Freaks): Low even for hooligan standards, they are known to throw bottles of urine on to the field, win or lose. No, we don't get it either.
 - Maling and Jambret: Well dressed men working for the government Ragged street-folk who do everything but the things thieves usually do. You don't need to watch out for them, they already stand-out through the things they're wearing (or lack there of). Or give them change, out of pity.
Indonesian society has not just overcome racism, but they have also overcome speciesism. In fact, rats and other rodents are given full citizenship in Indonesia and are free to roam the cities, particularly Jakarta. They also have the right to vote. Many rodents obtain employment in the public sector, even serving in political parties and key government positions.
Undead Indonesians
Scientific research confirms that Indonesia is heavily populated by ghosts, sometimes referred to as "the undead" which basically means the same thing as "alive". This leads to a lot of confusion, but some creatures are semi-physical ectoplasms mingling with the living (or dying) population. Indonesian cities are swarming with such beings who often cannot afford housing. These ghosts inhabit schools, public toilets, parks, mediocre hospitals and, of course, cemeteries. Ironically many poor living (or dying) Indonesians live in cemeteries as well. Also, sometimes Indonesians use cemeteries to dispose of dead bodies that are too far gone to eat.
Indonesia's economy is thriving and successful, mostly because their Politicians are Masters of the Thieves Guild. The rest believe that they're living in a rich country. As a result, poor Indonesians are considered rich and the really poor are considered middle class.
If you are a tourist, then come to Indonesia! Everything is cheap here: cheap hotels, cheap games, cheap foods, cheap women, cheap babies, cheap head, cheap neck; everything is cheap! Just remember that you, as a tourist, may be beheaded, hanged, or killed in a terrorist act at any time for any or no reason. You may also awake with some organs removed from your body, and a bill for the surgery will be sent to your embassy.How cool is that !
Prostitution is beyond an occupation in Indonesia. It is a religion. A way of life. There is some popular non-prostitution occupations in Indonesia include busking and panhandling. Most Indonesian street musicians are panhandlers, and vice versa. These panhandler-musicians sometimes scratch cars with coins out of spite. Related occupations include Extortionist of Money from Random Passing Cars, Professional Accident Victim, and Turd Wrangler since shit is Indonesia's main construction material.
Domestic servitude is a common occupation in Indonesia. Most domestic servants are females who live in small quarters in their masters' residence. The roles of domestic servants include cooking, cleaning, fellatio, anal intercourse, and corporate accounting.
Theft is also a popular occupation. However, Indonesians frown on getting caught while stealing. Apprehension is considered a major faux pas reflecting a serious lack of professionalism. The usual punishment for a thief is execution, though many thieves are pardoned if they pay a fine, as long as payment is made in the form of successfully stolen goods.
The primary exports from Indonesia are corruption, slave labor, and terrorism. Other exports include:
 - Pollution and Garbage
 - Human garbage
 - worn flip-flops
 - Garbage humans
 - Corrupt officials for Switzerland and Singapore
 - Cadavers of innocent Australian tourists accused of drug smuggling
 - (flat) Boobs
 - Prostitutes to Malaysia
 - Baby To Israel
 - Low class maids to Singapore and Hong Kong
Indonesia's main imports are pirated software and DVDs, financial aid, and recreational drugs. Other imports to Indonesia include:
 - Made-in-China PlayStations to play pirated games
 - Australian youth importing drugs into Bali (later re-exported to Australia as cadavers, courtesy of the government of Indonesia)
 - Hummel figurines
 - Made In Israel Goods
Indonesia is home to many illegal and unofficial businesses.You will find many people selling foods at traffic jam(asongan) and you can buy the goods directly when driving.Their business is not legalized by the government.IN the airport,you will find many illegal taxis offering you for a ride.At corners,you will find some illegal police that controls the traffic and force you to pay.Almost all CDs are pirated,especially DVD,PS2,XBOX360,and VCD discs.You can actually sell anything you want without any permission,how cool is that ?
To the Malaysians and Singaporeans, there is nothing that can honestly be considered culture in Indonesia. Mostly are money-worshiping and laziness (as a way of life). However deluded these misshapen creatures from neighbouring countries may be (communist Singapore, and Maling-Asia {Asian thieves}), Indonesia still posess the deeper adopted Indian culture; as opposed to made up tales about babah and nyonya having sex and playing mahjong everyday.
Most Malays speak a local dialect of Indonesian. Indoneisan is the defintive version of Malay, since Malay comes from the KFC Kingdom of Jambi in Palembang in Indonesia. Neighbouring Malaysians are too fucking stupid and Arabg anus-lickers culturally proud to bother pronouncing Malay correctly. These examples illustrate the linguistic divergence of Indonesian Malay from "King's Malay":
Malaysian interpretation Indonesian description Intended meaning
Maternity Ward Rumah Sakit Korban Lelaki Clinic for the Victims of Men
The Army Laskar Hentak-Hentak Bumi Troops Stomping the Earth
Veteran Association Laskar Tak Berguna Troops of Useless Soldiers
The Navy Laskar Basah Kuyup Troops Soaked Wet
Ministry of Law and Human Rights Kementrian Tuduh Menuduh Ministry of Accusations
Ministry of Religion Kementrian Tak Berdosa Ministry without Sins
Ministry of Mineral Resources Kementrian Gali Lubang Ministry of Digging Holes
Ministry of Forestry Kementrian Semak Belukar Ministry of Thorny Shrubs and Bushes
Foreign Ministry Kementrian Seberang Lautan Ministry Across the Sea
Refrigerator Peti Sejuk Cold Coffin
Psychiatric Hospital Gubuk Gila Crazy Hut
Security Guard Penunggu Maling Thief Guard
I Awak Crew
Automobile Kereta Train
Joystick Batang Senang Happy Stick
You Awak Crew
Free Percuma Hopeless
Indonesian Malay dialect originated from various grunts and rants uttered during sexual intercourse. In time, these unintelligible sounds evolved into a more sophisticated method of communication in which all participants pretend to understand each other.
Regardless of the origin, Indonesian is a very simple language. Some grammatical elements are absent, including personal pronouns, verbal adjectives, dangling modifiers, and dative conjunctions. Later development also discarded verbs, adjectives, nouns, and adverbs. These developments have been praised by expert linguists as "pretty cool, yo!" as they render the language very easy to learn. This trend has reversed. To add sophistication, most contemporary Indonesian literature inserted new grammatical features, such as dialectal expletive causal modal dative verbal third-person conjugative adjectival imperative constructs, as well as other more complex structures.
Popular Indonesian names usually starts with su-, such as: Sukarno, Suharto, Sudirman, Susilo, Sudimampir, Sumarjinah, Suminem, Sukiyem, Superman, Sumringah, Su Asu, Sundal, Susu, Suffer, Suck, Suka Suka gw, Suka Suka lo, Sumpah aneh abis,.
Secondary Languages
Due to pressures and intimidation from various civilizations, Indonesians have been reluctantly forced to adopt several foreign languages. Some of such languages are artificially made to be difficult just to confuse the Indonesians. The native Indonesians eventually realized this, and responded by severely corrupting the foreign languages to the point that they are incomprehensible; ironically, the Indonesians didn't even intend to corrupt these languages on purpose. The inability of Indonesian students to learn foreign languages has produced unusual dialects. Some butchered Indonesian language variants include:
 - HEbrew
Today Indonesia so many people speak hebrew
 - Broken Dutch (obsolete)
A failed attempt by the Dutch to teach Indonesians their language resulted in broken Dutch, which annoyed the Dutch and Indonesians alike. Eventually, the Dutch remembered that their own language is merely Retarded German and that nobody, not even the Dutch, can figure out the difference between Dutch and Danish, and nobody cares anyway, so they just gave up.
