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The continued downsizing of the U.S. Postal Service has especially hit African-Americans and armed forces veterans. These are two groups that have long relied on postal jobs for a good income, job security and a path to the middle class. For more, we're joined by Philip Rubio. He's a former letter carrier who's now an assistant professor of history at North Carolina A&T State University and author of the book, "There's Always Work at the Post Office: African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice and Equality."
Mr. Rubio, thanks for being with us.
PHILIP RUBIO: Thanks for having me, Scott.
SIMON: The U.S. Postal Service historically has been a large employer of African-Americans. Why is that?
RUBIO: Well, since 1865, since the end of the Civil War, it became a job magnet for African-Americans. Oftentimes, when they couldn't find work in the private sector, especially in the South when textile mills appear and they're only hiring whites or industrial jobs are only open to blacks, you know, the most dirty, dangerous or menial. But 1865's a date when they're actually able to start working.
SIMON: And this history has persisted into our time?
RUBIO: Yes. It was a place where African-Americans could find jobs to pursue while they were trying to find work, maybe in their chosen profession. Maybe they had degrees. It was not uncommon for doctors, lawyers and dentists, or people trying to get those, the graduate and professional degrees, to be working for the post office.
SIMON: And the post office, I guess, has been kind of a job magnet for veterans too?
RUBIO: Yes, it has. Since the Civil War, you know, with veterans' preferences for disabled veterans and, you know, that was a way for the federal government, you know, to tell veterans thank you for your service. The number one government agency was the post office. It was a secure job, the wages were decent, and so with each, you know, with each succeeding war, for instance, you get a lot of veterans coming back.
SIMON: And this has persisted to this day too?
RUBIO: It has. At one point, let's say, I think by 1948, half of all postal workers were veterans. It's down around 31 percent today because not as many people serve in the military, but it's still the biggest employer of veterans.
SIMON: How has working for the post office been for many a kind of gateway into the middle class?
RUBIO: Well, it provided a middle-class status for African-Americans especially. The fact that you had - the pay wasn't always great, but it was regular and with benefits and job security you could accumulate wealth. That means you could provide higher education for yourself and your children. By 1940, 28 percent of black postal workers had some college education, compared to 5 percent overall.
African-Americans also had the protection under the Civil Service Act of 1883. They also had protection in case a local postmaster wanted to fire them for civil rights activity. So, you know, this actually led to black community development.
SIMON: It's irresistible to note that it seems like there will be a substantial number of letter carriers and other people who work for the post office looking for jobs now. Where else can they work?
RUBIO: That's a good question, especially because one out of every two letter carriers, for instance, is over the age of 50. And, well, automation already removed a lot of clerk jobs. That's going to be hard for letter carriers and postal workers in general, to, you know, to transition. I mean, they have a skill and it is a skill, that they perform, and it's, you know, it's a service. The post office is not a charity. It's a - that we should keep alive just so people can have good middle-class incomes. It's a self-supporting universal service.
SIMON: Philip Rubio, assistant professor of history at North Carolina A&T State University. Thanks very much for being with us.
RUBIO: Thank you for having me, Scott. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


CSC 352 Programming Assignment #3 Factoring
Write a program to factor huge integers. Read an integer N from the command line, then print it as the product of two integers (or note that it is prime) as in the following brute-force solution:
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 _TAG_
 main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
 int d;
 int N = atoi(argv[1]);
 for (d = 2; d < N/d; d++){
 if (N % d == 0) break;
 if (N % d == 0)
 printf("%d = %d*%d\n", N, d, N/d);
 else printf("%d is prime\n", N);
This code simply checks each integer greater than 1 to see whether it divides evenly into N. The header limits.h gives access to constants like INT_MAX that are not used by this program, but which you may need to avoid overflow in your own code.
If you use Python, this step is necessary, with Java you may use BigInteger.
We stop after finding any factor since we know that we could find all factors, if desired, by using the same method for the factors.
The solution just given is not quite a brute-force solution because it already contains a test that improves performance by a substantial amount:
If we do not find a factor by the time that we reach the square root of N, then we certainly will not find a factor larger than that value, and we can declare N to be prime.
A truly naive brute-force implementation might use time proportional to N (try every integer less than N; this improvement improves the running time to be proportional to the square root of N, so we can use it to factor any 32-bit integer in a fraction of a second.
 In this assignment, we explore the problem of factoring larger integers.
There are two reasons that the above code is not useful for factoring huge integers. First, the standard int data type supports 32-bit integers, so we would get overflow and/or incorrect results if we were to try to use it for larger numbers.
 Second, it is too slow. Even if we could deal with (say) 128-bit integers, we could never afford to try 2^64 divide operations to check for factors. That's not the case with Python or Java BigInteger.
For this assignment, you will develop an implementation of a faster algorithm for factoring that is known as Pollard's rho method.
The method is brought to us by the magic of number theory that is beyond the scope of this course, but it is an easy computation, based on iterating the function f(x) = x*x + c (mod N).
Specifically, we start at some value x = x0 and maintain, for i = 1, 2, 3,..., one variable a that tracks the result of i iterations of f and another variable b that tracks the result of 2i iterations of f, computing the greatest common divisor d of |a - b| and N.
 It turns out that whenever we find that d is not 1, we can infer that it is a factor of N, so we are done.
(If you know number theory and are interested in details, see Pollard's paper in BIT 15, 1975, pp. 331-334.)
For example, the following table traces the computation when we use it to factor 299.
 x0 = 1
 c = 1
 a b |a-b| d
 2 5 3 1
 5 79 74 1
 26 174 148 1
 79 105 26 13
 299 = 13*23
The key to a simple implementation is to note that we can maintain the values of a and b as required by simply setting a = f(a) and b = f(f(b)) in the inner loop.
The loop always terminates, since a and b must eventually be equal (think about why this must be true!) and the greatest common divisor of 0 and N is N. Pollard's method is a randomized algorithm that factors with high probability if the starting value of a and the additive constant c are chosen at random.
Your first task for this assignment is to write a program small.c to factor int N that uses Pollard's method to compute the factorization. Instrument your code to also print the chosen values of x0 and c, the number of times the loop iterates, and, for N less than 1000, a table like the one shown above. Use your program to factor 713, 6319, 10609, and 42037.
 Note that the numbers you have to factor are so small that you do not have to worry about overflow (see the first Extra Credit below).
You will need to implement a function to compute the greatest common divisor of two integers. For this purpose, use a recursive gcd function based on the fact that the greatest common divisor of a and b is the same as the greatest common divisor of b and a % b. (This classic method is known as Euclid's algorithm.) Incidentally, use a simple if test, not a library function, to compute the absolute value.
Your second task for this assignment is to write a program big.c that uses the BigNum ADT to factor huge integers, using Pollard's algorithm.
Use your program to factor _PHONE_, 670726081, 9449868410449, 1082154235955237, 121932633334857493, and 13565005454706599869.
Experiment with other huge integers, and include in your readme file a discussion of the number of iterations that you think are required, in general.
Extra credit A.
Implement small.c such that it is functionally equivalent to the sample program given above (but much faster). That is, your program needs to factor any int, avoiding overflow in the intermediate calculations.
Extra credit B.
Find the largest prime pair (N and N+2 both prime) that you can in about ten seconds of computer time.
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I had a question posed to me through a comment on this blog that I've not really written about dealing with plant propagation
: Why do I use sand instead of soil for cuttings?
Before I answer let me say that most (maybe about 95%) of my successful cuttings were done in sand alone with the rest in either in a sand and peat mix, regular soil, or water. There is no wrong way to root a cutting as long as it produces a healthy plant. If you like rooting cuttings in a jar of water then by all means go for it! There's more than one way to skin a cat (or so I've been told, I'd never do such a thing!)
I use sand for a several reasons:
- It holds the cuttings upright (any potting medium except water should do this).
- It drains well and keeps the cuttings from getting too moist.
- Low fertility (no fertility really) means the energy of the plant goes into making roots and not foliage.
- It is sterile since there is no organic matter for diseases and microbes to lurk.
- The roots have an easy time penetrating the sand and put on some good initial growth.
- It's cheap! (Perhaps the best reason of all.)
- It's easily available at pretty much any hardware store.
Once the cuttings root they need to be transplanted into soil to gain the nutritional value of the soil. Plants that are easy to root (like forsythia, caryopteris, coleus, etc.) will do fine in soil but more difficult rooting specimens may simply rot in soil as opposed to vermiculite or sand as a medium. Peat can be used mixed together with either sand, perlit, or vermiculite and it maintains sterility due to its high acid content.
Why don't I use soil? Let's assume we are talking about garden soil and not soilless potting mixes you find in stores for seed starting. Those should be fine for any propagation purpose. Not all cuttings root easily in soil, but then again not all cuttings root easily. The difference in the sand vs. soil issue is the sterility of the soil. Here is what the Master Gardener Extension at Ohio State University
had to say about the medium for cuttings:
"Insert treated cutting in a moist rooting medium. A suitable rooting medium is half perlite and half sphagnum peat moss. Any disinfested container with drainage is acceptable for use."
"The rooting medium should be sterile, low in fertility, and well-drained to provide sufficient aeration. It should also retain enough moisture so that watering does not have to be done too frequently. Materials commonly used are coarse sand, a mixture of one part peat and one part perlite (by volume), or one part peat and one part sand (by volume). Vermiculite by itself is not recommended, because it compacts and tends to hold too much moisture. Media should be watered while being used."
The problem with soil is that unpasteurized soil can contain bacteria. fungi (like damping off) and microbes that may harm a plant's growth or contain viruses that may spread to other plants. If it is too fertile it may encourage leaf growth (due to nitrogen) which you don't want at the initial stages of rooting, you want roots!
So in the end it comes down to personal preference. Many gardeners have methods of making potting mixes with different combinations of materials for different purposes and rooting plants is the same way. The sand works for me, but if a different rooting medium works for you then by all means use it. As long as the plant is healthy and happy in the end that's all that matters!
What soil mediums do you use for rooting, potting or seed starting? Do you have a favorite mix you use?

