![]() Hidden singles are in fact naked singles that occur once you add a new digit to a row or a column. If when you cross the rows and columns you find a blank space with only one possibility, you have found a naked single and the right answer for that cell. Write down every possibility for each cell. The difficulty of the puzzle varies according to the number of filled cells at the beginning of each game. The game starts with the grid partially filled and the player must find the remaining numbers based on the position of those already given. The goal of the game is to fill each cell with a number from 1 to 9 making sure there are no repeated digits in any column or row in the grid nor within the square itself. ![]() Sudoku is played on 9 x 9 grid, divided into 3 x 3 squares separated from each other by thicker lines. Later, newspapers all over the world started including these games in their publications. ![]() Nikoli’s sudoku version later spread throughout the world thanks to Wayne Gould, a retired Hong Kong judge who first encounter the game in a Tokyo bookstore and later published a book with his own puzzles in the UK and the US. As the game’s popularity increased in Japan, its designation was eventually shortened to include only the characters for number (数 - Su) and single (独 - Doku), resulting in the name by which we now know it, Sudoku. The second and most import rule is that no more than 32 numbers out of the 81 can be given away, as the goal becomes too easy to reach above this threshold. The given numbers in the beginning must create a pattern in their allocated squares to make the game more visually appealing to the players. Nikoli also introduced two new rules that became essential to the game as we know it today. Its widespread popularity didn’t come until the game reached Japan in 1984 when Nikoli published it under the name “Suuji wa dokushin ni kaguru” (The numbers must remain single) in the Monthly Nikolist Magazine. The modern Sudoku as we know it nowadays, however, using digits instead of the Latin alphabet, was most likely the creation of Howard Garns, an architect from Indiana who first published his version of the game in the Dell Magazines in 1979. The basis of the game originated in Switzerland in the 18th century when the mathematician Leonhard Euler developed the concept of Latin Squares used in statistical analysis. Sudoku is a number-placement puzzle widely popular in the world, credited with helping to keep the brain active and healthy. Let the cogs on your brain spin and enjoy this relaxing yet challenging puzzle. Don’t rush, analyzed all your possibilities and slowly work your way to fill the grid. Time is not a constraint and only logic is necessary. Experts and pros can also have their fun and enjoy playing with the numbers and possibilities with the hard and evil levels. ![]() If you feel confident in your skills from the beginning, you can put them to test with the medium level and face demanding challenges right from the start. The harder the level, the fewer allocated numbers at the beginning of the puzzle.īeginners can start by choosing the easy level to get acquainted with the digits, the grid and the rules of the puzzle. Start by choosing any of the four different levels of difficulty: Get set, relax and prepare to challenge your brain with this number-placement puzzle anywhere and anytime.
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![]() He will make a speech and is expected to host a fundraising dinner Now the former president is headed to his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey. Trump then made a quick visit to Cafe Versailles, a famous Cuban cafe in Little Havana, where supporters sang him happy birthday (he turns 77 tomorrow) ![]() Trump was ordered not to discuss the case with potential witnesses, including his co-defendant, NautaĬhaos erupted outside the courthouse when a protestor lunged toward the former president's motorcade Walt Nauta, Trump's aide, did not enter a plea and his arraignment was postponed.Trump's lawyer Todd Blanche said: "we are certainly entering a plea of not guilty" to all charges The former president, who is running for office again, is expected to hold a private fundraiser after the announcement, where he reportedly hopes to raise at least $2m (£1.5m).Ī fundraising email from Trump's campaign was sent out about 30 minutes ago which started off with the words: "I’m writing you this email as I fly back from the Miami federal courthouse where I was ARRAIGNED as an INNOCENT MAN."ĭonald Trump was arraigned in a federal court in Miami, marking the first time in US history a former president has been federally prosecuted.ĭonald Trump entered the Wilkie D Ferguson federal courthouse in Miami and was booked and fingerprinted. They'll look on as Trump makes his scheduled address on today's events and attempts to spin his federal charges into fundraising gold. His team has set up about 200 chairs outside the venue, with name cards on each seat for guests and overflow tables nearby.Ī familiar cast of Trump loyalists is expected to be present, including Mike Lindell, the business magnate known as the 'My Pillow Guy' Ed Cox, the New York Republican Party chairman and Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville. House Republicans, Berry said, want to protect the sovereignty and autonomy of the presidency, envisioning a scenario where the commander in chief could feel obligated to make certain decisions to avoid having local prosecutors in politically unfavorable jurisdictions charge them with crimes after they leave office.Donald Trump will soon be greeted by friends and fans at his luxury golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.