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Example 1: Private-to-Public Folder Synchronization
Team members want a centralized calendar containing all the items from their personal calendars copied to a single public calendar for easy viewing of a composite schedule. For each user, the Add2Exchange Administrator will set up a normal, one-way relationship between each personal (source) calendar and the public (destination) calendar. Items made in the Source can be automatically copied and tied to the Destination. The relationship can be set to copy or not to copy items marked "Private" in Outlook.
Example 2: Public-to-Private Folder Synchronization
This type of relationship is useful if Management wants to place an item in the public calendar and automatically have it copied and tied to a user's personal calendar so items can be synchronized down to mobile devices. This scenario requires a normal, one-way or two-way calendar relationship between the public calendar and each user's personal calendar. If the user's personal calendar is to be copied to this (or another public) folder, another relationship of Example 1 can be set up as well. This is what is termed "mutual synchronization".
For mutual synchronization, you will need two relationships: a relationship from private-to-public and a relationship from public-to-private. In this case, since the Source and Destination folders are the same pair, the relationships are symmetric, but not tied together and act independently of one another.
Please Note: For editing in either location and having the edits go back to the Source, the relationship has to be two-way, where the Destination can overwrite the Source. There are many types of private-to-public, public-to-private, or private-to-private folder combinations available – with each relationship acting independently of the others.
The most common use of Add2Exchange is to synchronize group calendar, contact and task folders to a user's mailbox and vice versa, so your mobile device synchronization software (such as IntelliSync or Microsoft's ActiveSync or Windows Mobile) can bring it to your mobile device.
One limitation of the current version of Add2Exchange is that all folders must be within the same Exchange Server or Cluster. Add2Exchange can synchronize between public and personal folders on different Exchange Servers only if there is a trust set up between the Exchange Servers and the public folders are synchronized across the servers. This release of Add2Exchange will not synchronize private-to-private across Exchange Servers or without a working trust.
Once installed, you will use the Service Account and the Console to create relationships. The Console is available from a new shortcut on the desktop. The Console is used to build and manage synchronization relationships.
The following are scenarios of how Add2Exchange can solve common relationship needs. Our example uses calendars but is very similar for Contacts and Tasks. Add2Exchange does not support synchronization to PST files. If you need to synchronize between a PST file and an Exchange server, our Add2Outlook product supports this feature.
In this scenario, a user wants her mobile device to receive the meetings from the public calendar. A public-to-private relationship is built to the calendar folder in her personal mailbox, with which the mobile device then synchronizes to receive the appointments.
The same Source folder can be involved in more than one relationship, so the public calendar can also be synchronized to another user's mailbox by building a separate relationship.
Since this is a calendar relationship, not every appointment from the public calendar will be synchronized to the users' folders, only those which fall within the Synchronization Window. The Synchronization Window is configured to include everything within the next thirty days by default, so each user will see the next month's meetings appear on their calendar. It is possible to extend the Synchronization Window further into the future or into the past as well.
Items which have been synchronized to a user's folder and no longer fall within the Synchronization Window are not deleted from the Destination but will not receive updates from synchronization.
In this scenario, an executive wants to share her personal calendar with her administrative assistant. A private-to-private relationship is created from her calendar to the assistant's personal calendar.
Private-to-Private relationships require a Pivot Folder, a public folder that exists solely for the purpose of synchronizing Add2Exchange relationships. For more information on Pivot Folders, see the section Create Pivot Folders.
If the administrative assistant needs to make changes to her appointments, a two-way relationship would allow him to edit the meetings and have those edits synchronize back to her personal calendar. A one-way relationship does not permit changes to affect the Source folder. See the section Relationship Setting Reference for details on these settings.
Note that since the relationship is from the executive to the assistant, the items entered in the assistant's calendar are not synchronized to the executive's calendar. This means even if the original relationship is set to be two-way, there is no way for the assistant to add new appointments to the executive's calendar. The directionality of a relationship only affects whether changes made to items originally created in the Source travel in both directions. For Add2Exchange to add new items to a folder, the folder must be a Destination of a relationship. Therefore you would have to set up a separate relationship from the assistant's calendar to the executive's in order for Add2Exchange to let the assistant's calendar create new items in the executive's. This also means the executive would see all appointments from the assistant's calendar except for those marked "Private" in Outlook (as long as the relationship is set to not copy items marked "Private"). For more information, see the section Relationship Setting Reference.
Such a configuration where there are two relationships between the same two folders is called a mutual relationship (singular), although it is actually two distinct relationships. Each relationship is the mutual relationship of the other since the Source and Destination folders are swapped. The two relationships typically have the same settings, but are independent and can be configured separately, or even be created at different times. It is just the fact that they exist between the same folders which makes them mutual relationships, not when or how they were created.
Recall the scenario of synchronized items from the public calendar to the executive's personal calendar. Note that any of these items created in her folder by Add2Exchange will not be synchronized to the assistant's calendar. This is because Add2Exchange does not recognize items it has created as source items for other relationships, as it could lead to a synchronization loop which would fill up an Information Store. If you wanted the public calendar items from that scenario to show up on the administrative assistant's calendar as well, you would set up a separate public-to-private relationship for him just as we did for her.
Add2Exchange can also synchronize directly between public folders. This can be useful to consolidate calendars or contacts from departments within a Business Unit, for example.
Two-Way Public-to-Private:
In this scenario, a mobile device user wants to be able to both see items from the public calendar as well as add items to the public calendar by entering them on their mobile device. This requires a mutual relationship as described in the Private-to-Private Relationship scenario.
While this will allow items to be created in the public calendar from the user's mobile device, Add2Exchange will not synchronize these items to other folders as described in the Private-to-Private Relationship scenario. In order to do this, you must create private-to-private relationships from the user to every other user who needs to see that information.
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For more than a century, railway stations have been an integral part of the Canadian landscape. Not only do they stand as testimony to Canada's development, but to many Canadian communities they are an important source of pride. That a great many Canadians feel an attachment to these railway stations is shown by their enthusiastic efforts to preserve them.
Until the late 1980's, public efforts to preserve railway stations were hindered by the absence of legislation. As most railway stations are owned or controlled by federally regulated railway companies, they are not subject to the various provincial laws that protect heritage. In 1988 Parliament passed a private member's bill to protect these railway stations. The Heritage Railway Stations Protection Act was given Royal Assent in September 1988.
The Heritage Railway Stations Protection Act requires federally regulated railway companies to obtain authorization from the Governor in Council before removing, destroying, altering or disposing of a heritage railway station, and before altering any of the heritage features of the station. It also allows for timely public involvement in opposing those interventions that are seen as potentially deleterious to a heritage railway station or its heritage features. The Act provides for heavy fines for infractions.
The Heritage Railway Stations Policy is based on the Heritage Railway Stations Protection Act. Responsibility for the implementation of the Act and this policy has been given to the Minister of Canadian Heritage, who is supported by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.
The Heritage Railway Stations Policy promotes consultation, dialogue and public participation in the pursuit of the shared goal of identifying and conserving the built heritage. The policy establishes processes for identifying and evaluating heritage railway stations; for specifying, where applicable, the features that give them heritage value; and for reviewing on a case-by-case basis any intervention that might affect them or their heritage features. The federal government encourages railway companies that own or control these stations to apply cultural resource management methods in their treatment of them, and to set an example in conserving aspects of Canada's built heritage.

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XrML stands for Extensible Rights Markup Language, and it is a way for businesses to exchange digital content without losing power over the conditions and restrictions they imposed on it. In easiest terms, XrML makes sure everyone who buys, downloads or uses protected digital content uses it within the guidelines set by the owner.
What Is XrML and How It Works
XrML is language that provides systems details concerning protocol over licensed digital content. This language builds rules, regulations and restrictions for how the content can be used by other users. It also guarantees the rights of the content remain intact for the licensed distributor or proprietor. XrML helps provide standards for digital rights management.
One of the main reasons for XrML's development is the stipulation and imposition of rights correlated to digital properties. The XrML language relays information to the user and system of the licensed file or program. This information ensures an understanding and agreement to the limitations and ownership of the digital content.
XrML sets conditions for which trusted systems are to abide by throughout use of the shared or purchased content. These conditions can include fees for businesses who are sharing files on a time restricted basis. An example of this is a company who sells access to a downloadable instructional video library. If a user pays for a month of access, they could conceivably download each video file and stop paying. The conditions set in the XrML help restrict this using built-in certification checks. This ensures use of the file is tied to the fees originally agreed upon.
Progression of XrML and Future Projections
The initial release of XrML was restrictive to companies due to its contract agreements and conditions that transferred ownership and licenses from XrML-created works to an outside company. XrML initially came equipped with ways to ensure the licensed user was using the content and not an unwarranted consumer.
XrML evolved into a way systems assured a successful transfer of content could be completed. It allowed license-holders to control rights and services of content. It started moving away from the restrictive language it initially contained. Things like installation rights were language parts that were phased out of XrML to be replaced with less concrete ideas about licensed usage of content. It eventually became the main rights expression language for MPEG-21, which uses the language to create guidelines for multimedia.
XrML figures to be a part of developments by digital content companies. Multimedia companies wishing to progress the usage of their content through digital transactions need language similar to that of XrML to ensure fair use and protection. It could be key in the continued use and development of web services.
