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Giant Spanish slugs have been mating with their British counterparts to create a mutant strain of "superslugs".
The Spanish molluscs are thought to have arrived in the UK in salads during the summer months, and have already spread all the way across the country to Wales.
The Mirror reports that they can grow up to 15cm in length, and produce hundreds more eggs than the typical British slug, which could spell trouble for the indigenous slug population.
Slug expert Les Noble of Aberdeen University said: "These slugs are like conquistadors were to the Aztecs. Native slugs can't keep pace and may become extinct.
"They are simply being overrun and when you consider the Spanish slug will happily make a meal out of a dead rabbit as much as out of dog muck you can see why they are so successful.
"We have already seen when these slugs move into an area, the native slugs vanish almost immediately. They can wipe out whole crops and prevent them growing there again."
A 72-year-old from Wales has claimed to have seen the giant slugs in her garden "eating snails", and added: "Our dog caught one, it was so big I thought it was a mouse."


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What is Forsythia Fruit?
- Basic Botanical Data of Forsythia Fruit.
- Forsythia Fruit Constituents and Phytochemicals.
- Properties and Effects of Forsythia Fruit.
- Forsythia Fruit Actions and Indications.
- Modern applications of Forsythia Fruit.
- Forsythia Fruit:Cautions and Contraindications.
- Forsythia Fruit:Part Used and Method for Pharmaceutical Preparations.
- Indications and Combinations of Forsythia Fruit.
- Research Update:Forsythia suspensa.
Applications and Properties:
Clear heat and detoxifier.
Scrofula and subcutaneous nodule treatment.
Exopathogenic wind-heat affection, or the epidemic febrile diseases at the early stage treatment.
Pathogenic heat invasion of ying division, high fever, delirium, deep red and dry tongue.
Boils, carbuncles and furuncles.
Properties:Antimicrobial effect, antiparasitic effect, antiemetic effect, for retina hemorrhage, for acute kidney infection, for pus forming in lungs, acute liver infection, and psoriasis.
Dosage: 6~15 g per day. 500mgs to 200mgs daily for dry extract powder.
Safety and Toxicity:
No toxic data available.
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Noun: bones bownz
 1. (used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance
 - castanets, clappers, finger cymbals
Noun: bone bown
 1. Rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
 - os[2]
 2. The porous calcified substance from which bones are made
 - osseous tissue
 3. A shade of white the colour of bleached bones
 - ivory, pearl, off-white
Verb: bone bown
 1. [informal] Study intensively, as before an exam
 "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam";
 - cram [informal], grind away, bone up [informal], swot [Brit, informal], get up [informal], mug up [Brit, informal], swot up [Brit, informal], revise [Brit]
 2. Remove the bones from
 "bone the turkey before roasting it";
 - debone
 3. [vulgar] (of a man) have sexual intercourse with
Type of: animal material, connective tissue, hit the books, percussion instrument, percussive instrument, remove, study, take, take away, white, whiteness, withdraw
Part of: endoskeleton, horn
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A type is LessThanComparable if it is ordered: it must be possible to compare two objects of that type using operator<, and operator< must be a strict weak ordering relation.
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Consider the relation!(x < y) &&!(y < x). If this relation is transitive (that is, if!(x < y) &&!(y < x) &&!(y < z) &&!(z < y) implies!(x < z) &&!(z < x)), then it satisfies the mathematical definition of an equivalence relation. In this case, operator< is a strict weak ordering.
If operator< is a strict weak ordering, and if each equivalence class has only a single element, then operator< is a total ordering.
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 Only operator< is fundamental; the other inequality operators are essentially syntactic sugar.
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Dealing with a huge amount of data puts the requirement for efficient data access more critical in data grids. Improving data access time is a one way of reducing the job execution time i.e. improving performance. To speed up the data access and reduce bandwidth consumption, data grids replicate data in multiple locations. This paper studies a new data replication strategy in data grid, which takes into account two important issues concerning replication: storage capability of different nodes and bandwidth consumption between nodes. It also considers the popularity of the file for replacement. Lesser popular files get less priority then the higher popular file. The authors also need to consider the limitation on storage.


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Acoustics and Vibration Measurement (VIB 201-E)
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This self-directed online course will enable calibration technicians to precisely and reliably measure acoustics and vibration in accordance with relevant ISO standards. The material covers both conceptual and practical components of sound measurement, and the tools and units necessary to reliably measure acoustics and vibration.
- Measurement Methods
- Measuring Instruments
- Quantifying Sound and Vibration
- Accelerometer Design and Calibration
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text: This paper presents two surrogate-assisted optimization strategies for structural constrained multiobjective optimization. The optimization strategies are based on hybridization of multiobjective population-based incremental learning (MOPBIL) and radial-basis function (RBF) interpolation. The first strategy uses MOPBIL for generating training points while the second strategy uses a Latin hypercube sampling (LHS) technique. The design case study is the shape and sizing design of a torque arm structure. A design problem is set to minimize structural mass and displacement while constraints include stresses due to three different load cases. Structural analysis is carried out by means of a finite element approach. The design problem is then tackled by the proposed surrogate-assisted design strategies. Numerical results show that the use of MOPBIL for generating training points is superior to the use of LHS based on a hypervolume indicator and root mean square error (RMSE).


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Nonlinear Complex Resistivity
complex resistivity (NLCR) is a geophysical method of stimulating materials
with an electrical current sine wave of variable frequency and measuring
the voltage response. The ratio of the amplitudes of the voltage
to the current normalized by the geometry of the electrodes is the magnitude
of the resistivity. The shift in time between the stimulus current
and response voltage is a phase shift. Deconvolved response by stimulus
and summed root mean square harmonics are the total harmonic distortion.
Deviation of the real and imaginary parts of the complex resistivity transfer
function versus frequency from the Hilbert transform expectation are Hilbert
Distortions. Both distortions are measures of nonlinearity.
complex resistivity measurements as a function of frequency from 0.001
Hz to 1,000 Hz are useful in a variety of applications where remote measurements
of active chemical processes are important. As all chemical reactions
involve electron charge movement, NLCR can measure or observe nearly all
chemical processes (some are too fast or too slow). NLCR is used
in the laboratory, in boreholes, between boreholes or between holes and
the surface, from the surface and inside tunnels. It requires contact
with the ground to inject a current and has not been successfully employed
from airborne platforms. It has applications to the study of corroding
metals, ore exploration and delineation, clay-organic reactions for petroleum
exploration, environmental characterization and monitoring, ground water,
archaeology, and agriculture.
Copyright 1999 by Gary R. Olhoeft.
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The logbook stores the logs of your recorded activities. The maximum number of logs and the maximum duration of a single log depends on how much information is recorded in each activity. GPS accuracy (see GPS accuracy and power saving), for example, directly impact the number and duration of logs that can be stored.
You can view the log summary of your activity right after you have stopped recording or through the Logbook under the start menu.
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If the log includes GPS data, the logbook entry includes a view of the full route track as well as the altitude profile of the track.
You can see many more details of your recorded activities in Suunto app.
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What does Ante Meridiem and Post Meridiem mean in time?
They are Latin words ; Ante Meridiem (AM) means before midday and Post Meridiem (PM) means after midday.
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BBC Buildings - Bush House
The iconic home of BBC World Service
Designed by Harvey Corbett, Bush House was built in 1923 with further wings added between 1928 and 1935. This quintessentially British building was actually commissioned, designed and originally owned by American individuals and companies. The building was originally constructed for an Anglo-American trading organisation headed by Irving T. Bush, after whom it is named.
It opened in July 1925, and later that decade was declared the 'most expensive building in the world, having cost around £2 million.
Bush House occupies a dramatic position at the bottom of Kingsway in central London, connected to the Strand on its southern façade. Its particularly impressive portico is flanked by two male statues symbolising Anglo-American friendship, sculpted by the American artist Malvina Hoffman. Over a Celtic altar at the centre of the portico is the inscription 'Dedicated to the friendship of English-speaking peoples'. The BBC's foreign language broadcasting service began in 1938 from Broadcasting House in Portland Place. After this building was bombed during the Second World War, the service was re-located to Bush House in 1941 – beginning with the European Service, then followed by the rest of the Overseas Service in 1958. This building in turn suffered bomb damage and the statue representing America lost its left arm. It was restored in 1977.
Over many years all the BBC's foreign language services gradually invaded Bush House, penetrating each wing in turn. It has broadcast to and from Bush House for almost 70 years – covering events that have changed and shaped the world, from De Gaulle's broadcasts to the Free French in the Second World War through Hungary's despearate call for help as Russian tanks rolled into Budapest to the genocide in Rwanda and war in Kosova.
However, the BBC has never owned Bush House. Its owners were variously the Church of Wales, the Post Office and now a Japanese-owned organisation, but for millions of overseas listeners it remains the building which most represents the BBC.


