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Archive for January 20, 2009
In The Flow of Time and Money Dr. Lloyd Watts aims to help his readers create a full and prosperous life. The book is equally devoted to discussing wealth and fulfillment and although it contains a lot of common and familiar advice I like that the book focuses on both of these themes.
Dr. Watts begins his book by comparing the flow of middle class money to a leaky bucket, in which money is poured in through employment income and out via taxes, purchases and expenses. According to the author individuals typically spend money on triggered expenses, expenses that trigger additional expenses. For example, a car requires gas, insurance and maintenance costs in addition to the initial purchase price. As income rises individuals tend to buy more and more items that trigger more and more expenses. These items quickly cause the monetary bucket to drain.
In an effort to stop the bucket from leaking the author suggests paying yourself first, by putting money aside in an investment account. As money accumulates in the investment account the author encourages purchasing assets that create passive income. The list includes stocks, bonds, real estate, intellectual property and businesses, which provide passive income in the form of dividends, interest, rent, royalties and business cash flow.
This passive income is first added to the bucket as a small trickle, but as passive income grows it can produce more income than that earned through traditional employment. The goal is to reach financial independence by producing enough passive income to cover all living expenses.
Dr. Watts describes a similar leaky bucket analogy in his discussion of time. In this case the bucket is filled with a weekly allotment of hours and a hole in the bottom of the bucket leaks out time in the form of sleeping, eating, and working. Some of these time expenses behave in much the same way that the triggered monetary expenses behave. For example, you may spend time traveling and commuting in addition to the time spent working at your job. In an effort to save time Watts suggests making investments in life assets. These include education, relationships, health and organization, which save time and increase effectiveness.
He bridges the gap between time and money, by suggesting that financial independence will allow you to spend time in whatever ways fulfill you. To reach this goal you must attain a larger net worth, invest beyond your home (because you still need a place to live), lower expenses and produce a large amount of passive income.
According to Watts a number of financial traps prevent individuals from meeting this goal. They include:
- Borrow & Spend – Buying new possessions on credit and getting bogged down with high debt payments.
- Save & Spend — Consistently saving money but immediately depleting savings once the savings account reaches a certain number. Thereby forcing the individual to start back at $0 every few months.
- Confusing Saving & Investing – Putting money in a savings account rather than an investment account. Money in a savings account will be used for a new purchase. Money in an investment account will be used for investing.
- Buying Expense-Generating Expenses — Buying homes, cars and other items that require additional maintenance costs well beyond the original sticker price.
- Failing to Invest Beyond Your House — Buying the largest house you can afford, rather than buying the smallest home that fits your needs. (If you buy the largest home you can afford you won't have any money leftover to invest elsewhere.)
- Confusing Investing and Gambling — Throwing money at a hot stock, business, or other asset without clearly understanding what you are investing in.
According to Dr. Watts we fall for these traps for the following reasons:
- The Need for Status — You desire to be looked highly upon for others.
- The Need for Immediate Gratification — You simply cannot resist the urge to buy something now.
- Weak Financial Education — Piggy Bank & Allowance — You learned all you know about saving from an allowance and a piggy bank. You save money so you can spend it once the total reaches a certain amount.
- Weak Financial Education — Fear of Numbers — You find math frustrating and confusing.
- Feeling Entitled to Stop Learning — You stop focusing on learning shortly after graduation.
- Fear of Risk — You fail to invest beyond your house because you are afraid of losing your money.
- Abdicating Financial Responsibility in a Relationship — You allow a partner to make all financial decisions or you make all financial decisions for a partner.
- Fear of Wealth – You perceive the accumulation of wealth as selfish.
- Difficulty with Sustained and Intermittent Effort — Ebbs and flows of life make it difficult for you to remain entrenched in your own personal finances.
Dr. Watts walks readers through the necessary steps to accumulate wealth, including how to get out of the traps discussed above and how to continue to expand passive income. The initial advice includes common actions like pay off debt, open an investment account, pay yourself 10% first in regular transfers, invest in financial education and keep your expenses low, but it does add extra details for those who wish to expand beyond general investing including big and small deals such as real estate and corporations.
In the final section of the book Dr. Watts focuses on creating long term financial and time related goals. He suggests writing down goals and posting them in a place where you can see them every day. He also suggests creating routines around your financial activities so you'll form habits that keep you on track towards your goals.
In the end he reminds readers that this book is not just about the accumulation of wealth. He writes, "how you spend your money and how you spend your time determines your fate, and ultimately determines how you will be remembered. Invest heavily in yourself so you will have strength and wisdom to share with others, and leave a legacy of people who have been influenced by your time here on earth."
The book contains a lot of common advice that can be found elsewhere, but at just over 100 pages it's an interesting and quick read that focuses on the importance of both time and money.


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Research: Professor Angela Lee, Marketing
is critical to make advertising dollars deliver best return,
says Kellogg School marketing scholar
morning we wake to our favorite music blaring from the alarm
clock and grab a cup of coffee. At lunch we search the crowd
for friendly faces to chat with while we enjoy a type of
sandwich we've eaten many times before, perhaps since childhood.
And after a long day, we turn in on worn sheets that feel
deliciously comfortable after dozens of washings.
are creatures of habit who delight in the familiar. And,
truth be told, many of us are a little bit lazy.
human behavior, says Kellogg School Marketing Professor
Lee, determines whether advertising messages hit or
miss their intended targets.
one ever decides to develop a $500,000 advertising campaign
to show it only once," Lee says. "Besides cost
effectiveness, there's a good reason: The more we are exposed
to things, the more we choose them."
why, according to Professor Lee, who studies human information
processing and memory.
first few times people see a new advertisement, they puzzle
over it, trying to make sense of the message and product.
Then consumers decide if they understand the ad and accept
what it is saying. These individuals soon grow more critical,
exploring whether the message is persuasive, until finally,
after a few more viewings, they tire of the message altogether
and demand additional novelty.
investigates ideas such as perceptual fluency, "liking
without conscious awareness" that develops through
sensory exposure, and conceptual fluency, preference that
develops when something comes to mind easily. A pioneer
in the field of advertising context effects — how
the environment surrounding advertisements governs their
effectiveness — Lee's recent research indicates advertisers
should pay attention to the messages featured in proximity
to their own, even if those messages are about products
in a different category.
watching your favorite sitcom and the show goes to commercial
break. First up is a mayonnaise ad in which a family sits
around a kitchen table making sandwiches. A ketchup commercial
Lee says, are more likely to evaluate the ketchup favorably
after having viewed an ad for a similar product. In her
words, the mayonnaise spot "primes the ketchup"
by helping consumers tap into their network of memory associations.
Because ketchup is part of the same associative network,
Lee says, it becomes ready to be processed when consumers
view the mayonnaise commercial. And consumers favor brands
that can be easily processed.
something Lee calls "goal fluency" — the
orientation of ads toward either "promotion" or
"prevention" messages — also affects the
way viewers evaluate them. Picture a commercial for a lice-killing
shampoo that urges viewers to scrub with a special soap
to kill the pests (a prevention message).
When followed by an advertisement touting a conditioner that develops silky hair (a promotion message), viewers have more difficulty processing the conditioner message and, consequently, are less likely to develop favorable attitudes toward the hair conditioner.
when the lice shampoo ad is followed by a pest spray commercial
with another prevention message, consumers experience greater
processing ease and develop more favorable attitudes, Lee's
research illustrates the old adage 'there's nothing so practical
as a good theory.' Her depth of understanding regarding
how memory operates provides the foundation for unique strategic
insights about how to develop more effective persuasive
messages," says Professor Alice
Tybout, chair of the Kellogg School Marketing Department.
Journal of Marketing Research has published Lee's
conclusions in its May 2004 edition, and more of her work
is forthcoming in the same periodical. In addition to its
scholarly impact, her research has practical applications
for advertisers, who typically negotiate to ensure competing
products or even the same type of products are not featured
in the same commercial block, but don't give as much thought
to the messages that are part of the same spot.
processing shortcuts Lee describes in her research likely
developed as part of an evolutionary shift to help humans
quickly gauge whether something is beneficial or potentially
dangerous. Such shortcuts are not necessarily a bad thing,
are formed after we put in an initial effort," Lee
says. "We do the work up-front. We are pulled in so
many directions that we have to be efficient, and we often
end up relying on unconscious cues."

