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In Usui Shiki Ryoho, the following Japanese ranks are attached.
- First Degree = "初傳"(Shoden)
- Second Degree = "奥傳"(Okuden)
- Third Degree = "神祕傳"(Shinpiden)
D. Award text: *within 20 to 50 English words
default:"This is to certify that the person mentioned above has received the necessary attunements and attained the specified degree of Reiki in the traditional Usui Shiki Ryoho (or your Reiki style)."
E. Date of award: default label: "Date of Registration:
F. Your Reiki style and school name
G. Signature line (for Conferrer) name/rank/title: *one conferrer's name
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Brexit - Populist Reaction to the 2008 Speculative Bubble Bursting?
As evidence accumulates about the harmful effects Brexit is likely to cause to the British economy, one may wonder what made a majority of Brits vote to leave the EU. Rather than treat it as a fit of ill temper or an unfortunate accident, this paper explores the idea that it should be seen as a populist reaction triggered by the burst of the speculative bubble in 2008-2009 and the subsequent economic mayhem.
To make the case, the paper looks at (1) what populism is, (2) how it can arise as part of long-term economic waves and (3) what precisely happened in Britain before and after 2009.
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Write a java program that prompts the user in the Java console (using Scanner) or in a Dialog Box (using JOptionPane.showInputDialog)for their gender, age, and name. The program should use this information to instantiate(construct) a Person object using the Person class as template : Person.java
The program should suggest a pet based on the Person's gender and age. You will need to use if else if statements. Make sure when displaying the Person's name in the output to call the getName() method for the Person Object you created.

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CULTIVATE MSS Project: Cultural Values and the International Trade in Medieval European Manuscripts, c. _PHONE_
The CULTIVATE MSS project (2019-2024) examines the impact of collectors of medieval manuscripts, experts and dealers on the formation of collections and the development of scholarship between 1900 and 1945.
This period saw a growing market for medieval books, with record prices at auction in the 1920s, before the global depression of the 1930s. Yet some manuscripts were considered more desirable than others, fetching higher prices and attracting more attention in publications. CULTIVATE MSS analyses the impact of the values of those involved in the early twentieth-century manuscript trade on the long-term locations of books and the study of the Middle Ages, with repercussions still being felt today.
The research compares the development of the manuscript trade and manuscript scholarship in Britain, France, Germany and America. During this period the Bibliothèque nationale was actively seeking to acquire French manuscripts, and in all four nations manuscripts were part of discussions about national heritage. At different stages, laws were introduced to try to control the movement of works that were sometimes regarded as "national monuments". In America, dealers like Abraham Rosenbach defended the purchase of European cultural heritage, arguing that if Europeans wanted the books they would be able to buy them back, and some manuscripts crossed the Atlantic multiple times in this period. The two World Wars had major consequences for the movement of both manuscripts and dealers, with many booksellers leaving Germany and Austria for the United States.
Among the criteria used to assess manuscripts in the period were their age, condition, textual and pictorial content, and previous owners. While some collectors claimed that they wanted to build collections with books that represented manuscript production from across Europe throughout the Middle Ages, most collections reveal the collector's taste.
Moreover, some purchases were shaped by specific circumstances. The manuscript above was advertised by the dealer Maggs Bros. in 1920 as containing a rare contemporary portrait of Edward, Prince of Wales (the Black Prince). It was bought by the University of London who presented it to the then Prince of Wales (subsequently Edward VIII). He returned it to the University to be used for teaching, where it became MS 1. An alignment of the manuscript's content with contemporary political interests thus helped to determine the book's fate.
Medieval manuscripts preserve texts on a wide range of subjects, but in this period illuminated manuscripts were increasingly studied as a form of art. Exhibitions in Paris in 1904 and London in 1908 played an important role in advocating for illumination as an art form, but once again sought to categorise material on national lines.
The trade in medieval manuscripts has largely been written as a history of male collectors, with a few exceptional female participants, such as J. P. Morgan's librarian Belle Greene. Among the aims of this project is to present a more inclusive analysis of the networks underpinnning the market for medieval books, researching the contributions of women as well as the impact of clubs and societies in forming and reinforcing ideas about manuscripts.
An extended synopsis about the project from the grant application is available here.


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Roadmap is an easy-to-use general English course for older teens and adults. Teachers can choose from two different teaching tracks, allowing them to adapt their lessons to their students' needs and expectations. Roadmap is a well-organized course with an integrated skills approach, focusing on practical vocabulary and developing communication skills.
Each lesson in Roadmap has a clear learning goal and every activity in a lesson is focused on achieving that objective, using carefully structured tasks, language input, plenty of practice, strategies for skills development and a reflection on performance.
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Nepomuk provides a number of kioslaves in order to integrate better with KDE.
The NepomukSearch kio-slave is the most prominent kio-slave. It's main job is to answer search queries.
The Nepomuk KIO slave is responsible for the nepomuk protocol, and is a simple forwarding slave. It's main purpose is to analyze the relevant resource and either return the resource (if possible) or construct a query, and forward it to the nepomuksearch kio slave.
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To use FILESTREAM feature both Windows administrator and SQL Server administrator have to enable it. While enabling from Windows there are three options to choose from:
- Enable FILESTREAM for Transact-SQL Access check box.
- Enable FILESTREAM for file I/O streaming access. This is to read and write FILESTREAM data from Windows. Enter the name of the Windows share in the Windows Share Name box.
- Select Allow remote clients to have streaming access to FILESTREAM data. This is to let remote clients access the FILESTREAM data stored on this share.
For SQL Server instance there are three options to choose from:
- 0 – Disable FILESTREAM support for this instance
- 1 – enable FILESTREAM for Transact-SQL access only
- 2 – enable FILESTREAM for Transact-SQL and Win32 streaming access
Note that FILESTREAM would perform worse for 1MB+ size files for full read/write if Transact-SQL is chosen (and Win32 streaming is not chosen) than no FILESTREAM BLOB.
Now that FILESTREAM is enabled, we can go ahead to do the rest of the setups.
First, create a file group to keep the FILESTREAM data. There is a 1:1 mapping between data containers and file groups.
ALTER DATABASE MyDatabase ADD FILEGROUP MyFileStreamGroup1 CONTAINS FILESTREAM;
Second, define data container. In the below example, "D:\Production" must exist already. "D:\Production\FileStreamDataContainerRoot" is going to be the root of the data container.
ALTER DATABASE MyDatabase ADD FILE ( NAME = FileStreamGroup1File, FILENAME = 'D:\Production\FileStreamDataContainerRoot') TO FILEGROUP MyFileStreamGroup1 ;
Third, create a table with a FILESTREAM column. All FILESTREAM columns of a table must go to a single FILESTREAM group that can be specified, defaulting to default FILESTREAM filegroup. Table must have a column of the non-null uniqueidentifier data type with ROWGUIDCOL attribute and either a UNIQUE or PRIMARY KEY single-column constraint. FILESTREAM data container will have a directory for a table with subdirectory corresponding to the FILESTREAM column of the table.
USE MyDatabase ; GO CREATE TABLE TableWithFileStreamColumn ( DocumentID INT IDENTITY PRIMARY KEY, Document VARBINARY (MAX) FILESTREAM NULL, DocGUID UNIQUEIDENTIFIER NOT NULL ROWGUIDCOL UNIQUE DEFAULT NEWID ()) FILESTREAM_ON MyFileStreamGroup1;


' Fertilizer CO2 – Shockwave CO2
SW FerCO2 is a low-cost fertilizer production system and clean CO2 source.
SW FerCO2 is a modified SW Chem Loop system that targets the impurities of natural gas flue gas and cleans the CO2. This system is a horizontal skid that operates as a semi-batch system and uses liquid chemical, either Na or K (Mg to be tested) to target SOx and NOx.
The liquid chemical cycles and mixes with the acid gases in the shockwave under a single contact until the appropriate pH is achieved and leaves the CO2 unreacted. The clean CO2 can then be piped directly into a greenhouse and the fertilizers can be used as a liquid spray to promote healthy and robust plant growth.
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These sites offer examples of pedagogical strategies used by faculty at James Madison University for inclusive course instruction. For easy reference, the strategies are grouped by the diversity topic that the instructor targeted (such as race/ethnicity, age, or socioeconomics). Many of them, however, can be modified to fit other topics, so please feel free to browse. The second site provides additional inclusive teaching resources.
Read current and previous issues here.
ALANA draws its name from African, Latino, Asian and Native American and serves as a network offering professional support and fosters a sense of community among multicultural faculty and staff. More Information
Created through a partnership between the General Education Diversity Board and the Center for faculty Innovation, this site offers examples of pedagogical strategies used by faculty at JMU. For easy reference, the
strategies are grouped by the diversity topic that the instructor targeted (such as race/ethnicity, age, or socioeconomics). Many of them, however, can be modified to fit other topics, so please feel free to browse.
The vision of the JMU Interfaith Coalition is to facilitate mutual understanding of any and all religions and world views, and to promote positive civic engagement in the JMU and local communities. Visit Website
The Center for Faculty Innovation is dedicated to providing support for faculty in their multidimensional roles with the belief that faculty innovation and excellence are an ongoing interplay of teaching, scholarship, service, and leadership.
Professors in residence work with high schools to recruit students to JMU and encourage college application and enrollment in general. There are always opportunities for faculty to join the program.
The Office of Equal Opportunity provides resources for search committees and works to ensure fair and equitable hiring practices throughout JMU.
The Furious Flower Poetry Center aims to advance the genre of African American Poetry by providing opportunities for education, research, and publication.
The Office of Training and Development collaborates with OSAP to lead various training programs designed to serve the JMU campus throughout the academic school year.
Multicultural attaches are students who are trained to facilitate and/or participate in classroom dialogues about diversity.

