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Reducing Seclusion and Restraint in Texas
"Seclusion and restraint" is using physical force, restricting movement, or involuntarily medicating or isolating people to manage their behavior. These methods often are used to control people at risk of harming themselves or others in settings such as juvenile detention centers, psychiatric hospitals, residential treatment facilities and schools.
The use of seclusion and restraint is a complex, controversial issue that touches many Texas agencies. Use of seclusion and restraint is considered a failure in treatment because it can be traumatic and dangerous to consumers and staff. It can cause severe physical and psychological harm, and even death. It can also lead to mistrust and power struggles that conflict with a positive therapeutic environment and hinder recovery.
Residential Treatment Centers Funding Initiative
The Hogg Foundation awarded a three-year grant in the amount of $589,172 to Texas Network of Youth Services to provide technical assistance to residential treatment centers (RTC) implementing trauma-informed systems of care to reduce their reliance on seclusion and restraint.
As part of this project, the Hogg Foundation hosted two training seminars on trauma-informed systems of care - one in Houston and one in Austin. The seminars were led by national experts on trauma-informed care, Beth Caldwell, MS; Kevin Ann Huckshorn, RN, MSN, CADC, ICRC and Janice Lebel, PhD. These trainings were offered to staff from all residential treatment centers in Texas in January 2012.
Texas Network of Youth Services will provide intensive technical assistance and follow-up support to selected residential treatment centers for up to three years after the training seminar.
Through this initiative, the Hogg Foundation hopes to:
- Raise awareness of the prevalence and influence of trauma in the lives of RTC residents and the ways in which trauma affects behavior.
- Highlight the ways in which the use of seclusion and restraint pose the risk of causing further traumatic experiences and examine the complex relationship between trauma and behavior.
- Demonstrate the significance of and need for cultural change at every level of an organization in order to successfully implement trauma-informed practices that reduce the use of seclusion and restraint.
Reducing Restraint through Trauma-Informed Care for People with Intellectual Disabilities and Behavioral or Mental Health Conditions
Traumatic experiences affect both brain development and behavior. Individuals with intellectual disabilities are at much higher risk than the general population of abuse, neglect and the associated trauma. Behaviors caused by trauma can create challenging and sometimes dangerous situations for the individual and the support staff assisting those with intellectual disabilities. These challenging behaviors are often attributed solely to the disability with minimal attention to the individual's mental health.
The Hogg Foundation is partnering with the Department of Aging and Disability Services to provide training and technical assistance on trauma informed care to service providers supporting individuals with intellectual disabilities. Understanding the impact of trauma on behavior and using trauma-informed strategies can help reduce the use of restraint on individuals with intellectual disabilities in both facility and community settings.
The foundation coordinated trainings at two state supported living centers in February 2012. Both facility staff and community service providers were invited to participate. As organizations begin to plan and implement new strategies learned at the trainings, the foundation will offer on-going technical assistance to support the restraint reduction efforts.
Conferences and Training Events
The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health supports efforts to identify effective, safe alternatives to seclusion and restraint techniques through research, policy discussions and education. Since 2004, the foundation has hosted conferences, sponsored training for agencies across Texas, and provided educational materials about reducing the use of seclusion and restraint.
- 2007 Conference (training materials and presentations online)
- 2006 Training Institute (training materials and presentations online)
- 2006 Teleconference (training materials and presentations online)
- 2004 Robert Lee Sutherland Conference (training materials and presentations online)
Texas Seclusion and Restraint Leadership Group
The Hogg Foundation also launched and facilitates the Texas Seclusion and Restraint Reduction Leadership Group. Formed in 2007, the group's members include mental health consumers, family members, advocates and representatives of private and public agencies. They have the expertise and experience to help bring about organizational change and can be a knowledgeable resource and guide to state lawmakers, agencies, advocates, service providers and consumers.
The leadership group also serves as advisors for a federally funded project called STARS: State of Texas Alternatives to Restraint and Seclusion. The project was funded with a grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission and Department of State Health Services to focus on reducing seclusion and restraint to four Texas psychiatric hospitals. It became evident that many of the tools used to change the culture of care and reduce restraint and seclusion in state mental hospitals could be applied in other care settings as well so a toolkit for creating a trauma-informed environment was developed by the Texas Department of State Health Services.
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Wildlife Regulations and the Georgia Teacher
Animals in the Classroom
The use of animals in the classroom, either alive or preserved, gives the Georgia educator exciting opportunities to teach. However, many laws and regulations must be observed. The various rules concern:
Familiarity with a few basic legal definitions is crucial to a thorough understanding of wildlife laws. Here are some basic definitions.
Wildlife - refers to those species of animals (mammals, birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles, crustaceans, and mollusks) indigenous to Georgia.
Wild Animal - means any animal not indigenous to (exotics) Georgia and not normally a domesticated species. This group would include practically all exotic animals.
Domesticated Species - are those animals that have tradition ally lived in a state of dependence on and under the dominion and control of mankind and have been kept as tame pets or livestock. These may be possessed without permits.
Though this information is not an in-depth coverage of the laws and regulations, many of the primary concerns of educators are addressed. Your local conservation ranger or Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Resources Division office is available to answer your questions. You can find the phone number and address for your local office by selecting your county from the list under 'Send a Letter or Give Us a Call' on any of the menu pages on this site. You can also call the Special Permit Unit at _PHONE_.
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What is a c wire on a sensi thermostat?
On combined heating and cooling systems, Sensi does not require a "C" wire because the thermostat is designed to "Power Share" between the two systems. For example, on a call for heat, Sensi will use a small amount of power from the cooling system to power the Wi-Fi radio. In "Power Sharing" mode, the AA batteries may last more than a year.
What is a C-Wire and Why Do You Need One?
The 'C' wire (short for 'Common' wire) is the wire that actually provides the power to operate your thermostat. Although there are some options available if you do not have a 'C' wire (see below), having one opens up a much greater choice.
Can I Add A C-Wire To My System To Use the Sensi thermostat? A c-wire (also referred to as a common wire) is a low voltage power wire that many Wi-Fi thermostats require for their features to work. A lot of homes don't have a c-wire because older thermostats didn't require one. The Sensi Wi-Fi Programmable Thermostat is one of the few Wi-Fi options that does not require a c-wire in most
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A kickoff is a form of defense. The "directional kick approach" is designed to control the return possibilities. However, regardless of how well the kicker executes his techniques, the key to a successful kickoff is the coverage. The reason is that no matter how well alignments are disguised, or where the ball is kicked, unless the coverage is good, the kickoff will not be successful.
As noted above, there are some approaches to coverage that use "run & read zone", "avoidance zone" and "contact zone". This can confuse some players, so our basic coverage philosophy is to avoid early, run through late. The technique of "avoid" is avoiding all blocks to the tail of the opponent, and then get back into your lane. This would be in the first twenty yards for Bullets, and first thirty yards for the Alleys. The technique of "run through" is to attack and play through all blocks. When defeating a block, the player cannot get caught on a side of the blocker. This opens up running lanes for the ball carrier. The players will run through, staying square.
The spacing of the coverage team in relation to the return team, along with the speed of the play, makes the kickoff the most aggressive play in football. However, even though the kickoff requires physical aggression, it also requires the players to be mentally tough and use proper technique. The teaching process includes: (1) Kicker – directional kicks, (2) Get Off – speed down the field, (2) Defeating a Blocker – adjustments to the ball, and (3) Open Field Tackling – close and tackle.
Many coaches look for a kicker who can kick the football into the end zone – consistently. Reality check! We look for a kicker that can perform, or will work on perfecting our directional kicks. Consistency is an important element in our coverage schemes. When we can count on our kicker to kick the ball, with the acceptable hang time, to a specific location we have the advantage because we are coaching our coverage players to converge to a specific spot and adjust to the ball carrier.
We use a "form start" five-yards behind the ball. Every player in our program knows how to get into this stance because we practice it year-round. The feet are narrow ("inside shoulders"), with a stagger of six to twelve inches. The drop hand is directly down from the shoulder, with the thumb and forefinger supporting the stance. The shoulders are aligned in front of the hand. The hips are elevated, higher than the shoulders. The back should be flat. The head is up, with the eyes focused approximately two to three feet in ahead. This stance puts the player's body in a pushing position that allows them to accelerate very quickly. As the kicker yells "ready", begin to count 1001, 1002 and then drive off the balls of the feet, completely extending the ankles, knees, and hips while driving the off arm to propel the start. It is this stance that allows us to align five-yards behind the ball, versus the traditional ten-yards.