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In December, the Guardian UK website posted the questions for the notoriously difficult King William's College quiz or General Knowledge Paper (GKP) given to students (and parents) at King William's College on the Isle of Man. In another article on, "The Story of the King Wiliams's College Quiz" quizmaster Dr Pat Cullen discusses the impact of the Internet on the 106 year old quiz and attempts to Google and social media proof the quiz to keep it intellectually challenging. MacLean's Canada article on the history of the quiz is simply titled, "The World's Most Difficult Quiz. Really."
While only section 2 relates specifically to geography and cartography, I estimated that about 70 of the 180 questions could be considered geo-spatial. These range from questions such as, "4 Who first used continuous and broken lines to indicate fenced and unfenced roads?" to 5 Where did close neighbours claim the invention of a device for observing at a distance? The answers to last year's questions were posted in February, so you will have to wait a while if you get stumped.
The quizmaster Dr. Pat Cullen doesn't live in a dusty library tower, he is also a birder and citizen scientist for the Isle of Man which is home to several rare species of birds.


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Online Hand-writing Recognition
On-line handwriting recognition involves the automatic conversion of text as it is written on a special digitizer or PDA, where a sensor picks up the pen-tip movements X(t),Y(t) as well as pen-up/pen-down switching. That kind of data is known as digital ink and can be regarded as a dynamic representation of handwriting. The obtained signal is converted into letter codes which are usable within computer and text-processing applications.
The elements of an on-line handwriting recognition interface typically include:
- A pen or stylus for the user to write with.
- A touch sensitive surface, which may be integrated with, or adjacent to, an output display.
- A software application which interprets the movements of the stylus across the writing surface, translating the resulting curves into digital text.
A modern handwriting recognition system can be seen in Microsoft's version of Windows XP operating system for Tablet PCs.
We in our lab are developing an online hand-writing recognition system for regional Indian languages such as Tamil and Kannada.
The OHWR Consortium funded by TDIL, DIT is a collaborative research project on online handwritten character recognition in multiple Indian languages. The consortium comprises 4 academic institutes (IISc, IIT Madras, IIIT Hyderabad, ISI Kolkata) and 3 application partners (CDAC Pune, Learnfun Systems, CK Technologies). The academic partners research on the various issues involved in recognition of online handwritten text. The project has already completed its first phase and the engines in 6 languages have been integrated into 3 different form filling applications (Census data collection, Report of Motor Vehicle Inspector on a Vehicle Involved in an Accident and Application for Encumbrance Certificate) developed by the application partners.
MILE Laboratory deals with developing state of art technologies for recognizing text written in Tamil and Kannada. Our contributions for the first phase are summarized below:
- A comprehensive set of symbols have been proposed to represent all possible aksharas (simple and compound characters) in Tamil and Kannada. A minimal set of words has been generated in each language, to cover these symbols.
- 100,000 word samples have been collected from over 1000 native writers in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. As many as 10 educational institutions participated in the data collection process.
- A common XML standard has been proposed for the purpose of annotation. The quality of handwritten data have been graded into 5 classes (A, B, C, D and R) - 'A' being the highest and R the lowest. Figure 1 below illustrates the annotation tool being used to annotate a Kannada handwritten word.
- The Statistical Dynamic Time Warping classifier has been implemented to recognize the symbols in a given word.
- The recognition engines currently give an average of 88% accuracy on good data (class A).
Our goals in the second phase of the consortium project include:
- Improving the recognition accuracy at the symbol level to 95% for class A data by using state of art techniques such as verification /feedback strategies, classifier fusion/ combination, post processing (disambiguation of confused symbols) and statistical language modeling techniques.
- Feeding the output of the word recognizer to our text to speech engine and testing the usefulness of the device for patients who had laryngectomy.
- Work on writer adaptation and recognition at the sentence level.

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When I look through a lens the image of objects far away are inverted but when looking the the viewfinder on my camera they are not. Why is this?
I am having a hard time understanding why objects far away are inverted in the first place.
Could anyone provide an explanation or ray diagrams (Preferably using a point source on an object and including the lens in the human eye)?
EDIT: Thanks everyone I now understand why objects far away from a lens appear inverted. But can anyone now explain how the camera elements make far inverted objects appear right way up without also making close normal objects appear upside down?
EDIT 2: I can't provide an image right now because I am at school but you know how when you look through a magnifying glass and far objects will be inverted and blurry but close objects will be sharp and erect (normal)?
That is what is happening when I look through my camera lenses while they are not attached to the camera, but when they are attached to the camera and I look through the viewfinder (or at processed film) the objects in the image produced are all of the same orientation.
Does this mean that lens doesn't actually produce images like a magnifying glass would because the objects on the images produced on film are all of the same orientation? Or does this mean a magnifying glass doesn't actually produce objects with different orientations?? If a magnifying glass doesn't, then why does it look like it does and are the convex lens diagrams wrong (they show a virtual image upright for close objects and real upside-down images for far objects)? Isn't a magnifying glass just a convex lens?
It DOES look like a magnifying glass when I look through the lens. That's why I thought that then lens was producing objects with different orientations. This also goes with the convex lens diagrams below that show objects with different orientations.
So does the lens produce objects with different orientations or doesn't it??? If not why does it look like it does when I look through the lens, and also based on the convex lens diagrams it seems like it should. If it doesn't then how do the other lenses in a camera lens attachment correct the convex lens. And if it does then why does film and the viewfinder show objects with the same orientation?
Sorry for asking so much. This is just so confusing!
EDIT 3: This is how I thought a camera lens would work:
I forgot to mention in EDIT 2 that it seems that close objects shouldn't even appear on film based on the diagrams.
I still don't understand... =(
EDIT 4: So objects really close to the camera lens should not appear on film, correct?
So...Why do all objects in the viewfinder appear upright??? Since my eye is reviving both the light rays from close objects (virtual upright images) and far objects (real inverted images) shouldn't really close objects and objects farther away have different orientations? Just like looking through the lens directly? How does the viewfinder change anything?
EDIT 5: Thanks so much everyone. Thanks for the help.
"Anything close enough to form a virtual image is not focused onto the focusing screen"
So lets say I put a pen right in front of the lens and look through it directly. The image I see is upright so this means it is a virtual image. Now lets say I attach the lens to the camera and look through the viewfinder. I can still see the pen but it is blurry (because the focal length is longer, right?). The lens forms a virtual image of the pen but I can still see it in the viewfinder. Why is this? If the viewfinder shows me exactly what would be on the film it should not show the pen at all (based on the diagrams in the image above) should it?
EDIT 6: Maybe it should form a blurry image. Like a pin hole camera or something. In any case thanks for all the help everyone. I know it can be frustrating trying to teach me. I can be pretty dense sometimes.


text: Everything is not as it first appears. This simple plastic ball looks purple until you swing it in a circle and reveal its true nature. Inside are three light emitting diodes (LEDs), which are red, green and blue. They turn on and off in sequence very quickly. When still, the ball appears purple because your eyes and brain don't'refresh' quickly enough to perceive the changing colours. However, when swung in a circle, the ball changes colours at different locations so the colours don't merge with each other and the ball's true nature is revealed. Now let's not think too carefully about how this illusion is conveyed through video (because the camera doesn't refresh quickly enough to perceive the colours changing either - so you have no hope of seeing it on YouTube even frame by frame).


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▶Filter Your Results
This lesson, about writing messages to friends on social networks, develops students' ability to write personal messages and features example threads with comments, which students have the opportunity to contribute to. They can also post new messages, and comment on the postings written by other students.
Amir's Story is a resource for all beginner ESOL learners, including those with basic literacy needs. Learners will develop an everyday story from pictures and write their own text in collaboration with each other. As teacher, you will be facilitator, guide and scribe. The text produced can be used for further literacy activities, and suggestions are given for this.
This lesson is based around employability and deals with different factors which contribute to creating a good first impression, such as dress, punctuality and register of speech. The language focus is the use of should and shouldn't to give advice, and learners practise giving advice on how to create a good first impression.
People have very different opinions about British food! In this film, ESOL learners talk about their favourite British food.


text: The new bonsai like PhotonSynthesis designed by designer Vivien Muller is a device which seems straight out of designer text books. The device consists of 54 mini photovoltaic leaf panels which are needed for charging various gadgets. The connecting power cords are hidden beneath the tray that holds the overall plant. The so called branches of this tree consist of solar panels which store the electric energy from the sun in the battery which can be produced at the time of recharging the electric device. Thus it's a nice utilization of natural resources to take care of our daily needs though it's tempting enough to say that power does grow on trees.