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Coal is a sedimentary rock found in stratus layers. It is black or black with brown hues. Coal has been used for hundreds of years for a variety of uses but primarily in industry and production. Coal is unlike other kinds of rocks because it is carbon based and made of organic carbon. The carbon dioxide in coal is not oxidized and remains within the rock waiting to be released. Coal is pretty much made up of fossilized peat matter. Coal beds can be found throughout the continents and can be found in rocks that date as far back as the Proterozoic period.
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Examining social class and help-seeking behaviors among Haitian immigrants in the United States
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dc.contributor.advisor Padilla, Yolanda C.
dc.creator Pierre-Pierre, Anne Martine
dc.date.accessioned 2012-07-19T14:27:43Z
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dc.date.created 2012-05
dc.date.issued 2012-07-19
dc.date.submitted May 2012
dc.description.abstract Haitians in the United States represent the fourth largest immigrant population from the Caribbean. As in the case of many immigrant populations, Haitian immigrant adaptation has been challenged by social, political and economic factors, and as a result they have had to seek legal, health, and social services. According to the literature, help-seeking behaviors among Haitian immigrants have been associated with traditional indices of socioeconomic status, namely education, occupation, or income. This study takes a more in-depth look at the influence of social class by approaching it as cultural construct in the context of historical patterns of Haitian immigrant incorporation. Most Haitians arrived during the latter half of the 20th century in four successive waves, the 1957, 1970, 1980 and 1991 wave. Each of these waves of Haitian immigration represented a distinct context of departure and social class composition. A qualitative approach was used to obtain rich information on the role of help-seeking in the immigration and incorporation experience of Haitians from the perspective of immigrants who arrived during the four distinct waves of immigration. Individual and focused group interviews were conducted in English, Creole, and French with a purposive and snowball sample of 43 Haitian immigrants currently living in south Florida. Using a grounded theory approach, the analysis generated six categories related to the Haitian immigrant experience: orientation at time of arrival, establishment of social connections, issues of trust, generational effects, cultural constructs of social class, and perspectives on the help-seeking experience. Key findings emerged that identified the importance of social connections in Haitian help-seeking behaviors in the context of a complex Haitian social class construct imbedded in historical, political, and economic positioning. Specifically, across all immigration waves, regardless of social background--from the highly educated doctor who arrived in the 1950s to the rural peasant who arrived in the 1990s--Haitian immigrants identified an individual of Haitian descent residing in the United States on whom they relied for assistance in obtaining resources. This system of social connections reflected the social constructs of class existing in Haiti and remained a significant factor in Haitian immigrants' help-seeking behaviors during resettlement.
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dc.subject Haitian immigrants
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dc.subject Immigration
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dc.title Examining social class and help-seeking behaviors among Haitian immigrants in the United States
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text: Interactions bewteen two or more nations or countries are described as being International. There are several interactions that make take place between two or more nations such as trade and travel. The global economy allows companies and businesses to assemble and market products internationaly between countries all over the world. For example, a business may be based in one country, but the products that this company creates are assembled in another. The finished product is sold to nations all around the world. This is a common action that take place internationally. Travel is also another interaction that takes place internationally although it is mostly for recreational purposes. However, a large number of individuals and groups travel internationally for business purposes.


Excessive rain hit several areas in Georgia's cotton growing region in June.
Where this kind of rainfall occurred, cotton was already planted. Cotton seedlings are highly sensitive to excessively wet soils. In most cases the soil profile dries out and growth and development is not delayed.
But the shear amount of rainfall and continued frequency of rains have left soil in parts of some fields or entire fields waterlogged for days, if not weeks.
First things first, the soil does have to dry out for us to do most anything to the crop. In cases, portions of a field will remain waterlogged while most of the field is drying out. The question of when to start working a field may be based on when a particularly wet portion of the field dries, but consider that these parts of the field may remain unworkable for the entire year and proceeding with field activities in the majority of the field while staying out of wet areas may be the way to go.
Waterlogged soils can cause cotton seedlings to respond in various ways. Generally, waterlogged conditions reduce the crop growth rate by replacing the air in the soil with water, depriving the roots of oxygen.
These roots are unable to maintain normal respiration. Respiration is the process that the plant uses to provide energy and building blocks for growth. Respiration rates are highest in the terminal of the plant and the root tips.
As soils become saturated and eventually waterlogged, they are termed anaerobic. The effects on cotton plants may include chlorosis, yellowing, reduced shoot growth, reduced nutrient uptake, altered hormone levels, and other problems (many acres of cotton have symptoms of reddening leaves and stems being too wet, as well as typical nitrogen deficiency symptoms).
So, if we consider the amount of rainfall and the fact that soils have been waterlogged (or close to it) for an extended period of time, the crop has gotten off to a slow, rough start. This will bring up management issues that may or may not be worth addressing and will likely create a scenario where growers are trying to "fix the problem" or "bring the crop out of it."
This issue will be something that just has to work itself out. As soon as the soil dries out, the crop should start to rebound and major alterations to management will not likely be warranted.
In the meantime:
What's going to fix this cotton?
SUNSHINE AND DRY WEATHER. The plant processes have been slowed and the plant needs time to recover. It will recover when oxygen levels reach normal in the soil and respiration can proceed as normal.
Most of the symptoms are related to the plant not growing, not a lack of something. In most cases, everything the plant needs is there.
Will this cotton live? If the soil is no longer waterlogged and the terminal is green and producing new leaves, then the logical answer would be that it has lived. If not, then it isn't. That answer is pretty simple, but trying to decide while the soil is too wet to do anything is futile.
When the supply of oxygen is cut off to the plant and the field is in standing water, the plant can die in as little as 36 hours. When the supply of oxygen is completely cut off, roots stop absorbing water, even when completely saturated with water, and eventually die. Cotton which has produced several true leaves has fared much better than germinating cotton or cotton with less than two true leaves.
Is this crop worth it now? If the plants aren't dead and actively growing, then in all likelihood it's worth it. Proceed. If some or portions of the field are drowned out, insurance providers and experts may help with that financial decision.
If a part of the field was dry enough to get back going, it would make sense to farm the drier parts, but it may depend on the insurance side of it and the protection and coverage available.
What are the potential lingering effects? Stunted growth. Once excessive moisture is gone, normal growth should start, but the effects may be noticeable for much longer.
One potential issue with waterlogged seedling cotton is the dramatic reduction in root growth. In normal conditions roots develop 0.5 to 2 inches per day. Waterlogged conditions greatly reduce root growth. This may cause the crop to be more prone to drought later in the year.
Other than irrigation to alleviate drought stress, this is a problem that could potentially hurt yield. Development could be delayed such that the crop could be managed like it was planted much later than it really was. Waterlogging could slow growth to the point in which cotton planted much later could actually be farther along and management should reflect this.
Can I cultivate the middles and help it out? n some soils, excessive rainfall events tend to pack soil and "seal" it. When these conditions occur, drying of the soil may proceed slower and there is a potential for cultivation to loosen soil and allow oxygen to reach the roots faster and help the crop start to develop normally.
Since root development was restricted during wet conditions, cultivation could actually prune roots if the sweeps are set too low. One could dig around to see where in fact the major portions of the root zone are before considering cultivation. In most cases where soils are excessively wet for an extended period of time, lateral roots may be very close to the soil surface and pruning them may set us back even further, especially if the tap root has not developed as it should.
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Emily Start
Beginning as a stained glass artist, Emily Start eventually moved into beadwork (and massage therapy). Her creative evolution included an inspiration to incorporate metal work into her beading, and the rest as "they" say, and she says, "is history." For 12 years she has been creating gorgeous wrapped jewelry, far removed from the more typical, dainty wrapping. Incorporating semi-precious stones and fine metals, her pieces are true statement jewelry. Her technique uses no soldering, gluing, or other methods to connect the components.


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From the colors of the flag to the cultural symbols, these toys are a visual representation of national pride. What makes these soft toys truly special is their ability to transcend borders and language barriers. They serve as a universal language of friendship, allowing people from different countries to connect and bond over their shared love for these adorable creatures. Whether you are a child or an adult, the Countryball Soft Toy brings a smile to your face and a warm feeling in your heart. These plush toys have become more than just playthings; they have become ambassadors of peace and understanding. They remind us that despite our differences, we all share a common humanity. They encourage us to embrace diversity and celebrate the rich tapestry of cultures that make up our world.
The Countryball Soft Toy is not just a toy; it is a symbol of hope. It reminds us that no matter where we come from, we can find common ground and build bridges of friendship. It teaches us that love and acceptance are more powerful than hate and division. These soft toys have also become popular collectibles, with enthusiasts from around the world seeking to complete their collection. They are not just toys; they are cherished mementos that hold sentimental value. They serve as a reminder of the friendships formed and the memories created. In a world that often feels divided, the Countryball Soft Toy offers a glimmer of hope. It reminds us that despite our differences, we are all part of one global family.
So, let's embrace these adorable plush toys, hug a world of friendship, and spread love and acceptance wherever we go. In today's world, where divisions and conflicts seem to be ever-present, it is refreshing to find something that brings people together. The Countryball Plush Toy Collection is one such example, as it unites people from different backgrounds and cultures through the universal language of play. For those unfamiliar with Countryballs, they are anthropomorphic representations of countries, each with their own unique design and characteristics. These adorable plush toys have gained popularity in recent years, with Countryball plush toy fans all over the world embracing their charm and cuteness. What makes the Countryball Plush Toy Collection truly special is its ability to foster unity and understanding among people.