Key Coaching Points:
- Place the front foot 1 to 3 inches behind the free-kick line;
- Drop the arm, opposite the front foot straight down from the shoulder;
- Place the hand (off the dropped arm) high on the fingertips right behind the free-kick line, with the thumb and forefinger parallel to the line;
- Place the other hand to the hip of the forward leg with the elbow up;
- Stagger the back foot 6 to 12 inches behind the heel of the forward (front) foot;
- Raise the hips slightly above the shoulders creating a forward lean so the shoulders are slightly ahead of the free-kick line;
- Shift the majority of the body weight onto the front leg and hand; and
- Focus the eyes 2 to 3 feet in front of the free-kick line.
Defeating a Blocker
As the coverage team closes the distance between themselves and the first wave of blockers, they must set them up so they can avoid them, and get back in their lanes by the butt of the blocker. This can be accomplished by swerving or weaving using head fakes in the run. These can begin within seven to eight yards from the blocker. The coverage player is trying to get the blocker to stop their feet, adjust their course or crossover compromising their base. As the coverage player closes the gap, they can widen their running base allowing them to go in either direction. Also, a swim or rip technique can be used. If the blocker appears to be in balance, feet stopped, then run right by him without any moves.
- Swim: Slap the blockers shoulder with the off arm, while punching the hand directly over the top of the shoulder pad.
- Rip: Reach to the back pocket ("dip" or reducing the shoulder pad surface), rub the body and club up finishing the rip by kissing the bicep. The coverage player must accelerate through the rip to get by the blocker.
If the blocker makes contact, attack him with a three-point punch. This should get him off balance, as the coverage player should be attacking with speed. Get the hands on the breastplate of the shoulder pads. Drive the blocker back into the return until you see the ball. Then use a push-pull technique, ripping off the block to make a play.
The following is a brief list of coaching points when discussing kick coverage:
- Keep the return team off balance with directional kicks.
- Kick coverage is an all-out sprint, however as important as speed, is the desire to make the tackle is more important.
- Know and execute coverage responsibilities – avoid early, run through late. Don't overrun the ball!
- Alignments should initially defend the field, but once the return has been defined, defense the football.
- It is not a shame to get knocked down, but it is a crime to stay down.
- Locate the ball and converge.
- Maintain an inside shoulder relationship (outside leverage) with the ball carrier and attack him aggressively.
- If you lose your outside leverage on the ball carrier, come to balance as you get to the breaking point in front of the ball carrier in order to make the tackle. Make sure your body is under control, moving your feet in a good football position.
- Wedge defender, or first man approaching the wedge should:
- Use up two blockers by attacking a gap between them keeping the pad level low; and
- Force the ball carrier to move laterally.
- The first man down very seldom makes the tackle so keep coming because he has set the ball carrier up for the hit.
- Create a fumble by striking up through the ball, or if the second man to the ball carrier, strip or rip the football, thinking turnover.
- Be alert to recover the football anywhere on the field.
- Gang tackling sends a physical message to your opponent. Keep attacking until the whistle blows.
- All kickoffs must be covered! Do not anticipate the official's whistle. Go all out until the whistle blows.
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Jerry Campbell has over 30 years of high school and college coaching experience. He has experience as a head coach, offensive coordinator, and various position coaches. He has written numerous football coaching articles in various publications, is the author of over 30 books on coaching football, and has produced 12 coaching video series. Additionally, he is a nationally sought after speaker on the coaching clinic circuit.

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Our research into a new GPS module for the Parachute System Control Computer (PSCC) led to a promising discovery; advanced GPS modules are available that utilize Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) data to determine position and altitude with an accuracy of a few centimeters. RTK data provides the GPS with information it needs to correct for the slight changes that occur to a GPS signal as it travels through the atmosphere. Normally these changes would create small inaccuracies in the GPS reading, but by using RTK, the GPS module adjusts for this and outputs a more accurate altitude reading.
While RTK equipped GPS modules are more expensive and complex then their non RTK counterparts, the enhanced accuracy that they offer is worth it, especially when an accurate reading is necessary to deploy the parachutes on time. Due to this, we purchased a RTK GPS and the related components to integrate it into the PSCC-2.
After the parts arrived we were faced with the task of assembling them and converting the PSCC-1 code into a version that would work with new PSCC-2. With the experience we had gained while building the first PSCC we were able to complete this task in only a few weeks and we ready to begin testing.
The first test we performed was a simple ground based test that would evaluate the accuracy of the PSCC-2 against a known source, a survey mark. Survey marks are areas that have had their altitude and location precisely measured, so that equipment of unknown accuracy, such as the one in our PSCC-2, can have their accuracy determined. We located a survey mark nearby, and acquired the published altitude value. At the site of the survey mark we powered on the PSCC-2 and collected an array of altitude readings (shown below).
When we compared this data with the published value of _PHONE_ mm, we found our PSCC-2 altitude readings had a discrepancy of approximately 1976 mm (2 m). Considering that we were unable to position the PSCC-2 directly on the beacon, this result is well within our accuracy requirements. Now that we have confirmed the performance of our system, we are ready to flight test the PSCC-2.


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by Roger Downey
John Luther Adams says he wrote his Inuksuit for "9 to 99 percussionists." That sounds as if it's supposed to be epic in scale, and it is, in ambition. When you hear the commercial recording, with just 30-odd players, that feeling is confirmed. But Adams is thinking in terms of multiples of musicians, and 99 players would probably need more than nine times the footprint of just nine.
So the main shock of encountering Inuksuit live, on a sunny-cloudy, coolish-warmish Saturday afternoon in Seattle was the discovery that the piece is chamber music; that at its thundering climax about a half hour in iit's just as calm and transparent as at its amplified breathing opening and its shimmering-triangles conclusion.
Every review of earlier performances round the world mentions how Adams' slowly shifting soundscape captures the random sounds of its surroundings. That bare statement doesn't convey the way it bends those sounds and enfolds them, makes them seem as appropriate to their moments as the sounds of the written score.
Other composers are surely studying this piece, learning from it how to tear down the material concert hall built into their preconceptions and replace it with a virtual cathedral, where the winds are the walls and the sky Shelly's dome of multicolored glass, "staining the white radiance of Eternity."


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Jan. 17, 2013 A team of researchers led by Professor Maharaj K. Pandit from the University Scholars Programme at the National University of Singapore (NUS) found that unprecedented dam building in the Indian Himalaya holds serious consequences for biodiversity and could pose a threat to human lives and livelihoods.
Prof Pandit, who also holds a courtesy appointment with the Department of Geography at the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and his team at the University of Delhi and the Kunming Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences investigated close to 300 dams and related hydropower infrastructure on the Himalayan rivers across some of the biggest river basins in the world, namely the Indus, Ganga and Brahmaputra. The study, co-funded by NUS, was published in the journal Science in January 2013 as well as other scientific journals such as Conservation Biology, PLOS ONE and cited in a Nature article in 2012.
Impact of dam-building activities on biodiversity
Using field data and modelling, the researchers discovered that almost 90% of the Himalayan valleys would be affected by dam building and that 27% of these dams would affect dense forests with unique biodiversity. The team projected that dam-related activities will submerge and destroy about 170,000 hectares of forests. The researchers also predicted that the dam density in the Himalaya is likely to be about 62 times greater than the current global average, which would result in deforestation and the extinction of 22 flowering plants and 7 vertebrate species.
Impact of dam-building activities on human lives
Furthermore, the study found that water volume is the main driver of the richness of fish species in the rivers. Water withdrawals due to massive dam building activity would seriously undermine fish survival and diversity, fragment habitats and limit fish migration in these rivers, with long-term consequences for the livelihoods of fishermen.
Besides threatening biodiversity, the study also revealed the impact of dam-building activities on human lives and livelihoods. Due to high population density, dams have displaced Indian citizens for decades.
Prof Pandit opined, "We are deeply aware of the country's need to develop economically. However, there is a need to balance development and not venture into haphazard dam building without caring for biodiversity and people."
