Destructive. Of Course Trump Wants One.


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Thanks again for reading my blogs, feel good about spreading the word if you have found them useful.
So the next few blogs are going to really get stuck into pitch bends with the minor pentatonic scale, then move onto using them in the major and minor scales.
Pitch bends are a really great way of linking up shapes and creating variety in your lead playing. You are basically picking a note then bending the string with your fretting hand to reach another note. Often you are simply just bending the note to reach the pitch of the next note in the scale.
To keep it simple i'm going to just display the most essential bends of the 5 shapes on the G, B and E strings. These are the ones you are going to use the most.
As the shapes are the same for the major pentatonic you can use the bends in exactly the same way.
Hope you've found this blog useful, we'll go onto the major/minor scales next where you can add semitone bends to your repertoire.


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Welcome to yet another Perl 6 Weekly that is on time.
Please note that when this branch is merged, it will most likely break a significant part of the ecosystem in most likely unforeseen ways. On the other hand, after this upheaval, Rakudo Perl 6 will be much faster on single cores, but even more so on multiple core systems. A very early unoptimized benchmark shows that doing a race on a map only adds about 4% overhead on a single core system, whereas using 4 cores results in more than twice as fast execution of the given code. So, “fasten da seatbelz”, it may be a bumpy ride until we get there (within the next weeks).
smls opened an issue about the Roadmap for our language/docs. If you care about Perl 6 documentation, you should read and/or comment!
Elizabeth Mattijsen implemented indices, as mentioned by Larry Wall.


Question: Respond in 29 sentences. Describe how asynchronous plugin initialization works in Firefox.

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My colleague bsmedberg njn is going to be removing asynchronous plugin initialization in bug 1352575. Sadly the feature never became solid enough to remain enabled on release, so we cut our losses and cancelled the project early in 2016. Now that code is just a bunch of dead weight. With the deprecation of non-Flash NPAPI plugins in Firefox 52, our developers are now working on simplifying the remaining NPAPI code as much as possible.
Obviously the removal of that code does not prevent me from discussing some of the more interesting facets of that work.
Today I am going to talk about how async plugin init worked when web content attempted to access a property on a plugin’s scriptable object, when that plugin had not yet completed its asynchronous initialization.
As described on MDN, the DOM queries a plugin for scriptability by calling NPP_GetValue with the NPPVpluginScriptableNPObject constant. With async plugin init, we did not return the true NPAPI scriptable object back to the DOM. Instead we returned a surrogate object. This meant that we did not need to synchronously wait for the plugin to initialize before returning a result back to the DOM.
If the DOM subsequently called into that surrogate object, the surrogate would be forced to synchronize with the plugin. There was a limit on how much fakery the async surrogate could do once the DOM needed a definitive answer – after all, the NPAPI itself is entirely synchronous. While you may question whether the asynchronous surrogate actually bought us any responsiveness, performance profiles and measurements that I took at the time did indeed demonstrate that the asynchronous surrogate did buy us enough additional concurrency to make it worthwhile. A good number of plugin instantiations were able to complete in time before the DOM had made a single invocation on the surrogate.
Once the surrogate object had synchronized with the plugin, it would then mostly act as a pass-through to the plugin’s real NPAPI scriptable object, with one notable exception: property accesses.
NPAPI is reentrant (some might say insanely reentrant). It is possible (and indeed common) for a plugin to set properties on the WebIDL object from within the plugin’s NPP_New.
Suppose that the DOM tries to access a property on the plugin’s WebIDL object that is normally set by the plugin’s NPP_New. In the asynchronous case, the plugin’s initialization might still be in progress, so that property might not yet exist.
Now we have a problem: JS was already examining the NPAPI scriptable object when it blocked to synchronize with the plugin. Meanwhile, the plugin went ahead and set properties (including the one that we’re interested in) on the WebIDL object. By the time that JS execution resumes, it would already be looking too far up the prototype chain to see those new properties!
The surrogate needed to be aware of this when it synchronized with the plugin during a property access. If the plugin had already completed its initialization (thus rendering synchronization unnecessary), the surrogate would simply pass the property access on to the real NPAPI scriptable object. On the other hand, if a synchronization was performed, the surrogate would first retry the WebIDL object by querying for the WebIDL object’s “own” properties, and return the own property if it now existed. If no own property existed on the WebIDL object, then the surrogate would revert to its “pass through all the things” behaviour.
If I hadn’t made the asynchronous surrogate scriptable object do that, we would have ended up with a strange situation where the DOM’s initial property access on an embed could fail non-deterministically during page load.
That’s enough chatter for today. I enjoy blogging about my crazy hacks that make the impossible, umm… possible, so maybe I’ll write some more of these in the future.