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When I type help('string') in the python interpreter I get information about the string class. There,upper() is indicated as a function. Yet I can only call it as a method like "hi".upper() instead of upper("hi").
So one could assume that any method will be indicated as a function in the docstrings of the built in modules. Yet when I do help('list'), methods of the list class are indicated as methods in the docstrings!!
Why is this so? Only because the person who wrote the doctrings was inconsistent or that different people wrote it? Or do these methods(the ones called 'functions' versus the ones called'methods' in the docstrings) actually have different properties?
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When you searched for help('string'), you were looking for the docstrings of the string module. If you do help(str) or help('str') you'll get the docstrings of the str type, and here upper appears as a method!
As you can see here, the function upper from the string module is actually a function and not a method:
>>> upper('hi')
Traceback (most recent call last):
NameError: name 'upper' is not defined
>>> 'hi'.upper() # method from the str type
>>> from string import upper
>>> upper('hi') # function from the string module
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Thnx. Ok, so str is the name of a class defined in the module _builtin_ while string is the name of a module. Why did they make another string module when there is already a class defined inside the _builtin_ module? – Bentley4 Apr 3 '12 at 22:06
_USER_ The string module has a lot of useful stuff for string processing that wouldn't make much sense inside the str class. Stuff like: constants (digits, uppercase characters), templates, formatters... More info here – juliomalegria Apr 4 '12 at 1:16
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You mean to do help('str'), not help('string'). str is a type, string is a module providing functions for working with strings.
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You are creating an instance of that object and then calling help on that instance.
So these all work:
Help grabs the docstring for that instance, and gives it back to you. When you create your own objects, you can put in useful docstrings or whatever you want.
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There's nothing wrong with what you see.
>>> help('string')
Will show you the string module documentation. And it looks like there's an upper function inside:
>>> import string
>>> string.upper('hello')
I'd say that this upper is the same that is called if you do:
>>> 'hello'.upper()
But I'm not sure.
Notice that a string '' is a str type not a string type. This means that you're probably looking for:
>>> help('str')
And here you'll see too the str.upper method.
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This is because'string' is a string. So is 'list'
To get a similar result for lists, try help([])
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No... it is perfectly valid to do help('list') to get help on a list – David Robinson Apr 3 '12 at 17:45
(Please try it) – David Robinson Apr 3 '12 at 17:46
Wow... I did not know that. x = 'list' and then help(x). That is some unexpected behavior! – veiset Apr 3 '12 at 17:53
-1 sorry but this is wrong. Try before answering – juliomalegria Apr 3 '12 at 18:00
_USER_: It looks like strings are the one kind of object you can't get help on by calling it on an instance – David Robinson Apr 3 '12 at 18:04
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Dr. Abel Stack was one of the scientists who worked for a top-secret U.S military project whose goal was to create a sophisticated weapons system capable of independant thought. They created an army of 51 experimental robotic soldiers capable of acting like humans. Stack took X-51, one of the the projects robots, home to test his radical theory--that a robot could only function like a human if it was raised like one. The other fifty models began displaying psychotic tendencies due to insufficient programming. The project was determined a failure and the order came down to destroy them. Each of the robots was equipped with an auto destruct device that could be triggered remotely. Stack attempted to remove the self-destruct mechanism from X-51, however it was triggered, killing him instantly.
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A metabolic cart is an electronic medical tool to measure the body's metabolism through the amount of heat produced when the body is at rest. The metabolic cart uses a process called calorimetry to get this measurement. The result can help tell medical workers more about a person's overall health condition.
The various components of the device, which include a computer system, monitor, and breathing tubes, are typically mounted together on mobile push cart, hence the name, so that it can easily be moved from one examining room to another. It uses two factors to calculate the final heat production. One is the intake of oxygen for the body. The other is the output of carbon dioxide. These two figures will provide the result for the metabolic cart, which is generally measured as REE, or Resting Energy Expenditure.
The REE for a patient can vary quite a bit. Different instances of measuring it may vary over the same day or over different days. The results can also change according to a range of conditions.
Between individuals, the REE changes with regard to the person's overall weight or height/weight ratio. Age and gender can also influence the result of this test. In addition, the chemistry of the body in response to various drugs will change the outcome.
The metabolic cart has many different uses within the medical community. This tool may be used in an Intensive care unit or emergency room in order to deduce more about the immediate condition of a patient who may not be able to respond to simple questions. The metabolic cart is also frequently used in sports medicine.
Sometimes, doctors using the metabolic cart will check for conditions like metabolic acidosis where the results of extreme energy expenditure can threaten the overall health of the body. Doctors might also check glucose levels in a greater examination of the blood. Exercise related conditions also affect the REE and the RQ, or Respiratory Quotient, that medical workers use as a common indicator.
The medical community also looks at the overall success of the test in maintaining accuracy. Reports show that the results of this tool can be more effective for people in certain conditions. For example, obesity or dire health conditions may affect the accuracy rate for finding out the actual REE.
Using a metabolic cart and looking at the body's metabolism helps medical staff understand an immediate medical condition better. Lots of vitamin deficiencies and other illnesses will have a dramatic effect on the metabolism. In addition to metabolic blood testing, this kind of tool is a useful part of what the modern medical community offers to patients.

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Ancient kings rendered yeoman service to propagate Buddhism - PM
By Ananda Kannangara
DN Monday Jun 16 2003
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Saturday commended the great religious service rendered by king Kavantissa to propagate Buddhism in the country and said that construction of the Tassamaharama Maha Dagaba by this great king is a fine example for his endeavours in spreading of this religion.
He made these observations at a ceremony held at Tissamaharamaya to coincide with the unveiling of the pinnacle at the renovated Tissamaharama Maha Dagaba on the Poson Full Moon poya day.
The Premier unveiled the pinnacle at the auspicious time of 9.10 am. amidst a large number of Buddhist clergy and devotees. Tissamaharama Viharaya chief incumbent Ven. Dr. Devalegama Dhammasena was present.
Thanking the Government of Myanmar for presenting an invaluable Chudamanikkaya to be placed on the pinnacle the Premier highlighted the importance of renovating this ancient dagaba without tarnishing its prestige glory.
"Our ancient dagabas not only helped to preserve Buddhism but also to spread the religion through Buddhist monks who are closely associated with these dagabas."
The Premier outlined the history of Theravada Buddhism which existed in our country from the time Buddhism was brought during the period of king Devanampiyatissa and said that several kings including Kavantissa and Dutugemunu immensely helped to preserve Buddhism.
"When king Kavantissa built Tissa Maha Viharaya in Ruhuna with the objective of preserving Buddhism his son King Dutugemunu constructed the Ruwanweliseya at Anuradhapura for the benefit of Buddhists in that region", he said.
Wickremesinghe also recalled that king Parakramabahu too fostered Buddhism in our country as well as countries such as Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Burma. He said even countries such as Japan and Korea highly accepted the Theravada Buddhism due to the tireless efforts made by these kings to spread Buddhism.
Delivering an anusasana Ven. Dr. Devalegama Dhammasena Thera said that renovating the ancient Tissa Maha Dagaba is a meritorious deed and thanked Mr. Yasasiri Kasturiaratchchi for providing financial assistance to carry out the entire renovation work and also the Cultural Affairs Ministry for providing all the assistance to fulfil this obligation. Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapakse valued the religious service rendered by king Kavantissa and said that the king developed the country in agriculture too.
"King Kavantisa also provided forces to his son Dutugemunu during the period king Dutugemunu fought with king Elara," he said.
Rajapaksa also requested the Government to take steps to renovate at least 262 ancient Buddhist temples located in the Northern and Eastern areas.
Education Minister Dr Karunasena Kodituwakku thanked former President J.R. Jayawardene for establishing the Central Cultural Fund which is helping the Government to carry out several projects including the renovation of ancient religious places.
Power and Energy Minister Karu Jayasooriya highlighted the importance of conducting this nature of religious ceremonies frequently as they immensely help to create a just society and a religious atmosphere in the country.
Deputy healthy Minister Sajith Premadasa said that renovating ancient dagabas and other religious places are needed to create a religious society and requested the public to take steps to renovate other religious places located elsewhere in the country.