Recommendations to improve dam-building projects
The findings from the study highlight the need for sustainable power development. In their paper published in Science, Prof Pandit and his co-author Dr Edward Grumbine from the Kunming Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences provided suggestions to improve the planning and implementation of India's proposed Himalaya hydropower projects such as the reduction of power losses during transmission and distribution.
Prof Pandit sees an important role for Singapore in this area. He explained, "The power infrastructure in India is worn out and needs to be updated. Singapore has the technological know-how in the maintenance of transmission and distribution networks and this is a golden opportunity for Singapore to provide expertise to aid India's efforts on environmental conservation."
Further research into biodiversity and conservation
Prof Pandit will continue his research on the impact of water withdrawals on the biodiversity of Himalayan rivers at NUS. His research will focus on the large number of endemic species inhabiting the marshy habitats and the floodplains in the Himalayan foothills, such as the one-horned rhino, which are likely to go extinct due to upstream water withdrawals.
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My Name is Savannah Rain.
"Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)? Support your answer with a proof."
This was an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry midterm:
Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools off when it expands and heats up when it is compressed) or some variant thereof.
One student, however, wrote the following:
First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So, we need to know the rate that souls are moving into Hell and the rate they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving.
As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today.Some of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there are more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all people and all souls go to Hell.
With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially.
Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand as souls are added.
This gives two possibilities:
(1) If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.
(2) Of course, if Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.
So which is it?
If we accept the postulate given to me by Ms. Therese Banyan during my Freshman year, "That it will be a cold night in Hell before I sleep with you," and take into account the fact that I still have not succeeded in that area, then (2) cannot be true, and so Hell is exothermic.
The student got the only A.
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"1. One very important thing that you need to remember is that not every flower is edible. In fact, sampling some flowers can make you very, very sick.
2. You also should NEVER use pesticides or other chemicals on any part of any plant that produces blossoms you plan to eat.
3. Never harvest flowers growing by the roadside or from florists, nurseries, or garden centers. They may have been sprayed with pesticides.
4. Identify the flower exactly and eat only edible flowers and edible parts of those flowers.
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Given a function $f: \mathbb{R}^+ \rightarrow \mathbb{C}$ satisfying suitable conditions (exponential decay at infinity, continuous, and bounded variation) is good enough, its Mellin transform is defined by the function
$$M(f)(s) = \int_0^{\infty} f(y) y^s \frac{dy}{y},$$
and $f(y)$ can be recovered by the Mellin inversion formula:
$$f(y) = \frac{1}{2\pi i} \int_{\sigma - i \infty}^{\sigma + i \infty} y^{-s} M(f)(s) ds.$$
This is a change of variable from the Fourier inversion formula, or the Laplace inversion formula, and can be proved in the same way. This is used all the time in analytic number theory (as well as many other subjects, I understand) -- for example, if $f(y)$ is the characteristic function of $[0, 1]$ then its Mellin transform is $1/s$, and one recovers the fact (Perron's formula) that
$$\frac{1}{2\pi i} \int_{2 - i \infty}^{2 + i \infty} n^{-s} \frac{ds}{s}$$
is equal to 1 if $0 < n < 1$, and is 0 if $n > 1$. (Note that there are technical issues which I am glossing over; one integrates over any vertical line with $\sigma > 0$, and the integral is equal to $1/2$ if $n = 1$.)
I use these formulas frequently, but... I find myself having to look them up repeatedly, and I'd like to understand them more intuitively. Perron's formula can be proved using Cauchy's residue formula (shift the contour to $- \infty$ or $+ \infty$ depending on whether $n > 1$), but this proof doesn't prove the general Mellin inversion formula.
My question is:
What do the Mellin transform and the inversion formula mean? Morally, why are they true?
For example, why is the Mellin transform an integral over the positive reals, while the inverse transform is an integral over the complex plane?
I found some resources -- Wikipedia; this MO question is closely related, and the first video in particular is nice; and a proof is outlined in Iwaniec and Kowalski -- but I feel that there should be a more intuitive explanation than any I have come up with so far.
Thank you!
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You could also take a look at section 5.1 of Montgomery and Vaughan's Multiplicative Number Theory. It has several specific examples of Mellin transform pairs, together with brief remarks on how the formulas are proved. I believe that the basic method really is the same as Perron's formula: if $y$ is small then you drag the contour integral to the right and get a contribution of $0$, while if $y$ is large then you drag the contour to the left and pick up the residue of the integrand at $s=0$. – Greg Martin Nov 2 '11 at 23:15
Morally, why is the Fourier inversion formula true? Morally, why is the Laplace inversion formula true? – Gerry Myerson Nov 2 '11 at 23:44
Shouldn't this be something like Pontryagin duality for the multiplicative group of positive reals (maybe with some analytic continuation thrown in?). – Aaron Bergman Nov 3 '11 at 0:06
I agree with Greg here that Montgomery and Vaughan is a good pointer on why Mellin inversion works. But personally, the only justification I need is changing variables so that it becomes the same as Laplace inversion. This change of variables shows why one integral is over the positive reals while the other is a line integral in the complex plane. Of course, this all depends on how willing you are to believe why Laplace inversion is morally true, or Fourier inversion, for that matter. – Peter Humphries Nov 3 '11 at 0:50
I think of the Mellin transform as the equivalent gadget to the Fourier transform, but for the group of positive reals instead of the real line. The change of variables going from one transform to the other is either an exponential or log (depending on which way it's going) which corresponds to the usual isomorphism between the two groups. The function $t \rightarrow t^s$ is a character on the positive reals which is analogous to the function $x \rightarrow e^{2 \pi i x y}$ which is a character on the real line. The Mellin transform is natural for studying multiplicative functions. – Matt Young Nov 3 '11 at 1:33
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[Some next-day edits in response to comments] As counterpoint to other viewpoints, one can say that Mellin inversion is "simply" Fourier inversion in other coordinates. Depending on one's temperament, this "other coordinates" thing ranges from irrelevancy to substance... The question about moral imperatives for Fourier inversion is addressed a bit below.
[Added: the exponential map $x\rightarrow e^x$ gives an isomorphism of the topological group of additive reals to multiplicative. Thus, the harmonic analysis on the two is necessarily "the same", even if the formulaic aspects look different. The occasional treatment of values (and derivatives) at $0$ for functions on the positive reals, as in "Laplace transforms", is a relative detail, which certainly has a corresponding discussion for Fourier transforms.]
The specific riff in Perron's identity in analytic number theory amounts to (if one tolerates a change-of-coordinates) guessing/discerning an L^1 function on the line whose Fourier transform is (in what function space?!) the characteristic function of a half-line.
Since the char fcn of a half-line is not in L^2, and does not go to 0 at infinity, there are bound to be analytical issues... but these are technical, not conceptual.
[Added: the Fourier transform families $x^{\alpha-1}e^{-x}\cdot \chi_{x>0}$ and $(1+ix)^{-\alpha}$, (up to constants) where $\chi$ is the characteristic function, when translated to multiplicative coordinates, give one family approaching the desired "cut-off" effect of the Perron integral. There are other useful families, as well.]
To my taste, the delicacies/failures/technicalities of not-quite-easily-legal aspects of Fourier transforms are mostly crushed by simple ideas about Sobolev spaces and Schwartz' distributions... tho' these do not change the underlying realities. They only relieve us of some of the burden of misguided fussiness of some self-appointed guardians of a misunderstanding of the Cauchy-Weierstrass tradition.
[Added: surely such remarks will strike some readers as inappropriate poesy... but it is easy to be more blunt, if desired. Namely, in various common contexts there is a pointless, disproportionate emphasis on "rigor". Often, elementary analysis is the whipping-boy for this impulse, but also one can see elementary number theory made senselessly difficult in a similar fashion. Supposedly, the audience is being made aware of a "need/imperative" for care about delicate details. However, in practice, one can find oneself in the role of the Dilbertian "Mordac the Preventer (of information services)" [see wiki] proving things like the intermediate value theorem to calculus students: it is obviously true, first, or else one's meaning of "continuous" or "real numbers" needs adjustment; nevertheless, the traditional story is that this intuition must be delegitimized, and then a highly stylized substitute put in its place. What was the gain? Yes, something foundational, but time has passed, and we have only barely recovered, at some expense, what was obviously true at the outset.