 - Broken English
Broken English consists primarily of out-of-context quotations from pirated American movies. It is not unusual to hear an Indonesian attempt to greet an American or British tourist with statements like "Hasta la vista, baby." or "I am your father, Luke." or even "Shut the fuck up, Donnie."
 - Mispronounced Arabic
Since Islam is the main superstition in Indonesia, and the Qur'an, or Kerrang, is only written in Arabic, some Indonesians have tried to learn Arabic. Besides being written right-to-left, exactly the opposite of normal languages, Arabic is, of course, also spoken backwards. Confused Indonesians often attempt to compensate by standing on their heads.
 - Incorrect Mandarin
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Values mg/dl Mean and SD. Before 110.0 ±18.9, after 107.3 ± 24.6.
Trial Design Non-controlled trial
Trial Length 1-6 months
Number of Subjects 20
Sex Both Genders
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Each day of this 8-week, uncontrolled open-label trial, 20 participants with major depressive disorder took 250 mg of theanine (suntheanine). 12 of the participants were receiving concurrent antidepression medication.
Depression on the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale saw a notable reduction after 4 weeks that didn't continue to improve after 8. Trait, and almost state anxiety on the State-trait Anxiety Inventory were statistically significantly reduced as well. Sleep quality on the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index wasn' improved statistically significantly.
Performance on the Stroop test, both response time and error rate improved, and as did verbal memory and executive function on the Brief Assessment of Cognition in Schizophrenia survey, but not the others. HDL saw a statistically significant reduction, and AST, ALT, glutamyltranspeptidase, creatinine, BUN, HbA1c, triglycerides, LDL, and total cholesterol didn't see statistically significant changes.
Funding issues for this study:
"This study was supported by an Intramural Research
Grant (M.O. and H.K., grant number 24–11, 27–1)
for Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders of
National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, and
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If you lived in Tajikistan instead of Peru, you would:
be 27.9% less likely to be obese
In Peru, 19.7% of adults are obese as of 2016. In Tajikistan, that number is 14.2% of people as of 2016.
live 5.7 years less
In Peru, the average life expectancy is 75 years (73 years for men, 77 years for women) as of 2020. In Tajikistan, that number is 69 years (66 years for men, 72 years for women) as of 2020.
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In Peru, 6.9% of adults are unemployed as of 2017. In Tajikistan, that number is 2.4% as of 2016.
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Failure to act on climate change will have dreadful consequences, Angela Merkel has warned. Diplomats from 35 nations gathered in Berlin to jump-start climate talks bogged down by deep rifts among UN member states.
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Work is currently under way on an international climate treaty to be signed by 2015 and go into effect by 2020. Merkel was Germany's environment minister in the 1990s and helped negotiate the Kyoto Protocol.
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How can i find the ones digit for the number $$2^{98}$$
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Do you mean the number of ones in the decimal representation of 2^98 – Amr Nov 15 '12 at 14:29
Hint : find $mod 10$ – Theorem Nov 15 '12 at 14:29
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$2^6=8^2 = 64$.
$2^{12} = 64^2 = \ldots6$.
$2^{24} = (\ldots6)^2 = \ldots6$.
$2^{48} = (\ldots6)^2 = \ldots6$.
$2^{49} = 2\cdot(\ldots6) = \ldots2$.
$2^{98} = (\ldots2)^2 = \ldots 4$.
So the answer is 4.
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$2^{1+4}=32=2\pmod{10}$ hence $2^{1+4n}=2\pmod{10}$ for every $n\geqslant0$ hence $2^{1+4\cdot24}=2^{97}=2\pmod{10}$ hence $2^{98}=2\cdot2^{97}=2\cdot2=4\pmod{10}$.
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Hint: Try finding the ones digit of the first few powers. You should see a pattern that you can prove. If you just want the specific answer, a spreadsheet with A1=1, A2=mod(2*A1,10), copy down 97 times gets you there.
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circuit rider, Methodist ministerial role that was originated in England by John Wesley. The first of the American circuit riders was Robert Strawbridge, who arrived in the colonies in 1764. A few years later Wesley sent missionaries to the American colonies, but most of them departed when revolution threatened. One who remained was Francis Asbury, who, as Wesley's general assistant, was responsible for organizing the circuits.
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** Where're Human Rights?
Where're Human Rights Advocates?
Re: Taslima Nasreen
Where are Arundhati Roy, Romilla Thappar, Teesta Setalvad, Ram Puniyani, Kuldip Nayyar, Dinesh D'Souza, Praful Bidwai, Biju Matthew, John Dayal etc.…human rights advocates?
And how about "mother of all human rights advocates": Sonia Gandhi? Why is she quiet? Is she thinking about words to say which can be called "politically correct"?
And what happened to "TEHELKA"??
These so-called advocates speak only to degrade Hindus?
Why don't they speak against these Muslim fundamentalists who want to behead Taslima? All of these so-called human rights advocates seem to be advocates of anti-Hinduism.
How come M.F. Husain can have freedom of expression, but Taslima can not have it?
Why her freedom is being compromised under pressure from Imams? Why these double standards?
When it comes to speak against Muslims or Christians, they are mute.
They wanted movies like Parzania, Water and M.F. Hussain's nude paintings of Hindu Gods/Goddesses to be shown because it is against freedom of expression to ban these.
Then why they wanted to ban DaVinci Code and Danish comics of Muhammad?
If Hindu Gods/Goddeses can be painted nude by M.F. Husain, why can't we see Danish cartoons of Muhammad? Why ban those?
And why Taslima's freedom of expression is being compromised under pressure from Islamic Fundamentalists?
Does she not have freedom of expression too?
Why they have these double standards? Who are they trying to fool?
How come these Human Rights Advocates keep repeating Gujrat riots but have conveniently forgotten Sikh riots of 1984? Is it because then they have to expose duplicity of Congress?
Riots of Gujarats are still being publicized but riots of Mau are never mentioned. Killings of Sikhs and Hindus in Kashmir are glossed over. Gujrat riots victims are compensated, but not the Kashmiri victims of Islamic Terrorism? This is a reverse discrimination against majority Hindus by India's minority-ruled UPA.
How come movies to reform Hindu customs can be made ( e.g. Zakhm, Lajja, Water,Bawander etc.) but no one dares to make any movie on Honour Killings and Oppression of Muslim Women in Islamic societies or Islamic Terrorism? So much for freedom of expression! Its freedom to insult Hinduism under the disguise of so-called SECULARISM.
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De'mo-narchy Of Democratic Republic of India
By Seshachalam Dutta and Shree Vinekar
Indians are proud to declare theirs is the largest democracy in the World –undisputedly so. The question in this article is – is it the best, or how good is Indian Democracy, not how large. The answer is depressing for all of us, who grew up dreaming during British occupation of India, that one day we would form a great democracy the envy of the world. Westerners claim that democracy is inherent to their culture with the beginnings of Roman Statealbeit it was limited to a few thousand elite, the rest being slaves. Indian political theorists claim that we had even richer history of democracy from Vedic times as illustrated in village panchayats.
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However, current trends in Indian constitutional democracy are disheartening.
The real threat to Indian democracy is from the new breed of politicians who are taking advantage of the institution of democracy to create dynasties, a form of demonarchy such as that perpetuated by the Nehru Dynasty. There was an interesting editorial in Wall street Journal prior to UPA's election to power in India.
The editorial starts with a quote from Jawaharlal Nehru: "HISTORY TELLS US THAT HEREDITY BREEDS FOOLS IN POLITICS AND EMPIRES." What a profound quotation! The editorial was in reference to Sonia Gandhi of India who claims entitlement to power, because her mother-in-law, Prime Minister Indira, died in her lap!