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There is certainly no shortage of luxury homes on the market right now across Canada, but few can hold a candle to this place. Throughout this piece of modern livable art you’ll find something new in just about every room.
The interior design was also done flawlessly in our opinion, everything from the statues to the jaw dropping chandelier above the dining table. Something you don’t see everyday either is the two level marble fireplace. This provides a wood burning fireplace on the main floor as well as a propane fireplace on the upper level lounge.
This home is on the market for $2,800,000 CDN and if you want to see more photos and learn about the design view the full listing. It’s listed with Carolyn Davis Stewart and you can reach her by email or via 902.456.9134.


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The United Nations has called the states to fight “a global and unprecedented threat to international peace and security” which is Islamic State (IS, ISIS/ISIL, Da’esh). All 15 members of the UN Security Council voted to adopt the French-proposed resolution.
IS “constitutes a global and unprecedented threat to international peace and security,” the resolution says.
Russia has repeatedly called for action to cut the terrorists’ financial lifelines, with President Vladimir Putin revealing on Monday that IS is receiving funding from 40 countries.
Meanwhile, Russia is continuing its work on a draft resolution proposing international military campaigns to fight against Islamic State. The current text is an updated version of a document submitted on September 30.
The text, submitted on November 18, stresses the need to coordinate military actions with the governments of the countries where the anti-terror operations are being conducted.
Russia’s Ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, said that Moscow is working towards having the draft resolution passed soon.
Churkin also stressed that it is shortsighted of some UNSC members to try to block Russia’s draft resolution on fighting terrorism.
“We believe the attempts by several members of the UN Security Council to block our work on the project is politically shortsighted. You can fight terrorism with one hand and with the other practically play along with them,” Churkin said.
After the vote, Churkin also added that the French delegates included “important corrections introduced by Russia” into the resolution.


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Jim Robertson (10 November 1900 – 29 April 1975) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).


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Coscinia bifasciata is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Jules Pierre Rambur in 1832. It is found on Corsica and Sardinia.


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The Toronto Blue Jays were the 25th stop on her North American tour.
You’ve got to be pretty special to throw out the honourary first pitch at a Major League Baseball game. Sure, there are almost 3,000 games played in a season, but when you consider that most stadiums house over 50,000 fans and there are thousands more at home, your chances of getting recognized look a little slimmer. Despite those odds, one extra special baseball fan is planning on throwing out the first pitch at every single one of the 30 MLB parks this year and she’s only eight years old.
Hailey Dawson threw out her 25th first pitch Tuesday night at the Rogers Center ahead of the Toronto Blue Jays’ game against the Boston Red Sox (unfortunately the home team would go on to lose 10-7). Hailey was born with Poland Syndrome — a birth defect characterized by underdevelopment of chest muscles and hand disfigurement on one side of the body — and she uses a 3D printed prosthetic right hand to pitch.
Hailey was gifted the prosthetic by the University of Las Vegas Nevada in 2015 and was asked at the time to use it to throw out the first pitch at a Baltimore Orioles game. After the Washington Nationals made the same proposal, Hailey’s mom told CTV News that she asked her daughter if she wanted to try throwing an honourary first pitch in all 30 Major League parks and Hailey agreed. They decided to use the goal and platform to bring awareness to Poland Syndrome and let people know that 3D printed hands are available and functional for people living with it.
Traditional prosthetics can cost upwards of $20,000 and, in Hailey’s case, would need to be replaced every six months or so as she grows. The 3D printed option is much cheaper and still allows her the mobility and dexterity to grasp and throw properly.
With just five teams left to visit — the Tampa Bay Rays, Miami Marlins, Cincinnati Reds, Kansas City Royals and Los Angeles Angels — the Las Vegas native could solidify her Guinness World Record for throwing the honourary first pitch in every MLB stadium by the end of this season.