On another hand, Bochner's irritation with "distributions theory" was that it was already clear to him that things worked like this, and he could already answer all the questions about generalized functions... so why be impressed with Schwartz' "mechanizing" it? For me, the answer is that Schwartz arranged a situation so that "any idiot" could use generalized functions, whereas previously it was an "art". Yes, sorta took the fun out of it... but maybe practical needs over-rule preservation of secret-society clubbiness?]
Why should there be Fourier inversion? (for example...) Well, we can say we want such a thing, because it diagonalizes the operator $d/dx$ on the line (and more complicated things can be said in more complicated situations).
Among other things, this renders "engineering math" possible... That is, one can understand and justify the almost-too-good-to-be-true ideas that seem "necessary" in applied situations... where I can't help but add "like modern number theory". :)
[Added: being somewhat an auto-didact, I was not aware until relatively late that "proof" was absolutely sacrosanct. To the point of fetishism? In fact, we do seem to collectively value insightful conjecture and not-quite-justifiable heuristics, and interesting unresolved ideas offer more chances for engagement than do settled, ironclad, finished discussions. For that matter, the moments


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What is deduplication?
Deduplication is avoiding storage of multiple copies of the same data.
Cloud storage service providers such as Dropbox, Mozy, and others perform deduplication to save space by only storing one copy of each file uploaded.
Can deduplication be combined with encryption?
Deduplication does not work with conventional encryption of course: should clients locally encrypt their files with
their individual keys, different ciphertexts would emerge even for identical plaintexts, making deduplication impossible.
is a widely used technique to combine the storage savings of deduplication while still providing decent privacy guarantees for the data.
In convergent encryption, the message is encrypted under a key derived by the hashing the message itself, along with a public parameter.
For example, to encrypt M, we could get K ← H(P, M) and derive
C ← Enc(K, M, IV_0).
Here, P is a 128-bit
string picked at random and fixed throughout the system, IV_0 is the all-0 initialization vector,
H could implemented through SHA256
and Enc through AES128 in CTR mode.
Message-locked encryption is a cryptographic primitive that broadens convergent encryption and captures the properties needed for enabling deduplication
over ciphertexts (see the Eurocrypt 2013 paper for more on message-locked encryption).
However, convergent encryption (and message-locked encryption in general) is inherently subject to brute-force attacks that can recover files falling into a known set.
If a file M is picked from a set S, given a convergent encryption ciphertext C of M,
an attacker can trial-decrypt with each candidate file M' in S by deriving K ← H(P, M') and checking
if M' = Dec(K, C).
How serious are brute-force attacks on convergent encryption?
The brute-force attack described above can reach high speeds (up to 12000 attempts per second on a single processor, see the DupLESS paper for details),
especially if S consists of short files. Moreover, the attack is completely parallelizable.
How does DupLESS protect against brute-force attacks?
DupLESS was built from the observation that the brute-force attack can be dealt with
by using a key server (KS) to derive keys, instead of setting keys to be hashes of messages.
Consider an enterprise
network, consisting of a group of affiliated clients (for
example, employees of a company) using an external deduplicated cloud storage service. Along with the clients, the network also includes
Access to the KS is
preceded by authentication, which stops external attackers. The increased cost slows down brute-force attacks
from compromised clients, and now the KS can function as a (logically) single point of control for implementing rate-limiting measures.
If the attacker cannot authenticate herself to the KS, we ensure high security.
(Effectively, semantic security, except that ciphertexts
leak equality of the underlying plaintexts. The latter is
necessary for deduplication.)
Even if the attacker compromises a client and gains
access to the KS, the attacker has to launch an online attack, interacting with the KS
for each attempt. Moreover, the KS limits the number of queries an attacker can make in
a given time period. The limit is set after analysing general usage patterns in the system:
for example, if no client performs more than 2 million writes per week, and the pattern
keeps repeating on a weekly basis, the KS will not reply to more than 2 million queries in a week.
Effectively, this brings the brute-force attack down to 3 queries per second, if the size of S is much larger than 2 million.
Finally, even if the KS is compromised, DupLESS falls back to a usual convergent encryption style guarantee.
How much overhead will the system incur with DupLESS?
DupLESS incurs only slight overheads
compared to using no encryption at all.
We deployed a prototype
KS on Amazon EC2 and experimentally evaluated
its performance in a bunch of experiments. For example, in one of our experiments, we uploaded a
1 MB file to Dropbox, first without any encryption, and then with DupLESS. The bandwidth overhead
is less than 1% and the overhead in the time to store a
file is about 17%.


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William Thomson called them "beautiful and ingenious geometrical constructions," and in variance to their rather humdrum name dygograms are certainly charming to the eye. But these geometric constructions can conveniently generate and then calculate the magnetic deviation of a ship compass at a location.
With our electronic calculators and computers, we take for granted the effortless arithmetic and trigonometric calculations that so vexed our ancestors. Pre-calculated tables for roots and circular functions, generated through hard work, were often used to create tables of magnetic deviations for specific ships and locations. To reduce the chance of misreading these tables, a few types of graphical diagrams, not just dygograms, were invented to provide fast and accurate readings of magnetic deviation. These graphical calculators are the focus of this part of the essay.
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The Scottish mathematician and lawyer Archibald Smith first published in 1843 his equations for the magnetic deviation of a ship, or in other words, the error in the ship's compasses from permanent and induced magnetic fields in the iron of the ship itself. This effect had been noticed in mostly wooden ships for centuries, and broad attempts to minimize it were implemented. But the advent of ships with iron hulls and steam engines in the early 1800s created a real crisis. A mathematical formulation of the deviation for all compass courses and locations at sea was needed in order to understand and compensate for it, and Smith became the preeminent expert in this sphere of activity. With Capt. Frederick J. Evans he extended his mathematical treatment to detailed procedures for measuring the magnetic parameters for a ship, and he also invented graphical methods for quickly calculating the magnetic deviation for any ship's course once these parameters were found, constructions called dynamo-gonio-grams (force-angle diagrams), or dygograms for short.
Today, radio navigational systems such as LORAN and GPS, and inertial navigation systems with ring and fiber-optic gyros, gyrocompasses and the like have reduced the use of a ship's compass to worst-case scenarios. But this triumph of mathematics and physics over the mysteries of magnetic deviation, entered into at a time when magnetic forces were barely understood and set against the backdrop of hundreds of shipwrecks and thousands of lost lives, is an enriching chapter in the history of science. Part I of this essay presents a brief sketch of the problem and the analysis and solutions that were developed to overcome it. Part II sets out with a discussion of Smith's graphical methods of computing the magnetic deviation and concludes with a list of the references cited in the essay.
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An operational calculus converts derivatives and integrals to operators that act on functions, and by doing so ordinary and partial linear differential equations can be reduced to purely algebraic equations that are much easier to solve. There have been a number of operator methods created as far back as Leibniz, and some operators such as the Dirac delta function created controversy at the time among mathematicians, but no one wielded operators with as much flair and abandon over the objections of mathematicians as Oliver Heaviside, the reclusive physicist and pioneer of electromagnetic theory.
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Gibson performing in New York, ca. 1948; photograph by William P. Gottlieb.
Background information
Birth name Harry Raab
Born (1915-06-27)June 27, 1915
Died May 3, 1991(1991-05-03) (aged 75)
Genres Jazz
Instruments Piano
Harry "The Hipster" Gibson (June 27, 1915 – May 3, 1991) was a jazz pianist, singer and songwriter.[1]
Gibson played New York style Stride piano and boogie woogie while singing in a wild, unrestrained style. His music career began in the late 1920s, when as the young Harry Raab, his birth name, he played stride piano in Dixieland jazz bands in Harlem. He continued to perform there throughout the 1930s, adding the barrelhouse boogie of the time to his repertoire, and was discovered by Fats Waller in 1939 and brought down to mid-town Manhattan, where he made a splash and changed his surname to Gibson.[2] Between 1939 and 1945, he played at various Manhattan jazz clubs on 52nd Street ("Swing Street"), most notably the Three Deuces, run by Irving Alexander,[3] and Leon and Eddies, run by Leon Enkin and Eddie Davis.