Ī speech is planned for 20:45 (local time). ![]() One bill would prohibit prosecutors from using federal funds to investigate presidents, and another would require any criminal cases involving a former president be resolved in federal court instead of at the state level. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil, a Trump appointee, said in her ruling Wednesday that she would handle any legal fights that may arise from other subpoenas in the committee’s investigation of Bragg.Ī committee lawyer, Matthew Berry, said at that hearing that Congress has legitimate legislative reasons for wanting to question Pomerantz and examine Bragg’s prosecution of Trump, citing the office’s use of $5,000 in federal funds to pay for Trump-related investigations.Ĭongress is also considering legislation, offered by Republicans in the wake of Trump’s indictment, to change how criminal cases against former presidents unfold, Berry said. Jordan sent letters seeking interviews with Bragg and documents before subpoenaing Pomerantz. The Judiciary Committee started scrutinizing Bragg’s investigation of the former president in the weeks that preceded his indictment. His lawyer, Theodore Boutrous, argued that seeking Pomerantz’s testimony was part of a “transparent campaign to intimidate and attack” Bragg and that Congress was “invading a state” to investigate a local prosecutor when it had no authority to do so.īoutrous said House Republicans’ interest in Bragg amounted to Congress “jumping in and haranguing the D.A. He recently wrote a book about his work pursuing Trump and discussed the investigation in interviews on “60 Minutes” and other shows.īragg, a Democrat, sued Jordan and the Judiciary Committee last week seeking to block the subpoena. Pomerantz once oversaw the yearslong Trump investigation but left the job after clashing with Bragg over the direction of the case. Pomerantz’s deposition will go forward on May 12, and we look forward to his appearance.” Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, said in a statement, “Mr. Russell Dye, a spokesperson for committee chair Rep. Under the agreement, Bragg withdrew his appeal. Bragg had appealed to the 2nd Circuit after a lower court judge ruled Wednesday that there was no legal basis to block the Judiciary Committee’s subpoena and that Pomerantz’s deposition must go forward as scheduled. Envisioned by Swiss-born Bulova engineer Max Hetzel, the original Accutron, aka the Accutron Spaceview 214, was the world’s first fully electronic watch - distinguished from Hamilton’s invention by the small but significant fact that the latter incorporated mechanical elements like a balance wheel in addition to the battery’s electrical current to drive the movement. Hamilton’s competitor, Bulova, at the time headed by World War II hero General Omar Bradley, who served as Chairman of the Board from 1958 to 1973, upped the ante in 1960. The Ventura, which first gained fame when it was worn by Elvis Presley (below) in his 1961 film Blue Hawaii, remains a staple of Hamilton’s lineup, but its original movement has long been rendered obsolete, replaced by mechanical or quartz-driven counterparts. It was the first battery-powered watch and the first watch to use electric power in its movement. That watch’s movement, Caliber 500, used a battery, magnets, and an electronic coil rather than a mainspring to drive the gear train and balance wheel. ![]() It was Hamilton, an American watchmaker, that led the way with the original Ventura in 1957. The 1950s were an era of bold experimentation in the science of timekeeping as watch manufacturers began shifting their focus - from the traditional, all-mechanical style of watchmaking that had dominated since the 19th Century, to new inventions that would incorporate the electronic technology that was increasingly finding its way into people’s daily lives. In the postwar decades of the 1950s and 1960s, with the dawning of a new technological era of timekeeping, the company put forth some of its most memorable and influential efforts. Throughout this history, Bulova had developed a well-earned reputation for innovating and for adapting to the changing needs of its customers and the evolving trends of the market. One of the most important historical watch brands with roots in the United States, the company is today part of the Japanese Citizen Group and can look back upon a history littered with milestones: the first full line of ladies’ watches, the first television commercial, some of the earliest wristwatches produced for American troops during World War II, and one of the earliest celebrity watch endorsements - by none other than legendary aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh, for its Lone Eagle watch - to name just a few. The history of the Accutron brand begins with the Bulova Watch Company, f ounded by Bohemian immigrant Joseph Bulova (above) in New York City in 1875. Read on to familiarize yourself with Accutron and its pioneering role in watchmaking, from its early days to its most recent releases on the market now. ![]() When one considers how ahead of its time the original Accutron watches were - back when they were still called Bulova Accutron, part of that company's sprawling portfolio - their success in the 21st Century under a newly independent Accutron brand should surprise no one. Learn more here.Īccutron watches have been around since the 1960s, and yet the brand has become one of the freshest faces in the watch industry in the 2020s, anchored by its combination of uniquely innovative movement technology and a defiantly retro design language. 0% interest for up to 24 months available on select brands. ![]()