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Dwarf brocket description
This small South American deer has, like other brocket deer, a rather stout body and slender limbs (4). Its coat is cinnamon to reddish-brown, with a buff-coloured throat, chest and inner legs, and the underside of the tail is white (5). The coat of young dwarf brocket deer is patterned with pale spots (5). Male brocket deer have small dagger-like antlers which, as they rarely measure more than 3.5 centimetres, barely protrude beyond the hairline (3).
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- Geist, V. (1999) Deer of the World: Their Evolution, Behaviour, and Ecology. Swan Hill Press, Shrewsbury, England.
- Nowak, R.M. (1999) Walker's Mammals of the World. The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London.
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Dwarf brocket biology
Fairly little is known about the biology of this shy and seldom seen deer (1) (4). It is believed to be a solitary species that is active during the day and night, and feeds on leaves and fruits in the lower layers of the forest (1).
Although almost nothing is known about reproduction in the dwarf brocket deer, it is likely to be similar to that of other brocket deer species. Brocket deer may reproduce year round, giving birth to a single calf after a long gestation period of 218 to 228 days. Young brocket deer mature rapidly, and females can breed by 11 months of age (3).Top
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Dwarf brocket habitat
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Dwarf brocket status
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Dwarf brocket threats
Like other brocket deer, this dwarf species is hunted for its meat (1) (4), as well as for medicinal products. The dwarf brocket deer also faces threats from habitat destruction, with over 40 percent of the dwarf brocket deer's habitat being degraded by small scale cattle ranching and agriculture, coca plantations, mining and road construction (1).Top
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Florida Bog Frog: Lithobates okaloosae
Genus/Species: Lithobates okaloosae Common Name: Florida bog frog
Federal Status: Not listed
FL Status:State Species of Special Concern
FNAI Ranks: G2/S2 (Imperiled)
IUCN Status: VU (Vulnerable)
The Florida bog frog is a small and rare amphibian that can reach a snout-to-vent length of 1.9 inches (4.9 centimeters) (Moler 1992). This species has a yellowish-brown upper body, a yellow belly, brown eardrum, yellow throat, a narrow ridge that runs laterally down the back, and smaller webbed feet with larger toes (Florida Natural Areas Inventory 2001).
The diet of the Florida bog frog primarily consists of small invertebrates (insects, etc).
There is limited information available about the reproduction of the Florida bog frog. Florida bog frogs breed between the months of April and August. During the breeding season, bog frogs will let out loud "chucks" to attract a mate. Their calls consist of 3-21 guttural (sound developed in the back of the oral cavity) calls continuously done at five notes per second. Females lay a few hundred eggs at a time on the surface of the water. Bog frog tadpoles metamorphose (transform) into frogs during the following spring months (University of Florida Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, n.d., Moler 1992, Bishop 2005).
Habitat and Distribution
Florida bog frogs inhabit many areas including shallow, acidic spring seeps; boggy overflows of larger seepage streams; sluggish bends in streams; and pond edges (Moler 1992, Bishop 2005). The dominant vegetation in these habitats includes black titi (Cliftonia monophylla), sweetbay magnolia (Magnolia virginiana), Atlantic white cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides), swamp titi (Cyrilla racemiflora), and blackgum (Nyssa sylvatica) (Moler 1992, Gorman 2009). The Florida bog frog is found in Walton, Okaloosa, and Santa Rosa counties in Florida (Moler 1992).
The main threat to the Florida bog frog is the degradation of its habitat. Bog frogs thrive best in early succession vegetation. Suppression of fire will cause woody plants (i.e. oak trees) to invade their bog habitat causing increased evapotranspiration (evaporation of water from land to the atmosphere), which reduces seepage from the soil. Invasive vegetation also degrades its habitat; with Chinese tallow trees (Sapium sebiferum) being the main invasive threat (Jackson 2004). Invasive vegetation degrades habitats by out-competing endemic species for resources needed for survival. Feral hogs also threaten the Florida bog frog's habitat by digging around in seepage areas which causes destruction to the habitat (Printiss and Hipes 1999). Road construction can increase silt and pollution in streams, and can also cause habitat fragmentation (Jackson 2004). Increased predation on Florida bog frogs is also a threat because their habitat is shared by the southern watersnake, cottonmouth, and wading birds. Other threats include pathogens and parasites, and the effects of global warming (increased sea level, drought, and intense storms).
Conservation and Management
The Florida bog frog is protected as a State Species of Special Concern by Florida's Endangered and Threatened Species Rule.
-Biological Status Review (BSR)
-Supplemental Information for the BSR
Other Informative Links
Florida Natural Areas Inventory
International Union for Conservation of Nature
University of Florida Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
Printable version of this page
Bishop, D. C. 2005. Ecology and distribution of the Florida bog frog and flatwoods salamander on Eglin Air Force Base. Ph.D. dissertation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg. 175 pp.
Florida Natural Areas Inventory. 2001. Field guide to the rare animals of Florida. _URL_
Gorman, T. A. 2009. Ecology of two rare amphibians of the Gulf Coastal Plain. Ph.D. dissertation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg. 178 pp.
Jackson, D. R. 2004. Florida bog frog: management guidelines for species at risk on Department of Defense Installations. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. p. 164.
Moler, P. E. 1992. Florida bog frog. Pages 30-33inP. E. Moler, editor. Rare and endangered biota of Florida, vol. III: Amphibians and Reptiles. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 291pp.
Printiss, D., and D. Hipes. 1999. Rare amphibian and reptile survey of Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Final Report, Florida Natural Areas Inventory, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 57 pp.
University of Florida Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation. (n.d.). Florida's Frogs. Retrieved April 15, 2011, from UF Wildlife-Johnson Lab: _URL_
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Hebrew at SOAS Language Centre
Hebrew has one of the longest historical traditions of any language, dating back to before the first millennium BCE. It has, for the entire course of its history, been inextricably linked with Judaism as the language of scripture and of Judaic culture.
Modern Hebrew, the variety offered by the SOAS Language Centre, is the outcome of a complex and turbulent past. It is linguistically based on the ancient language and continues to use the traditional 'square script' in printing alongside a cursive handwritten form.
Modern Hebrew is a linguistic innovation attributed to Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (_PHONE_) who sought to create a language with greater cultural prestige than Yiddish, the prevailing language of European Jewry. It is a unique example of successful language revival.
Often referred to as Ivrit, Modern Hebrew is in every sense a living language. It is spoken by in excess of six million people, fully half of whom are first language speakers, and has become a popular object of study for people, Jewish and non-Jewish alike, around the world.
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Modelling and simulation is just one of the fields that bioprinting has given a boost to. Researchers often create artificial test models to see how biological systems interact with each other, from cell tissue to medicines. Now, researchers in Vienna are taking modelling even further by reproducing the placental barrier to investigate prenatal functions, and especially, the permeability of its membrane when passing crucial substances from mother to child.
The researchers at TU Wien developed a femtosecond laser-based 3D printing process that produces hydrogel membranes directly within microfluidic chips. They then populated these membranes with placenta cells and studied the material exchanges as though they were between mother and child. It is opening up new insights into processes such as glucose exchange and barrier permeability.
"The transport of substances through biological membranes plays an important role in various areas of medicine", says Prof. Aleksandr Ovsianikov of the Institute of Materials Science and Technology at TU Wien. "These include the blood-brain barrier, ingestion of food in the stomach and intestine, and also the placenta."
Studying the Placental Barrier
Studying the placental barrier has a lot of applications in the world of biotech and medicine. Most crucially, it allows biologists to study the interactions in the womb in cases where the mother may have diseases. As a result, they can better predict the effects of various ailments such as diabetes and possibly develop means to counteract the effects or at least advise new mothers accordingly.
The chip, as can be seen above, consists of two areas: one represents the fetus, the other the mother. They used the 3D printing process to produce the membrane that divides them. As one would expect, their 3D printer can work with resolutions within the micrometre range.
"Based on the model of the natural placenta, we produce a surface with small, curved villi. The placenta cells can then colonise it, creating a barrier very similar to the natural placenta." Said Professor Ovsianikov.
Initial tests show that the artificial placenta behaves in a similar manner to its natural counterpart. It allows small molecules to pass through, while holding back the larger ones. In effect, it acts like a collander for potentially harmful molecules. The model can also allow researchers to investigate important aspects of nutrient transport from the mother to the fetus.
Microfluidics and chip-based organ research has opened up a lot of avnues for new research. It allows for medical professionals to measure the isolated features of organs and the interactions that alter their behavior. Researchers can also glean insight on disease patters and cure rates using these chips.
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Japanese - English dictionaries translate both as "misunderstanding" or "wrong guess." Upon consulting dictionary.goo.ne.jp, I found:
誤解 - When the facts and the true intentions of a partner's words and deeds are shown to differ. Seems like when a fact was thought to do one thing and it does another.
勘違い - When the facts differ with one's understanding of the situation. Seems to be when you think something looks some way and in fact it is another.
Both seem to be pretty similar and probably are just versions of the same. On Weblio both seem to have similar meanings and example. Is there any particular nuance or are they both basically the same, like 誤る and 間違える?
There is certainly some overlap, but there is a difference.
In general, 誤解 is to misunderstand, whereas 勘違い is often about misreading or misremembering. So 誤解 can sometimes be deeply entangled and hard to fix, while many 勘違い are simple "Oops!" type mistakes that are obvious in hindsight.
The "misremembering" kind of 勘違い is never called a 誤解. For example, if an invitation clearly said 9am but you misremembered it as 10am and showed up late, that is a 勘違い.
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Vector-host interactions in disease transmission.
Nuttall PA., Paesen GC., Lawrie CH., Wang H.
Tick-borne spirochetes include borreliae that cause Lyme disease and relapsing fever in humans. They survive in a triangle of parasitic interactions between the spirochete and its vertebrate host, the spirochete and its tick vector, and the host and the tick. Until recently, the significance of vector-host interactions in the transmission of arthropod-borne disease agents has been overlooked. However, there is now compelling evidence that the pharmacological activity of tick saliva can have a profound effect on pathogen transmission both from infected tick to uninfected host, and from infected host to uninfected tick. The salivary glands of ticks provide a pharmacopoeia of anti-inflammatory, anti-haemostatic and anti-immune molecules. These include bioactive proteins that control histamine, bind immunoglobulins, and inhibit the alternative complement cascade. The effect of these molecules is to provide a privileged site at the tick-host interface in which borreliae and other tick-borne pathogens are sheltered from the normal innate and acquired host immune mechanisms that combat infections. Understanding the key events at the tick vector-host interface, that promote spirochete infection and transmission, will provide a better understanding of the epidemiology and ecology of these important human pathogens.