In the 1940s, Gibson was known for writing unusual songs, which are considered ahead of their time (citation needed). He was also known for his unique, wild singing style (citation needed), his energetic and unorthodox piano styles(citation needed), and for his intricate mixture of hardcore, gutbucket boogie rhythms with ragtime, stride and jazz piano styles (citation needed). Gibson took the boogie woogie beat of his predecessors, but he made it frantic (citation needed), similar to the rock and roll music of the 1950s[4] Examples of his wild style are found in the songs "Riot in Boogie" and "Barrelhouse Boogie". An example of his strange singing style is in the song "The Baby and the Pup." Other songs that Gibson recorded were "Handsome Harry, the Hipster", "I Stay Brown All Year 'Round", "Get Your Juices at the Deuces", and "Stop That Dancin' Up There." Gibson recorded a great deal, but there are very few visual examples of his act. However, in New York in 1944, he filmed three songs for the Soundies film jukeboxes, and he went to Hollywood in 1946 to guest star in the feature-length film musical Junior Prom.[5] Gibson preceded the first white rock and rollers by a decade, but the Soundies he recorded show significant similarities to rock and roll.[6]
"Harry the Hipster" headlining at the Onyx on 52nd Street, May 1948. Note in the photo the Deuces as well as Leon and Eddie's.
While working on "Swing Street" at night, Gibson was a fellow at the Juilliard Graduate School during the day.[7] At the time, Juilliard was strictly a classical music academy, and Gibson excelled there, which partly explains the richness of the music he brought to the jazz world (citation needed). ( if anything he brought a richness to classical music, with his boogie WOOGIE training). The other part of the explanation is, his own inventiveness, and Gibson was almost always billed and promoted as a musical genius.
Unlike Mezz Mezzrow, who was white but consciously abandoned his ethnicity to adopt the black music and culture as a "white negro," Gibson grew up near Harlem, New York City. Gibson's constant use of black jive talk was not an affectation; it was simply his uptown New York dialect. His song, "I Stay Brown All Year Round" is based on this issue.[8] In his autobiography,[9] Gibson claims he coined the term hipster some time between 1939 and 1945, when he was performing on Swing Street and he started using "Harry the Hipster" as his stage name.[10]
His career went into a tailspin in 1947, when his song "Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine" put him on the music industry blacklist.[11] His own drug use led to his decline, and with the rising popularity of young rock-and-roll musicians among teenagers in the 1950s, older musicians were not in demand. He spent time in and around Miami during the 1950s, and just before Christmas 1956 he appeared at the Ball & Chain on the same bill with Billie Holiday. In the 1960s, when Gibson saw the huge success of The Beatles, he decided to switch over to rock-and-roll. By the 1970s, he was playing hard rock, blues, bop, novelty songs and a few songs that mixed ragtime with rock-and-roll, and his hipster act became a hippie act. His old records were revived by Dr. Demento, particularly "Benzedrine" which was included in his 1975 compilation album Dr. Demento's Delights.
His comeback resulted in three more albums. Harry the Hipster Digs Christmas, made of new recordings in 1974, is a home recording and is not noteworthy. Two professionally produced albums were released after this, which were Everybody's Crazy but Me, (its title taken from the lyrics of "Stop That Dancin' Up There"), by Progressive Records in 1986, and Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine released in 1989 by Delmark Records. Those two albums include some jazz, blues, ragtime, and rock and roll songs about reefer, nude bathing, hippie communes, strip clubs, male chauvinists, "rocking the 88s", and even about how hip Shirley MacLaine is.[12]
Harry's family did a biographical movie short on Harry's life and music in 1991, shortly before his death. The movie is called "Boogie In Blue" and was published as a VHS video that year.
Suffering from congestive heart failure, Harry had long ago decided that he would end life on his own terms if he ever became chronically ill. Harry Gibson took his own life by putting a handgun to his head on May 3, 1991.[13]
 1. ^ Harry Gibson, Flavin Feller (December 1995). Boogie In Blue (VHS). Rhapsody Films.
 2. ^ His autobiography, published as liner notes to album, Everybody's Crazy But Me, 1986, Progressive Records, United States
 3. ^ Harry's autobiography included in the liner notes to album Everybody's Crazy But Me
 4. ^ Jazz On Record: The First Sixty Years; by Scott Yanow, 2003, p. 277 and foll.
 5. ^ The Internet Movie Database _URL_
 6. ^ Jazz On Film, the Complete Story; by Scott Yanow, 2004, p. 28
 7. ^ Liner notes, Boogie Woogie in Blue album, 1944, Musicraft. See also: Cooper, Kim; David Smay (2005). Lost in the Grooves: Scram's Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed. Routledge. pp. 98–99. ISBN 0-415-96998-0.
 8. ^ The Rise of a Jazz Art World; by Paul Douglas Lopes, 2002, p. 210
 9. ^ His autobiography, published as liner notes to album, Everybody's Crazy But Me, 1986, Progressive Records, United States can be found at _URL_
 10. ^ His autobiography appears in liner notes of Everybody's Crazy but Me album, 1986, Progressive Records, United States.
 11. ^ Statement by drummer Tom Magee in movie Boogie In Blue
 12. ^ Harry Hipster Gibson Lyrics
 13. ^ _URL_
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- Add the semi circle boat.
- Next add the glue for the mast and the rectangle.
- Time to add the triangles
- Dot on three dots of glue for the port holes.
- Add the little circles.
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"The Seaside Switch" by Kathleen V. Kudlinski is a book packed with information about tides and creatures in the sea. As a child I found nothing more fascinating than a tide pool and all the scurrying crabs and this book captures that. It's main story is how the tide changes throughout the day and brings with it different animals. The book is too long for most toddlers but my son enjoyed pointing out the animals in the book.
" Busy Boats" by Tony Mitton is a fun little book packed full of good information about boats. The text is short, rhymes and matches the illustrations perfectly. It's hard to find non fiction books that small ones will sit for and listen to, the cartoon characters in this book will grab and keep your child's attention, I also like how small the books are, perfect for car rides and longer travel!
Boats are big deals around our house, I hope you like our creation!
- Gather your materials. You will need A paper towel roll, the top of an egg carton, some tissue paper, glue, paint scissors and tape.
- Paint the egg carton. We used the dot a art paint, because it goes on with very little mess and had a playdate shortly after art time but any paint will do, just keep it thin so it doesn't saturate the carton.
- Next up the paper towel roll mast!
- While your child is painting, cut the tissue paper into a sail.
- Glue onto the mast.
- Add a layer of tape on top to keep the sail in place. You don't have to do this but I find tissue paper is so flimsy that I did 3 layers and needed glue on the bottom and tape on top.
- Glue the mast onto the boat, I poured a ton of glue and stuck the roll into it. Let dry.
- Voila, your boat is beautiful and environmentally responsible!
" An Island in the Soup " by Mirelle Levert is an award winning book, and it's easy to see why. The story follows a little boy who refusing to eat imagines a fantasy world in his bowl of soup, it rains peas and carrots and he encounters a bad fairy but in the end he eats his delicious soup. The illustrations are perfect although the bad fairy's unibrow is very very frightening!
" Busy Boats" by Tony Mitton is s cute little book that uses cartoony characters to help explain all about boats and how they work. This is a perfect book for children who's attention isn't held by a non fiction book, but wants to know more about boats!


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Fundamental warning object used throughout vl.
This is a product type introduced by defprod.
- type — symbolp
- A symbol, most often a keyword symbol, that describes very broadly
what kind of warning this is. There is no particular discipline or
strategy for assigning types to warnings, but the basic goal is to be
able to use these types to filter out or group up similar warnings.
- msg — stringp
- A more detailed message describing what went wrong. This string
should be acceptable to vl-fmt; it is similar to the "format
strings" used by ACL2's cw function, but there are some
important differences, e.g., not all fmt directives are
supported, and extra Verilog-specific directives are available.
- args — ACL2::true-list
- Arguments that will be composed with the tilde directives in msg
when the warning is displayed to the user. That is, a directive like
~x0 refers to the first argument, ~x1 to the second, etc.
- fn — symbolp
- A symbol, intended to be the name of the function that caused the
warning. This is intended to be useful for VL debugging, to help make
the source of the warning more apparent. Only good discipline (and
handy macros) ensure that this is correctly reported.
- fatalp — booleanp
- Indicates whether this error is so severe that the module ought to
be thrown away and not subjected to further translation. See the
general discussion in warnings for more information on how
this is used.