XrML is part of the way companies adapted to digital transactions. Use of XrML and similar languages continue to guide regulations and necessary restrictions upon licensed content. Familiarize yourself with the new language of digital transactions to succeed.

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Based on available archaeological, written and iconographic sources, the article gives a picture of Germanic infants and juveniles. Here are analysed the Germanic burials of children and immature individuals in the mid-Danubian region from the 1st to 4th cent. BC. The territory under study comprises southwest Slovakia, Moravia and Lower Austria. Graves with anthropological classification of skeletal remains - infants, juveniles or individuals at the turn of infants/juveniles were included into the analyses. The territory under study provided us with 120 graves of infants and juveniles, 115 of them were cremation and 5 inhumation burials. In one case a common grave of a child and juvenile was excavated, in three other cases children were buried with adult individuals. Graves from settlements are presented in the article as well and grave goods are comparable with those from graves situated on necropolises. Grave equipment is confronted with age of deceased children, their evolutionary stage and specificities. Special attention is paid to clothing fittings, occurrence of weapons and artefacts of everyday use in children's burials. Cases, when an individual of juvenile or juvenile/adult age could be a parent, i.e. could have own children, can occur among the juvenile burials.
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SYNAT - "Interdisciplinary System for Interactive Scientific and Scientific-Technical Information".


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This is part 66 of a series of articles featuring the book Beyond Connecting the Dots, Modeling for Meaningful Results.
Now that we have learned about state transition diagrams, we are ready to start creating agents. There are three key elements:
- Defining what an agent is
- Creating a group of agents
- Viewing agent results
We have already introduced the folder primitive as a tool for grouping primitives together and as a tool for unfolding a model. The folder primitive plays an additional role in Agent Based Modeling, as we use folders to define what our agent consists of.
To create an agent, construct the state transition diagram for your agent (and also add any stocks, flows, or any other primitives you want to this agent). Then create a folder containing all these primitives. Give the folder the name of your agent such as "Person" or "Individual" or even just "Agent". This is all similar to what we have done with folders before, but now there is one extra step. Edit the folder configuration and set the folder to "Agent". You have now created the definition of your first agent!
You can have as many different types of agents in your model as you would like. Just create a new agent model and use a new folder to define each of the different types of agents. For instance, in a predator-prey model you could have one agent definition describing the behavior of the prey, and a second agent definition describing the behavior of the predators.
Creating a Population of Agents
After you have defined an agent in your model, you are ready to create a collection or population of agents. This is done by adding an Agent Population primitive to your model. The agent population primitive uses the definition of an agent from an agent folder to create many copies of that agent from the definition. The agent population primitive keeps track of these copies and allows them to operate and to interact with one another.
There are a number of different settings for the agent population primitive, but two are of key importance. The first is to select the type of agent that will be in the population. Each population primitive can only have one type of agent. You can have multiple populations, though, and the agents in one population can interact with the agents in another population.
After specifying the type of agent, you need to specify how many agents are in the population at the start of the simulation. This is done by setting the Size property for the agent population. Later you can add to or remove agents from a population by using the Add() and Remove() functions.
Viewing Agent Results
Many of the standard Insight Maker display types can be used to show the results of an agent based simulation. If you add an agent population to a time series or tabular display, the results for the number of agents in each of the various agent states will automatically be shown. You can also use the display type to illustrate agents within a geographic region.
The conversion of a state transition diagram into a model containing multiple agents can be found in Chapter 10 of Beyond Connecting the Dots.
Next edition: Modeling With Agents: Working With Agents.


You are essential.
You matter to someone.
And to that someone, you are the most essential person in the world.
Think about it. What does it mean to be essential?
Essential means: Absolutely Necessary.
And when someone is absolutely necessary, shouldn't we do everything we can to keep them around? Looking around at our own lives, who has been essential to us?
Teachers are absolutely necessary for shaping the minds of their students and helping each child to find the best path in which to grow.
Ministers are absolutely necessary to the believers who flock to them in times of crisis for a word of wisdom, a calming voice to remind them of why they believe.
Doctors and Nurses are absolutely necessary to treat the health issues that plague the sick.
Farmers and Merchants are absolutely necessary to produce the food and other basic living essentials we need for survival.
Therapists and Social Workers are absolutely necessary to listen to the fears of those who feel unsafe, anxious or angry at the world and help them find a healthier way to express those feelings.
We are all absolutely necessary to someone. So hear me when I proclaim this.
Parents are absolutely necessary in the eyes of their children.
But what about the Bad Parents?
Even those who could be labeled as " Bad Parents". You know the ones. Those who use drugs, cause domestic disturbances, or abuse their children. In our eyes, they should be punished and never be allowed to parent a child again. But, in the eyes of their children, they are essential.
I have found that even children who come from hard places, still carry within their hearts a love for their parents and a deep abiding hope that the bad things will stop. Children do not want to be hurt, but their very identity has been built on the belief that they belong with their family.
And we, in an effort to save them sometimes forget that. They are, instead, removed from the only "nest" they have ever known, and placed in a "foreign" neighborhood, with people they have never previously met. It can be terrifying. It can be traumatizing.
I read an article on childhood trauma from the Children's Gateway that said 1 in 4 children placed in foster care develop some form of PTSD. And there are other studies that bear out the fact that children who remain in dysfunctional homes (if arrangements are made where they can remain safe) fare much better mentally and emotionally than those placed in foster care.
Now you may think, "Why is someone who administers a foster care program, talking smack about foster care?" Good question. I am not blaming foster care. I find that the problem comes when we disregard the essential value of family PRIOR to a child going into foster care.
If you have read my prior blogs, you will know that I think foster parents are true heroes. In fact, the families that dedicate themselves to caring for children in the custody of state child welfare agencies ARE ESSENTIAL. They are essential to helping the child who has lost his sense of security, of belonging, and of identity to heal. Did you know that almost 80% of children who are adopted after the rights of their parents are terminated for abuse/neglect are adopted by foster parents? No, the problem is not with those who make sacrifices every day for a child from hard places. In my opinion, the break-down occurs with the initial entry into care in the first place. Fortunately, I am not alone in my opinion. A movement has been underway for a couple of years to encourage states to re-think the removal of children as the first line of defense against child abuse.
Families First Legislation hopes to address that disconnect between keeping children safe and keeping them with their families. States are being mandated to look at the damage that congregate care brings to a traumatized child. As it is being implemented across the US its success will depend heavily on the states who are administrating it. Legislators who allocate money and State leaders who distribute the money hold the keys to creating opportunities of safe placement with family. By focusing on removal and liability, little effort was made to creatively carve innovative services with the essential family unit. But by allocating money, time, staff and innovation, services directed at family preservation rather than family removal will be the first thought of every child welfare worker.
Family Preservation can take many forms.:
Paying a relative to take care of the child while the parent receives mental health treatment
Allowing a parent to live with their child in the home of a relative together
Creating more substance abuse shelters that allow children to remain with their parents
There are so…so…many ways to innovate safety and family preservation.
And it all starts with one simple belief: Parents are essential to the healthy development of their children. If we truly believe that, we would stop at nothing to think outside of the box for ways to keep kids safely where they belong.
8 thoughts on "Essentially Yours
 1. Thank you, Angie. I just read a book about an abused and neglected child who still loved his mother, even though she was deemed an unfit parent. The book is called, "The Boy Who Carried Bricks," by Alton Carter.
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 2. I wish that more often people could look at the specifics of each case. Here we seem to vacillate between removing the child and leaving her in the home despite dire situations. Family First sounds good, and we are doing it here too, but it needs quality workers to really understand the base needs. Here we have too often seen kids left in their original family(all children must stay with their parents) and then murdered. Then of course the pendulum swings the other way.
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 1. I totally agree with you! The only way child welfare will work is if the agency invests in the quality of staff, leadership and the quality of training. The Decision to leave a child in a risky home can only be made by someone who is competent and enough to assess the risk and control the threats. It can be done, but it is not a broad brush by any means
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Facts & Resources
Meet the Filmmakers
Documentary for Health & Social Justice
"We need to help our young girls set goals.Help them negotiate condom usage. Help them be stronger. Give them theencouragement to say, "this is my body and I have a choice." -FilmParticipant
LIVING POSITIVE is a 15-minute film told through the words and stories of five women inNew Orleans who share the challenges and triumphs of living with HIV.Far from stopping at individual stories, the film explores the socialforces underlying the disease-including racism, poverty, lack ofinformation about HIV, and the stigma associated with the disease.
Thewomen in LIVING POSITIVE have faced many struggles, including substanceabuse, sex work, mental health issues, and sometimes even rejection bytheir families, friends and community. A number of them continue tocontend with the physical and psychological aftermath of Katrina. Butthese women are also survivors, and LIVING POSITIVE highlights theirstrengths and their many accomplishments. We hear how social networksmade up of family, friends, and community-based organizations sustainthem and help them grow. We learn about the powerful role of religionand spirituality in their lives. We see how working with other HIVpositive women has brought a sense of meaning and fulfillment to theirlives. Ultimately, the film shows how being HIV positive has been atransformative experience for these women.
Use the accompanying Discussion Guidebelow to help you engage your family and friends, your class, or yourcommunity in a discussion about the impact of HIV on women and theunderlying reasons that HIV disproportionately affects African Americanwomen.