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Toy spear throwers are deliberate in their design as they are meant to form part of the education of children. They give them the opportunity to practice spear throwing with games such as malu, a game where spears are thrown at moving pieces of bark. They are an important development process where the boys can improvise and make their own, or their father will make their sons miniature spears and a spear thrower, pre-initiation. They will continue to use this set until 12 to 16 years, when initiation has begun.
In the Rawlinson Range, Western Australia, decoration of spear throwers happens only after initiation, becoming more elaborate as knowledge increases.
Missions did encourage the manufacture of wood carvings, particularly of weaponry, for trade purposes. At Groote Eyelandt, the Northern Territory, Norman Tindale notice variations of form with a bigger body for decorative purposes and less handle space.
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President to seek parliamentary consideration to join IUCN
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President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih. PHOTO: PRESIDENT'S OFFICE
24 February 2021, MVT 09:28
President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih on Tuesday decided to seek parliamentary consideration for Maldives to join the "International Union for Conservation of Nature" (IUCN).
As per the President's Office, the decision was made after deliberations by the Cabinet on a paper, proposed by the Ministry of Environment on the topic during today's session.
Joining the organization will present Maldives with various partnership and networking opportunities in relevant areas.
Additionally, the ICUN will provide assistance to enhance efforts towards conserving nature.
Maldives will also get the opportunity to develop technical capacity towards conservation and sustainability in nature, an area that needs much development in the country.
IUCN is a membership Union and it is the largest international conservation body comprised of representatives from government and civil society organisations (CSO's).
The democratic union harnesses the experience, resources and reach of more than 1,400 member organisations and the input of over 17,000 experts from 170 countries across the globe.
The organization's diversity and vast experience in the field make it the global authority on the status of the natural world and the measures needed to safeguard it.


An Urban Explorer's Guide To Finding & Exploring Secret Bunkers
By Matt Scofield
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I've been fascinated by secret underground bunkers for 20 years or more, I've been lucky enough to have visited some of the most secure underground hideouts in the country and have researched hundreds of sites across the UK.
Bunker exploration is a subset of urban exploration, a closely related past time which involves exploring and photographing decaying and forgotten man-made structures. Bunker exploration focuses on man-made and man-used underground spaces, and therefore shouldn't be confused with the hobbies spelunking, caving or potholing, which focus on natural cave systems.
In this guide to bunker exploration I will share some of the techniques that urban explorers use to find bunkers and underground structures, tips on how to safely gain access and advice on staying safe and making the most of your time underground.
Bunkers are generally categorised by their usage. For example an artillery bunker for defending weapons and ammunition against enemy fire. Industrial bunkers, which house data storage and underground control centres. Personal bunkers are generally constructed within a house. Munitions bunkers are used to store high explosives in order to prevent and contain any potential blasts.
However in the world of bunker exploration, explorers categorise the locations they visit based on its method of construction. This is because the bunkers are usually now abandoned, so their most recent use is of less importance when you consider that bunkers often go through several different uses during their lifetime and often start out as something completely different.
Urban explorers tend to recognise and even discover bunkers to explore based on the following traits.
Purpose Built
Cheyenne Mountain Complex
Purpose built bunkers are generally either semi-sunk concrete reinforced blockhouses, facilities constructed just below the surface of the ground using a technique called "cut and cover", or a network of chambers and tunnels excavated underground or within a hill or mountain. Essentially, purpose built bunkers are holes in the ground that didn't exist before the bunker was constructed. They can range from being partially above ground through to being fully subterranean deep-level shelters.
One of the most famous purpose built bunkers is the Cheyenne Mountain Complex, a US military bunker built into the side of a mountain near Colorado Springs. Building a bunker from scratch costs a lot of money. The Cheyenne Mountain Complex cost about $140 million back in the 1960s, that's around or $1 billion in today's money.
One of the bunker's can be seen here heading South along East Main Road.
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A cheaper option than building a bunker from scratch is to re-purpose an existing underground space. Most commonly this is cave networks or underground mines or quarries, which are converted into secure underground locations. This technique was widely used in Wiltshire in the run up to the two World Wars and the Cold War.
Several former stone quarries were converted in to huge underground ammunition stores, subterranean aircraft factories and armed forces command centres. These type of bunkers are most prevalent in Wiltshire, but similar structures built within similar underground spaces exist all around the world.
One of the most impressive examples of this type of facility is the mammoth Burlington bunker in Corsham. It's less of an underground bunker and more like a subterranean city, its tunnels and roadways seem to stretch endlessly and the whole complex is constructed in a former stone quarry.
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Hidden Bunkers
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Another method of bunker building is to construct the facility under or within a building. This can mean building a hardened network of chambers in the building's foundations at the same time the building is being constructed, or an existing basement is retrofitted, hardened and converted into a bunker. In Switzerland, there is an unusually large number of this sort of bunker because of a law requiring protective shelters to be constructed for all new buildings since 1963.
The most famous examples of bunkers of this kind are in central London. The British's government's PINDAR bunker was constructed in the 1990s beneath the Ministry of Defence headquarters on Whitehall and includes COBRA, Cabinet Office Briefing Room A.
Just across the road is Winston Churchill's Cabinet War Rooms, built in a reinforced basement beneath the treasury building. The bunker is now one of London's most famous tourist attractions.
Nuclear Bunkers
Hack Green Nuclear Bunker
Nuclear bunkers can be constructed in any of the three previously mentioned methods, but they tend to have very distinctive design elements, characteristics and, because they are more modern having been built during the Cold War, tend to be in better condition and have more interesting features.
Nuclear bunkers were still being constructed in the UK as far into the Cold War as the early-90s. They are constructed to a much more robust standard of engineering compared to older wartime bunkers as they needed to be able to offer blast protection and protect their inhabitants from the dangers of radioactive fallout.
Because nuclear bunkers were kept on standby until the late-80s and early-90s, they are generally still in very good condition and the specific details of their uses are better documented. A great example of this is the Hack Green nuclear bunker in Nantwich, Cheshire. It is now open to the public as a museum, which perfectly demonstrates how interesting bunkers of it era are. It's packed full of broadcast, monitoring and survival equipment from the era and the purpose of every room in the two-level bunker is understood.
How To Spot A Bunker
Admiralty Citadel - Horse Guards Parade, London
If you're reading this page then you probably already have some interest in secret bunkers, perhaps you've been driving a long and noticed a suspicious looking mound of grass in an otherwise flat area at the roadside or a hardened basement-level door in the side of a local building. But how can you find out what's behind these doors?
If the door is in the side of a building then there's no easy way to find out. The door could be a fire exit from a lower level of the building or even access to underground services. Many cities have underground electrical substations for example.
There may still be a few telltale signs. Obviously a bunker won't have any windows, so if there are none at the same level as the door, then this may indicate a shelter of some kind.
You should also look for ventilation, a bunker will almost always have independent air ventilation and filtrations systems, separate from the rest of the building. This will likely be more than small vents on the wall and is more likely to be large ventilation ducts or standalone air vents popping up out of the ground near the door.
Even after discovering air vents and a lack of windows, it's still going to be very hard to determine what's behind the door. You may need to find out who owns the building. If it is owned by the government or a local council then it is possible they have some kind of shelter under their offices. This might also be the case if the building is occupied by the emergency services or utility providers, such as gas, water and electric companies.
It's a long shot, but step back and take a look at the building's roof. You might find that if there is a bunker hidden below the building that there is some sort of communications array on the roof. The purpose of most bunkers is to maintain the smooth running of the country in the event of a disaster, and this requires good communications access.
Fortunately, other types of bunkers are easier to spot. Any purpose built bunker will normally have a very visible and very bunker like entrance. The entrance to any underground space which has been re-purposed will also look distinctly bunker-like, but still these can be hard to spot and other less exciting entrances can look like bunkers.
A lot of bunkers are semi-sunk, meaning that they are built in a hole in the ground but their upper level or levels are housed in a steel reinforced concrete mass above ground level. One such fortress can be found right in the middle of busy central London on Horse Guards Parade. Despite the fact it's so visible and imposing, most tourists and locals walk past the huge structure without questioning what's inside it.
This type of bunker is very easy to spot, the massive concrete block will have no windows and no doors apart from one huge metal blast door. There's often usually large vents on the side of the building and many bunkers of this type will have a small communications mast near by or on its roof.
Hack Green Bunker
Bunkers which are entirely subterranean have equally as identifiable surface features, but there are other structures that can be mistaken for bunkers.
When it comes to getting into an underground hideout, there's only three options...
Adit - a horizontal or almost horizontal entrance into the ground. This is probably the most obvious type of entrance. If you see a doorway leading into the side of a mountain or hill, then there's clearly something underground there. Although, it could be nothing more than an underground water reservoir, which does look very bunker like.
Slope shaft - an inclined entrance consisting of a doorway leading to steps that descend down to bunker level. This sort of entrance can be quite hard to spot, but when you stumble across one it's pretty obvious what it is. You'll normally see a door on the side of a small mound or building. The opposite side of the building will slope off into the ground, which clearly indicates that all that's behind the door is a tunnel into the ground.
Vertical shaft - a shaft which