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This release is also available in French
STITTSVILLE, ONTARIO -- A new community in Ontario will be setting the standard for energy efficiency. Today, the Honourable R. John Efford, Minister of Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), announced that Jackson Trails, a new development in the western section of Ottawa, will be Canada's first community of ENERGY STARŪ-qualified homes.
"We need to raise awareness of the importance of using energy-efficient products and practices to help reduce the effect of climate change," said Minister Efford. "This community will showcase the benefits of energy-efficient homes for homebuyers and their communities."
The 300-home community, to be built by Tartan Homes and Tamarack Homes, will not only be energy-efficient, but will also employ best practices in enhancing wildlife habitat and conservation lands. Every home in the new community will be built to ENERGY STAR specifications, making them approximately 40 percent more efficient than homes built to minimum Ontario Building Code standards.
The increased efficiency of ENERGY STAR-qualified homes will translate into reduced energy costs for homeowners. Typical energy-efficiency measures for these homes include insulation upgrades, higher-performance windows, sealed air ducts, better draft-proofing and more efficient heating and air-conditioning systems. These features contribute to improved quality and comfort in the home, lower energy demands and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. ENERGY STAR also encourages the use of energy-efficient lighting and appliances, as well as features designed to improve indoor air quality.
ENERGY STAR for New Homes is an initiative of NRCan and several stakeholders, including the Ontario Ministry of Energy, the Ontario Home Builders' Association, EnerQuality Corporation, Union Gas, Enbridge Gas, Owens Corning Canada and Hydro Ottawa.
The ENERGY STAR symbol is recognized around the world, and allows consumers to see at a glance which appliances, electronic goods, office equipment and other products are the most energy-efficient. In Canada, the program is administered and promoted by NRCan's Office of Energy Efficiency, a leader in helping Canadians save energy costs while addressing the challenges of climate change.
The Government of Canada's approach to climate change is focused on making the right choices for Canada. This will ensure that the actions taken today produce long-term and enduring results while maintaining a strong and growing economy.
The One-Tonne Challenge is part of the Government of Canada's approach to help Canadians respond to climate change. To learn more, please visit _URL_.
Source: Eurekalert & othersLast reviewed: By John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on 21 Feb 2009
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It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt


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CREW: ONE PILOT, ONE CO-PILOT ONE ELECTRONIC COUNTERMEASURES OFFICER (ECO)
WEAPONS: 2 INTERCHANGEABLE WEAPONS PODS
JUMP CAPABILITY: 40 Stellar Units
The Raptor is the workhorse of the Colonial Fleet. Used to transport troops and as scouts for the fleet, Raptor pilots are some of the most well known members of the Colonial Armed Forces. Most Capital Ships are assigned at least one Raptor to act as a transport for the ship's commanding officer (thus sparing the use of the much larger shuttles used to ferry large numbers of people back and forth). There is a squadron of Raptors assigned to the Prometheus, all under the command of the Air Support Group Commander.


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Presentation on theme: "Project Overview Learning Areas Levels Objectives"— Presentation transcript:
1 Project Overview Learning Areas Levels Objectives Classroom, Outside Area, Art AreaLevels10-12Pupils will be able to:Create their own Islamic patterns taking into account the following criterion: shape, symmetry, pattern and colour.ObjectivesDescriptionMathematics lesson linked to RME Topic of IslamMicrosoft Powerpoint/Word, Active Primary 2SoftwareThis Virtual Classroom Tour template has been provided so you can develop your own Virtual Classroom Tours. Use the template to record a special learning project that you have found particularly successful in your classroom. Then share the project with other teachers in your school, district or beyond.Here's how:Follow the prompts on each slide and in the embedded Word documents, in this PowerPoint document, to insert your project information. When you have finished inputting all of the project information that is requested, delete the prompts. Select each one and press the Delete key.Note: To enter the title of your Virtual Classroom Tour you must select View, Master, Slide Master, and enter it on the slide master. Then click Close Slide Master. This will cause the title to appear on each of the slides.From the File menu choose Save As… and save the document as a PowerPoint Show. (Use the File type: drop-down list to choose PowerPoint Show). You can then distribute the Virtual Classroom Tour.AuthorsScott Haxton, P6/7 Class Teacher, Borrowfield Primary School, MontroseDocuments
2 Teaching Resources Project Overview: I wanted the pupils to see the connections between Islamic patterns and areas within Maths.We started by exploring the mathematical history of Islamic patterns in mosques, prayer mats; this also involved a lesson with the art specialist. For example we discovered that mathematicians as early as the 14th Century helped to shape the Islamic Patterns we know today.As an introduction we identified and examined a range of different examples of Islamic patterns. The criteria we decided for our investigations were shape, pattern, symmetry and colour.The results the initial activity enabled us to look at each criterion in more depth. For example shape: different types of triangle, symmetry: identifying lines of.. Rotational symmetry, pattern: tiling, tessellations.On this slide, embed the student handouts and the resources created for this project. Some examples are a student project overview, Internet and other resources, directions for art projects, or instructions to students for peer editing of projects. To embed the resources, follow these steps:Have the resource document available.From the Insert menu choose Object.Select Create from File… and click Browse….Find the file you want to include and click OK.Select Display as icon and click Change Icon… and add a suitable caption.Click OK to add the caption and click OK to embed the file.Position the document icon at the bottom of the slide. You can go to View, Grid and Guides, and click Display Grid on Screen for a grid on which to line up your icons.Documents
3 Teacher and School Information Class Teacher: Scott HaxtonHead Teacher: Evelyn NobleBorrowfield Primary, Newhame Road, Montrose, AngusUse these resources for assistance in working with and learning more about Microsoft Office applications.