The editorial cites others as well, Sukarno Putri of Indonesia for one who has a similar hold on the literate and semiliterate citizenry of Indonesia. She claims that her father shows up in her dreams to advise her. Then, of course, we have Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Benazir Bhutto, all from fledgling democracies. Little did poor Jawaharlal Nehru dream that heredity breeding fools would apply to his family too after his demise! It is unthinkable that Jacqueline Kennedy would even remotely be proposed to succeed her fallen husband or Itzak Rabin's wife to succeed her assassinated husband. Indian politics so deteriorated after Nehru's death that Socialist Party leader Ram Manohar Lohia called Indian Democracy "A Brahmin-Baniya Oligarchy." We will explore whether he was correct or hyperbolic. There are four conditions that are required for demonarchy: 1. Government control of media 2. Dictatorial laws, and/or non-enforcement of law and order, 3. Control of economy (centralized), and 4. Manipulation of electoral process. For example, by first appointing candidates from top to bottom by party hierarchy at the apex and then electing them. All these conditions prevail in Indian democracy which makes it demonarchy.
Let us examine demonarchy of Nehru/Gandhi dynasty first. Kuldip Nayar outlines the events surrounding Nehru's terminal days and the succession to the prime minister's position. One of his loyalists, Kamaraja Nadar, approaches Nehru and asks whether he should install his daughter as the Prime Minister (P.M.). Nehru was supposed to have said "not now" which implied "later." Nehru could not degrade himself to ask that his daughter be chosen to succeed him. He had the dignity and cognizance of his place in Indian History and reputation in the world. Then the Congress party operatives elected Lal Bahadur Shastry to Prime-minister-ship as a stop-gap. After his untimely death in a short time Nehru's daughter Indira Gandhi was elected as the P.M. with the help of party operatives. She had no legislative experience. The socialist leader Ram Manohar Lohia called her a sugar doll – gudia ki daal (it would melt away if he licked it!). She was not a natural democratic leader by popular assent, although she mastered political intrigue under the tutelage of her father for 17 years. The very first time she encountered a threat to her power, she resorted to tyranny by declaring the state of Emergency, the only emergency being nothing but a threat to her power.
Nehruvian Democracy Vs Jeffersonian Democracy
 Jeffersonian constitutional democracy sets the constitution as supreme law of the land, which is pledged to be protected and defended by the president, legislature and judiciary severally. It is a sacred document that embodies civil liberties and basic human rights that protects the minority, even a single man, in the land against the tyranny of majority rule and against the might of the overbearing Government. The US constitution had been amended only 27 times in 200 years history. (The amendment on child labor is still not ratified after 82 years!). The founding fathers of the U.S could envision such a constitutional democracy because of inherence in their culture of tolerance for -in fact, respects for – minority positions. People who lightly talk of spreading the democracy all over the world forget that it should be ingrained in the culture and be defended by patriotic people with eternal vigilance; America is still in the process of achieving the ideal set by the founding fathers.
Indian constitution has the same lofty ideals as the American written by Thomas Jefferson including its preamble and the fundamental rights. But Nehru, as unchallenged leader of his Congress party, and the leader of modern India wielding enormous power since Emperor Ashok and commanding enormous adulation of his countrymen, never established democratic traditions; it is not that he did not know how to construct a democracy but he was impelled to secure unchallenged power. His generation of leadership, though was educated in the West, was weak and helpless to stand up to him. He was so drunk with power after suffering a stroke in 1963 and having ruled for 17 years, he would not give up his power.
TIME magazine reported once that Lohia "gracelessly" remarked whether India needed an invalid as its P.M., when the P.M. did not gain his gait after a stroke. While Gandhiji was an example of complete self-sacrifice, none emulated him amongst his followers, alas, except ironically Nelson Mandela of South Africa who abdicated power after one term. Leaders of India had a different story. Media were controlled by the state with only one government owned radio station. Every day


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and then the wavefront error was input into the optical software. Comparing the shape design values before and after optimization, the die kernel has an external shape correction value of 0.56um, as shown in Figure 6. The aspheric lens made from the post-molded kernel was assembled in the microscopic lens, and the pre-wavelength error of 1.0um (1.65× wavelength) could be measured using an interferometer, as shown in Figure 7. If you compare the wavefront error of the microscopic lens before and after lens correction (as shown in Figure 8), the wavefront error can be reduced from 5um to 1um, and the image taken is the right eye of a portrait of a Taiwan dollar bill, as shown in Figure 9(a). The picture taken by PMMA aspherical lens with the original design microscope, as shown in Figure 9(b), is blurred due to the warpage and shrinkage of the injection molding lens and other production and assembly errors of the lens, making it impossible to obtain clear images. After the die shape correction of PMMA aspheric lens is performed by the self-compensating die shape correction technique, the image obtained, as shown in Figure 9(c), can show the ink details of the banknote clearly, showing that the self-compensating die shape correction has effectively eliminated the production error of the injection molding lens and other errors of the lens.
V. Conclusions and recommendations
The self-compensating die shape correction technique mainly uses the measured system wavefront error to input into the optical design software in the reverse direction for the secondary optimization of the standard component shape. Since the procedure of lens forming and lens system assembly is the same in both cases, all the forming and assembly errors will cancel each other out and the corrected lens shape will directly contribute to the adjustment of the system wavefront error, so this correction technique can be called "Self-compensating optical die shape correction technique". In the future, Multi-field-of-view (MFOV) wavefront error compensation can also be used to cover the system aberration caused by assembly errors in the die shape.


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Core functions and activities of the Office of Capacity Building is to assist with assuring quality program development and implementation by providing quality improvement, technical assistance and guidance in the following areas:
- Federal and state performance reviews
- Evaluate all functional programmatic line items annual work plans that include accountability and responsibility for compliance and improvement based on federal and state regulations
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What happens in liver when large amount of fructose is consumed?
I vaguely remember my biochemistry lecturer telling us that the enzymes that process fructose in the liver does not have negative feedback to control the rate of reaction. But I cannot find a reliable source. How is it regulated if it is?
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The main reaction of fructose in liver is phosphorylation, catalyzed by ketohexokinase (UniProt P50053). In one paper with rats it was shown that fructose load can deplete the liver of nucleotide triphosphates (ATP, GTP) although ADP and GDP are inhibitors of the enzyme. This shows there is no effective regulation.
M. I. Phillips, D. R. Davies: The mechanism of guanosine triphosphate depletion in the liver after a fructose load. The role of fructokinase. In: The Biochemical journal. Vol 228, Nr 3, Jun 1985, p. 667–671, {{ISSN|0264-6021}}. PMID _PHONE_. PMC _PHONE_.
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great answer. thanks. It sounds like an important result, but the paper has only been cited 8 times according to google scholar. I wonder why. – Memming Jul 15 '12 at 15:16
I think it's because most of the work was done with cow's enzyme. Human's enzyme was characterized but no inhibition studies are available for that. – rwst Jul 16 '12 at 7:46
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DESIGN OF A NOVEL SAPPHIRE BASED DIELECTRIC RESONATOR TO MEASURE THE SURFACE RESISTANCE OF HIGH TEMP SUPER CONDUCTORS
A sapphire dielectric resonator system has been used to measure the surface resistance of high temperature superconductors. The cavity is made up of a lower superconducting plate, a dielectric puck and a movable upper plate where the sample is placed. The temperature of the lower plate is kept at 4.2 K while the sample is heated independently attached to the end of a sapphire rod. The measurements are performed at TE01d mode. By moving the upper plate, the shift in resonance frequency and the corresponding change in the bandwidth are recorded. The overall system is designed to fit into a continuous flow helium cryostat. Real part of the surface impedance of the sample is related to the change in bandwidth,?fb, and the imaginary part of the surface impedance is related to the change in resonant frequency,?f0. Instead of absolute calibration of the chamber, a known oxygen free copper sample was used as the reference. The samples were Seeded Melt Grown (SMG) solid material. The measured surface resistance of the SMG YBCO high Tc materials was comparable to that of the best thin HTS films grown by other techniques.