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Buildings, Bridges and Barriers: Engineering for K-12September 14, 2009
"What is an engineer?" is a question that many middle and high school students cannot answer. A collaborative team of UNL engineers (Dr. Larry Rilett) and educators (Drs. Gina Kunz and Gwen Nugent), together with the Nebraska Department of Education (Tony Glenn), are helping middle and high school students and their teachers understand engineering and the real life math, science, and technology applications that are the essence of this field. When we approach a stop light, cross a street, drive across a bridge, or survive a car accident, we can appreciate the reality of engineering in practice.
The UNL Professional Development Science and Math Summer Institute, funded by the Nebraska Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education and the U.S. Department of Transportation, is advancing the knowledge and skills of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) middle and high school educators and their students.
Teachers participate in discussions with engineers about their research related to safety barriers, road design, and radiofrequency identification; visit various sites where the research has been put into action; and develop lesson plans that they use in classrooms with their students. Teacher and student participants have demonstrated increases in their knowledge of engineering, and students have shown increases in positive attitudes towards math, science, and engineering.
The success of the nation relies on future leaders in engineering fields. This project reaches out to teachers and students throughout Nebraska, with plans to expand efforts regionally and nationally, to promote such leadership.


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TEN TIPS TO ENSURE HEATER SAFETY DURING THESE COLD WINTER NIGHTS
As winter sets in and the nights grow colder, naturally South Africans are dusting off their gas, electric and fan heaters to warm up their homes. So it should come as no surprise that the number of household fires rises dramatically at this time of year. Fire safety and being conscious of the dangers associated with household heaters are vital. Here are 10 tips to keep safe and warm this winter.
1. Always turn your gas heater off at the valve
Gas heaters generally have dials that turn all the way down to '0' or 'off', but if the main gas valve remains open there will always be a risk of gas leaks. Close the valve after turning the heater dial all the way down or off to be certain of avoiding gas leaks.
2. Check the rubber washer at the end of your regulator
Gas cylinders are regularly refilled and changed but one piece of equipment that can be overlooked is the rubber washer or ring on the end of the gas regulator, which is usually at the end of the gas pipe fitted to your heater. Ensure that this hasn't worn away, split or cracked. This rubber ring keeps the connection tightly sealed and any wear or tear could lead to gas leaks.
3. Test your heater for gas leaks
If you are worried about a gas leak, you can test for leaks by spraying or applying a soapy water solution onto areas and connections where you feel there may be leaks. Leaks will become visible where the area bubbles. This is also a great method to check for punctures in car and bicycle tyres.
4. Keep your heater away from flammable substances
It seems obvious to keep flammable substances away from the heater and flames, but very often you may not be aware of how flammable a simple household detergent can be. Read the instruction label carefully and keep all detergents away from your heater to ensure safety. Even certain gels or a wood wax can be highly flammable.
5. Keep a safe distance from your heater
It's always tempting to get as close as possible to the warmth of a heater, particularly when temperatures are very low, but always maintain a safe distance from your heater. Keeping furniture, clothes and other items away from your heater is also important.
6. Do not move your heater while in use
Rather move nearer to your heater than attempt to move a heater while it is switched on or running. Accidents are more likely to occur when attempting to move a heater. Even if your gas heater has wheels, rather switch it off and let it cool down before moving it.
7. Unplug electric heaters
Always be cautious with electrical appliances because they can become faulty at any time. Heaters can short and cause a fire as long as they are plugged in a wall, even if it is switched off. Switching appliances such as these off at the wall before leaving your house or going to sleep is a great habit to develop.
8. When in doubt turn it off
Never take risks. If you think you smell gas, if you think your electric or fan heater may have sparked or may be faulty, rather switch it off and take it in to a professional to assess it.
9. Never leave your heater on all night
Whether it's an electric, fan or gas heater, never leave it running over night while you are asleep. Heat up your room before you go to sleep and try to keep the heat contained by closing doors or windows but avoid leaving your heater on. Accidents are more likely to occur when heaters have been running for long periods, and if you are asleep you will not notice potential danger.
10. Put safety measures in place
Safety should be a priority in your home, particularly in winter when electricity and gas use increases. Teach your family members how to operate your heaters, show them what warning signs to look for and explain what to do in the case of a fire. Smoke detectors can be installed relatively cheaply and having at least one fire extinguisher in the home is highly advisable.
Keep warm this winter but keep safe too.


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2017-2018 Elective Courses
- Advanced Band
- Intermediate Band
- Jazz Band
- Spanish (yearlong)
- STEM (yearlong and trimester long)
Theatre Production 7 is a year long elective class. Students will participate in a play and a musical. The musical will require some after school rehearsal time, usually in March and April. Students interested in joining this class must contact Mrs. Anderson at _EMAIL_ for an audition.
Theatre Production 8 is a year long elective class. Students will participate in two plays and a musical. The musical will require some after school rehearsal time, usually in January and February. Students interested in joining this class must contact Mrs. Anderson for an audition.
Intro to Principles of Design, Elements of Art
and CTE Standards
1. Intro to DMA AND CTE procedures, Standards, basic drawing, digital photo, graphic design and iPad Apps.
2. Intro to Digital Photo and Adobe Workshop.
3. Intro to Principles of Graphic Design.
- Create a Google Doodle style drawing for weekly vocab word. Compete in "Doodle for Google" contest (volunteer basis).
- Learn the Rule of Thirds and the Golden Spiral for compositions. Learn how to take good photos. Learn how to take individual and group shots. Edit in Adobe.
- Create Photo album/portfolio for digital photo projects to use in Adobe
- Explore all Adobe iOS Apps and create a project using each.
- Intro to Graphic Design. Create a project from idea to concept, draw it, photoshop it, crowd source funding for production, write and film a commercial to advertise your product.
- 5. Video Production - Intro to the making a short video, sound, special effects. plot, camera angles, rule of thirds and music in Garage Band.
- Students will work on individual projects and in groups of two when learning new Apps and larger groups when needed for filming.


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The command line tool oggResize can resize the height and width of an ogg file (ogg, oga or ogv) in various ways. However, it does only handle Ogg Theora and Vorbis streams. The advantage of oggResize over other tools is that it converts only the streams that need to be changed. Streams that need no conversion will not be effected.
oggResize can change the video frame size, video or audio datarate and the video frame rate or audio sample rate.
It can also add comments to any stream and can include PNG images with an alpha channel, which are rendered into the video at any time period before or after the resizing process.
Synopsis: oggResize [options] inputfile.ogv outputfile.ogv
The available options are:
-s sets the size of the video frame. The size is given as x. The default size is 480x320.
By default the aspect ratio of the original video frame is kept as it is, so if the size of the new video frame does not match in aspect ratio, oggResize adds black borders at the top and bottom or right and left, to fit the new aspect ratio.
If you want to stretch the video frames to the new size, use the -t option.
Example: -s 320x240
-d sets the datarate in bits per second for the video encoder (theora). This is meant to be an upper threshold. So the file may be smaller than assumed. If not set, the datarate of the original stream is used.
Example: -d _PHONE_
-D sets the datarate in bits per second for the audio encoder (vorbis). If not set, the datarate of the original stream is used.
Example: -D 64000
-f sets the frame rate of the video with numerator and denominator and is the frames per second. If only one number is given, the denominator is set to 1. If not set, the frame rate of the original video is used.
Example: -f 25:2
-F sets the sample frequency (sample rate) of the audio data in Hertz. If the sample frequency does not match the original file, resampling is invoked.
Example: -F 32000
-t if this option is set, the picture will be stretched to the output size. In this case, the aspect ratio of the output video may not match the original video frame aspect ratio. This option help omitting the black borders, that appear if the aspect ratio of the original and the new video do not match.
-c adds comments to the video (theora) stream. Comments are in the form 'type=value'. More than one comment can be concatenated with a semicolon. It is recommended that apostrophes (single quote) be used, as the command line may use the semicolon as a separator.
Example: -c 'AUTHOR=yorn;DATE=03.07.09'
-C adds comments to the audio (vorbis) stream. Comments are in the form 'type=value'. More than one comment can be concatenated with a semicolon. It is recommended that apostrophes (single quote) be used, as the command line may use the semicolon as a separator.
Example: -C 'AUTHOR=yorn;DATE=03.07.09'
-q specifies the quality for the resizing process. Values can be chosen between 1 (best quality, with slight bluring) and 6 (worst quality). The default value is 2.
-p creates a preview film. The number given with this option specifies the interval between the frames selected, e.g. -p24 means that every 24th frame is selected/shown. Thus the newly created video plays 24 times faster. This option can be combined with the -f option to control the frame rate. With both options nice video previews can be created. If -p is used, the audio stream is ignored.
Example: -p 24
-a adds a picture to the video frame before it is resized. The picture does not have to fit into the video frame. It is always placed in the upper left corner of the video frame.
The default start time is 0. The default end time is -1. By default s is not set. In this case the picture does not fade in. If s is set then the picture does fade in.
It is possible to superimpose more than one picture on a video frame. To concatenate the expressions use the colon. If the timelines overlap, the pictures are superimposed on one another, so the last picture is the foreground layer.
Example: -a etwas.png,2,7,s:etwasneues.png,5,10
-A adds a picture to the video frame after it is resized.
The syntax is the same expression as with -a option
Changing the video frame size and the datarate:
oggResize -s320x240 -d512000 orig.ogv new.ogv
This command converts the video file orig.ogv to the new video file new.ogv. The frame size of the newly created video is set to 320x240 pixels and the data rate is set to 512 kByte/s. If the parameters of the original file fit the new parameters, the video stream is just copied, without changing the data. If the video frame size is different, it is changed to the new size by some appropriate algorithms.
If there was an audio stream within the orig.ogv file, it is copied into the new file.
Changing the audio data rate, sample rate and numbers of channels:
oggResize -D64000 -F16000 -N1 orig.ogv new.ogv
This command line converts only the audio stream of file orig.ogv to a sample rate of 16kHz, a datarate of 64 kBytes/s and a mono channel. As with video, the audio stream is only reencoded, if the given parameters do not match that ones in the vorbis audio stream. The video stream is copied as is.
This is a very fast method of reencoding only the audio stream, without any other procedures such as splitting and rejoining the streams of an ogg file.
Changing the video frame size, the audio data rate, the video data rate and adding two pictures on top of the video for a period of time:
oggResize -s300x200 -D32000 -d1024000 -A etwas.png,2,7,s:etwasneues.png,5,10 \ orig.ogv new.ogv
This command line converts the audio and video stream as described in the before mentioned examples.
Additionally it adds a picture in PNG format and an alpha channel etwas.png to the video from second 2 to second 7 with a smooth fade in and fade out and the picture etwasneues.png is placed on top of the video frame from second 5 to second 10 without any fading.