Question: Explain the importance of encouraging diversity in the cybersecurity industry and discuss ways of achieving this.

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We need more women in cybersecurity.
With cyber attacks and data breaches hitting our headlines almost on a daily basis, every organisation whether public or private, small or large, is vulnerable to an attack. Although there is no denying that organisational awareness is on the rise, those behind the attacks are finding new and creative ways to bring an organisation to its knees.
It is worrying, therefore, that recent research by ESG found that in 2018 over half of IT and cybersecurity professionals across a number of industries claimed their organisation had a problematic shortage of cybersecurity skills.
So Why are we Facing such a Shortage?
A shortage of talent in cybersecurity roles is predominantly down to a lack of awareness of the opportunities that exist and an often flawed perception that you need to be technical to work in cybersecurity.
And these misconceptions are mainly seen by women.
After all, with women making up half of the UK population, the nation cannot afford to miss out on a huge group of talent in cybersecurity positions.
Whether its school workshops or women’s networks in the workplace, the UK needs to do more to address the balance and to foster female talent in the security industry both early on and throughout their careers.
As the future leaders of the UK, we need to ensure we are investing in children at an early age by developing the right skills to support the future digital economy.
Despite a study from Unifrog finding a higher percentage of girls are taking A-levels in science, technology and maths, many are still avoiding going on to study the same subjects at university.
With girls tending to lose interest in STEM subjects at the age of 15, according to a survey from Microsoft, policymakers, public and private organisations, and especially parents need to band together to raise awareness of the unique opportunities that come with working in industries – such as cybersecurity – early on.
The good news is that there are already a number of initiatives in place to communicate just how exciting cybersecurity roles can be.
For example, last year the government announced that schoolchildren in the UK will be offered lessons in cybersecurity in a bid to find the future leaders that will overcome the skills shortage currently undermining our confidence in the UK’s cyber defences.
And more recently, GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre ‘CyberFirst’ scheme plans to train 1150 children in skills such as cracking codes, securing IT networks and protecting friends from hacks this summer.
In short – organisations – both private and public – that fail to foster talent in the crucial childhood years will prevent the UK from adequately safeguarding itself against attacks now and in the future.
Whilst it’s of course vital that we start building a pipeline of young talent to protect the UK against cyber threats and breaches in the future, organisations are still a long way off from seeing those children reach the workplace.
In the meantime, there is a lot of work to be done to encourage women already in the workplace.
A fundamental factor preventing more women from holding cybersecurity roles is a pipeline problem within an organisation.
The first step to addressing this is to drive recruitment of women at graduate and apprentice levels.
But it doesn’t stop there. It is easy enough to put in place initiatives where half of a company’s cybersecurity graduates employed are women, but this is not just a numbers game.
Through building a female-inclusive culture and the provision of flexible working to support women throughout their career lifecycle, organisations need to facilitate an environment in which people are encouraged to be completely themselves.
For this, women’s networks can be a critical tool for providing peer support and advice, and to amplify the voice of women, leading to positive change in organisations.
And it’s the responsibility of the senior team to take the lead by championing gender parity within their organisation and showcasing female role models.
Whether this is through workshops at school or women’s networks in the workplace, women need more role models and support if we are to close the widening cybersecurity skills gap.
Industry conferences and events need more female representation and speakers. A great example of this was the recent BAE RESET conference, which was the first all-female cyber security conference. The aim was to ‘reset’ the balance by having female speakers who are expert practitioners and leaders in their fields.
Another great way to readdress the balance is to retrain and upskill workers to enter cybersecurity. This can include professionals looking for a new career path, or parents and carers looking to re-enter the job market following a break.
That’s why a new government-backed scheme, launched by Protection Group International (PGI) and supported by Hawker Chase to run a 10 week cyber-academy to encourage more women into the industry, is a hugely positive move.
Of course this is not just about women, this is about encouraging all types of diversity and making the industry as inclusive as possible to not just reduce the skills gap but to strengthen the capability. Indeed, it was a McKinsey report which found that companies with the most ethically/culturally diverse boards worldwide are two-fifths (43%) more likely to experience higher profits.
However, it’s disappointing to see that many minority groups, not just women, are still grossly underrepresented, with a report by (ISC)2 found that only a quarter (26%) of those in cybersecurity employment were from a minority group.
With attackers becoming more creative and savvy in their approach to cyber-attacks, a more diverse and inclusive cybersecurity team will be key in facilitating a broader range of ideas and perspectives about how to prevent an attack from taking place.
And it is only by engaging a diverse array of people in cybersecurity that we can hope to adequately defend the UK from attacks.