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The Republic of Calvard (カルバード共和国(きょうわこく)) is a republic located in western Zemuria, and was founded in S.1090. It is bordered to the southwest by Liberl; to the west by Erebonia and Crossbell; to the northwest by Remiferia and Ored. Calvard's current head of state is president Roy Gramheart.
Ruins found in S.1202 confirm that the Ancient Zemurian civilisation originally flourished the territory now known as Calvard.
Republican revolution
An important milestone in the history of Calvard is the financial disaster that struck the Kingdom of Calvard around S.1100.[1] It is said that merchants from East Zemuria financially supported the democratic revolutionary force that overthrew the ruling monarchy.[1] Assassins from the East targeted several influential persons.[1] The revolutionaries resorted to a number of illegal activities to carry out their ideology, both prior to and after the establishment of the republic. It appears that the celebrity Sheena Dirk played an important role in the shadow of the revolutionary party.
Around that same time, the Erebonian Empire ceded its easternmost province Crossbell before it was merged with Calvard. Ownership over the province remained disputed however, and a political compromise was made between Calvard and Erebonia to re-establish the Crossbell Province as an independent state.
In S.1187, the passenger ship Eterna sank in Calvardian waters. On board were Crown Prince Judis von Auslese of Liberl and his wife. They died in the accident, leaving behind a 1-year-old daughter.
Hundred Days War
During the Hundred Days War, Calvard was unable to dispatch forces quickly enough to support Liberl against Erebonia's blitzkrieg tactics. Before Erebonia was able to dispatch reinforcements from the empire, other neighboring countries followed Calvard's example and together with the Royal Army of Liberl they successfully managed to push back Erebonia.
D∴G Cult
In the second half of the S.1190s, Calvard was caught in a political stalemate with the D∴G Cult: the cult committed a series of violent attacks but the republican government was unable to react because of the cult's possession of intel of high-ranking government officials.
Ultimately, the government resorted to an investigation team with the Bracer Guild at its core to suppress the cult. Under supervision of high-ranking bracers Cassius Bright and Zin Vathek and police investigators Guy Bannings and Arios MacLaine, the investigation team managed to destroy the cult and its lodges in Calvard.
Deteriorating relationship with Erebonia
Calvard's relationship with Erebonia worsened after completion of the orbal railgun cannons at Garrelia Fortress on its easternmost border. After the conflict between Erebonia and Liberl during the Orbal Shutdown Phenomenon, Calvard signed the Non-Aggression Pact between the three countries, but had a military outpost set near the Nord Highlands.
In June S.1204, the military outpost was attacked and took heavy damage; the Imperial watchtower that was observing them was also destroyed. Calvard prepared for war, but an investigation by Thors Military Academy's Class VII revealed that it was actually the work of jaeger drop-outs under supervision of the Imperial Liberation Front. Although skeptical of the cause, war was nonetheless averted between the two countries.
Conflict with Crossbell
In August that year, President Samuel Rocksmith attended the West Zemuria Trade Conference in Crossbell's brand-new Orchis Tower. On the second day of the summit, on August 31, a terrorist collaboration between the Imperial Liberation Front and the Republican Anti-Immigration Group. The Heiyue branch had accepted the Republican government's request to suppress the terrorist attack.
On October 24, Crossbell declared itself as an independent state and freezes all assets of both Calvard and Erebonia. In response, the Republic Army of Calvard coordinated an invasion with the Imperial Army of Erebonia from both sides. Both forces, however, met destruction at the hands of Crossbell's new humanoid weapons, the Aion.
Shrinking superpower
After the Erebonian Civil War and the subsequent Imperial annexation of Crossbell, the Republic Army deployed its airborne military unit to take back Crossbell on March 9, S.1205. Its 2nd Area Division, also known as the Armored Aviation Regiment "Canopus", managed to push back the 9th Armored Division of the Imperial Army, but suffered horrible defeat with the arrival of the "Riserva" Panzer Soldat Unit. When the Divine Knight Valimar appeared, the unit withdrew to the outskirts of Altair.
All attempts by Calvard to retake Crossbell were met with failure, as a single Panzer Soldat easily bested all of Calvard's military might.
With the Imperial annexation of North Ambria in S.1205/6, the Erebonian Empire had officially become larger than Calvard, inflicting fear among its government. Ouroboros and certain jaegers operate from within Calvard against the Erebonian government.
Second War
Already on an unstable relation with Erebonia, Calvard sent Hercules members to infiltrate Heimdallr and the surrounding area to obtain intelligence. Despite the use of their RAMDA orbments, many members were still captured, leading to rising tensions between the two nations.
On July 17 S.1206, Emperor Eugent Reise Arnor III was nearly assassinated by Ash Carbide, a student of Class VII at the branch campus. Ash was Erebonian, but was manipulated into attacking Eugent for the Hamel Tragedy. The gun Ash had however, was one of Calvardian make. Osborne claimed that Calvard had attempted to assassinate the Emperor, preparing for a mobilization of the military to punish Calvard for its actions.
Calvard vehemently denied the accusations and also prepared for war, but knew that they were woefully outmatched. Fortunately, Mildine Juzalith de Cayenne was able to gain Calvard's support, alongside other nations to stop Erebonia to support them. In the ensuing war, the Erebonian masterminds were killed and a ceasefire was declared two days after war began. Calvard demanded astronomical indemnities for Erebonia's reckless declaration of war, which they were paid by from the royal family, Reinford Group and Four Great Houses.
In the aftermath of the war, Roy succeeded Samuel as president.
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Roy immediately set about in improving Calvard's military to match that of Erebonia's, while also expanding research in "other worlds".
Calvard, shrouded in clouds, can be seen on the eastern side of the map.
Calvard is considered one of the two superpowers in Zemuria, the other being Erebonia. After the annexation of North Ambria in S.1205/6, Erebonia took the top position from Calvard as the continent's largest nation.
The border with Liberl on its southwest is guarded by the Liberlian Wolf Fort, guarded by the Royal Army of Liberl's Border Patrol. The western central border with Crossbell is marked by the Kylo River, Tangram Hills and the Ancient Battlefield. Calvard's northwest borders the Nord Highlands and Remiferia. In between these three, Calvard borders with Erebonia.
Calvard shares it northernmost coastline with Remiferia, where the Laminin Bay [JP 1] can be found.[2]
 - Republic Capital (共和国首都) is the capital of Calvard. With a population of 790,000, it's the second-largest city in Zemuria.[3] Its name is possibly Tyrell (タレイル).[Note 1]
 - Altair
 - Longlai (possibly also known as Eastern Quarter)[Note 2]
 - Anchorville (アンカーヴィル) is situated in a mountainous region, keeping its midsummer climate cool. On one side of the city its buildings, predominantly white in colour, are built along the mountain range whereas on the other side, there's a port near a large river and a market. The city is home to numerous big corporations, meaning the city itself should be rather expansive. From Anchorville it takes quite a while by bus to reach the Republic Capital. Anchorville served as the setting of Sunshine Agnes.
Currently, Calvard's political state is in peril due to ethnic conflicts erupting around the country.
Main article: Republic Army of Calvard
The Republican Army of Calvard consists of an intelligence agency called the Rocksmith Agency and several armored division, designated as numbered area divisions. These armored units are named after constellations.
International Relations
The Calvard Republic shares amicable relations with most of its neighboring countries except for Erebonia. It has a tepid relationship with this country which is due in part to sharing national borders with them. They also have regular land ownership disputes with Erebonia involving minor countries and states like Crossbell and the Nord Highlands.
After the annexation of North Ambria into Erebonia, Calvard has started to fear that Erebonia has simply grown too big and has begun viewing the Empire as a major threat.
The population of Calvard consists of people from many different ethnic groups.
Calvard's economy is rather stable, due to its dealings and trade with Liberl.
Airships are rather rare in Calvard. However, in growing years the military have been acquiring them to compete with their rival nations.


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A retrospective hospital-based case-control study was performed with the aim to evaluate the association between exposure to anesthesia and Alzheimer's disease (AD). A total of 115 AD patients, 230 Parkinson's disease (PD) patients and 230 patients with non-degenerative neurological disease were studied. Each AD case was matched for sex, age (±3 years) and geographic area of residence with four controls (2 PD patients and 2 with other neurological disease). Information about exposure to general anesthesia and other variables was gathered through hospital records. No associations were found between the risk of AD and the exposure to anesthesia in the 1 and 5 years preceding disease onset, nor between the risk of AD and the number of surgical operations. A significant difference was observed between the mean age of AD patients and controls undergoing surgical procedures. The present study reveals a lack of association between exposure to general anesthesia and AD. Prospective epidemiological studies are needed in order to investigate levels of exposure to anesthesia, as well as any possible relationships between anesthetic exposure and genetic factors (e. g. APOEɛ4 genotype).