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Abstract: Flywheels have been in use for a very long time, however, there is need to continuously improve the existing ones or develop new ones. The design of a functional high performance vehicle composite flywheel is presented. The component materials include aluminium hub, cast iron friction surface and alloy gear rim. Since the stored energy in a flywheel is proportional to the square of its rotational speed, the obvious method for maximizing stored energy is to push the speed of the flywheel. There is a limiting speed, which is set by the stresses developed within the wheel due to inertia loads that are also proportional to the square of rotational speed. A composite wheel of this nature weighs less than the conventional whole cast iron or steel alloy wheel and hence, develops lower inertia loads at a given speed. The combination of high strength and low weight enables extremely high tip speeds related to conventional flywheels. A C++ computer programme was developed for the computation of the major parameters of the composite flywheel. The design drawings for the isotropic discand rim-type flywheel, components of the composite flywheel and the assembly were also presented. The components were assembled using high strength fasteners. The conventional automobile flywheel designed for cast iron material weigh about 9.0 kg and that for steel alloy weigh about 9.4 kg. However, the composite wheel design for components of cast iron, steel alloy and aluminium alloy weigh a total of 4.8 kg and is lighter. This means it can be made lean ad compact. Experimental study of the mechanical properties, heat treatment, vibration analysis and dynamic balancing proved the performance of the composite flywheel as test results conforms to standards. Freeing up so much rotating mass from the engine with a lighter flywheel makes it very responsive. It revs up much more quickly and low speed acceleration is improved.
H.M. Sheidi and C.I. Ajuwa, 2008. Design of High Performance Vehicle Composite Flywheel. Research Journal of Applied Sciences, 3: 44-50.


Enjoy a leisurely morning, relaxing at the pool or at the hotel spa. If you're feeling adventurous, opt for a private hot air balloon flight over the Langhe countryside to experience a magical journey at 2,000 feet as you drift over valleys, castles, small hilltop villages, and endless vineyards.
If you're in the mood to move your body, join a morning yoga session or go for a guided bike ride through the countryside. The bike trail begins and ends in Cortemilia, a town that's considered the hometown of the Tonda Gentile (Italian for round and sweet), a hazelnut that grows in these hills. Cycle through small villages made with Langhe stone, visit medieval castles, and pass through shaded hazelnut groves.
In the afternoon head to Alba, a once-powerful city-state that's considered the capital of Langhe. Alba is famous for several gastronomic highlights: white truffles, wine, and the world-famous Nutella. The city loves truffles so much that every fall they host the International White Truffle Fair to celebrate the prized delicacy.
Explore the city center with a local guide to see how Alba's buildings—from Roman origins to modern construction—have been built on top of each other. During Roman times, the powerful city was known Alba Pompeia; after the fall of the empire, citizens continued to build atop the former city. Head underground to see Alba's many architectural formations.
From here continue to the city of Bra, then make a lunch stop at the restaurant where the Slow Food Movement was born. The movement was started by Carlo Petrini and a group of activists in the 1980s with the aim of defending local culinary traditions, access to clean food, and a slower pace of life. Feast on local specialties, from bagna cauda (Piedmontese for 'warm sauce', prepared with olive oil, garlic, and anchovy paste) to agnolotti (egg pasta stuffed with roast meat) and tajarin (the local word for thin egg noodles). Round out your meal with a hearty risotto and brasato al Barolo (stewed for hours in the famous wine), then finish with a sweet treat: gianduiotto, a combination of sugar, cocoa, cocoa butter, and the Tonda Gentile hazelnut.
Day 6: Transfer to Turin, City Tour & Exclusive Library Visit
Turin skyline with the Alps in the background
Turin skyline with the Alps in the background
In the morning, drive to nearby Turin, a city famous for its sophisticated and historic architecture, shaded gardens, libraries, museums, and theaters. It's one of Italy's most fascinating cities, named in the New York Times "52 Places to Visit" in 2016.
Spend the day exploring the city on a walking tour. Start in the heart of the city at the iconic Piazza Castello to visit the Royal Palace, one of the square's most distinctive buildings. The Palace was the main symbol of the Savoy house when the capital moved from Chambery to Turin, and the greatest artists of the time were commissioned to create the Baroque masterpiece. Visit the ornate galleries and library, stroll through the gardens and Royal Armory, and see the adjacent Cathedral that houses the Holy Shroud.
The entirety of the Piazza Castello was designed to give the buildings a cohesive style. One of the buildings hides an architectural treasure: the San Lorenzo Church, a baroque octagonal building with beautiful inner chapels and a soaring cupola with eight windows that allow sunlight to pour in.
Enjoy lunch at a historic cafe nearby and rub shoulders with the locals. Turin's cafes are legendary, with a long history of serving as the meeting place for artists, writers, and political refugees. When Turin found itself in the center of the struggle against Austria, several of the cafes became the headquarters of Risorgimento Italy where political theory and strategy were discussed over coffee. Aristocracy, poets, Bella Gente, opera composers, and other lovers of the arts also sought out the cafes for their cozy atmosphere.
Try the famous local Bicerin—a mix of chocolate, coffee, and cream—then head to the Library of the Academy of Sciences for a private afternoon tour. The library is typically closed to the public, but you'll get to visit the massive collection in the company of its curator. Founded in the 1700s, the library houses a vast array of literature: more than 250,000 books, 70,000 letters, 5,000 periodicals, 2,000 manuscript documents on the history of science, and a hundred drawings of industrial patents and maps.
To experience a meal with a regional flair, head to the riverside area near the Piazza Vittoria Veneto or the bustling Quadrilatero Romano district for aperitivo followed by dinner at an upscale restaurant.
Day 7: Morning Tour of Sacra di San Michele, Home-Hosted Dinner
Sacra di San Michele
Sacra di San Michele
In the morning, transfer to Sacra di San Michele, an ancient Romanesque monastery surrounded by snowcapped peaks. Sacra di San Michele is one of the most recognizable symbols of the Piedmont region and is considered one of Europe's leading examples of Romanesque architecture.
The monastery dates back to the late 10th century when it was built in dedication to the cult of Archangel Michele, the defender of the Christian people. The monastery is strategically located on a pilgrimage route that runs from Saint-Michel in France to Monte Sant'Angelo in Puglia.
Your introduction to the monastery is via the 243 steps that lead to the Doorway of the Zodiac and the entrance to the building. From here, the surrounding panorama of the snowy Alps is well worth the climb. From the entrance, continue up the wide 12th-century stone staircase to the church, passing by an 18 meter (59 feet) tall pillar that supports the church above it. One of the niches on the staircase used to display skeletons of several of the monastery's monks, lending the staircase its name: Great Staircase of the Dead
The perimeter wall of these ruins ends in a tower which overhangs the precipice of the mountain: the Tower of the Beautiful Alda, which gets its name from the tragic legend of Alda, a local peasant girl. After coming to the monastery to pray, she was corned by enemy soldiers and trapped atop the tower. To escape certain death she threw herself into the ravine while invoking the help of St. Michael and the Virgin, and miraculously survived the fall. Thrilled by her survival and with a hunger for financial gain, she imagined herself able to make a second jump and offered to repeat her flight for unbelieving villagers, thereby leaping to her death at the scene of her former miracle.
Return to Turin and spend the afternoon exploring on your own. One of the city's main museum attractions is the Egyptian Museum, the second-largest in the world after Cairo's. Journey through more than 3,000 years of history of Egyptian civilization in the company of an expert Egyptologist to see a vast collection of sculptures, mummies, grave artifacts, and more.
Alternately, visit the National Museum of Cinema, one of Turin's architectural landmarks. The building was designed as a synagogue, before being purchased by the Municipality of Turin and turned into a monument of national unity. Explore the unique exhibits and creative educational activities, then head to the rooftop terrace for panoramic views of the city and surrounding Alps.
Dinner tonight is a special treat: dinner with a local family, hosted in their private home. You'll get the opportunity to share a delicious traditional meal and exchange insight into each other's cultures and lives.
Day 8: Departure from Turin
Mont Blanc in the French Alps
Mont Blanc in the French Alps
After one last cappuccino over breakfast, transfer to Turin International Airport for your connecting flight home.