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Motivating adolescents: What goals are important to Australian students?
Mansfield, C.F. (2010) Motivating adolescents: What goals are important to Australian students? Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 10. pp. 44-55.
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Student motivation during adolescence has become an increasingly important issue for educators and researchers. Using a goal theory perspective, researchers have investigated a range of goals (including achievement goals, social goals and future goals) that influence students' desire to achieve at school. The present study examines the range of goals pursued by adolescents (N=195) from two secondary schools and investigates the achievement goals that are important to their motivation. The results show that future goals have a critical impact on students' motivation and that students pursue multiple and related goals in learning situations. Implications for future research are discussed.
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Cohabitation Definition and Legal Meaning
On this page, you'll find the legal definition and meaning of Cohabitation, written in plain English, along with examples of how it is used.
What is Cohabitation?
A man and a woman (or in some cases the same sex people) staying together in the same house or at same address for certain long period of time, as if they were married, though not, is known as Cohabitation. The court assumes that they are having a sexual relationship as well as a married couple would. There are certain rights and regulations given by the court to such unmarried couples. There may be several reasons for these couples to stay as a single yet living together as if married to one another. Some states do not allow such relationship and term it as criminal offence under adultery law.


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The weather-history for more than 4700 stations worldwide
What was the weather in London on August, 11th 1998. Or in Sydney? Or in Lerwick? You can answer these questions now with the new 'history'-service from WeatherOnline. Simply select a location from the list. Then choose the parameter that you want to have being displayed (e.g. maximum or minimum temperature or precipitation) from the list at the left input field. Please use the other input fields to select the desired time-period (between 4 and 52 weeks) and the year and month you want to start from.
Was it a warm or wet summer? April too cool? Have a look at our monthly summaries!
you would like to see the curve of the daily maximum temperature in London for the time-period between August 1998 and August 1999.
First, select the location 'London' from the list at the right. The location London is represented by the weather station at London-Heathrow. Therefore, strictly speaking, the curve you'll get is the daily maximum temperature at London-Heathrow. As this is the case for many locations the name of the actually reporting weather station will always be shown in graph's title. The maximum temperature, a time period of 4 weeks and the present month and year are set by default. Therefore you only have to change the time-period to 52 weeks and to select the starting month and year. In this case August 1998. Submit your settings with 'Go' and your requested curve will be produced.
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In ancient Greece, a mutation arose that resulted in some sheep with Golden Fleece compared to the regular white fleece. However, it was discovered that true-breeding golden-fleeced sheep were impossible to obtain.
- What does it mean by true breeding? (2 marks)
- What is required for a line to become true breeding? (2 marks)
- Propose a genetic reason (hypothesis) why true-breeding golden fleeced sheep may not be possible. Include in your answer symbols to indicate how the phenotypes are related to genotypes. (4 marks)
- What phenotypic ratio would you expect in the progeny if you crossed two sheep both having golden fleece, using your hypothesis? (4 marks)


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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, famous through her marriage to Charles Lindbergh, had her own career as a pilot. Shortly after her marriage in 1929, she became the first woman in the U.S. to earn a glider pilot's license. In 1930, she served as navigator, while seven months pregnant, when her husband set a new transcontinental speed record. In 1931, she earned her private pilot's license. Perhaps the most famous flight the Lindberghs made together was the 1931 Great Circle survey through Northern Canada, Alaska, and the Far East, described so eloquently in Anne's book North to the Orient. Anne served as a copilot and radio operator in the Lockheed Sirius now displayed in the Barron Hilton Pioneers of Flight gallery. The Sirius was also used for the Lindberghs' 1933 North Atlantic Ocean survey flight for possible commercial air routes for Pan American Airways. For her part, Anne Lindbergh received the U.S. Flag Association Cross of Honor. In 1934, she became the first woman to receive the National Geographic Society's Hubbard Gold Medal. Lindbergh established herself as a distinguished author as well; her literary works include Listen the Wind and Bring Me a Unicorn.
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This study on behalf of the Workers' Group of the European Economic and Social Committee aims to analyse early initiatives launched in the context of the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR) and to provide the EESC with concrete policy recommendations to ensure its effective implementation.
Four key findings stand out. First, the Pillar has, within a very short time span, relaunched an ambitious EU 'Social Agenda' which has the potential to create new rights for citizens. Second, the Pillar is already strongly influencing the substantive messages of the 2018 cycle of the European Semester. Third, the Social Scoreboard is a step forward but needs further refinement. Fourth, national trade unions seem aware of the Pillar and are generally happy with its content but highly doubtful that they will be involved in its implementation.
To ensure effective implementation of the Pillar, we recommend that it be given adequate financial resources and clearly defined governance tools through an ambitious but realistic roadmap. The EESC should play an important role in monitoring the implementation of the Pillar at EU and national levels and should act as a hub to gather and synthesise national trade unions' and civil society's proposals for effective implementation.


10 Interesting Giuseppe Arcimboldo Facts
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo facts give your some ideas about the Italian painter. He impressed people with his imaginative portrait heads. The representation of the head was from the unique objects such as fish, flowers, vegetables, books and fruits. Find out other unique ideas about Arcimboldo in the following explanation below:
Giuseppe Arcimboldo Facts 1: family
It seems that the blood of an artist flowed in his body. Just like his father, Giuseppe loved to become an artist. His father was a Milan artist named Bigio Arcimboldo.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo Facts 2: early job
At first, he had to struggle to become a famous painter. His early job was to design the frescoes and stained glass used for the local cathedrals.
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo Facts 3: court portraitist
It was such a memorable event to become a court portraitist for many influential people in Vienna. Giuseppe was the artist who made the portrait of Ferdinand I in 1562 at the Habsburg court. At the court of Prague, he made a portrait to Maximilian II and Rudolf II.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo Facts 4: other jobs
Besides being an artist who painted the people's portrait, Giuseppe was capable of being a good costume designer and court decorator.
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo facts
Giuseppe Arcimboldo Facts 5: The Four Seasons
The Four Seasons is one of Giuseppe's amazing works. The Elector of Saxony named Augustus was very impressed with The Four Seasons when he visited Vienna in 1570. He decided to have his monarchic symbol decorated based on the Four Seasons.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo Facts 6: death
After he lived in the Prague service, he decided to retire as an artist. Giuseppe passed away in Milan. Because of his wonderful career as a painter and designer, poetry and manuscripts were created by his Italian contemporaries.
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo Head
Giuseppe Arcimboldo Facts 7: Rudolf II's collection
Rudolf II's collection was the home to many of Archimboldo's paintings and works. In 1648, many of his works were taken after the invasion of Swedish Army in the Prague.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo Facts 8: works of Arcimboldo
Many of his works can be found in some famous museums in the world. You can go to the museum of the Louvre in Paris, Habsburg Schloss Ambrasn and Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum.
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo Painting
Giuseppe Arcimboldo Facts 9: statue of Arcimboldo
The bronze statue of Arcimboldo was created by the Spanish sculptor, Miguel Berrocal in 1976.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo Facts 10: cover albums
Some of his paintings such as Water and Floral were used as the cover album by musicians.
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Arcimboldo also affected other artists. You can see his influence by seeing the work of Vik Muniz. Do you have any suggestion on facts about Giuseppe Arcimboldo?
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Galvanic Isolator or Isolating Transformer, which is best and why?