![]() That seems to have changed with LaunchBar 6, and they are now almost equally easy. I found in my last exploration of LaunchBar 5 that the application didn’t guess my meaning from the abbreviations entered as well as Alfred did. I think that for building simple workflows, Alfred’s system is more approachable, but to do more complex things, they are broadly equivalent. However, to build complex workflows in Alfred, you still need to use scripting and to do some manual work to provide caches and so on, just as you do in LaunchBar. The instructions provided for building actions are fairly straightforward, but it is certainly not as easy as the drag-and-drop graphical workflows in Alfred. You can, however, find some useful extensions already, such as launchbar-pinboard that lets you search tags and text in your pinboard bookmarks and browse the list within LaunchBar before visiting the bookmark. There is a placeholder page for user-submitted extensions, but it does not yet have any submissions. Speaking of extensions, in version 6, you can now write your own extensions using a variety of scripting languages, which should provide a lot of extra functionality. ![]() I also enjoy being able to activate system services and Automator workflows through LaunchBar, which also opens up other ways of interacting with applications, without having to write an extension for it. For example, if you select a text file, you can use the right arrow to examine (and take action on) each line of the file separately. LaunchBar also makes it somewhat easier to navigate and drill down into both the filesystem and objects. Consequently, some things that you need to build or download extensions to achieve in Alfred can be done out of the box in LaunchBar, such as adding new calendar entries or reminders, or tagging files in Mavericks. One difference between LaunchBar and Alfred is that LaunchBar has a slightly more comprehensive set of built-in actions and app-specific extensions, and that LaunchBar makes it a bit easier to pass objects around the application and perform a set of actions on it (similar to the way that Quicksilver operated). As an example, you can select a file or group of files, Instant Send them to Launchbar, then type comp and press return to compose a new email and attach the files to it. The items are then sent to LaunchBar, ready to be acted upon: all you need to do is start typing an abbreviation for an action, then hit return to activate the action. You can select either files or text and then press and hold the shortcut you use to activate LaunchBar (for me, the default cmd+space). LaunchBar 6Īs I mentioned in my previous review, the ‘Instant Send’ feature of LaunchBar is fantastically useful. There are a lot of other improvements too, all of which make it much more difficult for me to decide whether LaunchBar or Alfred fits my needs better. If you are on the wrong side of middle age, the window is now much easier to read quickly. LaunchBar 6 definitely addresses one of the issues I had with the previous version, which is that the command window is much larger, with bigger text, and is located near the middle of the screen rather than at the top under the menu bar. LaunchBar 6 was recently released, and since I apparently can’t leave well enough alone with some categories of software, I gave LaunchBar another try. When LaunchBar 5 came out, I spent a while trying it out again, but eventually went back to using Alfred 2. As I wrote about when LaunchBar 5 was released, I’ve used (at one time or another) almost every third-party launcher including Quicksilver, LaunchBar and Butler, but in recent years, I have settled in to using Alfred exclusively. Having to mouse around to launch applications or files (let alone all the other things that launchers let you accomplish) feels positively archaic once you have got used to relying on one. ![]() I know from bitter experience of using other people’s Macs that I find it very hard to use a computer without a launcher of some kind installed. ![]() Why we in America allowed eating them on daily basis? Also read Summary of Summary of Studies on Food Dyes and another summary Studies on Dyes. European Parliament has ordered in 2003 to ban use of certain azo dyes even in consumer goods like textile (cloth, bedding, towels, etc.) because of dangers of regular skin contact: European Ban on Certain Azo Dyes. Three artificial colorants, Red 40, Yellow 5 and Blue 1 (see also: Blue colon at autopsy and Re-evaluation of Blue 1 as a food additive).How can YOU like drinking this chemical pollution? Wake up, if you still can… Food Additives to Avoid This red swill contains unknown amount of orange juice concentrate, lots of sodium, 320 mg of caffeine, 69 teaspoons of high fructose corn syrup, and three artificial colorants of 92 mg per bottle combined plus three more bio-chemically hostile additives. Mountain Dew Code Red: Risk, Nutrition and Dye Content It is amazing ignorance or careless or both… ![]() And yet Mountain Dew enjoys 7,807,736 likes on Facebook. Why to “improve” perfectly safe natural spring water by adding a bunch of potentially health-damaging chemicals? Because WE like it and because WE keep buying it! And Mountain Dew Code Red is an example of yet one more kind: lousy label design (perhaps good enough for a toilet bowl cleaner!) and honest front label statement “with a rush of cherry flavor and other natural flavors.” Note, there are no cherries, no natural fruits. But they keep trying to impress those who read ingredients by listing “carbonated mountain spring water” as the main ingredient. Now you ingest whooping ~ 50 mg of the azo dye with every glass. But you will be grossly disappointed when you start reading the list of ingredients: Most often the content is just water contaminated with a bunch of added chemicals and “natural” refers to a flavor, not to a fruit.