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MIT scientists are developing a needle-less injection that could make getting a flu shot as painless as a mosquito bite.
The device shoots a tiny, high-pressure jet of medicine through the skin as fast as the speed of sound.
According to the Centres of Disease Control and Prevention, hospital healthcare workers incur about 385,000 needle-related injuries every year. Meanwhile, fear or discomfort from needles prevents many patients from complying with doctors' orders.
MIT isn't the first institution to experiment with needle-less injections that may help solve these longstanding problems. The concept has been around since the 1860s. The US military developed high-speed models in the 1950s for use in mass-vacination programs. And modern pharmacists have long offered needle-free flu shots.
The prototype injection system that MIT has created, however, allows for more precision in needle-less injections than has previously been possible. According to MIT News, it allows healthcare workers to adjust a range of doses at various depths.
If giving a shot to a baby, for instance, the shot administrator can use less pressure than he or she would to breech the skin of an adult. Flexibility in dosage and depth also makes jet-powered shots viable for a wider range of treatments.
MIT researchers have experimented with using the device to deliver drugs through the eye or ear, and are working on a version that can inject powdered drugs as if they were liquid drugs - something that could be useful in places where proper refrigeration of liquid drugs is impractical.
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QUEEN'S PARK — Mike Schreiner made the following statement after the province announced a new math curriculum:
"As the Minister unveils a Back-to-Basics math curriculum in the middle of a pandemic, I think he needs to do a better job of telling time.
I'm hearing from so many teachers that this has been the most stressful period of their careers, trying to deliver lessons at a distance while preventing their students from falling behind.
They're also planning for multiple different classroom scenarios in the fall in the absence of clear direction from the Minister about what learning will look like.
There is already enough uncertainty and instability for students and educators without adding a new math curriculum to the equation.
The content of this new curriculum might be fine, but the Minister should have waited for a much better time to release it."


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Date: March 30, 1953
Creator: Zettle, Eugene V
Description: The design principle of injecting liquid fuel at more than one axial station in an annual turbojet combustor was investigated. Fuel was injected into the combustor as much as 5 inches downstream of the primary fuel injectors. Many fuel-injection configurations were examined and the performance results are presented for 11 configurations that best demonstrate the trends in performance obtained. The performance investigations were made at a constant combustor-inlet pressure of 15 inches of mercury absolute and at air flows up to 70 percent higher than values typical of current design practice. At these higher air flows, staging the fuel introduction improved the combustion efficiency considerably over that obtained in the combustor when no fuel staging was employed. At air flows currently encountered in turbojet engines, fuel staging was of minor value. Radial temperature distribution seemed relatively unaffected by the location of fuel-injection stations.
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On "Looking for Judas "
In "Looking for Judas," Adrian C. Louis conflates Native American and Christian myth, binding them together through the central imagery of the poem. Louis's poem begins when the speaker of the poem kills a deer and hangs it in the barn, and as he reflects on the body, the image of the "five-point mule" recalls Christ's crucifixion: "Gutted, skinned, and shimmering in eternal/ nakedness, the glint in its eyes could/ be stolen from the dry hills of Jerusalem." After he imagines the deer as a Christ-figure, however, the speaker tries to return to a time before "the white man/ brought us Jesus" in order to tell the story of the way in which Native Americans once communed with the spirit of the "Deer People." These two narratives are brought together dramatically in the penultimate line, in which the speaker says that the deer's "holy blood became ours." In both myths, the "holy blood" symbolizes intimate connection and communion, a union between physical and spiritual realities. The narratives that Louis weaves together are both stories of a death that leads, presumably, to communion, rebirth, and regeneration, and yet the history of the "white man's" genocide of Native people makes such an easy communion unthinkable.
As the speaker continues to regard the deer that he has just killed, he attempts to place himself and the deer within the context of the story of the Native people's connection to the Deer People. Though the speaker includes himself in the "we" of the story, his repetition of the phrase "They say" makes it clear that he has already distanced himself from his narrative, relying on hearsay or on another's discursive authority:
They say before the white man
brought us Jesus, we had honor.
They say when we killed the Deer People,
we told them their spirits
would live in our flesh.
The "They" of the poem remains necessarily ambiguous and nebulous; the speaker cannot identity the "They" as a familiar person or as a particular group of storytellers with whom he can personally relate. Rather, he views one of the central stories of his own culture as if he were an outsider looking in on the narrative. The co-existence of the two cultural myths in the poem reveal that the speaker cannot remember or speak of a time "before the white man," so that the "They" of the poem not only refers to his Native ancestors, but also to the white people who have appropriated, fixed, and disseminated the stories of his people. Through movies, television shows and novels, American consumers have become familiar with the "white man's" version of stories about Native people's relationship to the land and to animals, and it is impossible for Louis to tell this story without echoing the white stereotype of the "noble savage" whose intimate connection with nature make him seem both more and less than human. Therefore, Louis is necessarily alienated from his own story, unable to find "honor" in a narrative that has been appropriated by the very people who systematically destroyed his culture.
After constructing his narrative, however, Louis adroitly dismantles the story through the mockery of his last line: "Or something like that." With its swift disruption of the reader's expectations, Louis's last line is a brilliant use of irony that transforms everything that precedes it. The speaker's final statement reclaims the narrative from the nebulous "They" that had seemingly controlled it, thereby restoring the speaker's discursive authority. By seizing control of the story, Louis skillfully undermines the white stereotype of the noble savage; the self-mockery and irony of the last line makes it clear that he is deeply aware of the way in which his story has been appropriated by white culture. Even though this last line reclaims the speaker's authority, the implications of the speaker's mockery are fairly devastating, quickly severing any hope that the speaker might find some mythic connection with the deer and, therefore, with his own culture.
If the deer is a symbol of Christ, then the title of the poem, "Looking for Judas," leads us to ask who, exactly, is the great betrayer. "Judas" cannot simply be identified as the speaker of the poem because Judas himself did not physically kill Christ; the betrayal, then, lies not in the central action of the poem, but rather lurks behind it. If we read the text of the poem through the title – that is, read it "Looking for Judas," – then the words "the white man/ brought us Jesus" take on an entirely new meaning, suggesting that the white man "brought [them] Jesus" in the same way in which Judas brought Jesus to the Romans, using the Christian religion as a means to satiate their avarice and lust for power. Read in this way, the focus of the Christian myth as it is played out in America is not redemption, but rather a betrayal rising out of an unpardonable greed, and the guilt of Judas is no longer contained in one man, but rather disseminated among the population.
Deeply aware of the way in which his story has been appropriated, Louis uses irony to dramatize the speaker's alienation from himself, from his history, and from the deer, whose spirit never "live[s] in [his] flesh." However, because the Native and the Christian narrative are so inexorably linked within the poem, the failure of communion between the speaker and the deer reverberates out through the Christian myth. Through the title of the poem and his use of Christian imagery, Louis shows that the "white man's" history of greed and deceit has likewise alienated them from their own central narrative of salvation, revealing them as the betrayers of Christ rather that his messengers—casting them as strangers in the house of their own myth.
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text: Translation of genomic discovery, such as single-cell sequencing data, to clinical decisions remains a longstanding bottleneck in the field. Meanwhile, computational systems biological models, such as cellular metabolism models and cell signaling pathways, have emerged as powerful approaches to provide efficient predictions in metabolites and gene expression levels, respectively. However, there has been limited research on the integration between these two models. This work develops a methodology for integrating computational models of probabilistic gene regulatory networks with a constraint-based metabolism model. By using probabilistic reasoning with Bayesian Networks, we aim to predict cell-specific changes under different interventions, which are embedded into the constraint-based models of metabolism. Applications to single-cell sequencing data of glioblastoma brain tumors generate predictions about the effects of pharmaceutical interventions on the regulatory network and downstream metabolisms in different cell types from the tumor microenvironment. The model presents possible insights into treatments that could potentially suppress anaerobic metabolism in malignant cells with minimal impact on other cell types' metabolism. The proposed integrated model can guide therapeutic target prioritization, the formulation of combination therapies, and future drug discovery. This model integration framework is also generalizable to other applications, such as different cell types, organisms, and diseases.