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Stick Time: How Will You Choose to Listen?
The first of ACDA's seven divisional conferences takes place next week. For those fortunate enough to be able to attend, those events will provide a rich opportunity to listen, learn, and grow.
But here's a question: HOW will you choose to listen to the concerts? No, not "hear" the concerts... LISTEN. Remember, friends, hearing is passive, listening is active. We are professional conductors; part of why we get paid is to listen.
The possibilities for listening are limitless. Your listening may be influenced by countless factors, such as your training, the sort of choirs you work with, the musical challenges you are facing, or your own musical taste.
One wonders how fellow choral conductors at conferences (or any concert for that matter) listen. Are you listening just simply in the hunt for repertoire? Are you analyzing the overall sound with with thought of achieving a similar performance opportunity? Are you aiming toward improving some tightly defined area of your own choral product and are thus listening to that element in the performance?
Let's practice listening, shall we? The accompanying conference performance is a reasonable example of the sort of sounds you will hear at an ACDA event. Play the recording and LISTEN with one focus firmly in mind. It could be blend, vowel color & unification, tuning, articulation of text, the tone of a single section, releases, or any one of a hundred other things. What do you hear? What did you learn? How will it make your next rehearsal better?
Now... prepare to attend that conference. And LISTEN.


What is the smallest river in the whole world?
Which is longer Amazon or Nile?
Which is largest river on the earth?
 - Nile: 4,132 miles.
 - Amazon: 4,000 miles.
 - Yangtze: 3,915 miles.
Where is the D River?
The D River is a river in Lincoln City, Oregon, United States. The once-nameless river was at one time the "shortest river in the world" in the Guinness World Records at 440 feet (130 m).
READ Frequent question: What is the name of the biggest virus?
D River
- location Lincoln City
- coordinates 44°58′02″N 124°01′06″WCoordinates: 44°58′02″N 124°01′06″W
- elevation 7 ft (2.1 m)
Which river is short in length?
The Roe River runs from Giant Springs to the Missouri River—a distance of just 61 meters. For a while, the Guinness World Records recognized Roe as the world's shortest river.
Which longest river flows through Africa?
What is the second widest river in the world?
Amazon River: Second longest and the largest by water flow
Which country has most rivers?
Which is the longest river in Asia?
Who is the longest river in India?
Sl. No. River Length (km)
1. Indus 2,900
2. Brahmaputra 2,900
3. Ganga 2,510
4. Godavari 1,450
Which country has no river?
READ Quick Answer: Which country has the biggest warship in the world?
Which is the shortest river in India?
Arvari river is a small river in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It just have 90 km of length and it also consider as the smallest river of India and flows through the Arvari District of Rajasthan.
Which is the smallest river in Asia?
 - Tamborasi River, in Southeast Sulawesi in Indonesia, approximately 20 meters long.
 - Singapore River, 3.2 kilometers long.
Is the Mississippi River longer than the Nile?
The information in different sources is between parentheses. Nile River in Egypt.
List of rivers longer than 1000 km.
River Mississippi – Missouri
Length (km) 6,270 (6,420)
Length (miles) 3,896 (3,989)
Drainage area (km²) 2,980,000
Outflow Gulf of Mexico
What is the difference between longest and largest river?
The River Nile is the longest river in the world.
Officially, the shortesr river is the D River, Oregan, USA, which is just 37 metres long. The biggest river in the world, measured by the amount of water that flows down it, is the Amazon.
How many rivers are on earth?
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Newsletter: GL Announces Enhanced NetsurveyorWeb™
(Web based network surveillance system for TDM Networks)
Welcome to another September, 2012 issue of GL Communications' newsletter providing information and insight into our enhanced NetsurveyorWeb™
software - A web based network surveillance system. The NetSurveyorWeb™ is a web-based client that can connect to SS7 / ISDN / GSM / GPRS probes through a web server that facilitates display of call data records using a web interface.
The SS7 network is the backbone for fast and efficient signaling irrespective of network type - whether wireless, wired, or VoIP. Also, the inherent database features of SS7 make today's advanced intelligent features and services a reality. To keep pace with this evolution, GL has enhanced its SS7 monitoring and diagnostic system. Not only can it be used for billing verification, remote protocol analysis, and traffic engineering, but now it can also provide key performance indicators, failure analysis, and call trace capability, to name a few.
A network operator, service provider, or equipment manufacturer must have the means to perform the above surveillance tasks remotely, automatically, and non-intrusively. Fortunately, the network backbone contains a wealth of information that can be monitored and collected to support these activities.
GL's TDM Network Monitoring System
uses an open three tier distributed architecture driven by non-intrusive hardware probes, intelligent software, and a database engine. The architecture is shown above and consists of a scalable and flexible system, so the user can use it for multiple sites and various applications. T1/E1/T3/E3 Probes are deployed in the field to monitor various protocols and conditions, which are then collected at a central site into a database. Data records are stored into a centralized database (Oracle) using ODBC. With the use of web server, the remote / local monitoring can be accessed using simple web browser interface such as NetSurveyorWeb™
Key Benefits of NetsurveyorWeb™
- Ability to identify and analyze network trends using Key Performance Indicators (KPI's)
- Automatically alert users when "Calls of Interest" occur
- Flexible report generation
- Comprehensive analysis from overall network health to detailed protocol monitoring
- Access real-time data and historic remotely via browser based clients
- Set alarm conditions and generate alerts of different types like email alert, visual alert, audible alert, or even log into tables for future analysis
- Reports are displayed both in tabular and graphical formats; customize reports and graphs based on SQL queries
- Graphs provided for Call Completion Ratio, Link Name Message Counters, Time Duration Message Counters, and Disposition Count
- Real-time data displays information such as called number, calling number, source & destination IP address, RTP packet details, call flow graph, frame decodes and more
- Apply single or multiple filters for data analysis; use logical operators between filters
- Ability to export both graphical and tabular reports view as PDF
- Ability to export the call detail records displayed based on time filter or record index as PDF and CSV
- Call Detail Records, fraud detection and location, remote protocol analysis and troubleshooting, real-time signaling monitor, traffic optimization engineering, statistics
- Determine actual call signaling routes to verify network functionality under all situations including congestion and loss of SS7 nodes
- Revenue and billing verification, alarm monitoring, intrusive testing
- Quality of service measurements, call trace and recording
NetsurveyorWeb™ Graphical User Interface (GUI)
Call Detail Record (CDR) Display
The CDR Display provides visibility into each individual call. All KPI information is shown and each call can be investigated. Flexible filtering can help organize and identify "Calls of Interest".
The Frame Summary detail of any calling number includes the following columns – Frame Number, Time Stamp, Probe Name, Card, Linkname, Linkname Directional, TS1, TS2, CIC, SLS, OPC, DPC, ISUP Message Type, Calling Number, and Called Number.
Each Call is also depicted by message sequence, which gives ladder diagram of the call flow between the Called and the Calling numbers. This call flow graph allows easy verification of the status and the messages exchanged in a call. Users can highlight any messages in the ladder diagram and observe the corresponding detail decoded message details. A pictorial representation of Call Flow is shown below.
- Filter call records based on various filter parameters such as Probe name, Call ID, Link Names, Calling Number, Start Time, Duration, Timeslot, OPC, DPC, and so on
- Save, load / delete filter profiles
- Edit & update already existing custom filter profiles
- Apply one or more custom filters
- Apply logical operations between parameters of a filter or between multiple filters
Graphs and Reports
Reports view provides an overall summary of the captured packet traffic over the entire network with the help of useful graphs such as Call Completion Ratio, Link Name Message Counters, Time Duration Message Counters, and Disposition Count. Reports are also available in a tabular format for each of the plotted graph. The reports can be displayed for filtered data by using the Date/Time Filter options.
Essential Components of Network Monitoring System
- T1 / E1 Hardware probes: Gathers signaling details non-intrusively and forwards call detail records (CDRs) and statistics to a central database. T1 / E1 Probes non-intrusively monitor physical lines of the network. The probes connect via TCP/IP to ODBC compliant real-time database loader. Only precise and filtered data (user selectable) is collected into the centralized database.
- Central database: Stores the data collected by the probes. Records are stored into a relational database (Oracle) using ODBC. Interface between the probes and the database is well defined and is called "Listener". Listener is located at the central site and is responsible for listening to the streaming data from probes and entering into the database (usually Oracle). Listener is modifiable and supportable with MySQL.
- WebServer: Provides real-time and historic views of the data through various 'browser based' clients
- NetsurveyorWeb™: The NetSurveyor™ is a user-friendly web-based client which accesses the results provided by the GL's SS7 and ISDN signaling probes through a web server. As depicted in the screenshot below, one can view real-time and historic data including call ID, probe name/location, call disposition, called and called number, and call duration.
- Modular and distributed architecture is capable of theoretically 'infinite capacity'.
For more information on the product feature, please visit NetsurveyorWeb™ web page.
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The Boxer Chow is a crossbreed between the Boxer and the Chow Chow developed in the year 2000 in the USA. They are of a new kind, so little is known about its history, but one can identify their characteristics through their parents.
Temperament and Personality
The breed acquires the characteristics of its parents of being a guard dog and an excellent family pet. They are known for their quiet, graceful, dignified, loyal and comical behavior, although they don't like much cuddling. They are affectionate and love to play with kids, but are cautious of strangers. However, introduction to newcomer's can keep them away from getting aggressive.