Question: Who is Randall N. Bills? Respond briefly.

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Randall N. Bills is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.


Question: Explain how tax revenue was lost to development incentives in Metro Nashville Public Schools and the impact this has had on the schools' budget.

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MNPS budget: How much tax revenue was lost to development incentives?
Nashville's financial woes have drawn new scrutiny to economic development subsidies, but what's that mean for Metro Nashville Public Schools? We checked.
As Nashville prepares to raid its reserves to pay for unexpected school costs, some of the shortfall can be traced to tax breaks awarded to developers.
The city diverted $9.3 million of property taxes from schools to pay off redevelopment loans — for downtown hotels, luxury condos and other projects.
Such diversions have occurred for decades, but in the past two years they've grown quickly. This fiscal year's amount was about $1 million more than expected.
Metro Nashville Public Schools may cut 30 central office positions and pause new programs to make up for a $17 million hole in its budget next fiscal year. The city's financial woes have drawn new scrutiny to economic development subsidies, and caused many to ask fundamental questions about Nashville's perceived prosperity.
More: Amid budget shortfall, are Nashville's financial incentives still worth the cost?
How, they wonder, can a city with gleaming hotel towers, record-low unemployment, and years of real estate market growth, not afford to pay for its children's education? Who, exactly, has benefited from the development boom?
The scrutiny was heightened this week after Director of Schools Shawn Joseph made an unusual supplemental request seeking $3.5 million to plug budget holes related to health insurance, enrollment and redevelopment. About $1 million of that represented the difference between the budgeted and actual tax dollars diverted to pay off the economic development incentives.
“It makes no sense for the City of Nashville to rob the reserves of the schools to do redevelopment,” said Erick Huth, president of the Metropolitan Nashville Education Association, the local teachers union.
So far this fiscal year Metro has redirected $29.8 million of property taxes to the redevelopment loans. Just like a homeowner's taxes, a portion of the collections would have gone to Nashville schools. In fiscal 2017, Metro sent $24.8 million to MDHA.
Nashville's redevelopment program uses "tax-increment financing" as its primary tool. The Metropolitan Development Housing Authority backs loans to developers for land acquisition, demolition, and off-site infrastructure such as utilities and sidewalks. Any future increases in property taxes at those sites are directed to repay the loans. Once the loans are repaid, the full property tax bill is available for schools and city services.
These sorts of subsidies were originally designed to spur development in "blighted" parts of cities. They were used to lure companies to the Gulch, for example, in the early 2000s, when parts of the downtown district were industrial and barren. Today, the area is teeming with luxury shops, restaurants, tourists and condos.
The Westin hotel, for instance, was awarded $15 million in economic development subsidies in 2014. The city collected nearly $200,000 in property tax on the property in the year ending September 30, 2017, but that was redirected to pay off a redevelopment loan.
Critics argue Nashville no longer needs to offer these incentives because developers are already eager to build here. Also, the city has not kept records needed to evaluate the effectiveness of its redevelopment financing, according to a city audit released in March.
Each year, the Metro Finance Department estimates the amount of redevelopment collections, but for the past two fiscal years at least, it has under-forecast the amounts. Metro forecast that $8.3 million of tax funds meant for schools would be diverted in fiscal year 2018. It ended up at $9.3 million. The school district built its budget using the smaller amount, thus the $1 million supplemental request.
Deputy Finance Director Kim McDoniel said more tax revenue was collected from the redevelopment parcels because their values climbed during the 2017 reappraisal, and some of the parcels were developed during the fiscal year.
Supplemental funding was approved by the Metro Nashville Council on Tuesday.
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Question: Describe the challenges negotiators face at the Paris climate talks.