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Difference Between Blue Collar and White Collar
Blue Collar vs White Collar
Up to this day, there is confusion in discerning blue from white collar jobs. There has been some stigma attached to some, most especially to blue collar jobs. Nevertheless, both job types have their own set of pros and cons.
Traditionally, white collar jobs were named as such because these jobs originally required the worker to wear a shirt that is colored white either with a tie or without one. These jobs are often those that require the employee to wear a tie and work within the safe confines of the four walls of their offices, stores, schools and the like. Nevertheless, it can be safely said that the era of wearing the traditional white shirt and tie has already faded away. Still, many professionals like doctors and lawyers still don their ties and perhaps couple it with a white coat (especially for the medical doctors) to give an impression of a more serious stance.
On the contrary, blue collar jobs are not necessarily jobs that require the worker to wear blue shirts or polo. It is rather an expression which emphasizes that these employees work in a non-management position like those jobs that may involve workers becoming dirtier because of physically working a little harder. Often, these are the jobs that require protection clothing. So, perhaps the confusion sets in when one would label being a doctor as a blue collar job because most of them wear a doctor's coat or mask for protection. Medical doctors are white collar workers! Blue collar workers are the auto mechanics, drivers, and factory employees.
Unfortunately, there is an undeniable presence of a stigma for blue collar jobs. People often become too judgmental and say that these jobs are just plain 'dirty,' literally. Even if most of these jobs are more laborious, not to mention dangerous for the employee because of the workplace they report to, this does not always hold true to all cases.
Conversely, white collar jobs have a better working environment that are usually cleaner and cooler. These are the corporate jobs that often have a good basic monthly pay. As a result, many professionals who hold a degree end up with a white collar job while those who didn't finish college will eventually end up in 'just' a blue collar job. Yet again, this is not applicable to all situations. Also, middle class workers have been linked to blue collar while the upper class workers have been connected to white collar. Fortunately for blue collar jobs, the truth about receiving a higher pay for their white collar counterpart is not always true. In several instances, they even end up receiving a higher pay than the white collar workers.
1. White collar jobs are made synonymous to professionals who obtained higher degrees and education.
2. White collar jobs are linked to the generally higher paying type of jobs.
3. White collar jobs often have a cleaner of 'better' workplaces.
4. White collar jobs are more corporate and managerial while blue collar jobs are often non management but actual physical labor type of jobs.
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Pod::Usage - print a usage message from embedded pod documentation
 1. use Pod::Usage
 2. my $message_text = "This text precedes the usage message.";
 3. my $exit_status = 2; ## The exit status to use
 4. my $verbose_level = 0; ## The verbose level to use
 5. my $filehandle = \*STDERR; ## The filehandle to write to
 6. pod2usage($message_text);
 7. pod2usage($exit_status);
 8. pod2usage( { -message => $message_text,
 9. -exitval => $exit_status,
 10. -verbose => $verbose_level,
 11. -output => $filehandle } );
 12. pod2usage( -msg => $message_text,
 13. -exitval => $exit_status,
 14. -verbose => $verbose_level,
 15. -output => $filehandle );
 16. pod2usage( -verbose => 2,
 17. -noperldoc => 1 );
 18. pod2usage( -verbose => 2,
 19. -perlcmd => $path_to_perl,
 20. -perldoc => $path_to_perldoc,
 21. -perldocopt => $perldoc_options );
pod2usage should be given either a single argument, or a list of arguments corresponding to an associative array (a "hash"). When a single argument is given, it should correspond to exactly one of the following:
 - A string containing the text of a message to print before printing the usage message
 - A numeric value corresponding to the desired exit status
 - A reference to a hash
If more than one argument is given then the entire argument list is assumed to be a hash. If a hash is supplied (either as a reference or as a list) it should contain one or more elements with the following keys:
 - -message string
 - -msg string
 The text of a message to print immediately prior to printing the program's usage message.
 - -exitval value
 The desired exit status to pass to the exit() function. This should be an integer, or else the string "NOEXIT" to indicate that control should simply be returned without terminating the invoking process.
 - -verbose value
 The desired level of "verboseness" to use when printing the usage message. If the value is 0, then only the "SYNOPSIS" section of the pod documentation is printed. If the value is 1, then the "SYNOPSIS" section, along with any section entitled "OPTIONS", "ARGUMENTS", or "OPTIONS AND ARGUMENTS" is printed. If the corresponding value is 2 or more then the entire manpage is printed, using perldoc if available; otherwise Pod::Text is used for the formatting. For better readability, the all-capital headings are downcased, e.g. SYNOPSIS => Synopsis.
 The special verbosity level 99 requires to also specify the -sections parameter; then these sections are extracted and printed.
 - -sections spec
 There are two ways to specify the selection. Either a string (scalar) representing a selection regexp for sections to be printed when -verbose is set to 99, e.g.
 With the above regexp all content following (and including) any of the given =head1 headings will be shown. It is possible to restrict the output to particular subsections only, e.g.:
 1. "DESCRIPTION/Algorithm"
 This will output only the =head2 Algorithm heading and content within the =head1 DESCRIPTION section. The regexp binding is stronger than the section separator, such that e.g.:
 will print any =head2 Caveats section (only) within any of the three =head1 sections.
 Alternatively, an array reference of section specifications can be used:
 1. pod2usage(-verbose => 99, -sections => [
 2. qw(DESCRIPTION DESCRIPTION/Introduction) ] );
 This will print only the content of =head1 DESCRIPTION and the =head2 Introduction sections, but no other =head2, and no other =head1 either.
 - -output handle
 A reference to a filehandle, or the pathname of a file to which the usage message should be written. The default is \*STDERR unless the exit value is less than 2 (in which case the default is \*STDOUT ).
 - -input handle
 A reference to a filehandle, or the pathname of a file from which the invoking script's pod documentation should be read. It defaults to the file indicated by $0 ($PROGRAM_NAME for users of
 If you are calling pod2usage() from a module and want to display that module's POD, you can use this:
 1. use Pod::Find qw(pod_where);
 2. pod2usage( -input => pod_where({-inc => 1}, __PACKAGE__) );
 - -pathlist string
 A list of directory paths. If the input file does not exist, then it will be searched for in the given directory list (in the order the directories appear in the list). It defaults to the list of directories implied by $ENV{PATH}. The list may be specified either by a reference to an array, or by a string of directory paths which use the same path separator as $ENV{PATH} on your system (e.g., : for Unix, ; for MSWin32 and DOS).
 - -noperldoc
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Deflection of electron beam in oscilloscope
 1. Aug 19, 2012 #1
 Calculate the deflection of an electron beam as it passes between the plates of a CRT tube.
 In the picture, the parallel plates create an electric field, with the positive plate on top and the negative plate on bottom, causing the electron's path to be deflected upwards as it travels to the right.
 2. Relevant equations
 Kinetic energy of electrons: K = 3.2 x 10^-16 J
 Electric field between plates: E = 1.2 x 10^4 N/C
 Distance along plates = 15mm
 3. The attempt at a solution
 I know the equation F=Eq is involved. I've been told that the force is centripetal, so that the equation for centripetal force is also involved, but im not entirely convinced. This is because centripetal force is always perpendicular to the velocity, but in this example that can't be the case.
 So im stuck and need help.
 [edit] and the answer is 0.34mm
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 A constant force F=qE acts on the electron in the vertical direction while its initial velocity is horizontal. The problem is analogous with projectile motion, the trajectory is parabolic. You can decompose the motion into horizontal and vertical direction.
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All you need to know about electric vehicles and their insurance
Electric vehicles are here to stay. With technological advancement, environmental factors and rising popularity, many global automobile manufacturers are tapping into the demand to create vehicles that have either completely or partially removed the need for petrol and diesel to drive.
With the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) benefiting this range of cars by a whopping 15% discount on car and bike insurance premiums for electric vehicles, it is time to take note of this trendy and futuristic kind of cars. Let's discuss electric vehicles in more detail.
What are electric vehicles?
These are vehicles that run on electricity generated from batteries or fuel cells. These cars either run completely on electricity or partially as hybrid vehicles. Hybrid vehicles keep running even when its battery is exhausted of electricity as its fuel engine is then activated.
Electric vehicles take an average of 5-10 hours to recharge. They cover an average distance of 140 km per charge, although high-end automatic cars from brands such as tesla can reach 500-600km after a one-time charge.
Electric vehicles are available both in four-wheeler and two-wheeler formats. Four-wheelers are trending because of the technological innovation while two-wheelers are on demand because of its ease of operation and comparatively cheaper cost of fuel, which is electricity.
A lesser known fact about driving an EV is that their mileage fluctuates based on fluctuation of temperature. An extremely hot or cold temperature exerts pressure on the battery, which in turn impacts the air-conditioning facilities inside the vehicle.
What are the benefits of having electric vehicles?
Electric vehicles (EV) emit little to no greenhouse gas, based on the source of electrical charge. If you power your EV through an electric grid, the car emits very less greenhouse gas. On the other hand, if you use renewable energy sources such as solar or wind power, the car emits no harmful gas at all.
Automatic EVs don't require an engine to run and have batteries installed instead. This does away with the need to replace faulty engines and the resultant cost.
How are electric vehicles insured in India?
There is a drastic change in the insurance policy of EVs in India before and after June 2019. Initially, these cars were new to the Indian market and lack of clarity about its demand led IRDAI to impose the same car insurance premium rates for both EVs and traditionally fuel-run vehicles, the same for electric bikes as well.
Rise in demand for EVs corresponding to rising environmental awareness called for a push to boost sales of EVs. Therefore, IRDAI updated the premium rates for EVs in third-party insurance policies with effect from June 16, 2019. Now, the EVs can get a 15% discount in premium rates as opposed to the premiums paid for general private cars.
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Food stroke danger investigated
Patients who have suffered strokes will be assessed
Scientists are probing a common problem experienced by stroke patients - where swallowed food goes into the lungs instead of the stomach.
Although most cases are spotted by doctors, there are still some which are hard to detect - and they could be dangerous.
In the normal body, a complex sequence of muscle actions both close the windpipe during swallowing, and propel food and drink down towards the stomach.
This stops food slipping down the windpipe into the lungs.
There is definitely a small grey area in which it is difficult to spot patients with this problem
Sharon Lewcock, speech and language therapist
However, people left disabled by strokes may have less control over their muscles, and as a result less able to swallow properly.
Food passing into the lungs increases the risk of chest infection and hospital stay - as well as reducing the amount of nourishment which actually reaches the patient.
In the UK, more than 100,000 suffer a first stroke every year - at any one time, 300,000 others are struggling to overcome the after-effects of a stroke.
Approximately half of them, immediately after their stroke, are thought to have some problems swallowing.
However, even those with apparently normal swallowing may be inhaling food - a process known as "silent aspiration".
Chest x-rays
Now a team of doctors is trying for the first time to work out the scale of the food-inhaling problem among stroke patients.
They are led by Dr David Smithard from the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, Kent. The project is set to last three years.
In conjunction wtih Guy's, King's and St Thomas' School of Medicine in London, doctors will assess patients at the bedside - and also use chest x-rays to spot those who are mis-swallowing their food.
Patients can be given a liquid which includes a dye which shows up clearly in x-rays, so doctors can chart its progress down the throat.
Speech and Language Therapist Sharon Lewcock told BBC News Online: "This research is very welcome. There is definitely a small grey area in which it is difficult to spot patients with this problem.
"About 50% of patients will have swallowing problems after their stroke, and many of them can be identified quite easily because the signs are obvious.
"Speech and language therapists can often assess these people by the bedside and look for simple things - such as whether the Adam's apple is bobbing up and down."
She said that a national shortage of such therapists meant that proper assessment of stroke patients was "patchy" - although many doctors and nurses were now learning the necessary skills.
The latest research project is funded by medical charity Action Research.
Slow recovery
The disabilities caused by a stroke, which can involve paralysis or muscle weakness, are caused because a part of the brain are starved of oxygen because of a blockage or rupture in the blood vessel which supplies them.
Even short periods of oxygen starvation can cause long-term damage to neurons which control many vital muscles - including those which control swallowing.
Many patients recover some or all of their muscle function in the months and years following a stroke.
Strokes are one of the most common causes of death in the UK.
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Mindful communication begins with active listening. But often it's the unsaid that provides the most critical link to mutual understanding.
Intuitive listening means the ability to read between the lines, to pick up on the unspoken clues that hint at a larger story behind the words. By practicing the skill of intuitive listening, leaders can make better decisions, build stronger relationships and resolve problems more quickly.
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Do you know how to become an online travel Consultant?
Formation is at the base of every journey, for this reason we think this aspect that accompanies the activity of an Evolution Travel online travel Consultant fundamental not only in the initial phase but also afterwards, with constancy and continuity.
The aim of the whole journey is to develop the technical/touristic knowhow and the personal and professional competence necessary to build a successful entrepreneurial activity through classroom and online courses and formative events that are constantly organised to enable you to build a solid and fruitful commercial activity in the world of travel and tourism.
In synthesis here is how the formation of an Evolution Travel online travel Consultant is organised:
- BASIC COURSE - Theory
It is a course that is developed over recorded online sessions with a learning confirmation test in which you can see all the operative instruments in detail, the procedures and resources that an online travel Consultant has to manage his activity.
- BASIC CLASSROOM COURSE – Practise
The second phase of the Basic Course is a classroom course of 4 days and represents the moment in which the online travel Consultant begins, in the proper sense, his activity. Yes, we enter into the heart of the matter and begin to work the first requests!
- COACHING ONLINE – Online personalised sessions
It is a formative session, held by an expert online travel Consultant that follows a single person in his specific needs for 10 hours distributed over a two month period.
Online courses to which you can participate thanks to a dedicated platform that enables you to assist the course comfortably from home and interacting through a chat shared by all the participants. Every week there are from a minimum of 2 to a maximum of 4 e-learning courses, which means an average of 150 e-learning courses in a year! From tourism technique, to online sales strategies, to procedures related to booking trips, to personal growth, to web-marketing, to the management of your time, to the single products and destinations and on how to sell them.
- EDUCATIONAL – Travelling as Consultants
Educationals are trips that the various Tour Operators organise to let operators in this field, who are in charge of selling the product, experience first-hand and on location, the destinations and services offered, in order to sell the product to their clients in a better way.
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The Open Days are formative days organised in various Italian cities to examine various aspects of the activity more in depth: from the instruments of the online agency, to specific touristic products, to web-marketing strategies to promote oneself on the WEB.
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So what the heck am I talking about? I'm talking about how to spell the word, "genealogy." No, it is not spelled "geneology." It has an "a" not an "o", but that's a good guess. [Promise me you'll never stop guessing. You're gonna need that later.] And I dare anyone to say that from the get-go they knew how to spell it. I mean, why would anyone guess that unlike more common words such as geology, sociology, and psychology, that genealogy is spelled with an "a" and not an "o"?
So, why is the "G" word spelled this way? [You didn't really think I'd leave you hanging did you? I mean, why not know more than just the "how", right?] Well according to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word, "genealogy" comes from the Greek word, "genialogia" which can be broken down further into "genea" which means "generation, descent" and the word "logos" which means "student of". Did you notice the base word, "genea" ends with an "a"? That is why genealogy is spelled with an "a" and not an "o". Simple pimple. Oh, and did you notice the meaning of the second word "logos"? Yes, we are all students ~ learning more and more every day.
They're just new.
They're just a student.
Studying their familial generations.
Their familial descent.
You all might even be related.
Now wouldn't that be funny? [Snort.]
Well, in an awkward kind of way?
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(AP) Some of the stream and river gauges used around the country to help forecasters predict flood and drought could be discontinued as a result of automatic federal budget cuts that went into effect this month, officials said Friday.
The U.S. Geological Survey said 11 of the roughly 100 gauges it operates in Minnesota could potentially be shut down due to budget cuts. Nationally, 375 of the 8,000 USGS-operated gauges are at risk. USGS spokesman Dave Ozman said the agency doesn't know the full impact of the cuts yet, or when the gauges might be affected.
The gauges provide key information for the National Weather Service as it collects data to forecast potential flooding.
"They are the eyes in the field for us," weather service hydrologist Diane Cooper. "Without that river gauge, we can't provide forecasts."
The USGS's river gauges measure water elevation every 15 minutes, and about every six weeks the river flow is measured. But during flooding, river flow measurements are taken much more frequently. The USGS compares that river flow and elevation data, which it uses to create important forecasts at each gauge's location, Cooper said.
The information is transmitted to a satellite and comes into the weather service almost continuously which is important because, she said, "river conditions can change quickly."
Ozman said some river gauges are co-funded through federal, state or local dollars. Eleven USGS river gauges in Minnesota are completely funded by federal dollars, so those are the ones that could face a shutdown.
They include gauges at: the Pigeon River near Grand Portage, the Kawishiwi River near Ely, the Prairie River near Taconite, the Crow River at Rockford, the Whetstone River near Big Stone City, the Yellow Medicine River near Granite Falls, the Minnesota River at Morton, the Mississippi River at St. Paul, the Mississippi River at Prescott, the Root River near Pilot Mound, and the Cedar River near Austin.
"Those are the ones we're looking at. Our hope is that we wouldn't have to cut all of those," Ozman said. "These gauges are all important to the folks who are served by them."
The USGS is evaluating the effects of budget cuts on all of its programs, including seismic monitoring and volcano and land slide monitoring. In addition, Ozman said, the USGS plans to issue a notice to all employees that a furlough is also being considered, but that any furloughs would not exceed nine days.
Ferris Chamberlin, the chief of water management for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Paul District, said river gauges are important, especially with the spring flooding season right around the corner.
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text: Google Earth (GE) and related open geospatial technologies have changed both the accessibility of and audience for geospatial information dramatically. Through data rich applications with easy to use interfaces, these technologies bring personalized geospatial information directly to the nonspecialist. When coupled with open geospatial data standards, such as Web Map Services (WMS), Web Features Services (WFS), and GeoRSS, the resulting web-based technologies have the potential to assimilate heterogeneous data from distributed sources rapidly enough to support timecritical activities such as crisis response. Although the ability to view and interact with data in these environments is important, this functionality alone is not sufficient for the demands of crisis response activity. For example, GE's standard version currently lacks geoanalysis capabilities such as geographic buffering and topology functions. In this paper, we present development of the "Google Earth Dashboard" (GED), a web-based interface powered by open geospatial standards and designed for supplementing and enhancing the geospatial capabilities of GE. The GED allows users to create custom maps through WMS layer addition to GE and perform traditional GIS analysis functions. Utility of the GED is presented in a usecase scenario where GIS operations implemented to work with GE are applied to support crisis management activities. The GED represents an important first step towards combining the ubiquity of GE and geospatial standards into an easy-to-use, data rich, geo-analytically powerful environment that can support crisis management activity.