All shore power appliances on your boat are always connected through the earth wire on the shore power cable to appliances on all the other boats in the marina. The potential dangers to valuable underwater fittings is well known, so there must be an important reason for it. The earth pin on a three pin plug is fatter and longer than the other two, and so it is fair to assume that it is carries the most current or is in some way the most important. Actually, the earth pin plug does absolutely nothing, or hopefully, does absolutely nothing ever. The reason that it is fatter is to prevent it being pushed into the wrong hole and it is longer so that it makes contact before and after the other two.
So why do we have to have it? And why do some appliances not have it? The answer is to provide an easy route to earth in the event of a fault developing in an appliance. On any metal cased appliance if the the live comes into contact with the casing, which is earthed, it will conduct a current to earth through the wire rather than through you. Appliances that are double insulated, usually by having plastic casings, are not fitted with earths as there is no way that the live supply can come into contact.
So it is quite safe to disconnect the earth wire for 99.9999% of the time. That is provided it can be re-instated when necessary. The purpose of a GALVANIC ISOLATOR is to disconnect the earth wire for all voltages below 2 volts. A quick look at a galvanic scale of metals shows that the maximum potential difference or voltage that can be generated by dissimilar metals is about 1.8 volts between magnesium and gold, an unlikely combination agreed! But it is taken as the threshold. Your vessel is insulated from all the other vessels for galvanic voltages. But at all voltages above 2 volts the earth connection is re-instated, thereby maintaining a protective route to earth in the event of a fault.
An ISOLATING TRANSFORMER is completely different although the effective galvanic protection is the same. In this device there is never any continuous earth wire connection. It is a large transformer that effectively generates the vessels 240 volt AC supply within the vessel, therefore the earth connection need only be routed back to the transformer within the vessel for the vessels own ground fault protection to work.
A residual current device (RCD) doesn't actually need connection to earth for it to work. It compares the supply current flowing through the live to the return current flowing through the neutral as they should always be the same. If there is any imbalance it is assumed that the current is returning to earth another way, i.e. possibly through you, so its breaks the supply.
So which is best? Isolating transformers are big heavy and expensive, whereas galvanic isolators are small, light and cheap. Case closed! You may think that, but galvanic isolators have their limitations. They will not protect from voltages above 2 volts. Marina pontoon electrical supplies work in very difficult environments which can frequently have faults. These can often result in the earth wire carrying a small voltage. This voltage is not enough to cause a problem itself, and will not be sensed by an RCD as it only monitors the live and neutral wires. It will however cause the galvanic isolator to go into continuity thereby defeating its purpose.
The other limitation is that galvanic isolators can fail. They are usually designed like all electrical devices to 'fail safe'. That is to fail into a safe condition for the earth leakage protection function of the earth wire. So they fail into continuity which is not 'safe' for the vessel. As many of the cheaper devices are simply two terminal, in and out, there is no means by which the failure of the device can be monitored. As there should be no current flowing in the earth wire there is nothing to reliably power a monitoring system. You could have one that has been giving no effective protection for years without knowing it.
So the old adage is that you get what you pay for. Isolating transformers are clearly the best if you are prepared to pay for it. Particularly wise on a steel or aluminium hulled vessel. A galvanic isolator can do much the same job but look for a system with a proper monitoring function with a display at the chart table if possible.


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What does POT mean in Educational?
This page is about the meanings of the acronym/abbreviation/shorthand POT in the Community field in general and in the Educational terminology in particular.
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- metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid


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In Reply to: Re: Origin of 'Sent to Coventry': more origins posted by James Briggs on August 11, 2000
: : What was special about this city, and what is its association with one's being ignored?
: : The link below will take you to a rather lengthy explanation of the whole Coventry phrase.
: : In a nutshell, Charles I in 1642 was suspected of being a Catholic in secret. As a result he and parliament often had run-ins and eventually the king left London and built an army as did parliament, thus were sown the seeds of the English Civil War. See link for more info.
: Sent to Coventry; if someone is "sent to Coventry" then they are shunned by their fellow citizens and friends. There are three possible explanations for this phrase. The first comes from the English Civil War. Birmingham was strongly Parliamentarian; the citizens were aware of a small group of Royalists in their midst. Some of these they killed and others they "exiled" to nearby Royalist Coventry. I don't like this explanation since, by being sent to Coventry, these people were rescued. In truth they had good fortune - their colleagues were killed.
: The second possibility rings a little truer. In this case the citizens of Coventry were in a phase of hating the military, possibly also as a result of the Civil War. Such was this hate that the young women of the town were forbidden to speak to the soldiers garrisoned there. Naturally no soldier welcomed such a posting.
: The third possibility is the one that I like best. It is suggested that the name Coventry is derived from Covin-tree, an oak which is supposed to have stood in front of the castle in feudal times. The tree was used as the gallows and those to be executed were sent to the covin-tree.
We ought to add that the phrase has been perpetuated into this century by British labo(u)r unions, which uses shunning as a punishment for strikebreakers and "scabs." No one speaks to or interacts with the person sent to Coventry, until they (eventually) resign. It's a powerful tool for social pressure.


Native Americans used turtle shells as musical instruments
Many indigenous groups believe that the world was formed upon a turtle's back. This symbology and belief is imbued into the turtle shell rattles, which are meant to keep rhythm and thereby interjects powerful symbology and spiritual energy into dances and ceremonies.
Musical instruments have a deep ancient history in human society and are encoded with meanings beyond their sound making capabilities. Researchers from the Florida State University examined the use of turtle shells as percussion instruments in the southeastern United States. They identified and analyzed several partial Eastern box turtle shells from middle Tennessee archaeological sites that they believe were used as rattles.
The researchers noted that turtle shell rattles have been found throughout North America, ranging from Florida to the Northeast and into Canada.


There are few maps. When many people begin their journey of appreciating single malt whisky, there are plenty of guidebooks, but very little that describes the terrain of whisky in terms of taste and aromas. What should you look for in a dram?
If you described the aromas of a particular whisky to a friend, you may consider them to be legitimate notes – a milking parlour in late summer, a classic Speysider, my mother's kitchen at Christmas. But what do memories and metaphors mean to others? And how effective is it to communicate taste by region alone when there are many unique distilleries, variants or finishes out there and available?
These are the kinds of problems that the Whisky Magazine Tasting Wheel directly addresses. It originally came to life through Charles MacLean, former editor of this publication and inductee number 37 to our Hall of Fame. It provides formalised tasting notes in an accessible manner – a common language that enthusiasts can use to describe the various compounds found in whisky and that arise out of production.
The wheel was not a wholly new concept. The Pentlands Scotch Whisky Research, now known as the Scotch Whisky Research Institute, created the first wheel in 1978. Purely aimed at the industry, it evaluated new-make spirit as well as single malt whisky, and also included 'off-notes'.
In 1992 Charles attended a sensory course run by Pentlands and encountered that wheel. "I set out to simplify it and make it more accessible to consumers," Charles adds. "But it is important to remember that the descriptors are for guidance only: smell is closely related to memory and personal experience. No two noses respond in precisely the same way to an odour. I would encourage devotees to re-invent their own wheels!"
The sectors of the wheel are based on two sections: flavours that arise during fermentation and distillation (1-6), and flavours from maturation (7-8).
1. Cereal
Aromas from the malted barley, which are usually modified by the later stages of production (fermentation and distillation).
2. Fruity (or estery)
Desirable sweet, fragrant, fruity, solvent-like scents from fermentation and distillation.
3. Floral (or aldehydic)
Leafy, grassy or hay-like scents, sometimes like Parma Violets or gorse bushes.
4. Peaty (or phenolic)
Almost all phenols are imparted to the malt during kilning. The scents are famously abundant in Islay malts and range from wood-smoke to tar, iodine to carbolic.