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When subscribing to a product, the core problem to solve is that of granting the subscriber permission to use nodes created by the product publisher. For good reason, Metrici does not allow a user from one account to permit a user from another account to access their nodes, other than as an anonymous user. A special approach is therefore required for a publisher to make their product available to a subscriber.
Product publication utilitises a special feature in the permissions in which anyone can grant permissions to their account authority, i.e. the user who created their account (or, precisely, the user who is the owner of their account node), and the account authority can in turn grant those permissions on to other users that they have created. Specifically, the publisher grants the node-grant-use permission to the account authority, which permits the account authority to grant read and link type permissions (node-read, node-read-member, node-read-all-members, node-use-type, node-link, node-use-draft, package-read, package-read-all-members, package-link, package-use-draft, node-grant-use), but not update, package use or administration permissions.
Identifying what permissions are required and granting them to the account authority is complicated, and is looked after by instances of Product, which are generated by instances of Product Builder. The salient parts of this are:
- The publisher lists packages that contain the nodes that make up the product in the Package List member type.
- From this, the derivation script in Interpret Product Descriptor creates a manifest in Offer Manifest Items that describes the permissions that the subscribers to the product need.
- From this, the derivation script in Grant Publish creates a standard permission manifest in Manifest Items that describes the permissions that the account authority needs in order to grant permissions to the subscriber, and then gives the account authority permission to use the manifest and also to access the product node. This means that the account authority now has authority to grant permissions on the product nodes.
- Product installation is carried out by executing a method on the subscriber's account. This creates a subscription node with is an instance of Subscription.
- The subscription node links back to the product using the Product member type, and uses the Derive Subscription Manifest derivation to create a standard Manifest Items manifest from the Offer Manifest Items from the product.
- The account authority grants node-use-manifest on the subscription node to the subscriber's primary user group and node-grant-use-manifest to the subscriber. This means that any of the primary users in the subscriber's account can use the product, and that the subscriber can grant permissions to other user groups also. (Question - why not let all of the primary users grant use of the manifest?)
The permissions are all granted using manifests, and the manifests are all created using derivation. The permissions that the subscriber has can therefore be updated by the publisher, for example when a new version of the product is released.
The approach above dictates the core structure of product packaging, subscription and installation. It involves instances of the following:
- Product Builder which is used to describe the product.
- Product which is generated from the product builder, and which is used as the basis for installation.
- Subscription which is created by the account authority and is used to grant permission on the product to the subscriber.
As well as their core role in managing permissions, these types are used to manage other aspects of product packaging, subscription and installation. They are examined in more detail in the following sections.


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This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word job satisfaction
 1. Job satisfaction
 Job satisfaction is how content an individual is with his or her job. Scholars and human resource professionals generally make a distinction between affective job satisfaction and cognitive job satisfaction. Affective job satisfaction is the extent of pleasurable emotional feelings individuals have about their jobs overall, and is different to cognitive job satisfaction which is the extent of individuals' satisfaction with particular facets of their jobs, such as pay, pension arrangements, working hours, and numerous other aspects of their jobs.
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 Personal satisfaction relative to the work situation.
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In this paper, a model for predicting the quantum efficiency and responsivity of silicon based solid state photodiodes is presented. The model is first developed using semiconductor theory and then implemented in a computer software program. Correct operation of the modeling program is verified by comparing the published reflectance curves of several silicon dioxide-silicon substrate samples with the reflectance curves produced by the modeling program. Next, a system capable of measuring photodiode quantum efficiency and responsivity is presented and used to measure quantum efficiency and responsivity for a photodiode specimen. Finally, the measured and modeled quantum efficiency and responsivity results for the photodiode specimen are compared and found to be in good agreement.
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Optoelectronic devices--Testing; Diodes, Semiconductor--Testing; Light absorption--Computer simulation
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Backyard or Back Yard – Which is Correct?
A summer gathering of friends to cook food and spend quality time together is an enjoyable activity. It is made better when one person has a house with a yard, and the group can congregate behind his or her house.
When part of a yard is behind a house or other building, that part is called the backyard. Or is it the back yard? Continue reading to learn more.
What is the Difference Between Backyard and Back Yard?
In this post, I will compare backyard vs. backyard. I will outline which spelling is correct and use it in several example sentences, so you can see how it appears in context.
Plus, I will show you a helpful memory tool that makes it easier to choose either back yard or backyard next time you need one of these words.
When to Use Backyard
backyard versus back yardWhat does backyard mean? Backyard can be a noun or an adjective.
As a noun, backyard means the part of a property that is behind a house or other structure. In suburban America, you are likely to find a garden, a trampoline, a swimming pool, a shed, or a grill (or all of these things) in this area.
Here are a few examples,
 - After Jill returned from her ride, she locked her bicycle in the shed in her backyard so no one would steal it.
 - When Joel and Victoria were shopping for a home, they insisted that the property include a spacious backyard for their 14 children.
 - An Oregon family's golden retriever has been honored by a sheriff for digging up $85,000 worth of black tar heroin in a family's backyard. –New York Post
Backyard can also be an adjective, where it describes an activity that takes place in the rear part of a property. A family might host a backyard barbecue, for instance. A backyard patio is a patio that is situated in the backyard.
Here are a few more examples of backyard as an adjective,
 - Christina begged her parents to let her have a backyard pool party for her 16th birthday.
 - Carmelina loved going to Maxwell's backyard cookouts because she knew Marc would be there.
When to Use Back Yard
how to spell backyardWhat does back yard mean? Back yard has the same meaning as backyard but is composed of two separate words, rather than compounded into a single word.
Both versions are accepted. Generally, in English, word phrases function as either nouns or verbs, while compounds function as adjectives. Indeed, the hyphenated compound back-yard also appears as an adjective, albeit only rarely.
This chart isolates the usage of back yard vs. back yard vs. back-yard as adjectives:
what is the meaning of backyard
As you can see, backyard is much more common as an adjective than either of the other two versions.
This chart graphs the same words, but as nouns:
backyard one word or two
Once again, backyard predominates, although back yard has a much stronger showing here.
These charts aren't exhaustive in their scope, however, since they only look at books published since 1800, to the exclusion of other print sources. Still, they illustrate a clear long-term usage trend.
Interestingly, the same rule doesn't hold true for the part of a yard that is in front of a house. Front yard has no compound version and is only ever used as two separate words.
Trick to Remember the Difference
There is no standard version of this term, so you could use whichever variant seems most natural to you.
That said, backyard is much more common as both an adjective and a noun. Since this is the spelling with which your readers will be most familiar, your writing will be easier for audiences to read if you use the one-word backyard.
Since backyard is a single word, like backpedal and backpack, you can remember that all these compound words that start with back are single words.
Is it backyard or back yard? Backyard and back yard are two variants of a term that means the rear part of a property and can be used as an adjective or a noun.
 - Both spellings are acceptable.
 - Backyard is preferred in all contexts.