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Quieting Weapons
School illusion (glamer); Level bard 4, cleric 4, inquisitor 4, magus 4, occultist 4, psychic 4, ranger 3, sorcerer/wizard 4, spiritualist 4
Casting Time 1 standard action
Components S
Target up to one natural or manufactured weapon per 3 caster levels
Duration 10 minutes/level
The target weapons and any ammunition they fire make no sound as part of their normal functions as a weapon. For instance, a firearm's firing would not make an explosive sound, but if you cast this spell on a creature's bite attack, it would not prevent it from vocalizing from its mouth. The first time a creature is struck by a weapon affected by this spell, it must succeed at a Will save (SR applies to this effect) or it becomes unable to make noise louder than a whisper (Perception DC 10 to hear) whether vocally or by other means for the duration of the effect. Because the creature can still whisper, this doesn't interfere with verbal spell components. Whether it succeeds or fails its saving throw, the creature is immune to further effects from this casting of quieting weapons.
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Understanding How Starlings Use Their 'Confusion Effect'
Starling flocks are, by any standard, overwhelming. To begin with, they flock in large numbers: hundreds to thousands of birds. Then they fly together in a mesmerizing pattern known as a murmuration. The result is a "confusion effect"; the massive numbers of swirling birds are genuinely disorienting to hunters, be they falcons, hawks, or humans. Yes, scientists have come up with a simulator to see how people handle this effect. Answer: Largely the same way the birds of prey do. To read more about confusion effect, click here, or just watch the video below to see it in practice.
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- nail (n.)
- Old English negel "metal pin," nægl "fingernail (handnægl), toenail," from Proto-Germanic *naglaz (cf. Old Norse nagl "fingernail," nagli "metal nail;" Old Saxon and Old High German nagel, Old Frisian neil, Middle Dutch naghel, Dutch nagel, German Nagel "fingernail, small metal spike"), from PIE root *(o)nogh "nail" (cf. Greek onyx "claw, fingernail;" Latin unguis "nail, claw;" Old Church Slavonic noga "foot," noguti "nail, claw;" Lithuanian naga "hoof," nagutis "fingernail;" Old Irish ingen, Old Welsh eguin "nail, claw").
The "fingernail" sense seems to be the original one. Nail polish attested from 1891. To bite one's nails as a sign of anxiety is attested from 1570s. Nail-biting is from 1805. Hard as nails is from 1828. To hit the nail on the head "say or do just the right thing" is first recorded 1520s. Phrase on the nail "on the spot, exactly" is from 1590s, of obscure origin; OED says it is not even certain it belongs to this sense of nail.
- nail (v.)
- Old English næglian "to fasten with nails," from Proto-Germanic *ganaglijanan (cf. Old Saxon neglian, Old Norse negla, Old High German negilen, German nageln, Gothic ganagljan "to nail"), from the root of nail (n.). Related: Nailed; nailing. Meaning "to catch, seize" is first recorded 1766, probably from earlier sense "to keep fixed in a certain position" (1610s). Meaning "to succeed in hitting" is from 1886. To nail down "to fix down with nails" is from 1660s.