RT Journal A1 Pettker CM, Funai EF T1 GEtting it right when things go wrong JF JAMA JO JAMA YR 2010 FD March 10 VO 303 IS 10 SP 977 OP 978 DO 10.1001/jama.2010.256 UL _URL_ AB The landmark report To Err Is Human was a call to improve the quality of US health care.1 The title refers to a quote from Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism (1711): "To err is human, to forgive divine." The reference is convenient but not entirely appropriate, because forgiveness suggests the commission of sin, which is inextricably linked to fault and blame. A foundation of the patient safety movement is nonjudgmental recognition of the ubiquity of human and system error. By understanding that error—particularly human error—is inevitable but preventable, patient safety efforts focus on improving systems, creating fail-safe mechanisms that intercept error before the bedside, and implementing measures that mitigate harm when an error involves the patient.


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Is There an Uncrossable Chasm Between Research and the Classroom?
Part 1: A Tale of Two Educational Technologies
There has always been a chasm between what educational researchers do in their labs and what educational practitioners do in their classrooms. There is no well-defined path for taking an idea from research and putting it into practice. Indeed, it's not clear that there is any path at all.
Geoffrey Moore, in his now-classic book on high tech marketing, Crossing the Chasm, and in subsequent books, does try to argue that there are ways to "cross the chasm" — to go from innovation to adopted product. Profit drives Moore's strategies. Capitalism drives the crossing of the chasm. While Moore's suggestions for crossing the chasm are clearly useful and insightful, his suggestions only go so far, seeing as how university research is, for better or worse, typically not driven by the profit motive.
Moving right along, two pieces of educational technology have crossed the chasm from lab to classroom. One even thrives to this day!
Let's start with Logo. Did we hear you say,"What's Logo?" Yes, it is a graphic that a company uses to hawk its products, but no, that's not "our" Logo.
In 1967, the prehistoric days of educational technology, Seymour Papert at MIT and Wally Feurzig at BBN had an idea: If kids were to learn to program computers, then 1) they would have an amazing skill and 2) by learning programming, they would also learn problem-solving skills and gain a deeper understanding of mathematical concepts.
There are lots of fun videos of Seymour and friends working with kids as they programmed a robotic turtle — an 18-inch, circular, domed object on wheels connected by a wire to a computer. Children typed commands on the computer and the turtle obeyed the commands (pendown, forward 50, right 90, forward 50) that would, for example, cause the turtle to draw a right angle on the sheet of paper over which the turtle was moving.
Logo did catch on — for a while. Teachers, hungry to use technology for more than flash cards, jumped in and used Logo in their classrooms. Publishers jumped in and produced books of curriculum that employed Logo. Researchers jumped in and tried to substantiate the claims for Logo's impact. Amazingly enough, Logo crossed the chasm: It went from a laboratory innovation to worldwide classroom adoption!
In hindsight, Logo crossed the chasm because of classroom teachers talking to each other at meetings and conferences, sharing their experiences, running workshops for other teachers. These methods of social networking were robust enough to support Logo crossing a chasm — but not THE chasm. The availability of solid Logo implementations, the availability of computers in the classroom and availability of Logo curriculum books were key enablers too.
But, for more reasons than there are atoms in the universe, Logo hasn't been included in the curriculum for science nor for math. And thus, Logo has remained a fringe activity. (Okay, okay: Lego Mindstorms lovers hold forth and tell us that we are wrong in calling Logo a fringe activity.)
In contrast to Logo, the graphing calculator has become incorporated in the math curriculum and is with us today. It is specifically mentioned in the Common Core State Standards, and the SAT and the ACT websites have current policies on using graphing calculators.
And, as with Logo, it was university types who were the instigators: "Professors Bert Waits and Franklin Demana of the mathematics department at Ohio State University led the early use of handheld calculators in the classroom in the mid 70s and then graphing calculators in the mid 80s…,"
But as as not the case with Logo, one company, Texas Instruments, realized it had a lot to gain by promoting its calculators in K-12. Indeed: "[TI employees] actually went out and found educators who were really trying to push the boundaries …. Texas Instruments … established a close partnership with the educational community... [involving] educators in the design and production of their calculators."
Now, teachers were also critically important to the adoption and scaling of the graphing calculator. "Teachers using the product even created a newsletter, which TI actively supported, on how to integrate the calculator into the classroom, helping to spread the word and appeal of the gadget."
But in the end, it was the close collaboration between TI and the math educator community that drove the successful adoption of the graphing calculator in K-12 math education in the U.S. (On PARCC's website, Texas Instruments is referred to by name!)
While both Logo and the graphing calculator had roots in the university, and teachers played major, active roles in promoting both technologies, we see two differences between Logo and the graphing calculator: 1) in math education, as it has been constituted, there was/is a clear need for the graphing calculator; and 2) a company played a hugely critical role in promoting its technology.
So here are can draw two lessons for university researchers who are trying to promote their educational technology:
- Accept the existing curriculum and support it with your technology. Logo tried to change math curriculum. Papert's model of math instruction was one of inquiry and discovery where students learn math by doing math.
- Find a company with significant resources that stands to gain from using their existing technology. Waits and Demana hadn't invented any new educational technology; they were exploiting existing technology for educational purposes.
But, ahem: Waits and Demana are the exception, not the rule. University researchers are trying to change the nature of knowing through the use of technology. University researchers, by and large, are not supporting the existing curriculum, they are supporting the "new" curriculum. OMG!
In Part #2 of this post, we will discuss strategies for how university researchers might still cross the chasm with their efforts!
P.S. Interestingly, TI supported early versions of Logo on one of its early personal computers (TI 99/4). What if TI had thrown its wholehearted support behind Logo instead of the graphing calculator?
Cathie Norris is a Regents Professor and Chair in the Department of Learning Technologies, School of Information at the University of North Texas. Visit her site at _URL_.
Elliot Soloway is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in the Department of CSE, College of Engineering, at the University of Michigan. Visit his site at _URL_.
Find more from Elliot Soloway and Cathie Norris at their Reinventing Curriculum blog at _URL_.