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 Describe the challenges negotiators face at the Paris climate talks.

And they’re already behind schedule.
The Paris talks are falling behind schedule already, and it’s only day three. Negotiators have a lot to do in very little time: They need to cut down a text of over 50 pages and resolve every minor and major word choice by December 11. And they face their first major deadline on Saturday, when the French government, as the host of the talks, expects to receive a streamlined text. Will they make it in time? According to Carbon Pulse, negotiators are already meeting until 2 a.m., and, at the current pace, they will need to resolve a bracket every 90 seconds for the entire week to stay on track. From there, higher-level negotiators will take this text to resolve the still-bigger issues.
There is a #climate negotiator behind me in Le Bourget buying four (4) bottles of wine.And it's only day 1 of #COP21Paris!
China announced another step it will take in order to meet its goal of bringing down its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, cutting pollution 60 percent from the power sector by 2020. Though the state-owned media provided little details of how to achieve this, the goal fits into China’s longer-term target.
Transparency, according to U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern, “is an enormously important part of this agreement. I would say it’s a core part of this agreement.” This means defining when and how to report on progress, take inventory of actions, and review areas that need to be bolstered.
There’s a huge gap between the $12 billion nations have promised in climate funds and the $100 billion annually that’s needed. It’s becoming clear that developed nations won’t meet that goal. Instead, there will be a heavy reliance on markets and private funding sources.
Another obstacle to settling remaining questions around climate finance has emerged: India is insisting on gaining access to intellectual property rights to meet its clean energy goals, which U.S. businesses oppose.
The U.S.’s pledge for Paris only goes out as far as 2025, and people are already starting to wonder when it will announce the 2030 pledge. Stern said the national target for greenhouse gasses could come in the early 2020s (something that also depends on the next administration).
“This is half-assed and it’s half-baked,” climate scientist and activist James Hansen said from the sidelines of the Paris talks on Wednesday, arguing that countries’ commitments don’t do enough to address greenhouse gasses and sidestep more effective solutions, like a price on carbon.


Question: Who is Georgina, Marchioness of Stockbridge?

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Georgina, Marchioness of Stockbridge (née Georgina Worsley, born 28 November 1895), is a fictional character in the British television series, "Upstairs, Downstairs". She was portrayed by Lesley-Anne Down.


Question: What is your opinion about engaging with Betsy DeVos, President Trump's controversial pick for Education Secretary?

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 What is your opinion about engaging with Betsy DeVos, President Trump's controversial pick for Education Secretary?