This discussion guide provides questions to help you engage your family and friends, your class, or your community in a discussion about the impact of HIV on women and the underlying reasons that HIV disproportionately affects African American women.
- The lack of knowledge about HIV/AIDS is fueling the epidemic.
- The stigmatization of HIV positive people is still pervasive and negatively affects both mental and physical health.
- Social support networks and self-empowerment are important factors improving the health status of HIV positive women.
- Although Gina and the other women in the film are HIV positive, you wouldn't necessarily know it by looking at them. What do you think are some of the things keeping these women healthy and full of life?
- Cynthia, Gina, and others thought they were going to die when they found out they had contracted HIV, and some people still see HIV/AIDS as a fatal disease.
However, others also now perceive it as a condition that-with the proper
treatment-is chronic, manageable, and for this reason not so worrisome. Does the truth lie in between these two extremes and if so can you describe where?
- What some ways that you can contract HIV? What are ways that you do not contract HIV? What are some important methods of HIV prevention?
- Cynthia and Jaivanique speak compellingly about how friends and relatives feared "catching HIV" from casual contact with them.
- Why do you think the misconceptions about HIV transmission are still so pervasive?
- What should be done about this?
- Are any of the same misconceptions common in your community?
- African American women have a disproportionately high risk of contracting HIV. (According to the Centers for Disease Control, black women experience a rate of HIV diagnoses 23 times greater than white women.) How do you think racism might play a role in these higher rates of diagnosis?
- Cynthia and some of the other women in LIVING POSITIVE have a past that
includes substance abuse and/or sex work. What are some underlying reasons that might lead women in these directions? What might be some solutions?
- The film discusses methods of HIV prevention-such as HIV/AIDS education and the use of condoms-that have to do with individual behavior. But what are some
prevention methods that might address the root causes of increasing HIV rates in the African American community? Try to address racism and poverty.
- How might gender play a role in the fact that women of color now face a
disproportionate risk of HIV infection?
- Jacquie talks about the importance of her church in her life, and most of the other women mention family members, friends, or organizations that have stood by them despite their HIV status. Can you describe the role of such support networks in the physical and mental health of HIV positive women?
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LIVING POSITIVE: Meet the Filmmakers
Deborah Craig, Ryan Hildebrant, Anthony Massung & Brett Hickman
Deborahhas an eclectic background in history, writing, public health, music,and the visual arts. She received a B.A. in American History fromColumbia University, has been a jazz drummer and photographer since herteens, and spent many years in the software industry, writing over adozen books on various software applications. She joined the Masters inPublic Health program at San Francisco State University in the fall of2006. Besides completing the required coursework, she is takingdocumentary film classes to search for ways in which the arts can beused to enhance awareness about public health issues. Her film "The Verde Garde: Growing a Healthy Community," came out in the Spring of 2007 and was featured in the San Francisco State Film Finals.
Ryan has had a lifelong interest in all forms of media. He holds anAssociates of Science degree in video production and, prior to comingto San Francisco State University, had two years of professional workexperience on local documentaries, educational programming, and videoproduction for the web in his home city of San Diego, California. Hisprimary production interests are in lighting and camera, although he isexperienced in post production and sound as well. Ryan will graduatefrom San Francisco State University with his Bachelors of Arts inCinema Production in May of 2008.
Anthonyis a narrative filmmaker and a student at San Francisco StateUniversity. He has an intense passion for moviemaking and has beenworking with film and video for over five years. Having gotten intofilmmaking because he wants to contribute to positive social change,Anthony recently joined Ryan Hildebrant and Deborah Craig to create adocumentary about HIV positive women in New Orleans. Anthony will begraduating with a BA in Cinema in May of 2008.
When he was a young boy, it was common to see Brett carrying his father'slarge shoulder-mounted VHS camera, making small films with anyone braveenough on the cul-de-sac where he lived. Eventually he attended SanFrancisco State University, with a major in Cinema. There Brett tookpart in several student films, including a short documentary entitled The Verde Garden: Growing a Healthy Community,which was featured in the San Francisco State Film Finals and prompteda substantial United Way grant to the Verde Garden. Brett graduatedfrom San Francisco State University in May of 2007. He now lives inIrvine California, where he has harnessed his newfound passion fordocumentary style filmmaking, and is currently active as a freelancecamera operator on several projects. Brett was asked to accompany theNew Orleans group on their production as a second camera op, and isvery honored to be a part of this new documentary, Living Positive.
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Transgenderism, transsexualism, & gender identity
Studies of employment discrimination
against transgender persons
In 2009, The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Action Fund prepared a document titled: "Passing the
Employment Non-Discrimination Act: A toolkit."
The Task Force has
formed a coalition with many lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) groups
in order to promote the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (2009). The groups
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Action Fund, National Center for Transgender
Equality (NCTE), Pride at Work, the National Center for Lesbian Rights
(NCLR), Parents Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) and a
number of other colleague organizations. 1
The toolkit contains the following data from
studies of employment discrimination against -- and financial hardship of -- transgender persons.
Statistics on Employment Discrimination Against Transgender
Discrimination against transgender people is widespread:
|Nationally: A study conducted between 1996 and 1997 found that 37 percent
transgender individuals surveyed had experienced employment discrimination.
||Illinois: A study conducted between 1995 and 2001 found that 37-42 percent of gender-variant individuals surveyed experienced some type of|
employment discrimination. 3
|San Francisco, CA: A 2006 survey of 194 members of the San Francisco
transgender community found:
||40 percent of respondents believed they were discriminated against when applying for work.|
||Over 24 percent of people reported that they were sexually harassed at work.|
||19 percent experienced trouble in advancing in their company or department.|
|18 percent were fired from a job due to gender identity
||Virginia: A study conducted between 2005 and 2006 reported that 20 percent of transgender individuals were denied employment and 13 percent
based on their gender identity. 5|
||Washington state: A study conducted between 2006 and 2007 found that 41.5 percent of transgender people surveyed had been denied employment,
or otherwise discriminated against on the job because of their gender
and/or expression. 6|
Economic hardship of many Transgender
Employment discrimination contributes to low incomes for
||Minnesota: A study conducted between 1997 and 2002 found that 22 percent of transgender people live below the poverty line.
||San Francisco, CA: A study conducted in 2006 of 194 transgender
individuals found a 35 percent unemployment rate, with 59 percent earning less than
$15,300 annually. 8|
||Philadelphia, PA: A study conducted in 1997 found that of 81 transgender people, 59 percent were unemployed and 56 percent made less than $15,000 annually. 9|
||Chicago, IL: A study conducted between 2000 and 2001 found that of 111 transgender individuals, 34 percent were unemployed and an additional 40|
percent made less than $20,000 annually, with a median income of just
year -- less than half the national median income.
||Los Angeles, CA: A 1998?1999 study of transgender women found that 50 percent reported incomes of less than $12,000 per year, and 23 percent
on government assistance. 11|
|Washington, D.C.: In 1999, only 58 percent of transgender respondents
were employed, 29 percent reported no annual source of income, 31 percent|
reported that their annual income was under $10,000, and 15 percent reported
that they lost a job due to employment discrimination.
||Virginia: A 2005?2006 study of 250 transgender people found between
percent were unemployed and 39 percent made $17,000 or less annually. 13|
||Washington state: A 2006-2007 study of 258 transgender people found that 39 percent of those surveyed made less that $20,000 annually.
- "Passing the Employment Non-Discrimination Act: A toolkit," National Gay and
Lesbian Task force Action Fund, 2009, at:
_URL_ This is a PDF file.
- Lombardi, E.L., Wilkins, R.A., Priesing, D, Malouf, D. (2001). Gender
Violence: Trans-gender Experiences with Violence and Discrimination. Journal of Homosexuality.
- Plotner, B., Stevens-Miller, M., Wood-Sievers, T. (Spring 2002).
Discrimination 2002: 6th Report on Discrimination and Hate Crimes Against Gender Variant People. Chicago: It's Time Illinois!.
- (2006). Good Jobs NOW! A Snap Shot of the Economic Health of San Francisco?s Transgender Communities. A survey from: San Francisco Bay and
Guardian and Transgender Law Center.
- Xavier, J.M., Hannold, J.A., Bradford, J., Simmons, R. (2007). The
Health-related Needs, and Lifecourse Experiences of Transgender Virginians. Richmond: Division of Disease Prevention through the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, Virginia Department of Health.
- (2008). Perspectives Northwest Survey Report: Transgender and Gender
Variant Community Needs Assessment Survey. Ingersoll Gender Center.
- Bockting, W., Huang, c., Ding, H., Robinson, B., Rosser, S. (2005). Are Transgender Persons at Higher Risk for HIV Than Other Sexual Minorities? A
Comparison of HIV Prevalence and Risks. International Journal of Transgenderism
- Op. Cit.: (2006) Good Jobs NOW!
- Kenagy, G.P. (2005). The Health and Social Service Needs of
Transgender People in Philadelphia. International Journal of Transgenderism.
- Kenagy, G. P., Bostwick, W.B. (2005). Health and Social Service Needs
Trans-gender People in Chicago. International Journal of Transgenderism.
- Op. Cit.: Reback, C.J. [sic]
- Xavier, J.M. (2000). The Washington, DC. Transgender Needs Assessment Survey Final Report for Phase Two. Washington, DC: Administration for
of the District of Columbia. at:
(accessed April 2007).