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Given two numbers $M$ and $N$, Let $q_i$ be the integer part of $\frac{iN}{M}$. What is $$ \sum_{i=0}^{M-1} q_i? $$ The Sum is obviously can be calculated in $O(M)$. Can this be done in less time, maybe $O(1)$ if there exists some simpler reduced expression?
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Why is it $O(M)$? If $N=M$, the sum is $M(M-1)/2$, which is $O(M^2)$. – user1551 Mar 9 '13 at 8:23
Is there any special relationship between M and N? For example, if M and N are coprime, I believe the calculation could be done in O(1) time. – Mike Mar 9 '13 at 8:36
I edited... It was sum to calculated in O(M) – Shashwat Kumar Mar 9 '13 at 8:37
I got the solution. It is O(log n*log m). sum = (NM - N - M + gcd(N, M))/2) – Shashwat Kumar Mar 9 '13 at 8:38
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Assuming M and N are integers, I believe your formula can be rewritten as
$$\sum\limits_{i=0}^{M-1}\frac{iN}M-\frac1M\sum\limits_{i=0}^{M-1}iN \mod M.$$
The first sum is an arithmetic sum. There is a formula for arithmetic sums that can be done in O(1) time. The second summation is the sum of remainders from the division. If $N$ and $M$ are coprime, no 2 of these remainders are the same, reducing the sum to $\sum\limits_{i=0}^{M-1}i$, which is another arithmetic sum.
I'm sure the formula can be adjusted in the case where $M$ and $N$ are not coprime. Maybe someone else can fill in the blanks while I'm getting some sleep, assuming you're interested. My guess is if you know nothing about M and N, your computation time will stem from performing the Euclidean algorithm to obtain a gcd, which I believe should be less than linear time.
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5 Conditions That Require You To Avoid Ginger In Your Diet
5 Conditions That Require You To Avoid Ginger In Your Diet
Ginger has achieved its popularity because of its many health benefits. Boosting immunity, aiding digestion, keeping a check on blood pressure are a few of its benefits. Ginger is, generally, healthy for most people with almost negligible side effects.
Although ginger is packed with nutrients there are a few health conditions that require you to limit or avoid consuming ginger, either temporarily or permanently. Consuming ginger may aggravate the health conditions which may be dangerous in future.
Ginger is not a suitable spice if you suffer from one or more of these health conditions mentioned below.
1. Being Underweight
Avoid Ginger If You Are Underweight
Ginger may help in managing weight for those who are obese by reducing the feeling of hunger.1 For this reason,
ginger may not be a suitable spice if you are underweight or undernourished. Ginger may act as an appetite suppressor and may lead to further weight loss. Losing more weight than required may lead to other health issues like poor muscle mass, too much hair fall, irregularities in the menstrual cycle, etc. To avoid further complications, limit or avoid ginger in your daily diet.
2. Having A Blood Disorder
Avoid Ginger If You Have A Blood Disorder Like Hemophilia
Ginger can improve blood circulation. It can open up blood vessels and allow more blood to pass through. This is a benefit if you suffer from heart diseases or obesity. However, this health benefit can pose a threat to some if they have any blood-related issues.
For instance, hemophilia A is a rare disease that causes the individual to bleed for a longer duration than normal. This can occur either internally, into joints or muscles or externally, from cuts or wounds. In such cases, it is always recommended
to avoid ginger as it may aggravate the blood flow causing serious health issues.
3. Being Pregnant
Avoid Ginger If You Are Pregnant
Pregnancy is not a health condition per se but it is advised to avoid ginger if you are pregnant. Ginger may not be harmful during the first few months of your pregnancy. In fact, it may help with nausea and vomiting that comes with early pregnancy.2 However, toward the final months, it is best to avoid the spice as it may interfere with mineral absorption such as iron and other necessary vitamins required by your body.
Also, since ginger is known to stimulate blood circulation, it may also increase the risk of bleeding. If you wish to continue having ginger either as a spice in your food or in the form of ginger
supplements, make sure you talk to your doctor before doing so.
4. Taking Certain Medications
Avoid Ginger If You Are On Certain Medications
Those who take high blood pressure or diabetes medications should be careful when adding ginger to their diets. Ginger may have adverse effects on the body because of its blood thinning and blood pressure lowering properties. The effect of ginger may lower the effects of such medications. For instance, ginger along with your blood pressure medications may lower your pressure to unhealthy levels.
It may also not be suitable for those on anticoagulants, beta-blockers, and insulin drugs. Therefore, before adding ginger to your diet, speak to a health professional about your condition.
5. Having Gallstones
Avoid Ginger If You Have Gallstones
Gallstones are stones in the gallbladder that may cause pain in the abdomen and other side effects. Though there is not much evidence, it is best to avoid
ginger if you suffer from gallstones. When ginger is eaten in large quantities, it may increase the production of bile. This may cause an increase in gallbladder contractions that may, in turn, cause the stones to move to the bile duct causing serious complications.
Therefore, if you suffer from gallstones or a gallbladder disease, communicate about the condition with your doctor and stick to the recommended intake of ginger.
Ginger is a healthy spice to add flavor to your favorite dishes. However, depending on your health condition, it is important to limit or avoid it as prescribed by your health professional.


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A prince regent, or prince-regent, is a prince who rules a monarchy as regent instead of a monarch, e.g., as a result of the Sovereign's incapacity (minority or illness) or absence (remoteness, such as exile or long voyage, or simply no incumbent). While the term itself can have the generic meaning and refer to any prince who fills the role of regent, historically it has mainly been used to describe a small number of individual Princes who were Regents.
Prince Regent in the United Kingdom
In the English language the title Prince Regent is most commonly associated with George IV, who held the style HRH The Prince Regent during the incapacity, by dint of mental illness, of his father, George III (see Regent for other regents). Regent's Park and Regent Street in London are named after him.
This period is known as the British Regency, or just the Regency.
The title was conferred by the Regency Act on February 5, 1811. Subject to certain limitations for a period, the Prince Regent was able to exercise the full powers of the King. The precedent of the Regency Crisis of 1788 (from which George III recovered before it was necessary to appoint a Regent) was followed. The Prince of Wales continued as regent until his father's death in 1820, when he became George IV.
Prince Regent in Germany
In Germany, the title Prinzregent (literally prince regent) is most commonly associated with Prince Luitpold of Bavaria, who served as regent for two of his nephews, King Ludwig II of Bavaria, who was declared mentally incompetent in 1886, and King Otto of Bavaria (who had been declared insane in 1875) from 1886 until 1912.
The years of Luitpold's regency were marked by tremendous artistic and cultural activity in Bavaria, where they are known after the regencies as the Prinzregentenjahre or the Prinzregentenzeit. Numerous streets in Bavarian cities and towns are called Prinzregentenstraße. Many institutions are named in Luitpold's honour, e.g., the Prinzregententheater in Munich. Prinzregententorte is a multi-layered cake with chocolate butter cream named in Luitpold's honour.
At Luitpold's death in 1912, his son Prince Ludwig succeeded as Prince Regent. Ludwig held the title for less than a year, since the Bavarian Legislature decided to recognise him as king.
Prince Regent in Belgium
- The first head of state of Belgium after it seceded from the Dutch monarchy in 1831 was a regent (but not a prince in his own right), baron Erasme Louis Surlet de Chokier, before the new nation, which had chosen to become a parliamentary monarchy, had its first king sworn in to the constitution.
- Prince Charles of Belgium served as Prince Regent of Belgium from 1944 to 1950 during the German captivity and then exile to Switzerland of his elder brother, King Leopold III of Belgium.
Prince Regent in Bulgaria
Prince Kiril of Bulgaria was appointed head of a regency council by the Bulgarian parliament following the death of his brother, Tsar Boris on 28 August 1943, to act as Head of State until the late Tsar's son, Simeon II of Bulgaria, became 18. On 5 September 1944 the Soviet Union declared war on the Kingdom of Bulgaria and on the 8th - Soviet armies crossed the Romanian border and occupied the country. On 1 February 1945 the prince regent Kyril, and the two other former regents - Professor Bogdan Filov and General Nikola Mihov, as well as a range of former cabinet ministers, royal advisors and 67 MPs were executed.
Prince Lieutenant in Luxembourg
The heir to the grand duke of Luxembourg may be titled prince-lieutenant ('prince deputy') during a period in which the incumbent remains formally on the grand ducal throne, but (progressively, most) functions of the crown are performed by the'monarch apprentice', as prince Jean (still alive) did 4 May 1961 - 12 November 1964 in the last years of his mother Charlotte's reign (she lived until 1985), and Jean's own son prince Henri 3 March 1998 - 7 October 2000 until his father abdicated and he succeeded.
King or Queen regent
It has also been known throughout history that when a king is unable to reign or is out of the country for long periods of time, sometimes the consort will step up and will temporarily do the duties of a Prince regent. Sometimes they are unofficially known as regents themselves. In the Kingdom of Swaziland, queen mothers have temporarily stepped in when the sovereign was either a minor or unable to reign for other reasons.
Other notable Princes regent
- More prince-regents (often without such specific title) are to be found in Regent.
- Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark served as regent from 1784 to 1808 for his father, King Christian VII of Denmark, who was insane.
- Prince William of Prussia served as regent from 1858 to 1861 for his older brother King Frederick William IV of Prussia, who had become mentally unfit to rule.
- Prince Charles, Count of Flanders, served as regent from 1944 to 1950 for his older brother king Leopold III of Belgium, whose position had come under scrutiny after the Second World War and his marriage to Lilian Baels.
- Prince Dorgon of the Qing Dynasty served as regent for his nephew, Emperor Shunzhi, from 1643 to 1650, because the latter was only six at the time of his ascension. Dorgon was instrumental in moving Manchu forces into Beijing in 1644, proclaiming the Qing dynasty to be the legitimate successor to the Ming Dynasty. In Qing Dynasty historical records, Dorgon was the first to be referred to as Shezhengwang 摄政王(The Prince Regent).
- Zaifeng, Prince Chun during the Qing Dynasty served as regent from 1908 to 1911 for his young son Puyi, the Xuantong Emperor. Apart from Dorgon, Zaifeng was the only person in Chinese history who was specifically referred to as Prince Regent.
- Prince Paul of Yugoslavia from 1934 to 1941, known in Serbian as Његово Краљевско Височанство, Кнез Намесник (English: His Royal Highness The Prince Regent)
- John, Prince of Brazil (1767–1826) served as regent of Portugal for his mother Queen Maria I, who had become mentally unfit to rule, from 1799 to 1816. His regency was associated with the famous transfer of the Portuguese court to Brazil.


text: viyh writes with coverage on MSNBC of the discovery of ancient microbes fossilized in the gut of a termite. "One hundred million years ago a termite was wounded and its abdomen split open. The resin of a pine tree slowly enveloped its body and the contents of its gut. In what is now the Hukawng Valley in Myanmar, the resin fossilized and was buried until it was chipped out of an amber mine. The resin had seeped into the termite's wound and preserved even the microscopic organisms in its gut. These microbes are the forebears of the microbes that live in the guts of today's termites and help them digest wood.... The amber preserved the microbes with exquisite detail, including internal features like the nuclei.... Termites are related to cockroaches and split from them in evolutionary time at about the same time the termite in the amber was trapped."