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Leaping sharks are no bull
Bull sharks' behaviour baffles scientists.
It's a phenomenon with which Brisbane River boaties are familiar, but scientists are at a loss to explain.
Every year as temperatures rise, bull sharks can be seen leaping from the water and spinning through the air, sparking wonder among spectators and researchers alike.
My belief is that they are getting rid of parasites and that's why they spin around so fast
University of Queensland professor in zoology Craig Franklin says despite up to a thousand bull sharks living in the river winding its way through the state capital, much of their behaviour is a mystery.
Particularly confounding is the sight of the sharks getting air time during warmer months.
It is a spectacle ferry drivers say they catch sight of up to four times a week.
Craig Wilkins, who has spent years on the river as a City Cat master and at the helm of the Kookaburra Queen, says the wide stretch of river at Bulimba is a common spot for the behaviour.
"The warmer the water, the more times you will see them jumping," he said. As the sun gets up, that's when you will see them jumping.
"About two years ago the river was a little bit cleaner than usual and everybody was seeing them. You ask any City Cat master, they'll say the same thing. They see them jumping all the time."
As well, their aerials show the sharks are also more active underwater as the river at this time of year.
Sharks found upstream are normally less than 1.5m long and pose little threat to people.
However, dog owners have been warned to keep their pets out of the river at dusk and dawn, when sharks are most active.
There have been numerous reports of dogs being taken from the river's edge and even instances of more ambitious sharks taking on larger prey.
In 2005, Ipswich locals were shocked after a bull shark attacked a race horse being put through its paces in the Brisbane River at Kholo.
The attack came just weeks after a teenager was bitten on the head and finger at Karalee.
One ferry driver recently told of seeing a Chihuahua snapped up in shallow water at the edge of the river and Professor Franklin said small dogs would be attractive to sharks.
"Small snacks like [Chihuahuas] could be within the size range of prey items that a bull shark would take," he said.
"You wouldn't want to let your dog go for a swim around dusk and dawn. That's when they are most likely to be feeding."
A "cosmopolitan" creature found in tropical and sub-tropical waterways around the world, the bull shark has long baffled scientists with its behaviour in Indonesia, Thailand, Fiji and Florida.
In some cases they have been observed leaping for bats, but by and large their motive is a mystery, according to Professor Franklin.
"I've got no idea to tell you the truth," he said. "Whether it's to scare prey out, I've got no idea why they do that.
"I've seen it and it tends to be the small ones."
City Cat and ferry drivers say they often see it during the long hours they spend on the waterway.
They have even ventured theories on why it happens.
Mr Wilkins said the manoeuvre could be a type of housekeeping.
"My belief is, and I don't know if it is accurate, but my belief is that they are getting rid of parasites and that's why they spin around so fast," he said.
"That's what we see as we are driving along occasionally is them jumping up and doing a bit of a spin and hitting the water again. They're usually about four foot long and the biggest I've ever seen was about six foot, I guess."
His theory was echoed by another ferry driver who spoke to brisbanetimes.com.au, but Professor Franklin wasn't sold on the idea.
"I doubt that," he said. "There are external parasites that they can have, but I've never heard that it's a successful strategy to remove parasites."
Professor Franklin said it was possible bull sharks were among those filmed feeding on a school of bait fish off Teewah Beach north of Noosa on Friday and were often found in the open ocean.
But he said what set them apart from other species was their ability to survive in fresh water thanks to being able to retain salt in their bodies.
He said the sharks give birth near the mouth of the river, with the 50cm pups heading upstream, where they would live for up to four years until they venture into the ocean in search of larger prey.
"I think to be in a state capital city and to have bull sharks in our waterways is a wonderful thing. They are undoubtedly an incredible animal to have in our waterways," he said.
Around the world, more fatalities are attributed to bull sharks than any other species.
In the past decade bull sharks have been blamed for deaths in the Gold Coast canal system, and an attack which killed a teenage girl at North Stradbroke Island in 2006.
"You could almost say they are a cosmopolitan shark in that most capital cities are built around river systems, they are circum-global, so right around the globe, so the likelihood of people being injured or killed is higher," said Professor Franklin.
"But they don't target humans. People need to realise that. They are opportunistic feeders. All we have to do is modify our behaviour and be careful where we swim and the time at which we swim.
"You look at the unfortunate incidents on the Gold Coast in the canals where people were taken and they were swimming around at night time or dusk or dawn."


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New GemBox.Spreadsheet 4.5 Release with support for right-to-left scripts
We have just released a new setup, help, and examples for the GemBox.Spreadsheet 4.5 with support for bidirectional texts when saving to PDF, XPS, or image file formats. This includes support for languages that use a right-to-left script such as Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Hebrew, or Yiddish.
We also added support for customizing the direction of the workbook elements by using the following properties:
- CellStyle.TextDirection – specifies the reading order of the cell
- ExcelViewOptions.ShowColumnsFromRightToLeft – specifies the direction of the worksheet


Laser Tag Parties – Interesting, Innovative and Exciting
When it comes to games, many parents will fall back on the usual suspects. These could include games like Pin the Tail or Musical Chairs. However, in recent times, a plethora of games and entertainment options has emerged for kids. For example, laser tag parties are quite popular in Chatswood and the adjoining areas.
Many entertainment services in major cities provide entertainment services for kids. They typically provide a venue, where kids of all ages can have a blast. These facilities usually have ample space for kids to play a wide range of games, including laser tag and skirmish. The latter, in particular, is quite popular. Visit any major shopping centre and you will find kids enjoying a game of laser skirmish in Sydney and other major cities.
In laser tag, each child has a laser tag gun. In addition, the child typically wears a vest that is sensitive to the laser. Thereafter, the participating kids typically enter a dark maze, where they try to tag each other with the laser gun. When a laser beam hits a vest, the vest lights up. This indicates that the child is now out of the game. The winner of the game is the child who remains unconquered without a single tag inside the laser room.


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Falmouth Facts and Figures for 2016
Again our A*-C pass rates in English and Maths are more than 10% higher than the National Averages. 73% of Falmouth School students attained a C or higher in English and Maths compared to the National Average of 58.7%.
Achievement in the 'best 8' progress measure is significantly above national averages at 0.3, and one of the highest in Cornwall.
Our 'Attainment 8' score of 54.8 is also much higher than the National Average of 49.
Progress in the Core subjects of English, Maths and Science is also significantly above National Averages. 25% of the Year 11 students achieved the English Baccalaureate compared to the Cornwall average of 18%.
Our 5A*-C including English and Maths again puts us as one of the top Cornish Schools.
Falmouth College Facts and Figures
Over 70% of grades achieved by Falmouth Sixth Form students were at A*, A, B and C grades at A2 level and 50% of the grades awarded are A* A B.
Falmouth Sixth Form achieved 100% pass rate in vocational courses.
Outstanding achievers at A level included: Poppy Faithful A*AAA (Royal Holloway - Politics and International Relations), Gareth Willetts A*AAAA (Exeter - Mathematical Sciences) Georgia Christophers A*AB (Cardiff - Physiotherapy), Charlotte Reburn A*AAA (Exeter - Medical Science), Charlotte Emsden AAA (Exeter - Medicine), Esther Martin AAB (Leeds - English Literature and Theatre Studies), Alex Pinhay ABB (Plymouth - Midwifery).
Did you know?
- 84% of students achieved A* - C in Science.
- 100% of students achieved A* - C in Triple Science.
- A* - C grades at Falmouth School have risen sharply even though nationally, grades were lower.
- 73% of students achieved 5A* - C including English and Maths – our highest percentage ever!
- 83% of students gained an A* - C grade in English – our best results ever.
- 80% of students gained an A* - C grade in Maths – our best results ever.
- All Falmouth School students made more than expected progress using government measures.
- 10 Students gained 10 or more A* or A GCSE grades.
- Falmouth College students go on to top universities including Exeter, Cardiff, Leeds.
- 78% of all Falmouth College grades were A* - C.
- Falmouth College students gained a combined number of 65 A*, A or distinction grades.
- Every student studying BTEC Medical Science at Falmouth College achieved a distinction – the equivalent of an A grade.
- Falmouth School results are (in the top 3 in Cornwall) significantly above the National average.
School Performance Tables