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Title: Coupled bending, longitudinal and torsional vibrations of a cracked rotor
Authors: Darpe, A K
Gupta, K
Chawla, A
Keywords: longitudinal
torsional vibrations
coupled vibrations
coupled torsional–longitudinal vibrations
a cracked rotor
coupled torsional–bending vibrations with a
a cracked rotor
Issue Date: 2004
Citation: Journal of Sound and Vibration, 269(1-2), 33-60
Abstract: The coupling between longitudinal, lateral and torsional vibrations is studied together for a rotating cracked shaft. These coupling mechanisms have been studied here with a response-dependent non-linear breathing crack model. Most of the earlier work on coupled vibrations due to crack has been either on stationary shaft or on rotating shaft with open crack model. The stiffness matrix of a Timoshenko beam element is modified to account for the effect of a crack and all the six degrees of freedom per node are considered. Coupled torsional–longitudinal vibrations for a cracked rotor that has not been reported earlier and coupled torsional–bending vibrations with a breathing crack model have been studied. An attempt has been made to reveal crack specific signatures by using additional external excitations. Since all the couplings are accounted, the excitation in one mode leads to an interaction between all the modes. This, coupled with the rotational effect of a cracked rotor and the non-linearities due to a breathing crack model introduces sum and difference frequencies in the response of cracked rotor. The co-existence of frequencies of other modes in the frequency spectra of a particular mode and the presence of sum and difference frequencies around the excitation frequencies and its harmonics could be useful indicators for crack diagnosis.
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Thursday, August 4, 2016
Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 3644: Eric Trump, Humayun Khan, Sexual Harassment and Patronizing Body Language (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
Yesterday, Eric Trump - the son of the Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, was a guest on CBS This Morning where he discussed his father's escalating fight with the parents of U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, who died a hero on the battlefield in 2004. Eric Trump also spoke of his own father, his sister Ivanka - and his thoughts on sexual harassment in the workplace - for which he received tremendous criticism far and wide.
During this interview, Eric Trump repeated used a body language display known as a "Pseudo-prayer" where the hands are placed together in a praying configuration. With the exception of a religious context, begging and a small number of cultural settings, the use of this gesture indicates arrogance and a condescending emotional tone.
If you see the pseudo-prayer (outside the above exceptions), you can be almost 100% certain that that person displaying it believes that they're in the right and believes the person(s) with whom they're speaking/interacting is wrong. This body language is significantly more commonly displayed by the wealthy, powerful... and narcissistic - thus those who are more likely to abuse their power (and harass).
The additional dynamic of an up-and-down chopping motion amplifies the already patronizing emotional tone of the pseudo-prayer.
When the pseudo-prayer is being used, the words often being simultaneously expressed may appear to attempting to build rapport and understanding (e.g., during a negotiation or in the sales process) - but in such settings, the person rarely changes their position. Take caution - for when kind verbal language, appearing to be "reasonable" is used in conjunction with the pseudo-prayer - it's the body language which is telling their true thoughts and emotions. In short, the Pseudo-prayer is a big red flag.
See also:
Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 3625: Donald Trump Introduces Mike Pence as his "1st Choice" VP Pick (Not!)
Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 3385: Adele, "Hello" and SNL - Body Language Tell


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Delegates (C# Programming Guide)
A delegate is a type that defines a method signature. When you instantiate a delegate, you can associate its instance with any method with a compatible signature. You can invoke (or call) the method through the delegate instance.
Delegates are used to pass methods as arguments to other methods. Event handlers are nothing more than methods that are invoked through delegates. You create a custom method, and a class such as a windows control can call your method when a certain event occurs. The following example shows a delegate declaration:
Any method from any accessible class or struct that matches the delegate's signature, which consists of the return type and parameters, can be assigned to the delegate. The method can be either static or an instance method. This makes it possible to programmatically change method calls, and also plug new code into existing classes. As long as you know the signature of the delegate, you can assign your own method.
In the context of method overloading, the signature of a method does not include the return value. But in the context of delegates, the signature does include the return value. In other words, a method must have the same return value as the delegate.
This ability to refer to a method as a parameter makes delegates ideal for defining callback methods. For example, a reference to a method that compares two objects could be passed as an argument to a sort algorithm. Because the comparison code is in a separate procedure, the sort algorithm can be written in a more general way.
Delegates have the following properties:
Delegates are like C++ function pointers but are type safe.
Delegates allow methods to be passed as parameters.
Delegates can be used to define callback methods.
Delegates can be chained together; for example, multiple methods can be called on a single event.
Methods do not have to match the delegate signature exactly. For more information, see Using Variance in Delegates (C# and Visual Basic).
C# version 2.0 introduced the concept of Anonymous Methods, which allow code blocks to be passed as parameters in place of a separately defined method. C# 3.0 introduced lambda expressions as a more concise way of writing inline code blocks. Both anonymous methods and lambda expressions (in certain contexts) are compiled to delegate types. Together, these features are now known as anonymous functions. For more information about lambda expressions, see Anonymous Functions (C# Programming Guide).
For more information, see the C# Language Specification. The language specification is the definitive source for C# syntax and usage.