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When dealing with money on behalf of others, accountability is crucial. The people given responsibility to manage the money need to be able to show that they are being good stewards of what is entrusted to them. It is important that they are protected from being tempted to use the money for their own purposes.
People given responsibility for a sum of money include staff in the finance department of an NGO, a church treasurer, a treasurer of a village development committee, credit and savings group or water committee, and so on. The most commonly used term is 'treasurer'.
It is important that those who give responsibility to the treasurer set up accountability mechanisms. The treasurer is usually directly accountable to representatives of the group that holds the fund. This could be NGO leadership or church leaders. In turn, this group is accountable to the people who donated the money and the people who benefit from the initiatives it is spent on.
In many countries there are laws that encourage good financial accountability, but the laws are not always obeyed. With smaller amounts of money it can be easy for accountability to be ignored. Yet financial accountability mechanisms can be easy to set up. This article explores the principles of financial accountability and some practical steps that can be taken to ensure good financial management.
Key principles
A budget is essential. A budget is a plan of how much income is expected during a given period of time (usually a year) and how the money will be used. Without a budget, the treasurer will not know how to spend the money. A budget shows how much the treasurer is allowed to spend and what it should be spent on. This budget should be agreed by representatives of the group. In an NGO or church, this could be the leadership team or governing body. In community groups, the budget may be agreed by all members of the group if the group is small.
Accurate and complete records of all financial transactions are needed to show how money has been used. Financial transactions include income (money coming in), expenditure (money going out) and money that is loaned or borrowed. These should be recorded at the time of receipt or payment to avoid confusion later on. At the end of the year, financial transactions should match the amount budgeted, unless any changes have been approved by the wider group.
These protect assets, protect treasurers, deter theft and help detect errors in the accounting records. One example is ensuring that financial administration tasks are carried out by more than one person to reduce error or fraud (intentional misuse of funds). Another example is having someone other than the treasurer check that the accounting records are regularly maintained and are added up correctly.
Reports help others to monitor progress against budget. They are used by the treasurer to show that he or she has used the money well. Reports are used by the wider group to hold the treasurer accountable. Reports are also useful when raising money and reporting back to donors.
Key activities
Money and records of financial transactions should be kept in a secure place. Cash should be kept in a locked cupboard or safe and only a few named people should have access to the key. This protects the treasurer because the more people there are who can access the funds, the harder it is to keep track of them, or ensure accurate records.
All cash transactions should be recorded in a cash book so the treasurer knows how much cash is in the cash box at any one time. Cash that is not needed for immediate spending commitments should be taken to the bank as soon as possible and a receipt should be obtained. A bank account specifically for the fund should be set up. Keeping the money in someone's personal bank account should be avoided.
Supporting documentation should be produced for every transfer of money and should be kept in a secure place. This protects the treasurer as it means that he or she can produce evidence and details of transactions. Types of supporting documentation include invoices, receipts, an accounts book and bank statements. Receipts should be signed, stamped or produced on official stationery, showing the dates, value and type of transaction. An accounts book contains information about all the transfers of money that are made.
It is not easy to record income from the church offertory or voluntary cash donations. In these cases, the total income after a church service or fundraising day should be counted and documented. One or two people should be assigned to help the treasurer count the cash to confirm the amount collected. Each of those people should keep the others accountable to ensure that none of them steals any of the money.
A system should be set in place where payments need to be authorised by more than one person. This reduces the opportunity to commit fraud. For example, a bank account could be set up where two signatures are needed on cheques.
The treasurer should be provided with a budget that reflects the objectives of the group. Those who hold the treasurer accountable should check the accounts regularly, such as every month. If the treasurer overspends or spends the money on things that are not included in the budget, he or she can be held accountable. Likewise, questions could be asked if the treasurer spends less than budgeted as this could mean that the group's objectives might not be met.
NGOs and churches with a large income should have their financial records audited every year by an independent accountant. The auditor checks all the records and will be able to identify any incomplete accounting or financial mismanagement.
Article compiled by Rachel Blackman.
A simple worksheet to record income and expenditure
This worksheet could be copied and used by a treasurer to record income and expenditure.
Where the treasurer oversees a number of projects, a separate worksheet could be used for each project.
For larger or more complex funds, such as those that involve loans, more complex bookkeeping methods should be used and training should be provided for the treasurer.
Day Month From To Description Income Expenses Balance
1 3 Starting balance 170.00
4 3 Congre-gation Offertory 50.00 220.00
10 3 Smart Cars Hire of mini-bus for youth camp 20.00 200.00
10 3 Fuel Station Fuel for mini-bus 10.00 190.00
11 3 Congre-gation Offertory 33.00 223.00
13 3 National electricity Quarterly electricity bill 30.00 193.00
18 3 Congre-gation Offertory 70.00 263.00
21 3 D & A Building Supplies New church door 15.00 248.00
25 3 Congre-gation Offertory 46.00 294.00
30 3 Pastor Philip Wages 100.00 194.00
30 3 Mary Banda (Youth worker) Wages 75.00 119.00
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Writing topology
For the following steps you'll need some input files and pre-calculated data, which can be found in the directory:../tutorial_files
Plain MD simulations in explicit solvent
We are going to run a MD simulation in explicit water using periodic boundary conditions for the efficient treatment of electrostatic interactions [11]. We first need to use the command editconf which will set the dimensions of the box (and center the protein therein) for periodic boundary simulations with explicit water. A triclinic box will be generated (option -bt), and the minimum distance between the solute and the box will be set to 1.2 nm (option -d). To do so, from your current position, type:
cd../MD/plain
gmx_mpi editconf -f../apo_GLUCO.gro -o apo-box.gro -bt triclinic -d 1.2
Next, we fill the box containing our protein with water molecules, and save the corresponding structure and topology files. We will first copy the protein topology file into in order to use the last file for the remaining steps and to keep the as a backup file.
cp../
Now, run the solvate command (we will choose the single point charge SPC water model specified by the file spc216.gro) by typing:
gmx_mpi solvate -cp apo-box.gro -cs spc216.gro -o apo-solv-init.gro -p
You can now check the topology file with your preferred text editor (e.g. vim, and, if not present, manually include the parameters of the water model in the topology file by adding the following lines at the end of the file, before the entry [ system ]:
; Include water topology
_TAG_ "_URL_.itp"
We are now ready to generate the GROMACS input file (tpr extension), a binary file containing all the information needed to perform the requested calculations on the system of interest. This is done with the grompp command, which needs both the structure and the topology files and also an input file (mdp extension) containing the directives to run the simulation (such as simulation type, pressure and temperature control flags, treatment of long-range interaction flags, flags related to the information to be printed and so on). The file em-pbc.mdp (available in the folder tutorial_files/apoMD) sets the typical parameters needed to run a structural relaxation of the system, which allows to (partially) remove the steric hindrance due to clashing contacts between atoms of the protein and/or solvent.
Copy the mdp file
cp../../tutorial_files/apoMD/em-pbc.mdp.
and type the following command to generate the tpr file needed for the relaxation:
gmx_mpi grompp -f em-pbc.mdp -c apo-solv-init.gro -o em-pbc.tpr -p
The tool grompp checks on the fly the values given to the parameters present in the mdp file, and generates possible notes and warnings. By default, the program fails when some warnings are generated, but the user can change this behavior by setting the "-maxwarn" flag to values larger than 0 (clearly after ensuring that all the warnings raised are "safe").
You might remember at this point that the protein has a positive charge of 6e. To neutralize this charge, we can add counterions using the genion command as follows (we report the more general command line to add both positively and negatively charged ions, K+ and Clin this case):
gmx_mpi genion -s em-pbc.tpr -p -o apo-solv-init.gro -pname K -nname CL -nn 6 -np 0
The following output will appear, prompting to select the group of solvent molecules for ions substitution. Six molecules of the selected group will be replaced by chlorine ions.
Reading file em-pbc.tpr, VERSION 2016.4 (single precision)
Will try to add 0 K ions and 6 CL ions.
Select a continuous group of solvent molecules
Group 0 ( System) has 51622 elements
Group 1 ( Protein) has 3721 elements
Group 2 ( Protein-H) has 2870 elements
Group 3 ( C-alpha) has 351 elements
Group 4 ( Backbone) has 1053 elements
Group 5 ( MainChain) has 1405 elements
Group 6 ( MainChain+Cb) has 1743 elements
Group 7 ( MainChain+H) has 1746 elements
Group 8 ( SideChain) has 1975 elements
Group 9 ( SideChain-H) has 1465 elements
Group 10 ( Prot-Masses) has 3721 elements
Group 11 ( non-Protein) has 47901 elements
Group 12 ( Water) has 47901 elements
Group 13 ( SOL) has 47901 elements
Group 14 ( non-Water) has 3721 elements
In this case, we see that there are three identical groups of molecules, 11 to 13, which identify waters. Type one of them in the console, e.g. 13. Note that, as in the case of the solvate command, also with genion you might need to edit a posteriori the file by adding the following lines before the entry [ system ]:
; Include ions
_TAG_ "_URL_.itp"
Run again the grompp command to generate the tpr file including ions:
We can now generate the ndx file, an index file containing groups of molecules and which can be customized according to the user needs. In the following we will only generate the file without changing anything with respect to the default:
echo quit | gmx_mpi make_ndx -f em-pbc.tpr -o apo-solv.ndx
You could have a look to this file with your preferred text editor. It consists of entries starting with [ namegroup ], followed by lines reporting the serial numbers of atoms within that group.
Now we are ready to perform the structural relaxation of our system with the mdrun engine of GROMACS:
nohup gmx_mpi mdrun -v -deffnm em-pbc &
Wait a few seconds and check the output file em-pbc.log to understand if your run was successful.
The next step after structural relaxation is to perform a MD simulation slowly heating the system up to the desired temperature. To save time here we will set the temperature to 300 K quite abruptly. The file equil-pbc.mdp (available in the folder tutorial_files/apoMD) contains the directives on how to perform the MD simulation with explicit water and under periodic boundary conditions.
Generate now the input file (tpr extension) needed to run the actual simulation:
cp../../tutorial_files/apoMD/equil-pbc.mdp.
gmx_mpi grompp -f equil-pbc.mdp -c em-pbc.gro -p -n apo-solv.ndx -o equil-pbc.tpr
Now you can start the simulation by typing the following command:
nohup gmx_mpi mdrun -deffnm equil-pbc &
Let the simulation go or kill the job (kill -9 ; when needed, you could use pre-calculated data).
Metadynamics simulations
We are going to perform metadynamics simulations using GROMACS 2016.5 and PLUMED2.3.5, a plugin facilitating the implementation of different kinds of enhanced sampling techniques (and not only) in several simulation packages, using the same syntax independently of the specific engine used. Briefly, metadynamics is an enhanced-sampling technique, developed by Laio and Parrinello about 15 years ago [1]. It enforces systems to escape free energy minima by means of a history-dependent fictitious potential. The system is thus forced to explore conformations associated to other (meta)stable basins and/or free energy barriers. This is achieved by defining a set of collective variables (CVs, e.g. a distance, an angle, a dihedral angle and the number of contacts between two groups of atoms) which identify the relevant motions to be enhanced in order to steer the sampling of otherwise unreachable conformations. The exploration of the CVs phase space (which "drags" the system towards atomic conformations otherwise rarely visited) is forced through the deposition of "hills", namely Gaussian-like potentials, added every nG steps of the simulation to the CVs space at the point corresponding to the system's state. These Gaussian hills will generate a repulsive force which is transmitted to the real atoms of the system thus enhancing the conformational sampling. Clearly, a good CV should be associated with a "slow" motion of the system (in absence of bias), so that its value at conformations associated with different free energy basins will differ too. The choice of the CVs is indeed crucial to the success of a metadynamics simulation and some rules of thumbs to guide the choice of the height, width and deposition time have been outlined by Laio et al. [12]. It was shown that under proper conditions, metadynamics generates, in the CVs space, a free energy landscape representing an unbiased estimate of the underlying free energy [13]. Since its introduction, many flavors of metadynamics were introduced [14] whose description is out of the scope of this tutorial. Here we will use the so-called "Well Tempered Metadynamics" [15], that represents an improvement over the original algorithm