Įxample of another kind is presented in recent review of Sparkling Ice Black Raspberry in which doubled amount of artificial color Red 40 was detected in comparison with what it was a year before. What has become typical for the American soft drink practices is to put pictures of beautiful fruits accompanying by the word “natural” so that your first intuitive impression is like you look at something healthy. ![]() If you are a soda drinker there is a good chance that you have been fooled by the beverage industry many times. ![]() Early research in this field investigated the influence that role models have on learning in a broader sense (Bandura, 1965 Lewis & Williams, 1994). Role models in general “can exert considerable influence in shaping our values, attitudes, and beliefs” (Muir et al., 2019, p. It was these issues that motivated the research project reported in this paper in the Japanese high school context in which one of the authors works.Īn important factor that is thought to increase L2 motivation is the identification and use of positive role models. Nonetheless, understanding more about L2 learner motivation will give L2 teachers and educators a greater practical understanding of, for example, how long a learner will continue to make the effort, and how much effort they are willing to exert. After all, it is like trying to explain “nothing less than why humans think and behave as they do, and it is very doubtful that the complexity of this issue can be accounted for by a single theory” (Dörnyei & Ushioda, 2011, p.4). It is therefore also very challenging to evaluate and understand from a research and theoretical perspective. While we may seek to understand motivation, how it operates and how it is triggered, it is a multi-faceted concept, difficult to explore both theoretically and empirically. Engagement is intrinsically linked to motivation and “what motivates a person to make certain choices, to engage in action, and to persist in action” (Ushioda, 2008, p.19). Finally, we propose a pedagogy that utilizes the influence of L2 role models and motivators in the classroom and highlight areas for future research in this area.Īs teachers, we constantly seek ways in which to engage our language learners, both within the classroom and in related learning environments. On the other hand, teachers, famous people, and peers were shown to have a more important role, in terms of actual language acquisition, over the participants’ motivation in relation to English language learning in the school context. The results showed that parents were salient L2 motivators, although they did not, for the most part, act as L2 role models in a linguistic sense, as many of them did not speak English. A thematic analysis of their responses was conducted to examine the extent to which the role models and motivators they mentioned had an influence on their L2 motivation. As part of a larger project, we investigated the presence of L2 (second language) role models and motivators among 12 Japanese high school students (aged between 15 and 18), who took part in one-to-one interviews with the researcher. Role models and motivators can influence young people in a general sense and have a significant effect on their values and beliefs. Ethical Standards for Authors and Reviewers. ![]() Take a look to see what you need for a mortgage appointment and what to expect so you’re prepared. So, you want to get an AIP and you’re wondering what’s next? The first step is to speak to one of our advisers where we will get to know you and your situation. However, some lenders and advisers will use a ‘soft credit check’ so it’s important to find out which one is happening. ![]() This means that if you apply for several AIPs within a short period of time this could negatively affect your credit rating. If a ‘hard check’ is run then it will leave what we call a ‘footprint’ on your credit record. A credit check will have to be run in order to complete the AIP. Something to be aware of is that getting an AIP could impact your credit sore. If you have had a change in circumstances, for example you now have a smaller deposit or you have changed jobs this could affect your full application. ![]() Our Mortgage Advisers will use the information that you already provided to supply the AIP for the full application, as long as the details are still correct.Īn AIP doesn’t guarantee that you would be accepted to borrow that amount. Once you’ve found the property you want to buy and have had an offer accepted you will still need to make a full application for the mortgage. Some estate agents or sellers will like to know that you have an agreement in principle before you view or put an offer in on a property as it gives them the peace of mind that you are able to afford it and this won’t affect the sale. Simply put, an Agreement in Principle, sometimes written just as AIP and also referred to as a ‘or ‘decision in principle’ or ‘mortgage in principle’, is a written estimate from the lender outlining how much you can borrow.Ī lender or Mortgage Adviser will go through you situation and take some details from you to see what you can afford, they will then supply you with an AIP which outlines how much you will be able to borrow meaning that you can start looking for your next home. 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But we still thought we should mention it here, since this is an ultimate guide to Neutrogena’s acne products and it is one of the most popular options out there right now.īasically, the Neutrogena Light Therapy Acne Mask uses blue and red light to fight acne bacteria and reduce oil production, both of which cause acne. The Neutrogena Light Therapy Acne Mask is actually so popular that we wrote a full review for it, which you can read by clicking on the link above. 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