5. Feinty
Feints come in halfway through the spirit run, beginning as biscuity, toasted scents, then through tobacco-like and honeyed to sweaty. Feints are mellowed and transformed by maturation in good casks.
6. Sulphury (from organosulphur compounds)
Arise during distillation and maturation. Copper plays a crucial role in removing such aromas, which can be considered unpleasant.
7. Woody
The vanilla related aromas in this group derive from American white oak. Some aromas are directly related to age. Oak increases complexity, enhances fragrance and delicacy, lends colour and develops roundness.
8. Winey (or extractives)
If the cask has previously been filled with wine (mainly sherry, but sometimes others), the wood absorbs wine residues, which are extracted by the spirit and become part of its flavour.
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Marine life and kids
Updated: Nov 5, 2020
It's no secret that kids love going to the beach and showing Mom and Dad all of the cool "treasures" that they find. Sometimes they are empty shells and special rocks that look like diamonds. But sometimes those "treasures" are living creatures such as crabs and periwinkles and sand dollars. Teaching kids about the importance of preserving marine life can be really challenging in the heat of the moment, so it might be something to consider before you head to the beach on the hunt for treasures.
Marine life is best in the sea
Your little one may not understand how marine life can be impacted by a human. If you're interested in helping them to understand it in a classic educational way, you can focus on some of the following important and easy-to-understand points.
Crabs should be left in their holes: Crabs live in holes to protect them from predators. If kids find their holes, it's important to leave them, and their inhabitants, alone. Not only can crabs hurt children easily with their pinchers, they
are also not creatures to add to your aquarium
at home.
Leave turtle eggs where they are: Turtle eggs are sensitive and should be left undisturbed. Even though your little one will want to watch a turtle egg hatch, it's important to remind them that they are babies and they need to be safe and sound with their brothers and sisters (as well as Mom).
Do whatever you can to protect dolphins, manatees and whales: While your child isn't likely to find dolphins on the beach, explain about proper boating and how it is our responsibility to protect dolphins, manatees and whales. This can also be a great way to explain the human impact on marine ecosystems on a larger scale.
Be selective in fishing net use: If you do go fishing with a net or use fishing line, explain about how the larger netting is better because it traps only the big fish rather than the little ones that you throw out anyway. This is responsible fishing.
Don't litter at the beach or in the water: Make sure that they understand how human destruction occurs through litter. From trash floating in the ocean to animals being stuck in plastic bags and other waste, it's important that they understand how little it takes for them to make a positive (or negative) difference.
Show them human interaction with marine life
If you want to really help this message hit home in an age-appropriate and educational way, consider reading Zoe the Crab - Mystery Island with your little one so that they can understand how Zoe's true place is her hole with all of her marine friends. It will help them understand what to do if they ever see a real life crab or the other marine friends that she references in her story.
While treasures may be exciting, proper education on the importance of marine life preservation should never being compromised just for a trophy they bring home. Zoe's story will help make that much easier for your little one to understand and appreciate.
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Mammillaria dioica, also called the strawberry cactus, California fishhook cactus, strawberry pincushion, or fishhook cactus, is a cactus species of the genus Mammillaria. Its common name in Spanish is biznaga llavina.
The cactus is found in the western Colorado Desert scrub including in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, and in Coastal sage scrub habitats of Southern California, and in coastal chaparral and Sonoran Desert habitats of Baja California and Baja California Sur states on the Baja California Peninsula of México. It grows from 10–1,500 feet (3.0–457.2 m) in elevation.
Polyploid wild plants of this species have been found in Mexico. Both tetraploid and hexaploid varieties have been recorded.
Mammillaria dioica possesses short, firm tubercles ending in the spines. Most of these spines are whitish and straight, but each tubercle has a longer central spine which is slightly curved and dark.
A single plant can bear both male and female flowers, from mid-spring to mid-summer. Some plants may produce bisexual flowers as well, thus totaling three types of flower on a single plant. The flowers are white to cream in color and range from 10 millimeters (0.4 inch) to 30 millimeters (1.2 inches) in length.
The fruits produced are bright red and ovoid, often with one end thicker than the other and are edible and tastes like a cross between a strawberry and a kiwi. The seeds are small (0.6 to 0.8 millimeters), black, and pitted.
The Kumeyaay people (Diegueño), of Baja California and Southern California, ate the raw fruits as a food source.
Recognized subspecies include:
 Mammillaria dioica subsp dioica
 Mammillaria dioica subsp angelensis
 Mammillaria dioica subsp estebanensis
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text: ARID1A is a recently identified tumor suppressor that functions in chromatin remodeling. Inactivating mutations of ARID1A and loss of its expression most frequently occur in ovarian clear cell carcinoma, ovarian endometrioid carcinoma, and uterine endometrioid carcinoma. In this study, we performed a detailed immunostaining analysis of ARID1A in 246 cases including benign endometrium and endometrioid carcinoma at different stages of progression. Special attention was paid to recording intratumoral heterogeneity of clonal loss of ARID1A immunoreactivity. All normal endometria (n=51) and endometrial polyps (n=14) retained ARID1A expression. Among complex atypical hyperplasias (n=38), 16% exhibited clonal loss of ARID1A, but none showed complete loss. Among low-grade endometrioid carcinomas (n=88), 25% exhibited complete loss and 24% exhibited clonal loss. In contrast, 44% of high-grade endometrioid carcinomas (n=55) showed complete loss of ARID1A, and 9% exhibited clonal loss. We found that 19 high-grade carcinomas also contained concurrent low-grade carcinomas. In the high-grade areas, 63% exhibited complete loss and 11% exhibited clonal loss, whereas in the low-grade areas, 37% exhibited complete loss and 42% clonal loss. In 5 of these 19 cases, progressive loss of ARID1A from retention or clonal loss to complete loss was observed between the low-grade and high-grade areas. Overall, the percentage of complete ARID1A loss increased from 0% in complex atypical hyperplasia, to 25% in low-grade endometrioid carcinoma, to 44% in high-grade endometrioid carcinoma. These findings suggest that loss of ARID1A expression, presumably due to mutation, plays an important role in tumor progression of uterine endometrioid carcinoma.


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Simone Arnold Liebster. Facing the Lion: Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe. New Orleans: Grammaton Press, 2000. x + 369 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-_PHONE_-5-9.
Reviewed by Gillian McCann (Ph.D. Candidate, Religious Studies, University of Toronto )
Published on H-Holocaust (September, 2001)
Memoir of Resistance: Jehovah's Witnesses and the Nazi Regime
Memoir of Resistance: Jehovah's Witnesses and the Nazi Regime
For anyone thinking seriously about the history of the Nazi occupation of Europe and the Holocaust, a single haunting question will most certainly occur: Would I have resisted? Facing the Lion (lion referring to the code word used by Jehovah's Witnesses for the Nazi regime) is the memoir of a girl and her family who could definitively answer "yes" to that question. The story of her refusal to submit offers valuable insight into the character of a person willing to stand up against a seemingly all-powerful political state.
Liebster's book chronicles the period from her childhood in the early 1930's through the German invasion and defeat of France, the ensuing struggle of her family to survive the Nazi reign of terror, the end of the war and their attempt to restart their lives. The final chapter of the book describes her life up until the present.
Simone Arnold (her maiden name) was ten in 1940 at the time of the fall of Paris, which was swiftly followed by the occupation of the hotly disputed Alsace-Lorraine region where she lived. The Arnold family had converted to the sect of Jehovah's Witness in 1937, a group proscribed under German law. While the Nazis were ideologically opposed to all forms of Christianity, they maintained uneasy relationships with the Protestant and Catholic churches. The Jehovah's Witnesses ("Bibelforscher"), however, were singled out due to their refusal to recognize the sovereignty of the state, to salute or swear oaths of allegiance to Hitler, to attend political rallies or to serve in the military. As a result, 10,000 were imprisoned and 2000 interred in concentration camps, of whom at least half were murdered.