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as you are under treatment for poly cystic disease,
if you want to conceive stop taking contraceptive
pills and go for ovulation induction
drugs with your doctor's advice.
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Go to your Java install directory and then the bin directory. Then type java -version. It should print the java version. You can add that directory to your path environment variable which allows you to access Java from anywhere on your pc.
"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." --- Martin Fowler
Please correct my English.


text: The Kubicek monuments are of "white bronze", a trade name for what is actually zinc. Monuments of this metal acquire a distinctive blue patina over the years. Most monuments from the American White Bronze Company are of the four-sided pyramid shape. The central monument of this grouping follows this pattern, although this example is taller and more slender than most. Customized side panels are inscribed with flowers, poetry or religious symbols. Surrounding it are individual "headstones", dating from the 1880s.


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ChiPChildren's rights to health, protection, promotion and participation
Mental health and participation in habilitation of children and youth with disabilities – a research program (PMH)
The research program is expected to lead to increased knowledge about the longitudinal relations between participatio and mental health problems for children who are usually excluded from studies of mental health in children and youth.
Project manager at MDH
Mental health and participation in life situations are universal aspects of functioning. Mental health problems and participation restrictions are relatively often reported for children with disabilities. An over-representation of health problems for these children is reported in abQ, a habilitation register aimed at improving services. No information on mental health, participation or about how mental health is affected by habilitation services is provided in the register. If adapted data collection methods, e.g i-pad adaptations using gamification techniques, are used also the children themselves can provide information about their mental health and participation.
The program will investigate relations between participation and factors affecting participation with a focus on mental health and services provided to children with disabilities who have mental health problems. Children will be followed longitudinally for 5 years where researchers collect information prospectively and relate that to data retrieved from the HabQ register. Children, parents and professionals collaborate, for 5 years, to develop and evaluate methods for involving children and parents in the intervention process. The program will provide information about how participation and mental health problems are related and about child and parent involvement in interventions. The information can facilitate further develop support to children with disabilities who have mental health problems.
The program has four sub-aims:
(i) To investigate the longitudinal interrelationship between the two dimensions of participation – attendance and involvement in a life situation and mental health – in order to identify aspects of the two participation dimensions that can be addressed through interventions separately or in conjunction to improve mental health;
(ii) To investigate the common natural pathways of participation, mental health and factors related to these pathways in children and adolescents (4-18 years of age) with impairments or long-term health conditions. The intent is to identify or verify factors that can be targeted for intervention – in order to enhance participation and mental health.
(iii) To investigate how children and parents participate in the different steps of the intervention process (defining problem, explaining problem by assessment, setting goals, planning intervention, evaluating effects) – in order to identify aspects of the process that can be targeted for intervention
(iv) To develop and evaluate accessible interventions aimed at increasing child and family participation in the intervention process.


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This function returns a 1-D iterator over the array. It behaves similar to Python's built-in iterator.
import numpy as np a = np.arange(8).reshape(2,4) print 'The original array:' print a print '\n' print 'After applying the flat function:' # returns element corresponding to index in flattened array print a.flat
Its output is as follows −
The original array: [[0 1 2 3] [4 5 6 7]] After applying the flat function: 5


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Second Punic War 218-201 BC
Punic even mean?
Who Won the Second
Rome won the Second Punic War.
Why Was the Second
Punic War Fought?
Carthage was a wealthy trading city,
and its leaders were flirting with
the idea of controlling Spain and
Sicily, while Rome very much liked
the idea of expanding as well and
controlling North Africa while at
is the situation on a map
Map Illustrating Desired Control of
the Mediterranean Sea
Rome vs. Carthage
addition, the outcome of the
War (Carthage had
lost its Sicilian strongholds and
had to make out annual pay checks to
Rome) did not sit well with
Carthage recovered, reorganized, and
was ready to reshuffle. New Carthaginian
strongholds in Spain and a large
Carthaginian army became a worry for
Rome. Rome was ready for war in order to
eliminate the growing threat.
Choosing a Battlefield
Hannibal decided that the
best strategy of defense was to
attack the enemy right at its
Thus, in 218 BC he began his
march north through Spain with an
army of 100,000 men and 37 elephants.
War elephants, by the way, were so
important that they were portrayed
Silver Double Shekel of Carthage
Diameter: 25 mm. Issued by
Hannibal's family in Spain. From the
Mogente Hoard, Valencia, Spain,
around 230 BC. The Punic
(Carthaginian) god Melqart is shown
on the front of the coin. He is
depicted resembling the Greek hero
Herakles with a club over his
shoulder. On the reverse is a war
elephant, as used by Hannibal in his
great campaign against Rome.
And just in case you were wondering
how long 25 millimeters really are,
here is your clue:
to the Second Punic War.
So, instead of crossing the Mediterranean Sea, they went the
other way around, through Spain, across the Pyrenees, crossing the Rhône
River, crossing the Alps, and crushing Turin on the way.
is Hannibal's Route of Invasion:
Map of Hannibal's Invasion Route 218 BC
Only one elephant survived the long
trip and Roman
Publius Cornelius Scipio was ready to have it for
But Hannibal won one battle after another.
Map of the Battles of the Second Punic War 218-201 BC
Second Punic War 218 – 201 BC:
Hannibal's Route of Invasion
The Battles of the Second Punic War
The major battles of the Second Punic
Battle of the
Battle of Trasimene
Battle of Cannae
Battle of the
206 BC Battle of Ilipa
202 BC Battle of Zama
The Events of the Second Punic War in a Nutshell
In December 218 BC, Hannibal defeated
the Romans at the Battle of the
Trebia. Battle location was the left bank of the Trebia
River south of Placentia. Today, it's the Trebbia River and
Piacenza. Hannibal faced Scipio and Tiberius Sempronius Longus.
The Romans lost half of their army.
Map of the Battle of the Trebia 218 BC
In 217 BC, Hannibal ambushed the Roman
army at the Battle of Trasimene,
which was more a massacre than a battle. At least 15,000 Roman
troops were killed.
Map of the Battle of Lake Trasimene 217 BC
In 216 BC, at the
Battle of Cannae,
which is today's Monte di Canne, Hannibal sent the Romans packing once
216 BC Battle of
Cannae - Phase One, Two, and Three
Map of the Battle of Cannae 216 BC - Initial Attack
Map of the Battle of Cannae 216 BC - Final Attack
Here is more about the
Battle of Cannae.
Unfortunately for Hannibal, it went slowly downhill from
there. Little by little, the Romans re-captured their cities.
In 205 BC, the smart man Scipio was elected consul and decided
to bring war to Hannibal's home continent Africa. He gained several
victories there, the Carthaginians panicked and recalled Hannibal from Italy to
defend the fatherland. Hannibal complied and the Italians could breathe
a sigh of relief.
In 202 BC, the final battle of the
Second Punic War followed, the Battle of Zama. Scipio and the
Romans won. Hannibal was defeated, Carthage had to sue for peace.
Map of the Battle of Zama 202 BC
In 201 BC, Scipio was officially re-named Publius Cornelius
Scipio Africanus, and he sure earned it.
At the end
of the Second Punic War, Rome was confirmed in the dominion of Italy,
Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica, dominant throughout a great
part of Spain, and virtually predominant in North Africa.
Check the maps:
Map of Rome's Expansion 264-180 BC
Click to enlarge
2nd Century Expansion
of the Roman Republic