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"Information Work" and Chronic Illness: Interpreting Results from a Nationwide Survey of People Living with HIV/AIDS
Timothy P. Hogan and Carole L. Palmer
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Westin Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, October 28 - November 2, 2005
Information has long played an important role in the lives of people confronted with chronic illness, its associated problems, and challenges. Over the last two decades, HIV/AIDS has shifted from being considered an acute disease to being understood as a chronic condition. However, much of the research on how the HIV-positive community seeks and uses information fails to consider these activities within the context of the experiences of people living with long-term chronic illness. In this paper, we present results from a nation-wide survey of the information preferences and practices of the increasingly diverse HIV-positive community and compare these results to related studies on HIV/AIDS and multiple sclerosis. Applying the trajectory model developed by Juliet Corbin and Anselm Strauss for understanding the management of chronic illness, we examine what this body of research tells us about "information work", the actual labor of locating, gathering, sorting, interpreting, and assimilating information. Through this comparative analysis, we identify the information sources that are most important, the attributes of information that influence use, and the tensions inherent in managing information in the day-to-day lives of the chronically ill. By extending Corbin and Strauss's model to the aspects of information emphasized across studies, we begin to articulate the fundamental nature of these activities in living with chronic illness and how information services can be more responsive to the needs of the chronically ill.
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Wilhelmus Zakaria Johannes (1895 – September 4, 1952) was an Indonesian radiology doctor. Johannes was the first Indonesian medical doctor who learned radiology in the CBZ (Civil Hospital) in Batavia and then became an expert in Rontgen technology and had contributed a lot to the development of medical studies in Indonesia. The Indonesian government honored WZ Johannes as a National Hero of Indonesia and named a general hospital in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara after him. As a tribute, the name Wilhelmus Zakaria Johannes was used on an Indonesian Navy ship, the KRI Wilhelmus Zakarias Yohannes. Johannes died in 1952 and was buried at the Jati Petamburan Cemetery in Central Jakarta.
WZ Johannes was the cousin of Professor Herman Johannes, an Indonesian professor who was the Rector of Gadjah Mada University and father of Helmi Johannes, a newscaster and executive producer for VOA Indonesian television in Washington DC.
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Maintenance work is essential to keep the motorway network operational. However works may increase the risk for the travelling public as well as placing workers in potentially hazardous situations. For many years the safety performance of works has been monitored on a regular basis and this project aims to provide data on the current situation. This data can be used to help in decisions with respect to future guidance on maintenance operations.
The work required has five main objectives:
- To establish the accident rate and severity split at major road works sites on motorways, and compare this with the rate in the absence of works;
- To compare accidents occurring at sites with and without speed cameras;
- To examine the location of accidents in relation to features of the traffic management scheme;
- To estimate accident rates at road works in a form suitable for use in QUADRO;
- To establish accident risk factors for use in the risk assessments.


1.4 Economics of ASICs
In this section we shall discuss the economics of using ASICs in a product and compare the most popular types of ASICs: an FPGA, an MGA, and a CBIC. To make an economic comparison between these alternatives, we consider the ASIC itself as a product and examine the components of product cost: fixed costs and variable costs. Making cost comparisons is dangerous—costs change rapidly and the semiconductor industry is notorious for keeping its costs, prices, and pricing strategy closely guarded secrets. The figures in the following sections are approximate and used to illustrate the different components of cost.
1.4.1 Comparison Between ASIC Technologies
The most obvious economic factor in making a choice between the different ASIC types is the part cost. Part costs vary enormously—you can pay anywhere from a few dollars to several hundreds of dollars for an ASIC. In general, however, FPGAs are more expensive per gate than MGAs, which are, in turn, more expensive than CBICs. For example, a 0.5 m m, 20 k-gate array might cost 0.01–0.02 cents/gate (for more than 10,000 parts) or $2–$4 per part, but an equivalent FPGA might be $20. The price per gate for an FPGA to implement the same function is typically 2–5 times the cost of an MGA or CBIC.
Given that an FPGA is more expensive than an MGA, which is more expensive than a CBIC, when and why does it make sense to choose a more expensive part? Is the increased flexibility of an FPGA worth the extra cost per part? Given that an MGA or CBIC is specially tailored for each customer, there are extra hidden costs associated with this step that we should consider. To make a true comparison between the different ASIC technologies, we shall quantify some of these costs.
1.4.2 Product Cost
The total cost of any product can be separated into fixed costs and variable costs :
total product cost = fixed product cost + variable product cost ¥ products sold
Fixed costs are independent of sales volume —the number of products sold. However, the fixed costs amortized per product sold (fixed costs divided by products sold) decrease as sales volume increases. Variable costs include the cost of the parts used in the product, assembly costs, and other manufacturing costs.
Let us look more closely at the parts in a product. If we want to buy ASICs to assemble our product, the total part cost is
total part cost = fixed part cost + variable cost per part ¥ volume of parts.
Our fixed cost when we use an FPGA is low—we just have to buy the software and any programming equipment. The fixed part costs for an MGA or CBIC are higher and include the costs of the masks, simulation, and test program development. We shall discuss these extra costs in more detail in Sections 1.4.3 and 1.4.4. Figure 1.11 shows a break-even graph that compares the total part cost for an FPGA, MGA, and a CBIC with the following assumptions:
 - FPGA fixed cost is $21,800, part cost is $39.
 - MGA fixed cost is $86,000, part cost is $10.
 - CBIC fixed cost is $146,000, part cost is $8.
At low volumes, the MGA and the CBIC are more expensive because of their higher fixed costs. The total part costs of two alternative types of ASIC are equal at the break-even volume. In Figure 1.11 the break-even volume for the FPGA and the MGA is about 2000 parts. The break-even volume between the FPGA and the CBIC is about 4000 parts. The break-even volume between the MGA and the CBIC is higher—at about 20,000 parts.
FIGURE 1.11 A break-even analysis for an FPGA, a masked gate array (MGA) and a custom cell-based ASIC (CBIC). The break-even volume between two technologies is the point at which the total cost of parts are equal. These numbers are very approximate.
We shall describe how to calculate the fixed part costs next. Following that we shall discuss how we came up with cost per part of $39, $10, and $8 for the FPGA, MGA, and CBIC.
1.4.3 ASIC Fixed Costs
Figure 1.12 shows a spreadsheet, "Fixed Costs," that calculates the fixed part costs associated with ASIC design.
FIGURE 1.12 A spreadsheet, "Fixed Costs," for a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), a masked gate array (MGA), and a cell-based ASIC (CBIC). These costs can vary wildly.
The training cost includes the cost of the time to learn any new electronic design automation ( EDA ) system. For example, a new FPGA design system might require a few days to learn; a new gate-array or cell-based design system might require taking a course. Figure 1.12 assumes that the cost of an engineer (including overhead, benefits, infrastructure, and so on) is between $100,000 and $200,000 per year or $2000 to $4000 per week (in the United States in 1990s dollars).
Next we consider the hardware and software cost for ASIC design. Figure 1.12 shows some typical figures, but you can spend anywhere from $1000 to $1 million (and more) on ASIC design software and the necessary infrastructure.
We try to measure productivity of an ASIC designer in gates (or transistors) per day. This is like trying to predict how long it takes to dig a hole, and the number of gates per day an engineer averages varies wildly. ASIC design productivity must increase as ASIC sizes increase and will depend on experience, design tools, and the ASIC complexity. If we are using similar design methods, design productivity ought to be independent of the type of ASIC, but FPGA design software is usually available as a complete bundle on a PC. This means that it is often easier to learn and use than semicustom ASIC design tools.
Every ASIC has to pass a production test to make sure that it works. With modern test tools the generation of any test circuits on each ASIC that are needed for production testing can be automatic, but it still involves a cost for design for test. An FPGA is tested by the manufacturer before it is sold to you and before you program it. You are still paying for testing an FPGA, but it is a hidden cost folded into the part cost of the FPGA. You do have to pay for any programming costs for an FPGA, but we can include these in the hardware and software cost.
The nonrecurring-engineering ( NRE ) charge includes the cost of work done by the ASIC vendor and the cost of the masks. The production test uses sets of test inputs called test vectors, often many thousands of them. Most ASIC vendors require simulation to generate test vectors and test programs for production testing, and will charge for a test-program development cost. The number of masks required by an ASIC during fabrication can range from three or four (for a gate array) to 15 or more (for a CBIC). Total mask costs can range from $5000 to $50,000 or more. The total NRE charge can range from $10,000 to $300,000 or more and will vary with volume and the size of the ASIC. If you commit to high volumes (above 100,000 parts), the vendor may waive the NRE charge. The NRE charge may also include the costs of software tools, design verification, and prototype samples.
If your design does not work the first time, you have to complete a further design pass ( turn or spin ) that requires additional NRE charges. Normally you sign a contract (sign off a design) with an ASIC vendor that guarantees first-pass success—this means that if you designed your ASIC according to rules specified by the vendor, then the vendor guarantees that the silicon will perform according to the simulation or you get your money back. This is why the difference between semicustom and full-custom design styles is so important—the ASIC vendor will not (and cannot) guarantee your design will work if you use any full-custom design techniques.
Nowadays it is almost routine to have an ASIC work on the first pass. However, if your design does fail, it is little consolation to have a second pass for free if your company goes bankrupt in the meantime. Figure 1.13 shows a profit model that represents the profit flow during the product lifetime. Using this model, we can estimate the lost profit due to any delay.
FIGURE 1.13 A profit model. If a product is introduced on time, the total sales are $60 million (the area of the higher triangle). With a three-month (one fiscal quarter) delay the sales decline to $25 million. The difference is shown as the shaded area between the two triangles and amounts to a lost revenue of $35 million.
Suppose we have the following situation:
 - The product lifetime is 18 months (6 fiscal quarters).
 - The product sales increase (linearly) at $10 million per quarter independently of when the product is introduced (we suppose this is because we can increase production and sales only at a fixed rate).
 - The product reaches its peak sales at a point in time that is independent of when we introduce a product (because of external market factors that we cannot control).
 - The product declines in sales (linearly) to the end of its life—a point in time that is also independent of when we introduce the product (again due to