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Report outlines strategy for Innu education
During the winter months of 2003, while the Innu of Labrador were in negotiations for self-government with the federal and provincial governments, a team of researchers from Memorial University were invited by the Innu to conduct a wide-scale assessment of the educational needs of their children.
The report, An Educational Profile of the Learning Needs of Innu Youth, was released in the fall of 2004. The report noted issues ranging from alarmingly low attendance and lagging achievement levels to significant concern for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). The majority of Innu children were identified as having average to low-average cognitive ability and acceptable behaviour, indicating a readiness and desire to achieve well in school.
A new report, Recommendations for an Effective Model of Innu Education was released on July 6. It was put together by Drs. David Philpott, Wayne Nesbit, Mildred Cahill and Gary Jeffery, of Memorial University's Faculty of Education. The report presents a series of recommendations, based on extensive consultations and a cross-Canadian review of educational practices for aboriginal youth, for the consideration of educational leaders.
The authors of the report outlined a process to establish a bicultural model of education which would balance improved learning opportunities with the retention of Innu culture and language. The researchers also recommended the need for an educational system that would:
- be managed by Innu communities through a Council of Elders;
- be inclusive for all students;
- staffed by qualified Innu teachers;
- result in a sense of cultural pride for Innu youth and foster healthy and safe environments;
- have a culturally relevant curriculum within a bicultural model of education;
- use Innu-aimun as the language of instruction through preschool to elementary and then transition students into a late English immersion program;
- offer Innu youth enhanced career opportunities;
- produce high school graduates who are fluent in both Innu-aimun and English;
- embrace prevention programs to significantly reduce rates of FASD.
"The report is not meant to be a definitive list but rather the beginning of a process that ought to continue into the years ahead," said Dr. Philpott, lead investigator of the report. "It is our wish that the collaborative tone and sincerity of interest displayed by all stakeholders during the initial assessment project will continue to foster debate and consultation. Innu children and youth deserve nothing less."


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Smaller applications include jewelry for chemical gilding and buffing.
Potassium cyanide is highly toxic. The moist solid emits small amounts of hydrogen cyanide due to hydrolysis, which smells like bitter almonds.
Not everyone, however, can smell this; the ability to do so is a genetic trait.
The taste of potassium cyanide has been described as acrid with a burning sensation.
In aqueous solution, KCN is dissociated into hydrated potassium (K+) ions and cyanide (CN−) ions. The common form of solid KCN, stable at ambient pressure and temperature, has the same cubic crystal structure as sodium chloride, with each potassium ion surrounded by six cyanide ions, and vice versa. Despite the cyanide ions being diatomic, and thus less symmetric than chloride, they rotate so rapidly, their time-averaged shape is spherical. At low temperature and high pressure, this free rotation is hindered, resulting in a less symmetric crystal structure with the cyanide ions arranged in sheets
KCN and sodium cyanide (NaCN) are widely used in organic synthesis for the preparation of nitriles and carboxylic acids, particularly in the von Richter reaction. It also finds use for the synthesis of hydantoins, which can be useful synthetic intermediates, when reacted with a carbonyl compound such as an aldehyde or ketone in the presence of ammonium carbonate.
KCN is used as a photographic fixer in the wet plate collodion process. The KCN dissolves silver where it has not been made insoluble by the developer. This reveals and stabilizes the image, making it no longer sensitive to light. Modern wet plate photographers may prefer less toxic fixers, often opting for the less toxic Sodium thiosulphate, but KCN for sale is still used.
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In gold mining, KCN forms the water-soluble salt potassium gold cyanide (or gold potassium cyanide) and potassium hydroxide from gold metal in the presence of oxygen (usually from the surrounding air) and water:
4 Au + 8 KCN + O2 + 2 H2O → 4 K[Au(CN)2] + 4 KOH
A similar process uses NaCN to produce sodium gold cyanide (NaAu(CN2)).
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The practical feasibility of a process involving the reaction of oxygen with gold particles in a potassium cyanide solution to produce potassium gold cyanide has been explored. The influence of temperature, cyanide concentration, and particle size on the gold dissolution was studied. The experimental results suggest that the rate is limited by the diffusion of oxygen to the gold surface. Gold particles (size between 230 and 325 mesh) can be converted with oxygen to potassium gold cyanide in less than two hours in 2 M KCN solution at 60°C. The implementation of a closed cyanide loop process is also discussed.
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Potassium gold cyanide is used in electroplating and in photography. This metal is widely used in organic synthesis for the preparation of nitriles and carboxylic acids. Potassium gold cyanide is also largely utilized in the extraction of gold and silver from ores and also as a fumigant and insecticide
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Cholesky-factorized sparse Kernel in support vector machines
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Support Vector Machine (SVM) is one of the most powerful machine learning algorithms due to its convex optimization formulation and handling non-linear classification. However, one of its main drawbacks is the long time it takes to train large data sets. This limitation is often aroused when applying non-linear kernels (e.g. RBF Kernel) which are usually required to obtain better separation for linearly inseparable data sets. In this thesis, we study an approach that aims to speed-up the training time by combining both the better performance of RBF kernels and fast training by a linear solver, LIBLINEAR. The approach uses an RBF kernel with a sparse matrix which is factorized using Cholesky decomposition. The method is tested on large artificial and real data sets and compared to the standard RBF and linear kernels where both the accuracy and training time are reported. For most data sets, the result shows a huge training time reduction, over 90\%, whilst maintaining the accuracy.
DegreeMÀSTER UNIVERSITARI EN MATEMÀTICA AVANÇADA I ENGINYERIA MATEMÀTICA (Pla 2010)


text: Objectives In this study, we aimed to determine reference values for normal breast and areolar skin elasticity using shear wave elastography. Methods The right breasts of 200 female participants were evaluated. The age, weight, body mass index, menopausal status, and parity number of all participants were noted. The elasticity values and thickness of the areolar skin and 4 quadrants of the breast skin of all participants were measured. To assess the reproducibility of shear wave elastography, a randomly selected subgroup of 35 participants was reevaluated by a second observer. Results The mean age of the participants +/- SD was 48.79 +/- 10.74 years (range, 18-79 years). The mean elasticity measurements for the superior, inferior, lateral, and medial regions of the breast and areolar skin were 33.54, 29.84, 30.16, 29.20, and 31.35 kPa, respectively. The mean of the 4-quadrant measurements of breast skin elasticity was 30.68 +/- 9.11 kPa. Age had a moderate negative correlation with breast skin elasticity (r = -0.353; P <.001) and a weak negative correlation with areolar skin elasticity (r = -0.237; P =.001). The parity number had weak negative correlations with breast (r = -0.150; P =.034) and areolar (r = -0.207; P <.001) skin elasticity. The interobserver agreement varied from good to excellent (intraclass correlation coefficients, 0.67-0.91) for the breast and areolar skin elasticity measurements. Conclusions Shear wave elastography is a reproducible imaging modality for evaluations of breast and areolar skin elasticity, and our results may provide important pilot data for evaluations of clinical entities that affect the breast and areolar skin structures.


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1. Standing in fifth position right foot forward* (This exercise can be performed at the barre or in the centre.) 2. Commence the step by bringing the right foot to a retiré position. Draw a line from the arch of the left foot up the calf and then stopping at the knee. Make sure to keep the supporting left leg fully stretched and the working right leg turned out from the hip with the knee to the side and the foot fully pointed. You would normally start with the arms in bras bas bringing them to first when in retiré moving at the same time as the leg.
3. Make sure that the hips stay level and face forward. 4. Extend the right leg devant, derrière or à la seconde en l'air in a fully extended position. (If executing a developpé derrière or a la seconde coming from the back you would have your retire to the back of the knee.) As you extend the leg the arm would come to second position.
5. Développé Devant: When performing this step devant turn the leg out from the hip and aim to have the heel facing the ceiling. Imagine that you could rest a cup of tea on your ankle.