Rotisserie Grilling Sample: Charcoal vs Gas
It's I wrote a Cookbook week on DadCooksDinner!
To whet your whistle, here's a sample section from Rotisserie Grilling. I let my inner food geek run wild, and explore the science of rotisserie. Enjoy!
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Sidebar: Charcoal vs. Gas
The cheapest charcoal grill browns meat better than most gas grills. Why?
Warning! Science content ahead. If you want to skip it, the summary is: Meat browns as meat juices are exposed to heat and evaporate. Dry heat browns better than wet heat because the extra water has to evaporate before the meat will start to brown. Burning charcoal is dry heat. Burning gas releases water, making wet heat. Therefore, charcoal browns meat better than gas.
Starting science content. My wife, the high school chemistry teacher, made sure I have the science correct. She says you better not skip ahead. There will be a quiz.
Why is dry heat better than wet heat? The Maillard reaction.
The Maillard reaction occurs when sugars and amino acids are exposed to heat in a dry environment; the result is browning and the release of water. "The result is browning" is shorthand for complex chemical interactions that scientists are still figuring out. The sugars caramelize, interact with the amino acids, and produce all sorts of flavor compounds. Those flavor compounds are what make the browned crust on a roast so delicious.
Meat is full of protein fibers and meat juices. When meat is cooked, the heat tightens the muscle fibers, and they squeeze juices out of the meat. The meat juices are full of sugars and amino acids, and when they reach the surface of the meat, they are exposed to heat. That starts the Maillard reaction. As the juices brown, they release more water. That extra water slows down the Maillard reaction until it evaporates, and browning starts again.
Water prevents browning. Meat needs to be cooked at 350°F or higher to evaporate the water fast enough to keep the browning reaction going, and higher temperatures are better. Boiled meat is gray, without any browning at all, because it is covered with water. This is why recipes recommend patting food dry before cooking; any extra water slows down browning until it evaporates.
Now we get to charcoal versus gas. (Finally!)
Charcoal is wood heated in an oxygen free environment. When all the water in the wood has evaporated, you are left with carbon. When carbon is burned, it produces heat, carbon dioxide, and a little carbon monoxide. That's our dry heat – no water.
Gas is either propane or methane (also known as natural gas). When gas is burned, it produces heat, carbon dioxide, and water. That water is the problem – it needs to be evaporated by the heat of the grill before the Maillard reaction will start.
Now for the good news: a rotisserie helps browning, whether you use gas or charcoal. Escaping juices roll around the surface of the meat, spreading the sugars and amino acids so the Maillard reaction can do its thing. Yes, a charcoal grill with a rotisserie browns better than a gas grill with a rotisserie. But, a gas grill with a rotisserie browns about as well as a charcoal grill without a rotisserie. If you have a gas grill, don't give up – the rotisserie will still help.
End Science content. You can keep reading now.
If you want a gas grill that browns as well as a charcoal grill, you need more heat, to help evaporate the extra water. This means more burners, especially infrared burners, which do a great job of generating heat. But that makes the grill more expensive. It's tough to beat a cheap kettle grill filled with charcoal.
Don't get me wrong; I use both charcoal and gas grills. In a perfect world, I would use charcoal all the time. However…gas grills are so convenient. They're easy to light and provide constant, even heat as long as you don't run out of gas. There are no worries about charcoal burning down and cooling off; there's no need to add extra coals every hour. In the middle of February, when every trip to the grill involves shoveling snow, I love that extra convenience.
—End of excerpt—
The book:
Rotisserie Grilling by Mike Vrobel
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Building the Coherence Incubator Projects
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Coherence Incubator projects are shipped both as a pre-compiled jar as well as java source. The compilation and run-time of the Incubator projects only depends on a JDK version greater than 1.5 and Coherence greater than 3.5.3.
While you may use your preferred way of building the source, we have an example below showing how to build the source using Apache Ant.
Downloading Installing and Configuring Apache Ant
 1. Download the current version of Apache Ant (typically from here:
 2. Uncompress the downloaded file into a suitable folder (let's call this /your/path/to/ant)
 3. Set an environment variable called ANT_HOME in your system environment variables.
 1. For *nix bash-based shells (like Apple OS X), perform the following;
 2. Open ~/.profile with your favorite text editor.
 3. Add the following to the top of the file: export ANT_HOME=/your/path/to/ant
 4. Edit (or define) a PATH export to be as follows:
 5. export PATH=$ANT_HOME/bin:$PATH
 6. Save your.profile and exit your editor
 7. Execute the following shell command (in a Terminal Window) to re-read your new profile: source ~/.profile
 8. From a shell prompt (in a Terminal Window) you should now be able to execute the following command (from any path) to determine the version of Ant you have just installed: ant -version
Configuring Eclipse to use the Apache Ant installation
If you're using Eclipse (or another IDE) it's recommended that you upgrade it to use the latest Apache Ant release you've just installed. Here's how:
 1. Open Eclipse
 2. Open the Preference Window
 1. On *nix-based releases of Eclipse (including Apple OS X), choose the Eclipse > Preferences menu.
 2. On Windows-based releases of Eclipse, choose the Window > Preferences menu.
 3. Choose Ant > Runtime
 4. Press the "Ant Home..." button
 5. Choose the location of /your/path/to/ant
Building the Incubator projects
Below you will find an ant script that you can use to build the Incubator projects.
 1. Download and unzip the
 2. In the directory where you unzipped, create a directory named "dependencies"
 3. Copy coherence.jar from your Coherence application to the dependencies library
 4. Copy the below ant script to an ant file: custom-build.xml
 5. On the command line, run ant -f custom-build.xml
 6. In the newly created.build directory you will find the compiled jar
If the Incubator project depends on another Incubator project, you will have to build that first, and copy that jar to the dependencies directory. See Home for a view of all dependencies.
In the ant script below, the jar will be named after the project name, please rename the to get a differently named jar.
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Collect and organize data using observations, surveys, and experiments 0306.5.1
Links verified on 4/9/2013
- Coin Flip - this coin flipper builds a column graph one flip at time - let your students see the progression as data is generated and collected [works best in Internet Explorer]
- Coin Toss - toss enough coins to make a prediction about probability (maximum number of tosses 1000, but you can keep tossing to get a larger data set)
- Data Picking - Students collect data, enter tally marks or numbers and then select which graph is appropriate.
- Every Breath You Take - Students estimate, experiment, and display real-life data. Students use the number of breaths taken during a specified time period for this exploration.
- Ken White's Coin Flipping Page - select the type of coin to flip and then enter a number of times to flip
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"Industrial production is for people, so is the working environment. As a result, we hope that through meticulous design, people can enjoy the environment much pleasantly in their work" said Joshua Jih Pan, FAIA.
Taiwan Vernacular Architecture, one of the series of Phoenix Satellite Television(PST), secondly visited "Advantech Linkou Smart Campus". This project adopts "Smart Earth Facilitator" as new vision. It integrates the idea of delicate human technology into the corporate's spirit through the interweaving configuration and layout.
Through PST's interpretation, this program conveys Taiwan's diverse design capabilities, incorporating the elements of human-culture, arts, science fiction films into technological atmosphere, and demonstrating intelligent integrated thinking.


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Human Patient Simulator
The HPS is CAE Healthcare's top-of-the-line, fully automatic, high-fidelity patient simulator specifically designed for training in anesthesia, respiratory and critical care.
What differentiates the HPS from any other simulator available on the market today, is it's high level of automatic and enhanced features. The HPS is the only patient simulator with the ability to provide respiratory gas exchange, anesthesia delivery, and patient monitoring with real physiological clinical monitors.
Key Features:
 1. Pupils that automatically dilate and constrict in response to light
 2. Thumb twitch in response to a peripheral nerve stimulator
 3. Automatic recognition and response to administered drugs and drug dosages
 4. Variable lung compliance and airways resistance
 5. Automatic response to needle decompression of a tension pneumothorax, chest tube drainage and pericardiocentesis
 6. Automatic control of urine output
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For the genus of fungi, see Gibellina (fungus).
Comune di Gibellina
Coat of arms of Gibellina
Coat of arms
Gibellina is located in Italy
Location of Gibellina in Italy
Coordinates: 37°49′N 12°52′E / 37.817°N 12.867°E / 37.817; 12.867
Country Italy
Region Sicily
Province Trapani (TP)
 - Mayor Arch Rosario Fontana (since 02/06/2010)
 - Total 45 km2 (17 sq mi)
Elevation 233 m (764 ft)
Population (2010)
 - Total 4,298
 - Density 96/km2 (250/sq mi)
Demonym Gibellinesi
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 - Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code 91024
Dialing code 0924
Patron saint Saint Roch
Saint day 16 August
Website Official website
Gibellina (Sicilian: Gibbiddina) is a small city and comune in the mountains of central Sicily, Italy in the Province of Trapani. It was destroyed by the 1968 Belice earthquake.[1]
The new city, Gibellina Nuova, was rebuilt some 11 kilometres (7 mi) distant from the old one. The new city was designed by many of the most prominent artists and architects in Italy, but done in a piecemeal fashion so that the parts of the new city bear little relation to one another or to the indigenous architecture of Sicily.
Ruderi di Gibellina (as the ruins of the city are now referred to) remained just as it was after the earthquake, practically a ghost-town. Artist Alberto Burri covered the entirety of the ruins in concrete, while preserving the shape of the buildings and the streetscape. Additionally, Italian sculptor Pietro Consagra and Senator Ludovico Corrao formed an open air museum with a Consagra sculpture "Porta del Belice" or "Door to Belice" at the entrance. Consagra expressed a wish to be buried at Gibellina on his deathbed in July 2005.[2]
Ruderi di Gibellina by Gabriel Valentini