Teneo/Hibernate/Dynamic EMF Tutorial
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EMF allows you to dynamically change the in-memory ecore model by adding EPackages, EClasses and EStructuralFeatures. Teneo supports persisting dynamically created models. It is for example possible to read an ecore model from an ecore file (without generating code) and create the relational database schema. There are however some (practical) limitations, see the last section on this page.
The source code of this tutorial is available in the example project which you can download here.
This tutorial assumes some basic knowledge of EMF. If you are new to EMF then it can make sense to first try one of the core EMF tutorials which you can find here.
Before starting this tutorial
Before starting this tutorial there are a number of things which you need to take into account:
 - It uses the QuickStart tutorial class described in the quick start tutorial to create a database for the Library example and some content.
 - The initial setup of the quick start tutorial also applies here.
 - When using a non-in-memory database: the tutorial assumes that there is an empty database with the name DynamicLibrary. When you rerun this tutorial you should make sure that this database is empty again (otherwise one of the smaller tests in the tutorial will fail).
 - In this tutorial the Library example is extended with two new types: SchoolBook (which inherits from Book) and Course which refers to a SchoolBook.
Running the tutorial
After downloading the examples project from cvs you can directly run the quick start program. Open the project and navigate to the Dynamic.java file and right click and select 'Run As > Java Application'. You will see several things getting printed to the console (one of them is the generated Hibernate mapping).
This run takes the following steps:
 - reads the EPackage model from the generated EPackage file.
 - generate a hibernate mapping for the EPackage
 - create the database (on hsqldb)
 - create EMF objects and persist them
 - change the model
 - re-initialize the datastore and update the relational database schema
 - create and persist EMF objects adhering to the changed model
 - query for these objects
 - retrieve the EMF objects using an Hibernate EMF resource
Now let's walk through the code.
Quick start steps
The tutorial first calls the same code as described in the quick start tutorial, so it can make sense to first walk-through the quick start example. Further here only the additional steps are described.
Adapt the model
The following code extends the model with new types. It creates the SchoolBook EClass and sets the Book from the LibraryPackage as the supertype:
final EcoreFactory efactory = EcoreFactory.eINSTANCE;
final EcorePackage epackage = EcorePackage.eINSTANCE;
// create the SchoolBook EClass
EClass schoolBookEClass = efactory.createEClass();
// create a new attribute for this EClass
EAttribute level = efactory.createEAttribute();
// Set the supertype of SchoolBook to the Book
Create a new EClass with a reference to the new SchoolBook EClass:
// create a course
EClass courseEClass = efactory.createEClass();
// give the Course a name
EAttribute courseName = efactory.createEAttribute();
// A course always uses one SchoolBook
EReference courseBook = efactory.createEReference();
Create an EPackage and add the SchoolBook and Course EClass:
// Create a new EPackage and add the new EClasses
EPackage schoolPackage = efactory.createEPackage();
EPackage.Registry.INSTANCE.put(schoolPackage.getNsURI(), schoolPackage);
Reconfigure Hibernate and the Relational Database Schema
The EPackage has been created now Hibernate should be reconfigured and the database schema should be updated.
// Now reset the epackages in the datastore, only required if you add an EPackage
hbds.setEPackages(new EPackage[]{LibraryPackage.eINSTANCE, schoolPackage});
// reinitialize hibernate and update the database schema
// print the new hibernate.hbm.xml
At this point the database schema should have been updated.
Create and persist Dynamic EObject
The dynamic EMF objects can now be created. Because SchoolBook inherits from Book a real Book object is created:
// Now create an author, is used below
Writer writer = LibraryFactory.eINSTANCE.createWriter();
// now create a schoolBook
// NOTE: because schoolBook inherits from Book, the create method will return a Book
Book bk = (Book)schoolPackage.getEFactoryInstance().create(schoolBookEClass);
bk.setTitle("Biografie van Multatuli");
bk.eSet(level, new Integer(1));
// and create a course
EObject course = schoolPackage.getEFactoryInstance().create(courseEClass);
course.eSet(courseName, "Dutch Literature Level 1");
course.eSet(courseBook, bk);
// now persist them all
Session session = hbds.getSession();
Transaction tx = session.getTransaction();
Query for dynamic EMF objects
The SchoolBook can be retrieved using a polymorphic query, for a Course the dynamic EAttribute can be used in the where clause.
// Now query for the books, one of them should be a SchoolBook
Query qry = session.createQuery("from Book");
List list = qry.list();
Book schoolBook = null;
for (Iterator it = list.iterator(); it.hasNext();) {
 Book book = (Book)it.next();
 if (book.eClass() == schoolBookEClass) {
 if (schoolBook!= null) {
 throw new Error("More than one schoolbook? Was the database not empty?");
 schoolBook = book;
if (schoolBook == null) {
 throw new Error("No schoolbook??");
// now query for all courses with the right name
qry = session.createQuery("from Course where courseName='Dutch Literature Level 1'");
list = qry.list();
EObject eobject = (EObject)list.get(0);
if (eobject.eClass()!= courseEClass) {
 throw new Error("No Course?");
// the schoolBook should be the book of the course
Book courseBk = (Book)eobject.eGet(courseBook);
if (courseBk!= schoolBook) {
 throw new Error("No schoolbook?");
// and the dynamic feature level should be 1
if (((Integer)courseBk.eGet(level)).intValue()!= 1) {
 throw new Error("Incorrect level?");
 - It is not possible to create a containment relation between a dynamic model and a static model part. With static we mean the model for which java code has been generated.
 - When the model is dynamically changed it is required to update the database schema. To change the database schema database servers can lock the whole database. This is probably not practical in a live production environment.


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Kudremukh (Kuduremukha) (Kannada: ಕುದುರೆಮುಖ) is a mountain range in Chikkamagaluru district in Karnataka state, India. The name Kuduremukha'' literally means "horse-face" in Kannada and refers to a particular picturesque view of a side of the mountain. It is also the name of a small town situated near the mountain which is primarily an iron ore mining town where the government run Public Sector Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Ltd. (KIOCL) operates. The town is noted for its scenic beauty. Owing to the dense forests, sighting wildlife can be challenging, though the area is rich in wildlife.
The Kudremukh National Park is the second largest declared Wildlife Protected Area (600.32 km²) of a tropical wet evergreen type of forest in the Western Ghats. Kudremukh National Park is located in Dakshina Kannada and Chikmagalur districts of Karnataka state. 13°4′48″N 75°9′36″E / 13.08°N 75.16°E / 13.08; 75.16
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SQL SELECT DISTINCT
The SQL DISTINCT command is used with SELECT key word to retrieve only distinct or unique data.
In a table, there may be a chance to exist a duplicate value and sometimes we want to retrieve only unique values. In such scenarios, SQL SELECT DISTINCT statement is used.
Note: SQL SELECT UNIQUE and SQL SELECT DISTINCT statements are same.
Let's see the syntax of select distinct statement.
Let's try to understand it by the table given below:
Here is a table of students from where we want to retrieve distinct information For example: distinct home-town.
Now, it will return two rows.


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Visualizing How Our Brains Make Visual Meaning of Our World
Posted by The Situationist Staff on December 26, 2012
Information designer Tom Wujec talks through three areas of the brain that help us understand words, images, feelings, connections. In this short talk from TEDU, he asks: How can we best engage our brains to help us better understand big ideas?
Related Situationist posts:
- The Situation of Human Vision
- Beau Lotto on the Situation of Sight,
- The Situation of Sight,
- Brain Magic,
- Magic is in the Mind, and
- The Situation of Illusion
Click here for a collection of posts on illusion.


- Racist Mural Puts Tate Galleries in a Bind
 Portions of a Rex Whistler mural in the Tate's restaurant contain racially offensive images. The work as a whole is protected by British heritage laws and can't be altered, putting the museum in a bind between preservation and cultural sensitivity.
 - Museums as Monuments to White Supremacy
 by Ana Lucia Araujo
 Recent protest and scholarship have highlighted the knowledge of major cultural institutions that artifacts in their collections were looted from Africa and other colonized places, and support calls to repatriate the artifacts.