- Ibid: Xavier, J.M., Hannold, J.A.
- Op. Cit. (2008) Perspectives.
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Project Foundry is an online project based learning (PBL) management system that allows students to design projects, keep track of deadlines and communicate with advisors and their parents what they have been working on throughout the day. Project Foundry is used by PBL schools throughout the country. Designed and built by practitioners who understand the project process, NLCS students can more easily keep on top of what academic requirements they must complete, how much credit they've earned, and access their transcripts, graduation standards, and projects.
Any given day, an NLCS student will use Project Foundry to:
- Develop a project proposal for a new project.
- Explain what she/he worked on through the day by logging about what he/she completed in a specific project.
- Write a journal entry to his/her advisor
- Examine what graduation standards still need to be completed.
Advisors, students, and even parents can have Project Foundry accounts to track progress! Email Nick at _EMAIL_ to request a parent account. Please include your first and last name, your email address, and your student's first and last name. Basically, students use Project Foundry to log at least hours every day, every week, and every year to stay on track. These hours turn into credits when students finalize projects or finish seminars with a passing grade.
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The Sociology of Culture
"A historical analysis of the social organization of culture in terms of its institutions and formations. Insisting that the term sociology of culture implies a convergence of interests and methods, Williams draws from a broad range of examples: Greek drama, Celtic bards, the Pre-Raphaelites, Bloomsbury and modern copyright laws, among others."—Library Journal
Raymond Williams (1921-87) was professor of drama at Cambridge University. His many books include Marxism and Literature, Keywords, Country and the City, and Culture and Society.


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standard notion of a hash-function is the one that maps all documents
to short "random-looking" outputs. That is, even if two documents
differ only in a few bits, a "classical" hash function is geared
to output "unrelated" results. In many settings, there is a need
for hash-functions which produce "similar" short outputs for "similar"
documents. This is especially relevant when searching for a "related"
documents in a large database, where one must find answers faster
then searching through the entire database, with applications
to information distillation and data mining algorithms.
In this talk, I will show how to construct such a hash function
and explain the underling ideas of the algorithm. I will then
show applications of such hash function to approximate searching,
information distillation, data-mining algorithms, dimension-reduction
techniques, clustering, filtering, approximate matching, facility
location, nearest neighbor search and other approximation problems.
The talk will be self-contained.
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Spatial chaos of an extensible conducting rod in a uniform magnetic field
D. Sinden & G.H.M. van der Heijden
The equilibrium equations for the isotropic Kirchhoff rod are known to form an integrable system. It is also known that the effects of extensibility and shearability of the rod do not break the integrable structure. Nor, as we have shown in a previous paper does the effect of a magnetic field on a conducting rod. Here we show, by means of Mel'nikov analysis, that, remarkably, the combined effects do destroy integrability; that is, the governing equations for an extensible current-carrying rod in a uniform magnetic field are nonintegrable. This result has implications for possible configurations of electrodynamic space tethers and may be relevant for electromechanical devices.
keywords: elastic rod, magnetostatics, Hamiltonian mechanics, integrability, Melnikov analysis, chaotic behaviour, multipulse homoclinic orbits
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 42, 375207 (2009)


Dragon Saga Movement Speed Calculations
Dragon Saga Movement Speed Calculations by SharpEye
Disclosure: If you have a high school education, you should be able to understand the simple math involved in this.
The Method
From the simple equation V = dP/dt, we can derive Vt = (P1? P0) assuming V is constant.
This leads to V = D/t, D being the displacement from Position 0 to Position 1. Since we?re going to be traveling in a straight line in ONE direction, D is also distance.
Now this equation isn?t that useful, so we?ll put it in a ratio: V2/V1 = t1/t2. (The distances cancel out)
This is equivalent to two objects traveling across the same distance D with object 1 moving at velocity V1 and taking time t1 to get across the distance and object 2 moving at velocity V2 and taking time t2 to get across the distance. This simple ratio is what we?ll be using to empirically determine BASE movement speed.
I?ll be using a grenadier with +50 mspeed (and none from equipment/cash bonuses) and a harlequin (haha rogue, no) with +0 mspeed (same deal-o). I?ll explain my character choice in a bit.
Assuming x is base movement speed:
The grenadier?s mspeed will be (x + 50)
and the harlequin?s will be x
So (x+50)/x = t2/t1
Using frames as a measure of time, we can almost precisely determine the ratio of velocities; the only possible errors in calcuation is the estimation of when a character?s movement actually begins and when it has stopped. I will explain how I minimized these later on.
The Data
Here are two videos (I encourage you non-believers to download each one and analyze the frames yourself if you don?t trust my calculations).
The harlequin starts running between frames 776 and 777
The harlequin stops running between frames 1314 and 1315
The grenadier starts running between frames 601 and 602
The grenadier stops running between frames 1005 and 1006
The calculations
The harlequin takes t2 = 538 frames to go distance D
The grenadier takes t1 = 404 frames to go distance D
This arrives at the equation of one variable: (x+50)/x = 538/404
Now we?ll look at the fraction 538/404. If you divide it out, the value turns out to be 1.33168??. We?ll approximate this with 4/3. This approximation could be risky in that the ratio isn?t that solid, however I want it to be. By simple math we know 4/3 = 200/150. Given that (x+50)/x = 200/150, we quickly
determine x to be 150 movement speed.
The conclusion
The conclusion here is surprisingly that there is no conclusion yet. (WHAT A TWIST? M. NIGHT SHAMAMALSYALYN)
We have to determine if different classes have different base movement speeds.
The data, part 2
We?ll be using two different archers this time.
Archer 1 has mspeed x + 20
Archer 2 has mspeed x
If the calculated movespeed from this is the same as that of the first part, we have evidence that the base movement speed is the same across all classes. If not, f me in the butt.
Archer 1:
Archer 2:
Archer 1 begins moving at frame 808 and ends at 1079
Archer 2 begins moving at frame 569 and ends at 876
The calculations, part 2
(x+20)/x = 307/271
If we?re right about a mspeed of 150, x+20 = (307/271) * x. We plug in x = 150 and we have?.
170 = 169.92619926199261992619926199262.
Now i?ll be darned. I don?t get a buttf-ing tonight 😀
Minimization of error
The first possible source of error is the starting position. This is simple to minimize.
I use moonwalk/backdash with HQ/Archer respectively to go as close to the edge as possible. (I don?t want to factor in turning time if there is any)
The second possible source of error is the ending position. This is hard to minimize.
The first thing I did to minimize this is using frames. A large amount of frames will make the error (in frames) almost insignificant.
The second thing I did was use the little circle thing?s position relative to the wall. If two frames have the same circle position, I recorded the first frame as the ending frame.
Video files
Archer 1: http://www.mediafire?13eskr1a4kqxeoq
Archer 2: http://www.mediafire?ax58g7bqdrz4ugp
Gren : http://www.mediafire?tjkbpzfbyw04c05
HQ : http://www.mediafire?axizk1sy9n1a0a6
Effect of +% mspeed on movement speed
We?re going to assume a character moving with 0 bonus mspeed and 0% bonus mspeed moves with 150 movement speed. The previous calculations have assumed bonus mspeed is additive to movement speed. That is, given X bonus mspeed and 0% bonus mspeed, a character moves with 150 + x mspeed. We?ll assume this is correct for the next part, the effect of +% mspeed on movement speed.
Now I can see two ways this will work. Assuming X bonus mspeed and Y% bonus mspeed:
movement1 = 150*(1 + Y/100) + X
movement2 = (150 + X)*(1+Y/100)
= 150*(1 + Y/100) + X + XY/100
We can see by substitution that:
movement2 = movement1 + XY/100
These three equations will be used later on in the calculations.
We will also use the ratio from the previous run: V2/V1 = t1/t2
V1 will be the velocity of the character WITHOUT any bonus mspeed
V2 will be calculated from V1*t1/t2, and compared to theoretical values calculated from movement1 and movement2
The Data
We?ll be using:
HQ with 10% mspeed vagabond boots (and no other equips)
Gren with 10% mspeed vagabond boots and +50 mspeed (from skill tree)
Gren with 10% mspeed Vagabond boots, +50 mspeed (from skill tree), and +24 mspeed from set
The third scenario is just to determine if bonus mspeed from skill tree differs from mspeed from set
Gren #1:
Gren #2:
The Calculations
HQ starts at frame 851 and ends at frame 1341
Gren #1 starts at frame 773 and ends at frame 1149
Gren #2 starts at frame 1006 and ends at frame 1344
From the previous run, the HQ took 538 frames to travel distance D.
In this run, the HQ took 490 frames to travel distance D.
V2 = V1*t1/t2 = 150*538/490 ~= 165
movement1 = 150*(1 + 0.1) + 0 = 165
movement2 = 165 + 0*10/100 = 165
This runthrough was just a sanity test 🙂
From the previous run, the Gren took 404 frames to travel distance D.
In this run the Gren #1 took 376 frames to travel distance D.
V2 = v1*t1/t2 = 200*404/376 ~= 215
movement1 = 150*(1 + 0.1) + 50 = 165 + 50 = 215
movement2 = movement1 + 50*10/100 = 220
This runthrough gave more evidence to movement1 (that % bonus mspeed is only applied to base mspeed)
and then?