Dr Martin is the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Mahe Bleu. He received his Ph.D. in Plant Molecular Biology from the Imperial College London and was a post-doctoral fellow at John Radcliffe Hospital before coming to Seychelles in 2015 to explore the Indian Ocean Sea Kelp, and later he lanched Mahe Bleu in 2019.
Where did you grow up?
In a town called in Yorkshire, England. That's where I went to school up. I then got my Ph.D. in Plant Molecular Biology from the Imperial College London.
Were you always interested in science?
What sparked your interest?
I have been interested in science, ever since junior school, but I was also fascinated with making something practical. I was inspired by my father, who was an entrepreneur and always came out with a breakthrough innovation and launching businesses. He was highly innovative, and it really inspired me – I wanted to do good science, but with practical applications.
Your scientific journey, your education and your research, took a decade and you must have faced many obstacles. What keeps you going?
My father always told me, Never Give Up . He told me so many dramatic stories of his biggest challenges, lowest moments, and worst mistakes―and how he uses tenacity and creativity to turn defeat into victory. Just simply do not give up.
What brings you to Seychelles and Why are you so fascinated by the Indian Ocean?
Seychelles, renowned as "the World's Last Eden", possesses a unique ecology, featuring large coral reef complexes and 25, tropical rainforests, and 270 flora, including 75 endemic species. And 268 species of red algae, 108 species of green algae and 59 species of brown algae have been documented so far (435 species in total).
Seychelles has an EEZ of 1,374,000 km2 of ocean and 115 islands containing a UNESCO World Heritage marine site—Aldabra Atoll, one of the largest atolls in the world with rich terrestrial and marine biodiversity. This represents a huge surface area and consequently a great expanse of algae cover. It presents a good avenue for algae research and exploitation for the economy of the island.
We worked for 3 years to find the legendary curing energies of Indian Ocean Algae through fermentation and complex sonic chemical reactions. Every ingredient that goes into Mahe Bleu is fermented. Each ingredient is converted into micronutrients, so it can penetrate deeply into skin cells.
Lastly, tell us about your skincare routine?
Apart from trying all the new Mahe Bleu Peptide Skincare products, I use Water Brightening Program three times a week. When I'm traveling, I also take the Active Repaire Cocoa Bean Serum with me because, airplanes and arid environments can be traumatic for the skin.


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 1. I like to snack on dry roasted peantus. Are they really fattening? Answer
 2. Please evaluate the nutritional content of fruit roll snacks. Answer
I like to snack on dry roasted peanuts. I only eat a handful at a time. Are they really fattening? I thought peanuts were a good source of protein.
I've been asked your question frequently. So out of curiosity, I poured several handfuls of dry roasted peanuts. The average number of peanuts was 40 (1/4 cup) and I have small hands!
Every 10 whole dry roasted peanuts have 45 calories, five grams of fat and two grams of protein. So every handful of peanuts you eat has 180 calories, 20 grams of fat and eight grams of protein. This would be equal to four pats of butter and one ounce of meat. However, peanuts are lacking in three essential amino acids and therefore, not a complete source of protein like meat.
Remember that any food eaten to excess can be stored by your body as fat. Protein foods like meat can be stored as fat as well. The fattening effect of food is reflected in increases in your body weight. Your body weight can fluctuate about three pounds with changes in water levels in your body. Pay attention to any weight increase over five pounds and start reducing your daily food intake by 500 calories per day until your weight stabilizes at your normal body weight.
Dry roasted peanuts also contain significant amounts of sodium in the form of added salt. There are several brands of reduced sodium peanuts available. Try them to reduce your salt intake.
Please evaluate the nutritional content of fruit roll snacks. My children love them, but I'm concerned because they taste so sweet.
Most fruit roll snacks have 50 to 100 calories per serving and 12 to 21 grams of carbohydrate. The analysis is similar to fruit. A medium apple has 60 calories and 15 grams of carbohydrate.
In reading the list of ingredients however, I found more than fruit. Maltodextrin, sugar, natural flavor, vegetable shortening, citric acid, mono and diglycerides and spice were also listed.
These products seem expensive for just eight fruit roll snacks per box. Go to your grocery store and check the price of eight pieces of the same fresh fruit against the price of one box of eight fruit rolls in the same flavor as the fresh fruit. Decide for yourself, which is a better buy for the money. Remember though, food is not nutritious until it gets into the body.
I found the fruit rolls to be sweet tasting. Also, they were quite sticky to the teeth. Both sweet and sticky foods increase tooth decay. Dentists have now listed sweet sticky fruits, including fruit rolls and raisins as causing cavities. I am more concerned still about candy and sugary desserts than fruits and fruit rolls.
The snack choices you have are fresh fruit, canned fruit in fruit juice or fruit rolls. I would suggest you offer children a variety of fresh fruit cut in small pieces for snacks first. However, you can make your own fruit rolls or leathers by following this recipe I found in "Taming the C.A.N.D.Y. Monster" by Vicki Lansky. Use fresh apples, peaches, pears or nectarines to make this fruit roll snack.
Fruit Leathers Recipe
The fruit can be the "too hard to eat" variety or the "too ripe and the last piece" variety. It even works on canned fruit, which is well drained. Use mashed or pureed fruit. Two methods work well.
First is the blender way. Peel and core fruit, blend until smooth and then cook 5 minutes in a saucepan over medium heat.
Second method is the freeze/defrost method. In advance, peel and core fruit and place it wrapped in the freezer. Remove from freezer an hour before using. Cook in a saucepan, mashing with a fork as you go. Cook 5 to 10 minutes. If very watery, drain. While cooking, add 1 tsp. of honey for each piece of fruit you are using. (Cook the different fruits separately, though you can cook one piece or a dozen of the same type at one time.)
Lay out clear wax paper or cut open small wax bags on a cookie sheet or broiling tray. Use one wax paper for each piece of fruit you have cooked. Spoon mixture onto the wax paper, staying away from its edge. Spread as thin as possible. If you spread another piece of wax paper over the mixture and press down with a wide spatula, it helps to make the fruit evenly thin. Be sure to remove this top sheet of wax paper before drying.
Place your tray in the oven (at night, we suggest), turned on to the lowest possible heat or with just the pilot light on. Leave overnight (6 to 8 hours). The wax paper should not melt. If the fruit is dry by breakfast, remove the fruit leathers from the oven (if not, cook a little longer) and roll up the wax paper (with the dried fruit) as if it were a jelly roll.
Cool, peel and eat. It will last several months this way, if your children don't discover it, that is.
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The process of distorting the perspective of an image to
such an extent that its normal appearance can only be restored by the observer
completely changing the way he looks at the image. In catoptric
anamorphosis, a curved mirror, usually of cylindrical or conical
shape, is used to restore an anamorphic picture to its undistorted form
(see illustration). In other kinds of anamorphism the observer has to change
her viewing position – for example, by looking at the picture almost
along its surface. Some anamorphic art adds deception by concealing the
distorted image in an otherwise normal looking picture.
At one time, artists who had the mathematical knowledge to create anamorphic
pictures kept their calculations and grids a well-guarded secret. Now it
is relatively easy to create such images by computer.
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I've been working towards packaging my domain logic at my current job so I can reuse it in multiple implementations. The code snippets below were an abandoned experiment for a php Laravel project. I have recently put together a simple way to build a query from an array.
So, instead of something like this:
$post = Post::isPublished()
 ->where('id', $id)
I create an array ['isPublished', 'id' => $id] that is passed to a function defined in a trait.
protected function buildQuery(array $attributes)
 if (count($attributes) == 0) {
 $query = (new $this->model);
 foreach ($attributes as $key => $value) {
 $method_name = camel_case(!is_numeric($key)? $key : $value);
 $scope_method_name = camel_case('scope'.$method_name);
 // Call a local scope method on the model or resume
 // with normal where equals clause.
 if (method_exists($this->model, $scope_method_name)) {
 $query = call_user_func([$query, $method_name], $value);
 } else {
 $query = $query->where($key, $value);
 return $query;
This then allows me to call local scopes and also have a default functionality of $query->where('column', $value) if not using a local scope. The resulting call could look something like...
$attributes = [
 'id' => $id
$post = $this->posts
At the end of the day, an ORM is your friend. So in this case, I still end up using Eloquent over this.