Natural Atracctions
Whale watching
The tropical climate of Costa Rica and its warm waters are ideal for these marine mammals that enjoy specific areas along the coast.
The best place to observe whales in Costa Rica is on the Pacific Coast, where humpback whales migrate between July and November and then again between December and March.
The Osa Peninsula is visited by humpback whales that migrate from both the northern and southern hemispheres, meaning that whale populations are concentrated more here than in any other part of the country. Additionally, this large group of whales remains close to the peninsula for a long time, giving Costa Rica one of the longest whale watching seasons in the world.
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What is the difference between rack, wrack, wreak, and wreck?
To wreak is to inflict vengeance; to wreck is to damage or destroy. Wreak is not found often in English except in the idiom wreak havoc. Wrack as a verb is obsolete but means 'to avenge or revenge; to punish', 'to undergo ruin'. Rack as a verb is used figuratively to mean 'to chalk up; to achieve' and 'to torture; to cause severe pain' (as in the rack as an instrument of torture). It is also used to mean 'to obtain through coercion or intimidation'. Examples: She racked up points in the pool game. Pain racked his body. He racked his brain for the answer. Wrack as a noun means 'destruction' and occurs mainly in wrack and ruin. The word rack is a variant and can be used in that phrase.
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hesitation meaning in hindi
Pronunciation of hesitation
hesitation in Images
hesitation Antonyms
hesitation Definitions and meaning in English
 1. indecision in speech or action
 2. a certain degree of unwillingness
 3. the act of pausing uncertainly
 4. waiting; uncertainty
hesitation Sentences in English
 1. हिचकिचाहट
 She agreed without the slightest hesitation.
 2. हिचक
 There was a hesitation in his speech.
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NFL Coaches, Play Calling and Fantasy Football
May 10, 2016
NFL Coaches, Play Calling and Fantasy Football
A valid argument can be made that it's a player's game, and coaches don't affect stats. Sure, some teams will improve statistically under a new hire, but that's because coaching turnover happens more on bad teams, and bad teams tend to naturally regress to the mean the next season regardless. To date, attempts to quantify the impact of coaching have been based on questionable science that has thus far missed the mark.
Most coaching analysis, however, focuses on a given team's performance, not tendencies. But those tendencies, specifically in regards to play calling and player usage, are just as critical in fantasy.
Why Coaching is Important in Fantasy
The real key to being good at fantasy football is being able to forecast player volume, not player efficiency.
Your running backs need touches. Who controls how many touches they get?
Your wide receivers and tight ends need targets. Sure, the quarterback ultimately makes the final decision of who to throw to, but who dictates his progressions, and which receivers are on the field and which routes they run?
And your players all need touchdowns. Who decides what plays their teams will run in the red zone?
The offensive playcaller1.
What Exactly Do We Need to Know About Coaches?
We don't need to isolate the effects of coaching on team performance.
We just need to know the effects of coaching on team tendencies.
You can be reasonably certain that the coach has a substantial level of control over his team's on-field tendencies—even if those tendencies tend to vary over time.
So we'll tackle the coaching issue from a different angle: by examining how a coaching change (or lack thereof) affects the predictiveness of team tendencies from one year to the next.
It boils down to two distinct questions:
 1. How predictive are a team's tendencies when it retains its playcaller compared to when it changes its playcaller?
 2. Do a playcaller's tendencies carry over from one team to the next?
The Key Coaching Tendencies for a Fantasy Owner to Know
Based on the previously discussed importance of volume, here are the tendencies we'll examine:
 - Passing Play Percentage. The percentage of time an offense passes instead of runs. This is critical because it determines how much volume is available in the passing game versus the running game.
 - Red Zone Pass Percentage. The percentage of time an offense passes instead of runs in the red zone. This is important because we know the majority of passing and rushing touchdowns come in the red zone.
 - Deep Attempt Percentage. The amount of deep passes divided into total passing attempts. This is meaningful because a deep target (15-plus yards downfield) is worth 1.9 times as many points as a short target in standard scoring, and 1.3 times as many in PPR scoring. Over/under 15 yards is only so telling, and we would've liked to have a more precise measure of an offense's verticality (such as average target depth), but that data isn't readily available.
 - Pace. For our purposes, this will be defined as Football Outsiders' Seconds per Play (Situation-Neutral). The more plays a team runs, the more potential opportunities for its players to rack up fantasy production.
 - Running Back Target Percentage. The amount of running back targets divided into total team targets. You already know that running backs need those touches, but some coaches are more liberal than others when it comes to a back blocking versus receiving.
 - Running Back 20-Touch Percentage. A signature metric I've created, this is the percentage of games in which a team had a running back who received at least 20 touches. While 20 is admittedly an arbitrary cut-off, it's a decent proxy for whether or not there's a committee approach.
All tendencies have been adjusted to reflect the league average.
Keep in mind that none of these are immune to personnel, game situation, strength of schedule, etc., and that's perfectly fine—every stat we deal with in fantasy football will contain noise. We just want to get a sense of what to make of a team's tendencies given the presence or absence of a coaching change.
What Happens When a Team Changes its Playcaller?
Here is a comparison of the year-to-year correlation in tendencies for teams who retained2 their playcaller versus those who changed playcaller, along with the absolute difference3 between the two sets of correlations. All results were significant at the 95% confidence interval.
As you might have guessed, you can expect a team to have tendencies similar to the prior year if it brings back the same playcaller. This actually encompasses the majority of teams—it's seldom that more than a third or so of the league changes playcallers in a given year. Already, we have a starting point for projecting tendencies of the majority of NFL teams.
When a given team changes its playcaller, however, that team becomes a lot harder to predict. None of the year-to-year relationships are as strong, and only pace and running back target percentage have anything more than a weak correlation. The previous year's passing tendencies mean next to nothing.
So now we know that a team's tendencies are somewhat predictable from year to long as that team hasn't changed its playcaller.
But if we can't use last year's stats as reliable predictors when a team hires someone new to call plays, where do we pivot?
The logical answer is to go ahead and look at the new hire's tendencies from his previous team (assuming he's had prior play-calling experience). But is that logic backed up by the data? Let's find out.
Do a Playcaller's Tendencies Carry Over When He Changes Teams?
Below are the correlations between a new hire's tendencies in the first year with his new team and his tendencies in the last year with his old team.
You should note that this time, we aren't strictly using consecutive year comparisons -- many times, more than one year will have elapsed between coaching jobs.
Also note that this sample4 will naturally be smaller than the one from the previous section, because that one consisted of all teams with new hires, rather than just those with new hires who have previous experience calling plays at the NFL level.
For those who may be unfamiliar with statistics, "not significant" means that we can't rule out that a result is due to chance alone, while the p-value indicates the percent probability that the result is due to chance alone.
How often a new playcaller chose to pass in the red zone with his previous team was the only tendency with any predictive value. In fact, you're better off just looking the team's tendencies from the previous season if you're trying to predict a team with a new playcaller's pace (r =.58) or how often it will target running backs (r =.36).
Why is the red zone the exception? It's hard to tell exactly, but it's definitely possible that certain personnel limitations -- a quarterback with a weak arm, a receiver lacking deep speed, etc. -- are not as prohibitive from a play-calling standpoint in the red zone, allowing a playcaller to stay truer to what he wants to do.
The Truth About Coaching Tendencies
To recap:
 1. A team's play calling and player usage tendencies from the previous season were useful predictors for the current season as long as that team had the same playcaller—for a team that changed their playcaller, tendencies from the previous season weren't as reliable.
 2. Coaching tendencies were not highly correlated from one team to the next (except for red zone pass/run ratio).
Based on the data, it's likely that what we think of as coaching tendencies might actually just be the coach responding to changes in personnel.
If playcallers truly had unbending tendencies, there would be more of a relationship between what a new hire does with his new team and what he did with his previous team. Instead, playcallers were only predictable from one year to the next when they stayed with the same team—in other words, when they coached a majority of the same personnel in both years (a safe assumption, given that the average roster turnover in the NFL is roughly 30 percent and tops out around 45 percent).
When you take personnel into account, it's much easier to make an educated assessment of when a coach's tendencies will actually carry over. For instance, you wouldn't be surprised to know that Greg Roman's passing tendencies with Buffalo mimicked those from his days in San Francisco—both teams had a young, mobile quarterback and a good defense. Roman's rushing tendencies deviated, however—LeSean McCoy has different strengths than Frank Gore.
Personnel also remains largely the same in the case of an in-house hire5, so tendencies are likely to be more strongly correlated in that scenario than in one which the new hire comes from outside the organization.
While we examined six tendencies that are no doubt crucial, there are, of course, many more specific coaching idiosyncrasies we didn't measure, but which could potentially have a fantasy impact. For example, we didn't break wide receiver target percentage down by WR1, WR2, etc. (because that's largly dependent on personnel), but there are cases like Kyle Shanahan, who's targeted his WR2 less than average regardless of how good his WR1 is.
So to be clear, I'm not suggesting that a playcaller's tendencies will never carry over when he changes teams, just that what a playcaller has done in the past and what he will do in the future should be viewed in the context of the personnel at his disposal.
We're Just Getting Started
I'll be applying this analysis to every NFL playcaller to create a comprehensive guide of key


The American Heart Association Recognizes
 Baptist Grove as a Fit-Friendly Church
 The American Heart Association has recognized Baptist Grove as a fit-friendly church and has awarded the church Gold Status Certification.
 The American Heart Association's Fit-Friendly certification program recognizes
 employers and clergy who go above and beyond when it comes to their member's health. A Fit-friendly church reaches gold and platinum level status by
 implementing various activities and programs to encourage physical activity,
 choices in vending machines, promote annual member health risk assessments and other online tools.
 Gold-level churches must meet the following criteria:
 1. Offer members physical activity options at the church
 2. Increase healthy eating options at the church
 3. Promote a wellness culture in the church


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Diagnosis related group (DRG) is a patient classification system adopted on the basis of diagnosis consisting of distinct groupings. It is a scheme that provides a means for relating the type of patients a hospital treats with the costs incurred by the hospital. DRG are based upon the patient's principal diagnosis, ICD diagnoses, gender, age, sex, treatment procedure, discharge status, and the presence of complications or comorbidities.
It is a system developed for Medicare as part of the prospective payment system that utilizes a predetermined rate per case or type of discharge. DRGs have been used in the US in inpatient hospital discharge and the emergency department encounter query modules since 1983 to determine how much medicare pays the hospital, since patients within each category are similar clinically and some groups of patients having common demographic, diagnostic, and therapeutic attributes use the same level of hospital resources.


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Students in a marching band collected money for new uniforms. This table shows the amount of money they collected last week.
What is the mean amount of money the students collected?
The amounts for Saturday and Sunday were recorded incorrectly. Saturday should have been $34.24, and Sunday should have been $75.18. Use what you know about determining the mean to explain how these changes will affect your answer in Step A. Use words, data, and/or symbols in your explanation.