Gren #1 took 376 frames to travel distance D
Gren #2 took 338 frames to travel distance D
If we?re correct about the assumption that both mspeed from skill tree and mspeed from equipments are treated equally, then
(1.1*150+74)/(1.1*150+50) = t1/t2
239/215 = t1/t2
(1.1*150+74+7.4)/(1.1*150+50+5) = t1/t2
246.4/220 = t1/t2
t1/t2 = 376/338 = 1.1124260355029585798816568047337
239/215 = 1.111627906976744186046511627907
246.4/220 = 1.12
The Conclusions
It still may be too early to conclude which equation describes movement MORE correctly, however I would put my money on movement1.
The complete movement equation would then be:
Variable X? Bonus + movement speed
Variable Y? Bonus % movement speed
Movement Speed = 150*(1+Y/100) + X
Video files
HQ: http://


string.
However a class determines object identity, it is important that it is reflected in the global identifiers. Logically equivalent objects in different stores should have the same identifier, and objects that are not equivalent should have different identifiers.
Change Tracking
Change Tracking is a term used to describe how a sync algorithm determines what has changed since the last synchronization event, and thereby what should be changed locally. Each change to an object (often called a delta) is usually handled as a CRUD operation: a creation, read, update, or deletion.
One of the first choices that needs to be made is the granularity that the recorded changes will take. Should all properties in an entity be updated if any single property changes? Or should only the changed property be recorded? The right path may vary; I'll discuss this more as we delve into details.
In either case, you need a means to record a change. In the simplest case, this could just be a Boolean attribute in the local store, indicating whether the object is new or has been updated since the last sync. In a more advanced algorithm, a change could be stored outside the main store as a dictionary of changed properties and with an associated timestamp.
Conflict Resolution
When you have two or more stores representing the same logical set of data, the potential for conflicts exists. A change to an object in one store could occur at about the same time as a change to the corresponding object in a second store, with no intervening sync. These changes are said to have occurred concurrently, and some action may be necessary to leave the conflicting objects in a consistent and valid state across all stores once they sync up.
In the simplest of all worlds, reading and writing a store can be considered an atomic operation, and resolving conflicts simply involves choosing which version of the store to keep. This is actually more common than you might think. For example, the document-syncing capabilities of iCloud are handled this way: when a conflict arises, the user is asked to choose the version he or she wishes to keep – changes from the conflicting stores are not merged.
There are many ways to decide which changes take precedence when resolving conflicts. If a central server is involved, the most straightforward approach is just to assume the latest sync operation takes priority. Any change present in the operation overwrites previously stored values. More complex systems involve comparing the creation timestamps of conflicting changes and keeping the most recent.
Conflict resolution can get tricky, and if you have the choice, you should avoid it altogether by devising a model that simply cannot become invalid due to concurrent changes. In a new project, this is much easier than trying to think of all the possible invalid states that could arise.
Relationships can be particularly troublesome (and that's not a commentary on human interactions). Take a simple one-to-one relationship between entities A and B. Imagine Device 1 and Device 2 both begin with object A[1] related to object B[1]. Device 1 creates an object B[2], relates A[1] to B[2], and deletes B[1]. Concurrently, Device 2 also deletes B[1], but creates B[3] and relates that to A[1].
Orphaned object
Orphaned object arising from conflicting changes to a one-to-one relationship.
After synchronizing, there will be an extra, orphaned B object that is unrelated to any A. If there were to be a validation rule requiring the relationship, you would now have an invalid object graph. And this is about the simplest type of relationship you can imagine. There are many other twists and turns possible when relationships are involved.
However conflicts like this are resolved, it is important that the resolution be deterministic. If the same scenario occurs on two different devices, they should end up taking the same action.
This may seem obvious, but it is very easy to get wrong. Take the example above. If your resolution involves randomly picking one of the B objects to delete, at some point the two devices are going to delete different objects, and you will end up with no B objects at all. You should strive to delete corresponding B objects from each device. This can be achieved by sorting the objects first, and always picking the same object.
Synchronous Communication, Peer-to-Peer (S-P2P)
Now that we have covered common elements of all sync algorithms, let's finish off by looking at the specific approaches introduced earlier in more detail, beginning with SC methods.
Let's start with the simplest workable S–P2P solution imaginable. Assume we have a Mac app like iTunes, which communicates synchronously with an iPhone via USB, Bluetooth, or Wi-Fi. With a fast local network, we don't have to be so concerned about restricting data transfer, so we can be lazy in that respect.
The first time a particular iPhone syncs, the two apps discover each other via Bonjour, and the Mac app zips up its entire store, sending the resulting file to the iPhone app via a socket, which would unzip and install it.
Now imagine the user takes the iPhone and makes changes to an existing object (e.g. gives a star rating to a song). The app on the device sets a Boolean flag on the object to indicate it is new or updated (e.g. changedSinceSync).
When the next sync occurs, the iPhone app zips and sends its entire data store back to the Mac. The Mac loads the store, looks for modified instances, and updates its own data accordingly. The Mac then sends back a full copy of its updated store, replacing the existing iPhone store, and the whole process starts over again.
There are many variations and improvements possible, but this is a working solution, and will be sufficient for many apps. To summarize, a sync operation involves one device transferring its store to another device, which determines what has changed, merges, and sends back the resulting store. You are guaranteed that both devices have the same data after a sync, so it is very robust.
Synchronous Communication, Client-Server (S-CS)
Things get more subtle when a server is added to the equation. The server offers flexibility, in terms of where and when a sync can occur, but it has a cost in terms of data transfer and storage. We need to reduce the communications overhead as much as possible, so copying whole stores back and forth is not going to fly.
Again, I'll aim for the simplest viable solution. Assume data is stored in a database on the server, with a last-modified timestamp for each object. When a client app first syncs, it downloads all the data in a serialized form (e.g. JSON), and builds a local store from it. It also records the timestamp of the sync locally.
As changes are made in the client app, it updates the last-modified timestamps of the objects involved. The server does the same thing, should another device sync in the interim.
When the next sync takes place, the client determines which objects have changed since the last sync, and only sends those objects to the server. The server merges in these changes. Where the server's copy of an object has been modified by another client, it keeps the change with the most recent timestamp.
The server then sends back any changes it has that are newer than the last sync timestamp sent by the client. This set should take account of the merge, with any overridden changes removed.
There are many variations possible. For example, you could include a timestamp for each individual property, and track changes at that level of granularity. Or you could do all merging of data on the client, and push merge changes back to the server, effectively switching roles. But fundamentally, one device sends changes to the other, and the receiver merges and sends back a set of changes incorporating the results of the merge.
Deletions require a little more thought, because once you delete an object, you have no way to track it. One option is to use soft deletions, where the object is not really deleted, but marked for deletion (e.g. using a Boolean property). (This is analogous to trashing a file in the Finder. It only gets permanently removed when you empty the trash.)
Asynchronous Communication, Client-Server Sync (A-CS)
The attraction of asynchronous sync frameworks and services is that they offer an off-the-shelf solution. The synchronous solutions discussed above are bespoke — you have to write lots of custom code for each app. What's more, with an S-CS architecture, you have to duplicate similar functionality across all platforms, and maintain operation of a server. This requires a skill set that most Objective-C developers don't possess.
Asynchronous services (e.g. Dropbox Datastore API and Wasabi Sync) typically provide a framework, which the app developer uses as if it were a local data store. The framework stores its changes locally, and then handles syncing with a server in the background.
The main difference between A–CS and S-CS is that the extra layer of abstraction provided by the framework in A–CS shields the client code from direct involvement in syncing. It also means that the same service can be used for all data models, not just one particular model.
Asynchronous Communication, Peer-to-Peer Sync (A-P2P)
A-P2P is the most underdeveloped approach, because it is also the most difficult to implement. But its promise is great, as it goes a step beyond A-CS, abstracting away the backend so that a single app can sync via a multitude of different services.
Underdeveloped as it is, there are apps already using this approach. For example, the popular To-Do list Clear has a custom implementation of A-P2P, which syncs via iCloud, and has been documented online. And frameworks like Apple's Core Data—iCloud integration, TICoreDataSync, and Core Data Ensembles all take this


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Where direct current is used underground in mines, the following rules shall govern:
(A) In determining the voltage limit the difference in potential shall not exceed three hundred twenty-five volts measured by a meter at the nearest switchboard except with the written approval of the chief of the division of mineral resources management.
(B) For the protection of circuits, a switch and circuit breaker shall be installed in the ungrounded side of the circuit but may be omitted from the return side. Fuses may be substituted for circuit breakers transmitting twenty-five kilowatts or less. Each circuit leading in the underground workings of such mine shall be provided with a suitable ammeter. Additional switches shall be installed in the ungrounded side of all branch circuits.
(C) One side of grounded circuits shall be very efficiently insulated from the earth.
(D) All trolley and feed wires shall be placed on the opposite side of the track from refuge holes or necks of room. All lines except telephone, shot firing, and signal lines shall be on the same side as the trolley lines.
(E) All terminal ends of feed and trolley wires shall be guarded to prevent persons from inadvertently coming in contact with them.