The lives of the Arnold family were made difficult even before the war in the conservative town of Mulhouse due to their religious beliefs. They were ostracized by their neighbors and even by some members of their family. With the German occupation, however, their lives were soon in danger. Jehovah's Witnesses were formally banned by the Nazis in 1938 and denied the right to free speech and assembly. The Arnold family remained involved in their church after the Nazi occupation, participating in underground meetings and smuggling literature across the Swiss border. As pressure increased, Simone's father Adolphe lost his job and the family bank account was closed by the Gestapo. Finally, in the fall of 1941, Adolphe was arrested and sent to Dachau concentration camp.
Meanwhile, Simone felt the pressure to conform to the newly Nazified school system. Her refusal to give the "Heil Hitler" salute or to join the Bund Deutscher Madchen (BDM), the Nazi youth group for girls, resulted in her being sent to the Wessenberg Reformatory for Girls in Germany. Shortly after, in September 1943, Simone's mother was sent to Shirmeck concentration camp. Simone's life at the reformatory consisted of soul destroying hard labour, semi-starvation, and unpredictable punishment, all designed to break her spirit and lead her to renounce her religious beliefs.
The last part of the memoir describes the reunion of the Arnold family after the war. Miraculously, all three survived, but Liebster makes clear that it took many years for them to overcome the physical and mental effects of their wartime experiences. Adolphe Arnold's health was severely compromised and he was unable to return to work, while all three family members experienced difficulties adapting to normal life. Liebster describes how the family would stand at crosswalks waiting for orders to walk, or jump at the sound of boots on the stairs.
Chapter 15, entitled "Vengeance or Forgiveness," is a particularly poignant one. Directly after the war, victims of the Nazi regime were given the opportunity to sign for the arrest of those who had denounced them to the Gestapo. In the Arnolds' case those responsible were the Catholic parish priest, the Protestant pastor, and neighbors in their apartment complex. To Simone's anger and disbelief, her mother refused to seek revenge stating that "vengeance belongs only to God." In this chapter, Simone's mixed emotions of anger and admiration reflect those of the reader.
The final chapter of the work describes Simone Arnold Liebster's life up to the present. Leibster makes it clear that her struggle to overcome the legacy of her experiences was not an easy one, and manifested as a lack of ambition and extreme shyness. She continued to be a devout Jehovah's Witness and eventually moved to the United States where she married Max Liebster, a Holocaust survivor, in 1956.
Facing the Lion is replete with excellent and relevant photographs and pencil drawings by the author. The appendices contain maps, letters written by the Arnold family while interred, examples of Nazi textbooks studied by Simone, and a sample of the Nazi declaration of their renunciation of faith. This form, if signed, allowed any Jehovah's Witness to be immediately released from internment. Simone and her mother and father had all refused to sign this form on many occasions.
Simone Liebster's memoir is a valuable addition to firsthand accounts of resistance to the Nazi regime. Facing the Lion is part of an effort by the Cercle European des temoins de Jehovah Anciens Deportees to document the lives of Jehovah's Witnesses who defied the Nazi regime. The book starts slowly, with too much time spent in the depiction of the author's idyllic early childhood, but this is a small flaw in relation to the overall quality of the work. The work provides important information about the fate of Jehovah's Witnesses under German occupation, of which historians have written very little, and as a personal memoir describes how Nazi oppression affected ordinary people. Facing the Lion is a form of social history that gives an added dimension to political histories of the time period. It allows us to understand the dynamics of a society under the most extreme pressure, and shows the spectrum of reaction by ordinary people.
Facing the Lion is particularly important as a study in the character of a person of conscience. Simone and the entire Arnold family were set apart from their society even before the war. Their commitment to God above state power, their pacifism and their willingness to question the standards of the time separated them from other members of their social group. Alsatian society is depicted as conformist and authoritarian, with little tolerance for difference of opinion or belief. Simone was raised in an open, intellectual environment where she was encouraged to question and to think for herself. She was also raised in an atmosphere free of racial prejudice. The authorities at Wessenberg sought to undo this training and instill in her the values of passivity, obedience and silence.
The personal faith of Simone Arnold Liebster infuses this book and she, as did other Jehovah's Witnesses, understood her experiences as a modern version of Daniel in the Lion's Den. Liebster includes a letter written by Marcel Sutter, a 24 year old Jehovah's Witness, hours before he was executed by the Nazis in 1943. In this letter he writes, "I ask you to be strong and courageous; do not cry, for I have conquered. I have finished the course and kept the faith." Facing the Lion shows that ordinary people did face up to and resist the evil of the Nazi regime. This reader is left to ponder whether (given the same choice) I, or my friends and neighbors, would have the courage to do the same.
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During the last year, representatives of the American Association of State Counseling Boards (AASCB), the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES), the American Mental Health Counselors Association (AMHCA), and the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) worked together to create a Portability Task Force with one goal: a safe, clear, reasonable portability process for all current and future counselors. The task force agreed upon five (5) key tenets which informed each decision by the taskforce.
Specifically, a uniform licensure endorsement process must:
I. Significantly increase public access to qualified care;
II. Establish minimum standards for safe practice;
III. Reduce administrative burdens for both state regulatory boards and licensees;
IV. Create consistency in licensure standards across state lines; and
V. Ensure protection of the public and the continued development of the profession.
The Portability Task Force agreed on the importance of honoring the work and practices already adopted by state regulatory boards while developing a portability process. Consequently, the task force conducted a thorough analysis of all state regulatory practices related to reciprocity, portability, and licensure endorsement.
This state-by-state analysis revealed the need for a more refined goal for portability – that of achieving a balance between establishing minimum licensure endorsement standards for public protection and moving the profession toward the future goal of unified education standards, examination requirements, and years of post-graduate experience.
Throughout our research, analysis, and collaborative efforts, the Portability Task Force prioritized public protection and the future of the counseling profession over any one organization's previously established portability policy or organizational agenda. This deep commitment to unity is reflected in a portability process that represents meaningful compromises by AASCB, ACES, AMHCA, and NBCC.
By capitalizing on the historical knowledge of all organizations involved in the Portability Task Force and the history of state regulatory standards, AASCB, ACES, AMHCA, and NBCC agreed upon a unified portability process that is as much a recognition of our shared past as it is a step forward into our shared future.
In an era of a mobile workforce, which is increasingly receptive to innovative service delivery such as tele-mental health services and military-friendly licensure processes, a national portability process is more vital than ever. To be a counselor must hold the same meaning to a citizen as it does to a policy maker from state to state. After 30+ years of wrangling with the issue of portability, the time has come to pave a path forward for highly qualified current and future counselors to improve client access to services.
We recognize that no portability process is a "silver bullet" that resolves all concerns related to portability. However, we strongly believe that our portability process will significantly benefit mental health consumers by increasing access to needed care and services and helping create a vibrant workforce of licensed counselors both in terms of changing regulatory standards and the increasing need for united advocacy efforts.
In addition, for a secure counselor portability licensure process with ensured consumer protections to be in place, a careful vetting of counselors seeking portability should include background checks to strengthen public protection. Enhancing the ability of states to share investigative and disciplinary information will help assure the public that key protections are in place.
AASCB, ACES, AMHCA, and NBCC present the counseling profession's historic united, collaborative portability process for all counselors licensed at the highest level of licensure for independent practice. The Portability Task Force asks each state regulatory board to consider adopting the National Counselor Licensure Endorsement Process.
We understand and appreciate that such a change will require rule –and possibly even – statutory changes for many state regulatory boards.