A cylinder of gas used for welding contains helium at 3000 psig and room temperature. The cylinder is knocked over, its valve is broken off, and gas escapes through a converging passage. The minimum flow area is 0.10 in2 at the outlet section where the gas flow is uniform. Find (a) the mass flow rate at which gas leaves the cylinder and (b) the instantaneous acceleration of the cylinder (assume the cylinder axis is horizontal and its mass is 125 lb).
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Fitzgerald and the lost generation
The lost generation was the generation that came of age during both hemingway and fitzgerald touch on this theme throughout the novels the sun also rises and the. The lost generation is the dreamlike tale of an ex-pat in paris in the rich parade of her characters are hemingway,picasso and scott fitzgerald. Start studying lost generation learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. By sara krauss although f scott fitzgerald is most commonly praised for his accurate description of the american jazz age, his writing also reflects the.
Lesson title – the lost generation writers of the 1920s from underlying themes in the writing of hemingway and fitzgerald 4. The lost generation: f scott fitzgerald & t s eliot the lost generation f scott fitzgerald the great gatsby t s eliot the wasteland the main points: group of. Lost generation definition, the generation of men and women who came of age during or immediately following world war i: viewed, as a result of their war experiences. F scott fitzgerald biography's success the novel tells the story of fitzgerald's "lost generation" during the "jazz age.
Gatsby gatsby, one of the main characters in the novel seems hidden from society, and isn't able to find happiness, making him lose his identity and becomes lost. Following in the steps of paris' lost generation enter the lost generation known as the place where hemingway first met fitzgerald. Books shelved as lost-generation: the sun also rises by ernest hemingway, the great gatsby by f scott fitzgerald, a moveable feast by ernest hemingway. The nook book (ebook) of the the lost generation anthology by e e cummings, f scott fitzgerald, ford madox ford, john dos passos | at barnes.
The status of affairs in america in the years following the first world war spawned a generation of authors termed "the lost generation" in response to the. If you want the real stories behind the great gatsby about the self-made tycoon who couldn't stop yearning for that green light at the end of the dock, check out.
Define lost generation lost generation synonyms, lost generation pronunciation, lost generation translation, english dictionary definition of lost generation n 1. F scott fitzgerald literary conference fabrication & manufacturing r facilities, office of facilities help desk - service requests facilities planners council. The lost generation defines a sense of moral loss or aimlessness apparent in literary figures during the 1920s the phrase signifies a disillusioned postwar. The lost generation: fitzgerald's work introduced the "flapper," a flirtatious gal, audacious in both dress and manner his main character, amory.
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The lost generation defines a sense of moral loss or aimlessness ezra pound is generally considered the poet most responsible for hemingway and fitzgerald.
- The three best known are f scott fitzgerald ernest hemingway was the lost generation's leader in the adaptation of the naturalistic technique in the novel.
- F scott fitzgerald and the lost hope of babylon revisited f scott fitzgerald is known as the spokesman of the lost generation of americans in the 1920s.
- Educator programs primary source the phrase lost generation, as coined by gertrude stein this group, including stein, f scott fitzgerald.
- Here's the story of the writers, poets, and artists who came of age during world war one, commonly referred to as the lost generation music by electric.
Scott fitzgerald' s please help with the great gatsby questions 1 dubbed the lost generation. Trace the life and times of the _lost generation_ in paris during the 1920s, including writers ernest hemingway, ezra pound, f scott fitzgerald, & others part ii. Explore chelsea tells stories's board the lost generation on pinterest | see more ideas about zelda fitzgerald, f scott fitzgerald and l'wren scott. Get an answer for 'how does the term lost generation appear in the great gatsby through which characters' and find lost generation in f scott fitzgerald's. The authors of "the lost generation" lived in a time that raised the last week of the unit will introduce f scott fitzgerald and his short story.


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Types of loss reduction.
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Deer in Metro – level 3
Commuters in Virginia got a shock when a deer ran through a metro station. Main surveillance cameras captured the galloping deer.
It is not clear how the mammal made it into the subway, but eventually it managed to make it back out unharmed.
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What Is The Definition Of An Hypothecation Agreement
The investment hypothesis arises when a trader or investor promises guarantees for a margin-to-purchase credit or short securities. In particular, brokers/traders (BDs) offer marginal accounts that allow traders to borrow up to 50% of the value of securities. The margina account agreement contains a mortgage agreement for guarantees. As a general rule, the former and the second holders of pledges draw up an agreement on how to handle this unfortunate event. If you are interested, you can read this real example of hypothesis agreement. Rehypothecation is more common when it comes to stocks, as a broker will use collateral stocks to secure their own trades. In the past, this rate was more frequent, but popularity declined after the 2008 and 2009 recession. In the United Kingdom, there is no limit to the amount of a client's assets that can be rehypothecated[3] unless the client has negotiated an agreement with his broker that includes a limit or prohibition. In the United States, re-mortgage is limited to 140% of a customer's balance. [4] [6] The following language is for a form for a real estate mortgage contract and comes from Law Insider: As a pledge, you intend to transfer the asset to another owner.
If not, your intention is to secure the asset to secure a loan. What is important is that you plan to keep the security on the hypothetical asset after you have repaid the loan. "We believe that the assumption agreement signed by Ms. Lauver was sufficient to demonstrate that the bank held a contractual pledge in the account represented by the CD. The hypothesis agreement makes it clear that it is intended to guarantee Mr Cummins' debt to the bank, and the specific security is described. We are not informed that Ms. Lauver was incompetent, deceived or involved under inappropriate influence when the hypothesis agreement was signed. We believe that her intention is under-interpreted by the mortgage agreement, in which she clearly granted the bank a contractual guarantee over the proceeds of her bank account at the Federal Capitol.
The right to pledge that it created is certainly valid and before any interest that its executor may have acquired on the proceeds of the bank account. A hypothesis agreement may stipulate that a tenant cannot submit his interest to a rental agreement or premises without the landlord's consent. The following example shows this type of hypothesis agreement. In 2007, re-mortgages accounted for half of the activities of the shadow banking system. Because security is not cash, it is not displayed in traditional accounting. Before Lehman's collapse, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) calculated that U.S. banks received more than $4 trillion through the re-library, much of which comes from the United Kingdom, where there are no legal limits on the reuse of a customer's guarantees. It is estimated that only a trillion dollars of initial security have been used, meaning that security has been re-hepthetized several times with an estimated emigration factor of 4. [5] Hypothecation Letter is another name for a mortgage agreement.


How To Breakdown Stuck Tractor Tire?
How do you break down a tractor tire?
Use a sledgehammer or crowbar to break the bead of the tire. If you have a large tractor tire, use a sledgehammer to strike the tire just above the edge of the rim where they connect to break the bead. Continue hitting the tire around the entire circumference of the rim to break the seal completely.
How do you break a stubborn tire bead?
Basically what you do is just leave a a couple psi of air in the tires, and lay the wheel on its side, and step on the tire with your foot. It is a tight fit, but use your body weight to break the bead. This works, done it several times.
How much does it cost to change a tractor tire?
Can I cut a tire off a rim?
The tire is held to the rim by an area called the bead. The sidewall in between the bead and tread surface is relatively weak on steel belted radial tires. You can cut though it with a the drywall knife pictured. You will however need a saw blade or cutoff wheel for the bead wires.
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Year 6 Forensic Science Workshop
To support the investigative work Year 6 are undertaking in Science, the children took part in a Forensic Science Workshop on Wednesday 9th May.
An immersive environment was set up in the classroom, which consisted of four identical crime scenes. The children worked collaboratively to solve a crime and it was the responsibility of each group to piece together the evidence. The workshop included finding, developing and characterising fingerprints, investigating tool marks and other impressions, identifying hairs and fibres and investigating blood, bones and DNA. They used their scientific knowledge, understanding and logical thinking to solve given problems. The children really enjoyed this challenge and all were successful in solving the crime.


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10 things about the vuvuzela
The Vuvuzela has become the unofficial symbol of the 2010 World Cup - and seems to be loved and hated in equal measure. Here are 10 things you might not know about the tuneless horn.So what exactly is a vuvuzela?
It is plastic horn, brightly coloured, and seen in abundance at sporting events in South Africa. The first vuvuzelas seen at sporting events in the early 90s were made from a sheet of metal. A standard vuvuzela is 65cm long but some can be up to a metre long.Where do they originate?
No-one really knows. The most commonly-held belief is that it is related to the kudu horn that was blown to summon African villagers to meetings.
However, earlier this year, the Nazareth Baptist Church claimed the vuvuzela as its own - used by its members on pilgrimages - and threatened legal action to stop them being used at the World Cup.What does "vuvuzela" mean?
Again, it appears to be a matter of debate. Some think it comes from the Zulu word for "making noise". Others say it is township slang for "shower" because it "showers people with music". Many believe it means "pump up".How did it end up as a fixture of the football stadium?
The Nazarath Baptist Church says it "lost" the vuvuzela back in the 1990s when a supporter of South Africa's biggest football team visited the church. Unable to take the long metal trumpet inside the football grounds, he re-modelled it in plastic.
Vuvuzela-makers say they began to mass-produce the instrument in plastic when the original tin version began to make appearances at games during the 1990s.So describe the sound?
The typical pitch of a vuvuzela is said to be B flat below middle C.
On its own, it has been compared unflatteringly to an elephant passing wind. When there is a football terrace full of the instruments, the sound has been likened to a swarm of angry wasps.Annoying possibly, but harmful?
Recent tests found noise levels from a vuvuzela, at full volume and when pressed against your ear, equates to 127 decibels.
This is louder than a drum at 122 decibels, a chainsaw at 100 decibels and a referee's whistle at 121.8 decibels.
The Hear the World Foundation - set up by Swiss hearing products group Phonax to raise awareness about hearing loss - has warned that extended exposure to such noise risks permanent hearing loss.
They have been urging fans to use protection, such as ear plugs and ear muffs.
Some South African shopkeepers say they have run out of ear plugs called Vuvu-Stops.
Neil van Schalkwyk of Masincedane Sport - a vuvuzela-maker - says his firm has now produced an instrument that is 20 decibels lower than the older version.Any other health issues?
Well, a London doctor is warning that the vuvuzela could also spread colds and flu germs.
Dr Ruth McNerney, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told The Associated Press that the instrument has the potential to infect those seated near a person blowing a vuvuzela because a "lot of breath goes through" it.
She said a recent study found that aerosols, tiny droplets which can carry flu and cold germs, were formed at the bottom of a vuvuzela after people had blown into them.
Those particles are small enough to stay suspended in the air for hours, and can enter into the airways of a person's lungs, Dr McNerney said.So what are people saying about the vuvuzela?
Several players complained about the vuvuzela when they were first heard during the Confederations Cup last year, a World Cup dress rehearsal.
Dutch coach Bert van Marwijk has banned them from his team's training sessions, and Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo admitted this week: "It is difficult for anyone on the pitch to concentrate."
Even some fans watching matches on their television have reported having to put the sound on mute to escape the cacophany.Surely some people other than South Africans must like them?
Yes. They've had a ringing endorsement from Fifa President Sepp Blatter who says they will not be banned.
He said on Twitter that "Africa has a different rhythm, a different sound" and it is an important tradition among South African fans that should be celebrated.
England player Jamie Carragher says he will be taking some vuvuzelas home with him. "My kids have been on the phone and they want two. I've got two in my bag already".Has the controversy affected sales?
On the contrary. Neil van Schalkwyk says his firm has sold 1.5m vuvuzelas in Europe since October and expects sales of up to 20 million rand ($2.6m; £1.7m) over the course of the tournament.
Brandon Bernardo of the vuvuzela.co.za website told Reuters news agency they could churn out at least 10,000 instruments a day. "We're completely sold out," he said.
Furthermore, a Dutch designer firm has released a Vuvuzela 2010 app. According to its website, they have had 750,000 downloads of the application.
Even without the World Cup, South Africa's vuvuzela industry is said to be worth around 50 million rand ($6.45m; £4.4m).