(F) No locomotive shall be operated by means of a person holding and sliding upon, or frequently making contact with, the positive wire with any device attached to the cable as a substitute for a trolley, except to move a locomotive out of traffic because of a broken trolley pole or fixtures attached thereto. This does not prohibit the operation of a locomotive by means of a cable without the use of the trolley, if the connection with and disconnection from the positive wire is made when the locomotive is not in motion.
(G) Inside the mine the trolley wire shall be installed parallel to the gauge line of the rail and as far away as practical, and in no place closer than six inches from the gauge line, except where written permission is given by the chief. The trolley wire shall be securely supported on hangers efficiently insulated. Such hangers shall be placed at intervals of not exceeding thirty feet and at less intervals if it is necessary to prevent the sag between points of support exceeding three inches. Hangers installed after September 2, 1941, shall be of sufficient height to place the trolley wire within six inches of the roof or cross timbers at the point of trolley wire support, except where the trolley wire may be above the top of the normal seam or draw slate taken with the seam or six feet six inches from the top of the rail.
(H) In underground workings all feed wires shall be in places either above the trolley wire on the same hangers, between trolley wire and rib, or on the rib as close to the roof as practicable, and securely supported on hangers sufficiently insulated, not more than fifty feet apart. If feed wires are installed in entries that are not equipped with trolleys, they are to be installed as close to the rib as practicable.
(I) Recharging stations for battery locomotives located inside a mine shall be adequately ventilated at all times. All charging panels shall be equipped with automatic overload circuit breakers and ammeters. All refuse or movable material of an inflammable nature shall be kept out of such stations.
(J) All trolley and positive feed wires crossing places where persons or animals are required to travel shall be safely guarded or protected from such persons or animals coming in contact with such wires, except where such wires are above the top of normal seam or draw slate taken with the seam, or six feet six inches from the top of the rail.
(K) No trolley wire shall be extended into or maintained in any room while being used as a working place; no trolley or feed wire shall be extended into any entry beyond the outside corner of the last break-through, except in case of systems of mining or equipment approved by the chief.
(L) When necessary to carry bare wires down shafts or slopes used as traveling ways, the wires shall be thoroughly protected so that persons cannot inadvertently come in contact with them.
(M) When positive machine feed wires are extended into rooms, they shall be placed not nearer than four feet from the rail where the room is of sufficient width, and shall only be connected to the positive wire on the entry while in actual use. The wire used for making such connections shall be of sufficient length to reach across the entry, and when the same is disconnected, it shall be removed from the entry or be kept with the machine. No electric wires shall be extended into any room unless a one hundred fifty foot trailing cable will not reach the face of the room, and then not beyond the outside corner of the last break-through, except in the case of systems of mining and equipment approved by the chief. Means shall be provided by which machine runners may readily install the machine cable across the entry so as to render it free from ground, and so the cable will not come in contact with persons or animals required to travel such entry.
(N) Any track or rail that is used as a return circuit shall be properly bonded. When metallic pipelines parallel a rail or track used for return, the pipe may be bonded to the rail at both ends to avoid electrolysis, and if the pipeline is of unusual length, intermediate bonds shall be installed. No pipeline or any part thereof shall be used exclusively as the return. In a section of a mine where electric detonators or electric squibs are used, metallic pipeline rails and return lines in that section shall be bonded together.
(O) All lighting circuits of a mine, whether underground or outside, shall be installed in such a manner that they will not be a fire hazard or will not endanger persons coming in contact therewith.
No operator of a mine shall refuse or neglect to comply with this section.
Effective Date: 06-14-2000


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HPPI's core areas of intervention in environmental sustainability are:
 1. Sustainable Agriculture: HPPI works with small and marginal farmers on sustainable agricultural practices for improved crop yield and sustainable livelihoods. Some of the activities include promotion of organic and sustainable manure and fertilizers such as vermi-compost, introducing modern farming techniques such as integrated nutrient management, intercropping and mixed cropping, high yield seed varieties, promotion of organic garden farming.
 2. Water Recharge and Conservation: Through training, combined with low cost/low technology techniques, these projects work to recharge ground water, ensure safe and clean sources of drinking water and enable communities to use and harvest water sources sustainably for personal and agricultural use. Groundwater recharge and other water initiatives have reached out to 68 villages in Neemrana and 5 villages of Jodhpur, Rajasthan.
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SAN DIEGO — The U.S. Marines at Camp Pendleton care most about two things: keeping America safe and saving a thumb-sized mouse from extinction.
In rugged terrain used in a training exercise known as the Crucible, for instance, foodand sleep-deprived Marine Corps recruits push themselves through simulated combat stress scenarios — and try to avoid disturbing the Pacific pocket mouse, an endangered animal that clings to existence by its tiny sharp claws.
During a recent tour of the area's green hills and wind-swept beaches, Marine environmental officials said the corps is working with federal agencies to create formal safeguards for the mouse.
"A comprehensive management plan would be much broader in scope and depth than simply telling Marines to watch out for the mouse while they are training," said Maj. David Roen, head of environmental compliance for Marine Corp installations in the Southwest. Environmental laws hold military commanders accountable for activities on their bases.
Historically, the range of the mouse extended along the coast from Los Angeles County to Mexico. By the 1990s, it was feared wiped out by coastal development.
In 1993, however, a small population was discovered in the Dana Point headlands. The species, listed as endangered by the federal government in 1994, was later discovered at Camp Pendleton, whose 17 miles of northern San Diego County coastline make it the Marine Corps' premier amphibious assault training center.
Today, the largest known population of the mice inhabits a portion of the Crucible training grounds adjacent to a firing range and bivouacking area.
That is not necessarily bad for the mouse.
Habitat restoration efforts combined with environmental training and intense monitoring by biologists have resulted in strong comebacks for several of the 16 threatened or endangered species that share the base.
"As Southern California has continued to develop, the value of Camp Pendleton as habitat for endangered species has soared," Roen said.
The base hosts one-fourth of the state's endangered California least terns. The number of endangered least Bell's vireos has risen over the last two decades from a few dozen to more than 2,500. One of the last known nesting areas of the endangered Southwestern willow flycatcher lies just south of Camp Pendleton's air station.
"Our Marines know about every species on base, be it a bird, mouse or plant," said Dan Felkin, environmental training section head at Camp Pendleton. Every operation on the base that touches on the environment takes those species into account, he said.


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Is Procurement 'dumbing down' contracts?
May 9, 2019
Twice in the last week I have had conversations with people who think that Procurement functions today are 'dumbing down' contracts. If true, that's a big mistake and will undercut the stated ambition of the function to raise its profile and value. It is also at variance with what we see happening in at least some IACCM member organizations.
Why are they saying it?
One of those who made the comment is a globally respected attorney, who has led multiple complex negotiations, typically working for the buyer. He observed growing difficulty in gaining the attention of procurement teams to discuss contract terms and options. In his view, 'the talent pool in Procurement is shrinking. They just want the contract done quickly, without much caring what's in it, and then ignore it'. This view was in many ways supported during a conversation with the co-founder of one of the top contract management lifecycle systems, who observes a growing tendency for Procurement groups to want a contract agreed prior to the RFx process, so that 'it won't cause delay'. The problem, of course, is that this often means a misfit between the contract terms and the business requirement, including the way that risks and responsibilities are allocated. 'They end up with almost inevitable conflict or disagreement down the line.'
Why does it matter?
Contracts should be critical business instruments for establishing and delivering value. Contracts provide a business discipline, a structure for critical thinking. Far from being just a set of words, they represent a journey, a lifecycle that frames the commercial logic, the required actions and behaviors of the contracting parties and which specify a value outcome. Smart business people don't view contracts as legal instruments; they use them to ensure the right conversations, to test understanding and each party's true intentions and capabilities. Based on this, they agree responsibilities, performance mechanisms, change procedures. Depending on the nature and duration of the relationship, it is the time to decide what's in the contract and what stays outside it – for example, the approach to innovation, supplier relationship management, governance and performance.
By failing to grasp and 'own' contracts, Procurement groups miss an opportunity to achieve one of their greatest aspirations – to be accepted and respected by other functions. Contracts are by their nature multi-disciplinary and integrationist. The function that leads on the contract has to interact across the business and build understanding of the viewpoint of other stakeholders. It also partners with the business not only in establishing agreements, but in ensuring their performance.
Transforming in the right direction
Many Procurement groups are under pressure to 'transform'. Frequently, this is seen as increasing speed, ensuring compliance and expanding activities into supplier relationship management. Technology is playing a big role in achieving these goals, supplemented by a focus on 'soft skills' in areas such as communication, negotiation and relationship management. However, these may not be enough to measurably improve effectiveness, rather than just efficiency. There is a danger that Procurement's traditional view of contracts as administrative templates will indeed lead to a further retreat from this aspect of business – with a negative impact not only for the function, but more generally for the value that is generated from its trading relationships.
So what is your experience? What are your views? Is it the case that Procurement is 'dumbing down contracts'?
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 Tim, my latest post on LinkedIn that (picks up on your points previously) is material here.
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'Guests' and 'hosts'
By Anatoly Liberman
The questions people ask about word origins usually concern slang, family names, and idioms. I cannot remember being ever asked about the etymology of house, fox, or sun. These are such common words that we take them for granted, and yet their history is often complicated and instructive. In this blog, I usually stay away from them, but I sometimes let my Indo-European sympathies run away with me. Today's subject is of this type.