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Meaning of hack
- to cut, notch, slice, chop, or sever (something) with or as with heavy, irregular blows (often fol. by up or down): to hack meat; to hack down trees.
- to break up the surface of (the ground).
- to clear (a road, path, etc.) by cutting away vines, trees, brush, or the like: They hacked a trail through the jungle.
- to damage or injure by crude, harsh, or insensitive treatment; mutilate; mangle: The editor hacked the story to bits.
- to reduce or cut ruthlessly; trim:hacked the budget severely before returning it to the House. The Senate
- to deal or cope with; handle: He can't hack all this commuting.
- to devise or modify (a computer program), usually skillfully.
- to strike the arm of (an opposing ball handler): He got a penalty for hacking the shooter.
- to kick or kick at the shins of (an opposing player) in Rugby football.
- to embarrass, annoy, or disconcert.
- to make rough cuts or notches; deal cutting blows.
- to cough harshly, usually in short and repeated spasms.
- to take a poor, ineffective, or awkward swing at the ball.
- to play tennis at a mediocre level.
- to kick or kick at an opponent's shins in Rugby football.
- to pass the time idly; indulge in idle talk.
- to handle or cope with a situation or an assignment adequately and calmly: The new recruit just can't hack it.
- a cut, gash, or notch.
- a tool, as an ax, hoe, or pick, for hacking.
- an act or instance of hacking; a cutting blow.
- a short, rasping dry cough.
- a hesitation in speech.
- an indentation made in the ice at the foot score, for supporting the foot in delivering the stone.
- a gash in the skin produced by a kick, as in Rugby football.
- a person, as an artist or writer, who exploits, for money, his or her creative ability or training in the production of dull, unimaginative, and trite work; one who produces banal and mediocre work in the hope of gaining commercial success in the arts: As a painter, he was little more than a hack.
- a professional who renounces or surrenders individual independence, integrity, belief, etc., in return for money or other reward in the performance of a task normally thought of as involving a strong personal commitment: a political hack.
- a writer who works on the staff of a publisher at a dull or routine task; someone who works as a literary drudge: He was one among the many hacks on Grub Street.
- a horse kept for common hire or adapted for general work, esp. ordinary riding.
- a saddle horse used for transportation, rather than for show, hunting, or the like.
- an old or worn-out horse; jade.
- a coach or carriage kept for hire; hackney.
- a taxi.
- Also,hackie.a cabdriver.
- a prison guard.
- to make a hack of; let out for hire.
- to make trite or stale by frequent use; hackney.
- to drive a taxi.
- to ride or drive on the road at an ordinary pace, as distinguished from cross-country riding or racing.
- to rent a horse, esp. by the hour.
- hired as a hack; of a hired sort: a hack writer; hack work.
- hackneyed; trite; banal: hack writing.
- a rack for drying food, as fish.
- a rack for holding fodder for livestock.
- a low pile of unburnt bricks in the course of drying.
- (of a young hawk) being trained to fly freely but to return to a hack house or hack board for food rather than to pursue quarry.
- to place (something) on a hack, as for drying or feeding.
- to train (a young hawk) by letting it fly freely and feeding it at a hack board or a hack house.
- hack (Thesaurus)


Fujitsu develops facial detection AI to quantify concentration levels of people
It has touted that the technology can detect concentration across various tasks.
Fujitsu has developed a new AI model that it claims can capture and quantify how much a person is concentrating when performing tasks.
Conventionally, AI models that are designed to quantify concentration have been created by training algorithms to recognise the expressions and behaviours of people performing specific tasks, such as e-learning, Fujitsu explained.
Facial Recognition with business man
But since facial expressions and behaviour differ depending on the tasks involved and the cultural background in which each person grew up, this meant that it has been difficult to develop AI models that could analyse different, specific situations, the company said.
With its new AI model, Fujitsu claimed that it can detect a person's concentration across various tasks due to it identifying common features and separating analysis by each muscle group so it does not become easily influenced by the subjects' cultural backgrounds.
"The technology captures changes over a short period of a few seconds, such as a tense mouth, and long-term changes over periods of tens of seconds, such as staring intently, with time frames optimised for each action unit," Fujitsu said.
When building the AI model, Fujitsu collected data from 650 people across China, Japan, and the United States as part of its machine learning dataset. The dataset included information focused on people engaging in tasks, like memorisation and searching, that require concentration.
Using the newly developed AI model, the concentration levels of participants in each country was estimated for a series of tasks, and it was possible to estimate the degree of concentration with more than 85% accuracy, Fujitsu claimed.
In addition, when the developed AI model was evaluated using data that included both concentration and non-concentration due to drowsiness, Fujitsu said it was able to confirm declines in concentration due to sleepiness indicators.
Fujitsu hopes the latest AI model can be applied across various services such as online classes, online meetings, and sales activities, which have expanded due to the uptick of remote learning and working.
Across the globe, organisations such as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) have condemned the use of faulty facial recognition systems. In a blog post last year, ACLU senior staff attorney Ashley Gorski said: "Over the last couple years, it's become increasingly clear that facial recognition technology doesn't work well, and would be a civil liberties and privacy nightmare even if it did."
Meanwhile, the Council of Europe published new guidelines at the start of the year that criticised the deployment of facial recognition technologies in workplace and learning contexts.
The watchdog advised that where the technology is used exclusively to determine an individual's skin colour, religious belief, sex, ethnic origin, age, health or social status, the use of facial recognition should be prohibited, unless it can be shown that its deployment is necessary and proportionate.
Under the same conditions, the Council of Europe said the ban should also apply to digital tools that can recognise emotions, detect personality traits, or mental health conditions, as they could be used unfairly in hiring processes or to determine access to insurance and education.
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Teledentistry and its use in dental education.
Teledentistry is a relatively new field that combines telecommunication technology and dental care. Most dentists and dental educators are unaware that teledentistry can be used not only for increased access to dental care, but also for advanced dental education. TYPE OF STUDIES REVIEWED: The authors describe teledentistry as it is applied worldwide, as well as its uses in education. Teledentistry in education can be divided into two main categories: self-instruction and interactive videoconferencing. Both of these methods have been used in several studies and countries.
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