6. Développé à la Seconde: When performing this step à la seconde make sure the working leg in turned out from the hip with heel facing forward or even upwards depending on your ability.
7. Développé Derrière: Starting with a retiré derrière extend the leg to the back. Make sure that the leg is fully extended and pulled up from the knee. It is very common in the position for the leg to slightly bend and sway outwards. Make sure the leg stays right behind you with the heel now facing floor as you turn out from the hip.
8. The développé then comes to a tendu position and then closes back to fifth position. The arm then returns to bras bas.
*This step can also be performed with the right foot forward
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The Cumberland darter has a limited range in the upper Cumberland River drainage, most of which is in Kentucky. A proposed rule is currently in review to federally list this species as endangered, because of recent range curtailment and fragmentation resulting from habitat degradation. CFI, in cooperation with Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife (KDFWR), developed captive propagation protocols for reintroduction of the Cumberland darter into streams within its native range to restore populations that have been extirpated. Because of the apparent rarity of this species, captive propagation and reintroduction is considered an appropriate tool for its recovery and eventual delisting. Propagated individuals will be released within the watershed from which brood stock are taken, to avoid mixing potentially unique evolutionary lineages. Reintroduction sites will be chosen where habitat conditions are suitable and there is some level of protection (e.g., within wildlife management area or national forest boundaries). Survivability and movement patterns of released fish will be assessed through mark-recapture methods and through periodic monitoring using non-invasive methods, such as visual census techniques.
Captive propagation and reintroduction are considered appropriate tools for the recovery and eventual delisting of the Cumberland darter. Although the life history of the johnny darter (Etheostoma nigrum) has been relatively well studied, details of the reproductive biology (e.g., spawning behavior) of the Cumberland darter was unknown, though turned out to be similar. Identification of critical habitat and other environmental conditions necessary for spawning to occur is essential to the recovery of this species. Restoration of extirpated populations through reintroduction is considered a necessary step to remove the Cumberland darter from the Endangered and Threatened Wildlife list.
August 2009 the 60 juvenile Cumberland darters propagated at CFI were released into Cogur Fork, McCreary County KY. Production efforts in 2010 and 2011 yielded 335 and 297 larvae respectively each year. The addition of a chiller to the rearing system of the larvae greatly increased larval survivorship and 2012 production increased to 1800 Cumberland darter juveniles! Although Cogur Fork apparently lacked Cumberland darters prior to stocking, habitat appeared suitable, and two other commonly associated darter species were present (rainbow and stripetail). The release of the low number of propagated fish was intended to test potential survivorship and dispersal. We are looking forward to participating in monitoring efforts to see how these fish are doing in their new home.


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Rice University, Centre for the Study of Environment and Society (CSES), Professor Andre W. Droxler yesterday gave a lecture on the evolution of the Maldive islands at Villa International High School hall.
The open lecture was attended by senior government officials, primary, secondary and tertiary level students, Environment Management students from The Maldives National University and other interested individuals.
Professor André shed light upon the plate tectonic theory and how it relates to the formation of the Maldives. He said that the Darwin's theory about atoll formation in 1892 was compiled with a very limited data set and that at the time, Darwin had not been aware of the glaciation existed and also the rise and fall of the sea water over extended periods of time.
André stated that the age of the volcanic plateau upon which Maldives resides was exposed for a while and had slowly subsided over time. He also suggested that Maldives is not that old and that it would probably be a few million years old. He said that the age and thickness data is available due to large petroleum companies like Shell which carried out oil and gas exploration activities in the 70s and 80s.
He said that Darwin was only 23 years of age as he started his first journey and that even though he did not visit the Maldives; Darwin had an idea of the theory. André stated that the Maldives was formed over a volcano plateau and that new findings make it more understandable.
Professor André first started his research in Maldives in the year 1985. His findings were mainly based upon Carbonate Sedimentology with emphasis on periplatform carbonate ooze; Paleoceanography and paleoclimatology of the Neogene; Shallow carbonate platforms and deep adjacent environments, evolution, and processes and the drillings by geologists, including a drill performed 3.3km upon the volcanic plateau on which Maldives reside.
He focuses his work on the processes related to recent carbonate sedimentation and the understanding of variations through time of carbonate mineralogy, micropaleontology and geochemistry in periplatform sediments with direct global and regional implications with respect to paleoceanography, paleoclimatology, and paleoecology.
Another objective of his research is to better understand the Cenozoic, especially Neogene, evolution of modern carbonate platforms by means of bathymetric and high resolution seismic surveys, coring and dredging, as well as drilling. In the past ten years, André has been directly involved with the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) and have participated as sedimentologist at four ODP Legs, Leg 101 in the Bahamas (1985), Leg 115 in the Maldives (1987), Leg 133 in Northeast Australia (1990), and Leg 165 in the Caribbean (1996).
Comparisons of these data from the separate locations also give a better perspective of the processes involved and the effects it has on the tectonic movement.


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The articles in this edited volume represent a broad coverage of areas. They discuss the role and effectiveness of corpora and corpus-linguistic techniques for language teaching but also deal with broader issues such as the relationship between corpora and second language teaching and how the different perspectives of foreign language teachers and applied linguists can be reconciled. A number of concrete examples are given of how authentic corpus material can be used for different learning activities in the classroom. It is also shown how specific learner problems for example in the area of phraseology can be studied on the basis of learner corpora and textbook corpora. On the basis of learner corpora of speech and writing it is further shown that even advanced learners of English are uncertain about stylistic and text type differences.
Table of contents
List of contributors vii-viii Introduction: Corpora and language teaching Karin Aijmer 1-10 Part 1. Corpora and second-language acquisition 11 The contribution of learner corpora to second language acquisition and foreign language teaching: A critical evaluation Sylviane Granger 13-332 Some thoughts on corpora and second-language acquisition Stig Johansson 33-44 Part 2. The direct corpus approach 45 Who benefits from learning how to use corpora? Solveig Granath 47-65 Oslo Interactive English: Corpus-driven exercises on the Web Signe Oksefjell-Ebeling 67-82 Corpus research and practice: What help do teachers need and what can we offer? Ute Römer 83-98 Part 3. The indirect corpus approach 99 Themes in Swedish advanced learners' writing in English Jennifer Herriman and Mia Bostrom Aronsson 101-120 Thematic choice and expression of stance in English argumentative texts by Norwegian learners Hilde Hasselgård 121-139 The usefulness of corpus-based descriptions of English for learners: The case of relative frequency Susan Hunston 141-154 Part 4. New types of corpora 155 Income/interest/net: Using internal criteria to determine the aboutness of a text Winnie Cheng 157-177 New types of corpora for new educational challenges: Collecting, annotating and exploiting a corpus of textbook material Fanny Meunier and Céline Gouverneur 179-201 The grammar of conversation in advanced spoken learner English: Learner corpus data and language-pedagogical implications Joybrato Mukherjee 203-230 Index 231-232
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Seminole County, Georgia
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Seminole is a county in Georgia. It was formed in 1920 from the following county/ies: Decatur/Early. Seminole began keeping birth records in 1921, marriage records in 1921, and death records in 1921. It began keeping land records in 1921, probate records in 1921, and court records in 1921. For more information, contact the county at P.O. Box 458, Donalsonville 31745. On the attached map, Seminole is located at J2.
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You may have received the error message because you have:
- specified an incorrect calculation code
- specified an incorrect zone for employer's national insurance contributions
- specified an incorrect rate for employer's national insurance contributions
Do I have to correct the error
Yes, the a-melding contains errors and/or omissions which you must correct.
You must correct the error by the deadline for submitting the a-melding for the calendar month in which you received the error message.
How to correct the error
- Check the contribution basis, zone, rate and calculation code you specified for each enterprise. If you are not sure what is correct, see the explanatory information concerning employer's national insurance contributions.
- Correct anything that is wrong.
- Submit the a-melding when you have corrected the error. If you use a payroll system, check with your system supplier if you are not sure how to make corrections in your system.
Example – incorrect rate
A retail store submits an a-melding for May with the following information concerning employer's national insurance contributions: zone = 1, rate = 0 and calculation code = "general industries".
The store receives error message MAGNET_EDAG-197 because it is not possible to have a rate of 0 when the zone is "1" and the calculation code is "general industries".