.To demonstrate this, paint a narrow line the length of the shaft and apply a twisting load to the tip per the diagram of the article. You will see where the twist occurs. It will be pronounced at the tip and diminish very quickly as you move toward the butt end. At one foot or so toward the butt the twist will be negligible.I would agree that the longitudinal plies resist flex. The 0deg. plies resist torque only. The 45deg. plies resist fractionally both torque and flex depending on their angles. A 45deg. angle ply splits the resistance to torque and flex equally. The advantage of the filament wound shafts is that the angle of the filament can be changed as it proceeds from the butt to the tip so that the designer has some limited flexibility in addressing torque and stiffness.
 11. Mike Yee says:
 Jeff, what is your opinion on shaft "spining"? I've had my Driver's SST Pured,… and woods "spined" at 9 O'clock position. Very noticable difference in distance and consistency using both technologies.
 I've heard that the 3 O'clock position offers more accuracy/consistanc but less distance than the 9 O'clock position. And that either the 12 or 6 O'clock positions help prevent "toe drop" or bend during the downswing.
 Any thoughts? I searched the site for previous posts on spining, but couldn't find anything.
 12. Jeff Summitt says:
 You may have to attribute the distance and consistency to finding the right head and shaft combination. It may have nothing to do to the position the shaft was placed. The only way to know is if you have the shaft carefully extracted and reassembled in a haphazard position other than what you had it in (like 45 degrees one way or another)and then you can see if Puring did anything in performance.
 13. […] are identical to one another except for the torque, with the Beta a degree higher according to how we measure torque (which is always a higher reading than the manufactures publish as we measure a greater beam […]
 14. Don Thompson says:
 I have had much conversation about understanding torque and much has been with Charlie Blume. You don't mention anything about torque also being relevent to trajectory. It's hard to understand or explain as Charlie puts it but torque also can affect flight trajectory (height). Do you agree or disagree with Charlie? Don
 15. Jeff Summitt says:
 It is complex to explain because you usually can't change torque independently without changing other parameters such as materials and tip stiffness to name a few. The closest shaft to maintaining all other parameters is the UST VTS line. But yes, I have seen subtle changes to ball flight which could be explained by differing spin rate, dynamic loft (tip stiffness) or face attitude (open or closed) upon impact. Not only that, but you change the feel of the shaft. When you do that in the hands of a human, that can also change how they swing the club.
 16. Jack says:
 I realize if i tip trim a say a shaft of 5 iron from 38.5″, then tip it.5″ more I'll gradually have s firmer shaft.
 What will occur to Apollo Acculite 95 Steel flex if I butt trim.5″?
 What will occur to Apollo Acculite 95 Steel flex if I butt trim 1″?
 Will the shaft become stiffer or softer, and how much?
 I realize the swing weight will change.
 I can adjust that if necessary.
 Is there anything I should be aware of if I try this (butt trimming)?
 Thanks for your input.
 17. Jeff Summitt says:
 I am going to assume you don't change the tip trimming. The shaft (and club) will register a higher cpm indicating a stiffer shaft if you don't alter head weight. This is due to a lower swingweight. At 1/2″ shorter it will be 3 swingweights higher and subsequently 3 cpm. At 1″, it would be 6 swingweight points and 6 cpm higher. However, if you were to use a 7g heavier head for the 1/2″ shorter, then that will decrease the cpm back down 3 points. Because you have a shorter club at the same frequency, it makes it a more flexible club.
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text: CAPTIVE IN LIBYA - A REPORTER'S STORY A year ago, as the uprising in Libya got underway, Clare Morgana Gillis was covering the fighting and was captured by the Qaddafi forces. She was held captive with two colleagues and a fourth was killed. During the time, she was accused of being a spy and eventually was brought to Saadi Qaddafi, the third son of the then leader of Libya. Read Clare's piece on her detention here. Read Clare's blog. A DAGUERREOTYPE CAPTURES ONE DAY IN 1848 Get out your magnifying class for this conversation with a librarian from the Cincinnati Public Library. She tells the story of a daguerreotype of the Cincinnati river front that was examined, blown up and conserved by the George Eastman House. Once the work was done, details were revealed that no one could have imagined, giving us a glimpse of a moment in life from 1848. Explore the image here. Learn more about the project. Music in this episode: 1850 by Claude Bourbon; Haymaker's Hoedown from Ashokan Farewell / Beautiful Dreamer - Songs of Stephen Foster.


text: This peg literacy resource is aimed at pupils in middle classes or SEN pupils. It is made up of cloze sentences with one word missing. The focus of the sentences is learning antonyms (words of opposites meaning). The pack contains 20 cards – on the left hand side of each card is a sentence with a word missing. The pupil has to use a clothes peg to identify on the right hand side of the card which word is the opposite of the underlined word in red in the sentence.


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Soy supplements do not stave off breast cancer, study shows
Feb 6, 2012
A new study conducted by researchers at Northwestern University found that soy supplements do not protect women against breast cancer.
The researchers studied 98 women, and randomly assigned them soy supplements and a placebo. After six months, the findings suggested no real difference among the two groups.
"This was a small finding, but one that should suggest caution," said lead researchers Dr. Seema Khan. "Simply put, supplements are not food. Although soy-based foods appear to have a protective effect, we are not seeing the same effect with supplementation using isolated components of soy, so the continued testing of soy supplements is likely not worthwhile."
However, there were a lot of uncertainties in the study, which shows that there needs to be more research done before anything concrete is set.
According to the American Cancer Society, breast cancer is the second most common form of cancer among women, following skin cancer. The disease affects one in eight women in the U.S. at some point during her lifetime. Women are advised to schedule annual mammograms to check for breast cancer after they turn 40.


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Zinc deficiency may play a role in high blood pressure
Link found between zinc, blood pressure and kidney sodium transporter in mouse study
American Physiological Society
Rockville, Md. (January 24, 2019)--Lower-than-normal zinc levels may contribute to high blood pressure (hypertension) by altering the way the kidneys handle sodium. The study is published ahead of print in the American Journal of Physiology--Renal Physiology.
Zinc deficiency is common in people with chronic illnesses such as type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease. People with low zinc levels are also at a higher risk for hypertension. The way in which the kidneys either excrete sodium into the urine or reabsorb it into the body--specifically through a pathway called the sodium chloride cotransporter (NCC)--also plays a role in blood pressure control. Less sodium in the urine typically corresponds with higher blood pressure. Recent research has suggested that zinc may help regulate proteins that in turn regulate the NCC, but a direct link between zinc-deficiency-induced hypertension has not been examined.
Researchers compared male mice with zinc deficiency to healthy controls with normal zinc levels. The zinc-deficient mice developed high blood pressure and a corresponding decrease in urinary sodium excretion. The control group did not experience the same changes. A small group of the zinc-deficient mice were fed a zinc-rich diet partway through the study. Once the animals' zinc reached adequate levels, blood pressure began to drop and urinary sodium levels increased. "These significant findings demonstrate that enhanced renal [sodium] reabsorption plays a critical role in [zinc-deficiency]-induced hypertension," the research team wrote.
"Understanding the specific mechanisms by which [zinc deficiency] contributes to [blood pressure] dysregulation may have an important effect on the treatment of hypertension in chronic disease settings," the researchers added.
Read the full article, "Zinc deficiency induces hypertension by promoting renal sodium reabsorption," published ahead of print in the American Journal of Physiology--Renal Physiology.


What Good Is A Loss?
Written By: Suzanne Cody CPA, CGA
As a business owner, you may face a loss from time to time but this does not mean that all is lost! There are tax planning advantages which can help ease the stress that a year with poor financial performance brings.
For tax purposes there are different types of losses. Losses that occur from expanding your operations, the cost of starting up, or as a result of poor economic times are referred to as non-capital losses. A capital loss occurs when you sell an asset (capital property) at less than its cost, commonly known for tax purposes as its adjusted cost base. It is important to note that the tax application of a non-capital loss is different from a capital loss. Capital losses can only be used to reduce capital gains but non-capital losses are more flexible because they can be used to reduce income from other sources such as employment, RRSP and rental income.
Losses are not all bad. Non-capital losses occurring in your business can be used to offset other income. If the losses exceed your income from other sources, you have a non-capital loss which carried back up to three years to recover taxes paid in more prosperous years or carried forward to future years when you have taxable income. The carry forward period depends on the taxation year it occurred in:
 - For taxation years ended March 22, 2004 or earlier: 7 years
 - For taxation years ended after March 22, 2004: 10 years
 - For taxation years ended after 2005: 20 years, except ABIL
For the most part, non-capital losses can be used to reduce any type of income. The timing of when to use the loss is optional but you should be aware that there are specific advantages to carrying the loss back to a previous tax year or saving it for a future period. Some of the things to consider are:
 - Were tax rates higher in previous years than they are expected to be in the future?
 - Do you expect to not report any profit in the coming years?
 - Will you be amalgamating or selling your business in the near term?
 - Do you want to carry the non-capital loss back to generate cash flow?
 - Is there a portion of the loss about to expire?
It's best to consult with your accountant to determine the optimal time to use it.


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The Prioress attempts to be dainty and well-bred, and Chaucer makes fun of her by describing how she speaks French with a terrible accent and sings the liturgy straight through her nose. Although the Prioress should be devoted to Christ, she is more concerned with worldly matters: her clothes are richly bedecked, and her coral rosary that says "Love conquers all" serves as a decorative piece rather than a religious article.
The Prioress Quotes in The Canterbury Tales
The The Canterbury Tales quotes below are all either spoken by The Prioress or refer to The Prioress. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:).
The General Prologue Quotes
The Prioress Character Timeline in The Canterbury Tales
The timeline below shows where the character The Prioress appears in The Canterbury Tales. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
The General Prologue
The Nun's Priest's Prologue