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Kenn Heydrick, President-Elect for the Science Teachers Association of Texas.
What does STAT stand for?
STAT stands for Science Teachers Association of Texas
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We have 92 other meanings of STAT in our Acronym Attic
- Staatssicherheitsdienst (State Security, former East Germany)
- Software for Ambient Semantic Interoperable Services
- South Tidewater Association of Ship Repairers
- Short Term Air Supply System (emergency breathing system)
- South Tyneside Assessment of Syntactic Structure (language assessment tool)
- Standard Training Activity Support System (Navy-CNET)
- Submarine Towed Array Surveillance/Sonar System
- Surveillance and Target Acquisition Aircraft System
- Science and Technology Assistance Team
- Scientific Test and Analysis Techniques (various organizations)
- Security Test and Analysis Tool
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Museo Vigeland
The Vigeland Museum (Vigeland-museet, often called Vigelandsmuseet ) is a museum in Oslo, Norway.
Its history began in 1919 when noted sculptor Gustav Vigeland made an offer to Oslo Municipality to donate his works sometime in the future. Vigeland's total body of works consisted not only of sculptures, but also woodcuts, drawings, sketches and photographs as well as letters, other writings and a personal library. In return, Vigeland wanted an atelier. The atelier could be rebuilt as a museum after his death. Even Vigeland's flat on the third floor was preserved as a part of the museum.
The building of the would-be museum commenced in 1921, as soon as a contract between Vigeland and Oslo had been formalized. The architects were Lorentz Harboe Ree and Carl Buch, and the style was neo-classic. In 1923 Vigeland moved in, one year before the middle part and northern wing were completed. The southern wing was completed in 1930. The atelier was used by both Vigeland and other artists.
Vigeland died in 1943, during the hard economic times of World War II. The building was opened as a public museum in 1947, partially thanks to budget surplus from the municipal cinema company Oslo Kinematografer. The museum is still owned by Oslo municipality via its etat of culture, and the current museum director is Jarle Strømodden.
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Two day Historical GIS Workshop
Computers are a necessary tool for all types of historians. They facilitate access to sources via digital archives, help manage large quantities of documents, and influence our interpretation. Despite these timeand cost-saving benefits, the growth of computing technologies also challenges the pedigree of the historian. Often the historian is required to gain intermediate or even expert knowledge in a particular type of software in order to carry out his or her analysis. Computer skills are also increasingly important in teaching and communicating with students. This is an area seldom taught during the historian's formal training.
We are currently seeking funding to hold a two day "crash course" in historical GIS. The workshop is tentatively schedualled for July 24th and 25th and it will take place in Toronto.
Marcel Fortin, GIS and Map Librarian at the University of Toronto, will offer hands-on training to a group of interested historians.
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Gallery Walk Questions on Air Pressure and Wind
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The following are potential questions that could be used in a gallery walk activity about Air Pressure and Wind. The questions are organized according to the cognitive level at which students are engaged, using Bloom's Taxonomy.
Name the earth's semi-permanent pressure zones.
1. The top of the page represents north. Draw a SW wind. Draw a NE flowing river.
2. Explain how these different local winds originate: land-sea breezes, mountain-valley breezes, katabatic winds, and the regional monsoons.
It's your wedding day and you want blue sky for the pictures. Draw pressure cells on the map that would likely produce a) fair skies, south wind b) clearing skies, northwest wind c) warm, rainy, winds from the south.
1. Discuss how surface air pressure would be impacted by air density and temperature.
2. Create a scenario that would modify the following at the global and local scales.
a) incoming solar radiation
b) gravity
c) pressure gradient force
d) Coriolis force
e) friction force
1. Write a wind forecast for a location near the equator assuming the earth ceased to rotate and your location is on the side of the earth facing the sun.
2. How is unequal heating of the earth responsible for our predominant wind pattern here in Michigan?
Rank the critical energy and matter transformations necessary to create a west wind.
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Crassula socialis - Vivid Root
Crassula socialis - Vivid Root
Crassula socialis - Vivid Root
Crassula socialis - Vivid Root
Crassula socialis
Crassula socialis is a South African native like a number of other succulents. However, it can only be found on the cliffs of the eastern shore where it grows in rock crevices, which are usually south or southeast facing. It's cup-shaped white flowers are dainty and bloom in late fall. Because its natural habitat is both limited and difficult to access, this clustered succulent is considered rare.
Luckily, that doesn't mean you need a southeast facing cliff in your backyard to grow them! As long as they are not at risk of being smothered by another plant, these Crassulas will grow beautifully alongside your other succulents.
These young plants come in 2" pots and are ready to spread in your garden.
Your plant will be similar to the one in the photos.
Fully rooted
2" pot
Ships in a plastic pot with soil.
Not as picky about soil, store bought succulent mix is good, especially if you add some sand or perlite/pumice to make it drain a little better
Mostly shade, morning sun only
Let dry between watering, water deeply


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PachYa is a Polish singer/songwriter with a universal appeal. Together with German producer Nomagy, she creates irresistible pop music with a positive social message, aiming to unite a fracturing world through the power of music. PachYa's musical journey began when she was only six years old. The ambitious young child was drawn to the piano, which led to her attending the Music School in Bialogard. Equally passionate about singing, she always had a microphone in her hand. After leaving school, she began to explore the worlds of EDM, Pop, Dance, and House music. As a member of many different groups across Europe, she developed a unique hybrid style, appealing to people of many different cultures. Returning to her homeland, PachYa felt distraught about the state of the UK, and the world in general. She poured her emotions into the release of a new single, called "Rebuild This Land". Sung in Polish, Italian, and English, and the song was an immediate hit. The song is the perfect summary of PachYa's personal motto: "My nationality is a human child. My country is the world.


_USER_{Hottenrott2015Flying, abstract = {This paper studies the importance of the socialization environment - nest - for the career destinations of early career researchers. In a sample of research groups in the fields of science and engineering at universities in Germany, we identify research orientation, output, funding as well as openness to industry and commercialization as relevant components. Nests that attract more public funding and are led by professors with high research performance are more likely to produce researchers that take jobs in public research, while links to industry predict jobs in the private sector. In a more nuanced analysis that differs by type of industry employment we find that larger firms also recruit from groups with higher scientific performance, while SMEs recruit from nests with a higher patent productivity. A focus on experimental development instead is associated with academic start-ups, and an applied focus with employment in consulting. Recommendations for research training are discussed.}, address = {D\"{u}sseldorf}, author = {Hanna Hottenrott and Cornelia Lawson}, copyright = {_URL_ isbn = {978-3-86304-152-6}, keywords = {330; Researcher Mobility; Research Groups; Research Funding; Science-Industry Technology Transfer; Academic Careers}, language = {eng}, number = {153 [rev.]}, publisher = {D\"{u}sseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)}, title = {Flying the nest: How the home department shapes researchers' career paths}, type = {DICE Discussion Paper}, url = {_URL_ year = {2015} }


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To get started recording magic wand gestures:
- Upload the Magic Wand Capture sketch to an Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense board
- Connect to the board using the Bluetooth button below.
- Wave the wand to make gestures. They'll be recorded and displayed on the right.
- Review the gestures, add labels by clicking on the '?', and remove mistakes.
- Download the gestures as a JSON data file, ready for model training.