We are asking each state regulatory board to embrace this opportunity to facilitate increased access to care by mobilizing a more nimble workforce of counselors in order to be part of a shared future in which true licensure portability is a reality.
National Counselor Licensure Endorsement Process
Any counselor licensed at the highest level of licensure for independent practice available in his or her state may obtain licensure in any other state or territory of the United States if all of the following criteria are met:
- The licensee has engaged in ethical practice, with no disciplinary sanctions, for at least 5 years from the date of application for licensure endorsement.
- The licensee has possessed the highest level of counselor licensure for independent practice for at least 3 years from the date of application for licensure endorsement.
- The licensee has completed a jurisprudence or equivalent exam if required by the state regulatory body.
- The licensee complies with ONE of the following:
a. Meets all academic, exam, and post-graduate supervised experience standards as adopted by the state counseling licensure board.
b. Holds the National Certified Counselor (NCC) credential, in good standing, as issued by the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC).
c. Holds a graduate-level degree from a program accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling & Related Educational Programs (CACREP).


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Língua do Pê, or P Language, is a language game spoken in Brazil and Portugal with Portuguese. It is also known in other languages, such as Dutch and Afrikaans. (Wikipedia)
There are some dialects in this language game. The different languages the game is played with even have their own unique dialects. Some people are fluent in speaking P Language and the best can even translate any text to their preferred dialect on the spot!
In this challenge, we will use the Double Talk dialect.
To translate text into P Language, any sequence of vowels in the text is appended with a single
p character followed by a copy of the sequence of vowels.
Write a function or program that accepts a string as input and outputs its translation in P Language.
- The input consists only of printable ASCII characters.
- The output consists only of the translated input and optionally a trailing newline.
- Vowels are any of the following characters
- A sequence of vowels is delimited by any other character. The string
"Aa aa-aa"has three vowel sequences.
- Leading and trailing whitespace may optionally be omitted from the translated output string.
"" => "" "Lingua do Pe" => "Lipinguapua dopo Pepe" "Hello world!" => "Hepellopo woporld!" "Aa aa-aa" => "AapAa aapaa-aapaa" "This should be easy, right?" => "Thipis shoupould bepe eapeasypy, ripight?" "WHAT ABOUT CAPS?" => "WHApAT ApABOUpOUT CApAPS?" " Hi " => " Hipi " or "Hipi"
The double quotes character
" is used to delimit the input and output strings in the examples but obviously this character may also appear in any valid input string.


Modern British Paintings _PHONE_
Modern British Paintings _PHONE_
Publisher: Whitford and Hughes
Dimensions: 20 x 21.5 cm
Pages: 39
£ 8.00
Whitford and Hughes.
This exhibition of Modern British paintings aims to convey a spectrum of the rich and diverse artistic achievements centering on the turn of the century. It illustrates the progression of the 'Modernist' path from the Academy dominated years to the Newlyn and St. Ives group and later the Camden and Bloomsbury circles. While some of the works display the continuing appeal of the traditional and academic styles, other reflect an open attitude and gradual adoption of new Continental influences, ranging from the French Impressionism of Steer to the tubular, Leger influenced style of Roberts.
Ghida Khairallah


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The three-year project will deliver online learning platforms for Ghana, Ethiopia, and Egypt
SHENZHEN, China, Dec. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — At an online meeting on November 25, UNESCO and Huawei announced the launch of the implementations phase of the Technology-Enabled Open Schools for All (TeOSS) project in Ghana, Ethiopia, and Egypt.
Aligned with UN SDG4, TeOSS will serve as a basis for powering the digital transformation of the education sector and support the three UNESCO member states in building resilient education systems that can withstand global disruptions such as COVID-19. Evaluating project outcomes will help guide strategies and models for scaling out TeOSS at a national level, and for expanding the project to other African nations to drive ICT integration into teaching and learning.
In addition to connecting schools, the TeOSS projects in Ghana, Ethiopia, and Egypt will provide training for teachers and students in the use of digital tools, establish online platforms to link school and home learning, and develop digital curricula that can be accessed remotely without supervision. It is aimed to help students become confident digital citizens capable of navigating the virtual world independently and equip teachers with the skills required to use existing and new digital tools to maximize learning outcomes.
"The project is designed to test schooling models that can respond immediately to new challenges imposed by the pandemic and also leverage technology to help enable the development of future models of schooling," said Stefania Giannini, Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO. "It is defined by a digital school model that makes programs accessible for all students, whether in times of crisis or not – it is a case of going beyond the current situation and opening a new horizon of teaching and learning."
Planned in close collaboration with the governments of Ghana, Ethiopia, and Egypt in line with their existing national strategies, the TeOSS projects have been developed to meet specific local needs.
In Egypt, an ICT skills framework has been developed for teachers and students in K12 schools. Digital courseware development experts and primary and junior high school teachers will receive training, and a National Distance Learning Centre will be established for use by educators nationwide to ensure continuity in professional development.
"Egypt's new education system 2.0 emphasizes the integration of technology into the educational process with multiple digital learning resources and learning platforms to ensure education for all and achieve educational quality and access." said Dr. Reda Hegazy, Deputy Minister for Teachers' Affairs for the Ministry of Education and Technical Education in Egypt. "The teacher's role has shifted from providing information to being a guide and facilitator of the educational process through digital learning resources."
The TeOSS project in Ethiopia will focus on ICT infrastructure build-out to connect pilot schools, train teachers and students, and build a Learning Management System integrated with a Teacher Training Platform.
"Ethiopia understands very well the need for ICT and digitalization in our future schooling system to deliver quality and inclusive education equitably for all, without any disruptions, as stipulated in our new education sector roadmap," said Dr. Fanta Mandefiro from the State of Ministry of Education of Ethiopia. "This project is perfectly aligned with our aspirations and the activities of our programs and initiatives for utilizing digital content in our education system."
In Ghana, the focus is on creating digital content for all subjects, as well as providing training for teachers and students at Primary and JHS schools. The project will also build an e-repository that teachers can use to upload content and which learners can access online and offline with little or no supervision.
"I am glad to note that this UNESCO-HUAWEI is building on the already established partnerships and collaborative efforts with our national institutions, particularly CENDLOS, which is the institution mandated by the Government of Ghana to facilitate the integration of ICT into the education system across the board," said Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, Minister of Education for Ghana.
"The digital platforms that Technology-enabled Open Schools for All will create mean that learning never needs to stop – whatever the future holds," said Kevin Zhang, CMO of ICT Infrastructure for Huawei. "Huawei is fully committed to working with UNESCO, governments, and all stakeholders to deliver successful, sustainable, and scalable projects."
The TeOSS project and the partnerships that will implement it are crucial for digitalizing education and driving equitable and inclusive access to lifelong learning opportunities for all.
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Title: Artificial Intimacy Virtual friends digital lovers & algorithmic matchmakers
Author: Brooks Robert
Publisher: UNSW Press NewSouth
Binding: Paperback
Edition: 2021
APN: 9781742236858 or ISBN(_PHONE_)
People have long told machines what to do by pushing buttons. Now, with advances in technology, machines are pushing our buttons.
In Artificial Intimacy, evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks takes us from the origins of human behaviour to the latest in artificially intelligent technologies, providing a fresh and original view of the very near future of human relationships.
Sex dollbots, digital lovers, virtual friends and algorithmic matchmakers help us manage our feelings in a world of cognitive overload. Apps can sense when a user is falling in love, when they are fighting, and when they are likely to break up. These machines, the artificial intimacies, already learn and exploit human social needs. They are getting better and faster at what they do.
How will humanitys future unfold when our ancient, evolved minds and old-fashioned cultures collide with twenty-first-century technology?