Guest is an ancient word, with cognates in all the Germanic languages. If in English its development had not been interrupted, today it would have been pronounced approximately like yeast, but in the aftermath of the Viking raids the native form was replaced with its Scandinavian congener, as also happened to give, get, and many other words. The modern spelling guest, with u, points to the presence of "hard" g (compare guess). The German and Old Norse for guest are Gast and gestr respectively; the vowel in German (it should have been e) poses a problem, but it cannot delay us here.The related forms are Latin hostis and, to give one Slavic example, Russian gost'. Although the word had wide currency (Italic-Germanic-Slavic), its senses diverged. Latin hostis meant "public enemy," in distinction from inimicus "one's private foe." (I probably don't have to add that inimicus is the ultimate etymon of enemy.) In today's English, hostile and inimical are rather close synonyms, but inimical is more bookish and therefore more restricted in usage (some of my undergraduate students don't understand it, but everybody knows hostile). However, "enemy" was this noun's later meaning, which supplanted "stranger (who in early Rome had the rights of a Roman)." And "stranger" is what Gothic gasts meant. In the text of the Gothic Bible (a fourth-century translation from Greek), it corresponds to ksénos "stranger," from which we have xeno-, as in xenophobia. Incidentally, by the beginning of the twentieth century, the best Indo-European scholars had agreed that Greek ksénos is both a gloss and a cognate of hostis ~ gasts (with a bit of legitimate phonetic maneuvering all of them can be traced to the same protoform). This opinion has now been given up; ksénos seems to lack siblings. (What a drama! To mean "stranger" and end up in linguistic isolation.) The progress of linguistics brings with it not only an increase in knowledge but also the loss of many formerly accepted truths. However, caution should be recommended. Some people whose opinion is worth hearing still believe in the affinity between ksénos and hostis. Discarded conjectures are apt to return. Today the acknowledged authorities separate the Greek word from the cognates of guest; tomorrow, the pendulum may swing in the opposite direction.
Let us stay with Latin hostis for some more time. Like guest, Engl. host is neither an alien nor a dangerous adversary. The reason is that host goes back not to hostis but to Old French (h)oste, from Latin hospit-, the root of hospes, which meant both "host" and "guest," presumably, an ancient compound that sounded as ghosti-potis "master (or lord) of strangers" (potis as in potent, potential, possibly despot, and so forth). We remember Latin hospitfrom Engl. hospice, hospital, and hospitable, all, as usual, via Old French. Hostler, ostler, hostel, and hotel belong here too, each with its own history, and it is amusing that so many senses have merged and that, for instance, a hostel is not a hostile place.
Unlike host "he who entertains guests," Engl. host "multitude" does trace to Latin hostis "enemy." In Medieval Latin, this word acquired the sense "hostile, invading army," and in English it still means "a large armed force marshaled for war," except when used in a watered down sense, as in a host of troubles, a host of questions, or a host of friends (!). Finally, the etymon of host "consecrated wafer" is Latin hostia "sacrificial victim," again via Old French. Hostia is a derivative of hostis, but the sense development to "sacrifice" (through "compensation"?) is obscure.
The puzzling part of this story is that long ago the same words could evidently mean "guest" and "the person who entertains guests", "stranger" and "enemy." This amalgam has been accounted for in a satisfactory way. Someone coming from afar could be a friend or an enemy. "Stranger" covers both situations. With time different languages generalized one or the other sense, so that "guest" vacillated between "a person who is friendly and welcome" and "a dangerous invader." Newcomers had to be tested for their intentions and either greeted cordially or kept at bay. Words of this type are particularly sensitive to the structure of societal institutions. Thus, friend is, from a historical point of view, a present participle meaning "loving," but Icelandic frændi "kinsman" makes it clear that one was supposed "to love" one's relatives. "Friendship" referred to the obligation one had toward the other members of the family (clan, tribe), rather than a sentimental feeling we associate with this word.
It is with hospitality as it is with friendship. We should beware of endowing familiar words with the meanings natural to us. A friendly visit presupposes reciprocity: today you are the host, tomorrow you will be your host's guest. In old societies, the "exchange" was institutionalized even more strictly than now. The constant trading of roles allowed the same word to do double duty. In this situation, meanings could develop in unpredictable ways. In Modern Russian, as well as in the other Slavic languages, gost' and its cognates mean "guest," but a common older sense of gost' was "merchant" (it is still understood in the modern language and survives in several derivatives). Most likely, someone who came to Russia to sell his wares was first and foremost looked upon as a stranger; merchant would then be the product of semantic specialization.
One can also ask what the most ancient etymon of hostis ~ gasts was. Those scholars who looked on ksénos and hostis as related also cited Sanskrit ghásati "consume." If this sense can be connected with the idea of offering food to guests, we will again find ourselves in the sphere of hospitality. The Sanskrit verb begins with gh-. The founders of Indo-European philology believed that words like Gothic gasts and Latin host go back to a protoform resembling the Sanskrit one. Later, according to this reconstruction, initial ghremained unchanged in some languages of India but was simplified to g in Germanic and h in Latin. The existence of early Indo-European ghhas been questioned, but reviewing this debate would take us too far afield and in that barren field we will find nothing. We only have to understand that gasts ~ guest and hostis ~ host can indeed be related.
There is a linguistic term enantiosemy. It means a combination of two opposite senses in one word, as in Latin altus "high" and "deep." Some people have spun an intricate yarn around this phenomenon, pointing out that everything in the world has two sides (hence the merger of the opposites) or admiring the simplicity (or complexity?) of primitive thought, allegedly unable to discriminate between cold and hot, black and white, and the like. But in almost all cases, the riddle has a much simpler solution. Etymology shows that the distance from host to guest, from friend to enemy, and from love to hatred is short, but we do not need historical linguists to tell us that.
Anatoly Liberman is the author of Word Origins…And How We Know Them as well as An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology: An Introduction. His column on word origins, The Oxford Etymologist, appears here, each Wednesday. Send your etymology question to him care of _EMAIL_; he'll do his best to avoid responding with "origin unknown."
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text: The piano is a complicated, subtle tone-producing device. Much work has been done toward understanding its physical and acoustical mechanisms. On the other hand, excellent results have been achieved in commercial sound synthesis, particularly through the sampling and processing of real piano sounds. The present work builds on digital waveguide string synthesis methods to develop physics-based synthesis algorithms of piano and percussion sounds through appropriate physical models chosen with an eye toward psychoacoustics-based simplifications and toward mathematical reformulation into efficient, physically calibratible digital filter structures. Recently developed physics-based sound synthesis algorithms include: a shared-loss string coupling structure modeling two-stage decay, and a simplified string stiffness filter design, both calibratible from recorded sound data; a time-varying wave digital piano hammer or mallet filter directly modeling nonlinear felt stiffness and hysteresis; membrane, plate, room, and piano soundboard models using a 2-D, or 3-D digital waveguide mesh designed for high-speed multiply-free parallel hardware implementation; and a highly simplified commuted piano synthesis method, which commutes the high-order soundboard filter backward through the strings and linearized hammer filter, replacing it with its own impulse response, which in turn is synthesized directly with enveloped noise.


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Teachable Moment Study
St. Mary's Home conducted research and produced a report called "The Teachable Moment" that documented the issues of addiction and substance use among pregnant teens in all maternity homes across Ontario in 1990.
This research highlighted the significance of substance use and misuse and paved the way for development of programs to support pregnant youth in having a substance-free pregnancy, greatly improving the health of the infant.
Today much more is known about the devastating effects of alcohol on the unborn child and about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) as a completely preventable tragedy. Programs and services available the Teen Parent/Child Outreach Centre are directed at reducing the incidence of FASD among the children of teen parents.
"The Spiral of Growth" a sequel study completed in 1994, provided guidance to revising the residential program, aimed at supporting clients in decision-making for healthy lifestyle changes.


AHK: How to Code a KML to Excel Exporter
I accidentally opened up a KML file in Notepad once. There are no words in the English language to describe that specific form of horror. It's generally brought on by questions like: "Did I just delete every other file in my C drive?" or "How the shit did I disable my keyboard? That script wasn't even sending keystrokes???"
Or when the IT guy at work remote accesses your computer, fixes the problem, then says, "Oh, hey, I can see you" and then HANGS UP.
I have no webcam on my work computer, guys. NO WEBCAM.
It appears my ADD has hijacked this post. Attempting to refocus.
My point is that I panicked for no reason.Well, not no reason. I mean, look at this:
But when I stopped to really look at it, I realized the innards of a KML are surprisingly readable. It's literally latitude and longitude with some headers in tags. That's it.
So today, in keeping with my recent VBA post, I am forgoing the lovely graphics once again and plowing my way through a script that is, in reality, only useful to me.
You're welcome.
Step 1: Understanding the Problem
See all these points in Google Earth? Plotted them at random. Here's a breakdown of what I want from the KML file:
Step 2: Prepping the File
Let's start off by prompting the user for the KML file in question.
A quick review of AHK functions will get you to FileSelectFile, alls you gotta do is change the output variable to something memorable and filter for KMLs.
I talked about FileRead in a Web Scraper post a while back. Basically, this is how we get the computer to push text into a single variable that we can chop up.
After a long shouting match with my laptop, I discovered FileRead won't read a KML. So before we continue, we have to turn the.kml into a.txt using FileCopy.