President Donald Trump and his advisers probably didn’t expect his choice for education secretary to cause much of a fuss. After all, Rick Perry was tapped to run the Department of Energy, which he once said he wanted to eliminate. Senator Jeff Sessions, who has spent his career attacking voting rights, was up for attorney general. Scott Pruitt, nominated to run the EPA, has sued the agency at least 14 times. Even Ben Carson was offered a job.
And yet, Betsy DeVos turned out to be Trump’s most controversial cabinet pick. It came as a surprise to many in Washington, but it didn’t come out of the blue.
Ahead of DeVos’s confirmation vote, union leaders hammered her on cable news, and the NEA organized a million people to email senators in opposition to her nomination. At least 40,000 called the Capitol through a special switchboard the union set up.
Jefferson Academy promptly took her to school on Twitter.
Kaya Henderson, the former chancellor of D.C. Public Schools, also jumped to the school’s defense.
Few public school teachers, it seems, are willing to give DeVos the benefit of the doubt. That’s certainly true of Lily Eskelsen García, the president of the National Education Association, the largest union of any kind in America (3.2 million members). “She will get no grace, and she deserves no grace,” Eskelsen García told me on the eve of DeVos’s confirmation vote.
But Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers (1.6 million members), feels slightly differently. Whereas the NEA is declaring outright opposition, the AFT is cautiously engaging with DeVos, holding out hope for common ground. Weingarten, who has spoken with DeVos over the phone, has agreed to visit a non-traditional “choice school” with her. “You have to talk, and you have to engage,” Weingarten told me.
These divergent approaches to DeVos at the beginning of her tenure mirror a broader divergence on the left—from Democrats on Capitol Hill to progressive activists across America—about how to approach the Trump administration: with unequivocal resistance, or a willingness to compromise?
Ultimately, they struck a deal: DeVos would visit a public school with Weingarten, and Weingarten would go to a non-traditional “choice school” with DeVos. The details of these visits are now being worked out.
I asked Weingarten whether she could really find common ground with DeVos, who has long bankrolled failed free-market school reforms. “I have no idea,” Weingarten said. But she’s committed to engaging with DeVos, so the education secretary has no excuse to ignore her or the causes she cares about. “Forcing her to actually see what goes on, walking the walk of teachers and parents and students—I see that as an act of resistance,” Weingarten said.
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Weingarten says she applauds Eskelsen García for demanding answers. She sent her own letter to DeVos last week, but it was as welcoming as it was admonishing—inviting DeVos to learn more about the successes and challenges of public education in America, and expressing hope for the secretary to have a change of heart.
Can I see myself having a working relationship with someone who does not share our intrinsic value that all students deserve the opportunity to succeed? That answer is no, nor will we stop advocating on behalf of our members and their students to ensure that all children, regardless of ZIP code, have the opportunity for a public-school education that inspires them and nurtures their talents and abilities.
American Enterprise Institute scholar Rick Hess, a leading conservative voice in education policy, thinks this is admirable. He praised Weingarten for agreeing to tour schools with DeVos.
Not everyone in the AFT is in agreement. Arthur Goldstein, a Weingarten critic on the executive board of the union’s New York City affiliate, United Federation of Teachers, told me that working with DeVos is probably futile.
But DeVos will be able to steer education policy in more subtle ways, Nelson noted. She can go easy on for-profit colleges, choose not to aggressively enforce the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act, amend sexual assault policy to empower accused students, deemphasize the Obama administration’s focus on racial disparities in discipline, and undo protections for transgender students. (on Wednesday, The New York Times reported that the latter is in the works, albeit over DeVos’s objections).
Perhaps, in meeting with DeVos, Weingarten is hoping to wield influence over these potential moves. Touring a couple of schools together hardly suggests policy agreement. If nothing comes of it, Weingarten’s early willingness to engage could make her a more authoritative critic of DeVos down the line.
The risk, however, is that these overtures to DeVos will alienate the segment of her union membership that prefers all-out opposition. Perhaps that’s why Weingarten stressed that her engagement with the education secretary has been very limited.