Step 3: Trimming the Variable
InStr() is really helpful here. Since we know the latitude and longitude will immediately follow the word "coordinate," we can have the script search for that and then plug the Occurance value into a variable that jumps up by two with each loop–one for and one for .
Setting the return value of InStr to a variable allows you to plug that into StringTrimRight and StringTrimLeft easily enough.
Step 4: Save It Into A CSV
Using FileAppend, you can throw each set of coordinates into a.csv. The only frustrating thing here is remembering to escape any commas or n's for new lines with the ' key.
The Code
In the interest of not staying up all night writing a GUI while binge watching ridiculously old episodes of Unsolved Mysteries, I'm posting the code as is.
Minus the GUI, the copied.txt and destination. csv files have to be manually inserted (they're on the Desktop below), as well as the loop count for the number of points.
FileSelectFile, TheFile,,, KML to Convert, (*.kml)
FileCopy, %TheFile%, c:\Users\Desktop\KML.txt
FileRead, FileContent, c:\Users\Desktop\KML.txt
Occ := 1
loop, #
FoundPos := InStr(FileContent, "coordinates", false, 1, Occ)
StringTrimLeft, TrimContent, FileContent, FoundPos
FoundPos := InStr(TrimContent, "coordinates", false, 1, 1)
StringTrimRight, AllTrimContent, TrimContent, StrLen(TrimContent) - FoundPos + 3
FileAppend, %AllTrimContent%','n, c:\Users\Desktop\KMLTest.csv
Msgbox, Done
That's all. Roll credits. I'm thinking I'll post a One Lovely Blog Post at some point this week, and if not, Processing next weekend.
17 Replies to "AHK: How to Code a KML to Excel Exporter"
 1. Noooooo. When you say things like that, you make me think it's easy even for me, but what's actually going to happen is I'll spend the next 14 hours beating my computer senseless instead of sleeping… I'll try it this weekend and let you know how it goes 🙂
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 1. You know, I've had others suggest that I clean up the language. But programming makes my brain think in expletives. And since GifGuide is more of a progress journal (I write as I break down problems–my posts expand and contract a lot as I plow through), it's just always seemed natural to not filter. That being said, I COMPLETELY understand the awkwardness of referencing a blog filled with rage rants, and I absolutely would not recommend it for children. Sidenote: I really did like your nominees–always looking for more tech oddballs on WordPress. Until next time ECG 🙂
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 2. Oh, the "others" were all in real life–you're definitely the first WordPresser. What's funny is that it's pretty evenly split among brick-and-mortar people I've shown. The main argument against profanity is that if I ever tried to set the blog up on its own to sell a few ads (to at least cover my coffee expenses), who on EARTH is going to back a foul-mouthed amateur. The main argument in favor is who on EARTH is going to back an amateur at all. My main argument is that I have to take out my frustration SOMEWHERE. Better on the interwebs than smashing my computer with a mallet. Hey ECG, is there any chance that you go by the name Panda?
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 1. HOLD IT, you just gave me an AMAZING idea for profanity web scraper to figure out if there's a correlation between the amount of swearing in the post and the programming language and/or functions I'm using in a particular script. Or if the TYPE of swearing switches. To use as a sort of rage gauge, you know? Then I can track my progress over time by looking at whether it's increasing or decreasing–I mean I have a year's worth of posts. To be honest, I sort of thought they all had some cursing, but I've never actually gone through to see. It just occurred to me that this is going to be quite disheartening if the numbers indicate that my anger levels aren't on a downward trend. Surely, you'd think the more exposure to programming, the less frustrated I'd be? Huh. Imma look into this and get back to you.
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Two teams compete to reach the finish line, as they move round the board answering questions and exploring solutions to scenarios. Teams are encouraged to discuss their answers, sharing ideas and experiences to learn from each other.
Questions in the game help players to explore:
- What is food security?
- Who is vulnerable to food insecurity and why?
- Common issues faced when shopping, cooking or eating
- Methods to improve access to food
- The role of community and voluntary organisations


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Autodesk CFD software has gone through dramatic advancements that cover every aspect of the typical workflow necessary to perform an aerodynamics analysis. We will examine new workflows available to capitalize on your CAD data using SimStudio Tools for CAD cleanup or surface wrapping to nearly eliminate any CAD preparation. We will then do a deep dive into the new turbulence models available and the best practices and which ones to use for aerodynamics simulations. We will touch on mesh adaption best practices for aerodynamics to reduce the typical meshing guesswork and increase solving efficiency for complex aerodynamics models. The demonstration will conclude with methods to accurately capture the wall force results to measure lift and drag on bodies using efficient techniques. This class is designed to present the latest and proven workflows to perform aerodynamics simulations to eliminate out-of-date inefficient and less-accurate workflows used in the past.
- Learn how to capitalize on SimStudio Tools or Surface Wrapping for Simulation CFD to reach the desired simulation goals
- Discover which advanced turbulence models should be used for aerodynamics analysis
- Discover how best to implement new mesh adaption tools to eliminate the guess work from meshing complex aerodynamics models
- Learn how to extract accurate steady state or transient wall force results efficiently from different areas of a complex model


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Customizing chart-based insights
Applicable to Cosmos React and Theme Cosmos applications
Adjust the appearance and contents of chart-based insights to visualize only the specific information that is relevant to your business needs. For example, in a flight booking application, you can visualize data about recent reservations, and then filter the results by specific destinations to analyze the latest trends in business.
You can choose from a wide range of chart types to conveniently present your data.
Add the Explore Data page to your application. For more information, see Organizing the main menu for a portal.
You can add the Explore Data page only if your application uses a Cosmos React or Theme Cosmos in hybrid mode.
 1. In the navigation pane of your application, click Explore Data.
 2. In the Insights section, click the chart-based insight that you want to modify.
 3. On the right side of the insight, click Edit.
 4. In the customization screen of your insight, on the DATA tab, manage the content of your insight:
 Choices Actions
 Change visualization In the Chart type section, in the types list, select the chart that you want to view.
 Visualize specific data
 1. From the Fields section on the right side of the screen, drag numerical data into the Measures area.
 If you change the object type, the system discards all settings of the insight, such as filter conditions, chart type, and selected data.
 2. Create a chart by dragging further data into the Dimensions area.
 Drag the Loan amount and Customer data records into the Measures and Dimensions fields respectively to visualize the loans of specific borrowers.
 Change measures
 1. In the Fields section, in the Measures area, next to the record that you want to edit, click More, and then select a measure to include in the chart.
 For the Loan amount record, select Maximum to visualize records with the highest loan amount.
 For the Amount to insure record, select Count to visualize the number of items to insure per customer.
 Apply basic filters
 1. From the Fields section, drag the data by which you want to filter the chart into the Filters area.
 Drag the Last name record to filter results by specific surname.
 2. In the list of relational operators, select an operator for your filter.
 Select is equal to, and then enter Smith to visualize the loan data of customers whose surname is Smith.
 3. Click Submit.
 4. Optional:
 To apply more filters, drag more records into the Filters area.
 Apply advanced filters
 1. In the Filters section, click Add advanced filter, and then, in the dialog box with filters, click Advanced mode.
 2. In the Advanced condition field, enter the filter logic, and then click Submit.
 If you apply two filters, enter 1 OR 2 to filter data by either of the conditions.
 Sort data
 1. In the Sorting section, in the Sort by list, select the data by which you want to sort the chart.
 2. In the Sort order list, specify how you want to sort the data.
 Select Ascending to display values from lowest to highest.
 5. On the CHART tab of your insight, manage how the system displays supplementary information in the chart:
 Choices Actions
 Customize the range of axes
 1. Expand the Axis section.
 2. Manage the axes of the chart by selecting specific check boxes.
 Select Customize range, and then in the Minimum and Maximum fields, modify the scale of the chart.
 Toggle tooltips Expand the Tooltips section, and then select the Show tooltip check box to display supplementary information about the chart columns.
 Manage chart legend
 1. Expand the Legend section, and then select the Show legend check box.
 2. Customize the chart legend by providing specific details.
 In the Type list, select Check boxes to create a legend in the form of clickable check boxes.
 The system hides the columns that correspond to the check boxes that you clear.
 6. In the upper-right corner of the insight, click Save insight.
You can filter data of your insights to get the specific information that you require at the moment. The following visualization presents how to retrieve data about profits that each state generates by selling television sets that are shipped by regular air transport.
Applying filters in insights
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Financial well-being is the process of learning how to successfully manage and budget your expenses. A healthy financial practice involves taking steps to live within your means and managing your resources by thinking about both your short and long-term goals. This can be done by creating a budget, setting up a savings account, keeping track of expenses, not relying on credit cards, and understanding your student loans.
Taking control of your financial well-being will provide you will a sense of independence and security knowing that you are making wise financial decisions that are sustainable long-term.
Financial well-being is an important piece of your overall well-being.
Dealing with personal finances can be overwhelming for anyone, but especially for college students who are just beginning to live independently and manage money on their own. Financial pressure/concerns are a leading cause of stress for college students. Having an understanding and sense of control over one's finances can help to relieve that stress.
You can take control of your financial well-being.
To get started, you should:
- Create a budget and stick to it
- Start Saving – Pay yourself first
- Take advantage of student discounts
- Keep organized records of your finances
- Don't put it off – identify and address any financial problems early on