Question: How Do You Prove Residency In Ohio?
What counts as proof of residency Ohio?
You know typically things like utility bills, a bank statement, insurance policy statement.
If your current Ohio driver's license has your current residence address, that can be used as one proof of address." If you need help confirming if the documents you have will work, you can visit
What is accepted as proof of address?
Recent bank or credit union statement. Up-to-date credit card statement. Household utility bill (electricity, gas, water, landline, etc.)
How do you establish residency in Ohio?
You are considered an Ohio resident once you: take a job, sign a lease, buy a home or enroll children in school. Within 30 days of establishing residency, you will need an Ohio driver license for yourself, and an Ohio title and license plates for your vehicle.
How can I get proof of residency easily?
A piece of official mail addressed to you is one of the easiest ways to prove your address….Review the list of acceptable documents.A lease or mortgage statement.A bank or credit card statement.A utility bill.A government benefits statement.A pre-printed paystub or tax form.An insurance policy or premium bill.
What qualifies as proof of residency in Virginia?
Proving Your Virginia Residency You must visit a Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) customer service center and present documentation to prove your Virginia residency such as a utility bill, lease agreement, payroll check stub or original bank statement.
What is proof of presence?
Lawful presence means that a person is legally living in the United States according to federal immigration laws. US Citizens. Unexpired US Passport or Passport Card. US Birth Certificate or Birth Certification Card filed with a state office of vital statistics.
What are 3 documents that the DMV will accept as proof of residency?
Rental/lease agreement with signatures of the owner/landlord and the tenant/resident. Deed/title to residential real property. Mortgage bill. Home utility bill (including cellular phones).
What does DMV accept as proof of residency?
These "proofs of residency" usually come in the form of other government ID (showing an address), utility bill, lease agreement, or any valid document showing an address with the resident's name.
Is a pay stub proof of residency?
What can I use if I don't have a utility bill?
Can I print a bank statement as proof of address?
Depending on the company you need it for, you might be able to use your Online Statement as proof of address. However, if the company won't accept a printed Online Statement, you can request a paper statement that will be sent to your home address. If you're registered for Telephone Banking, call 0345 _PHONE_*.
Does a phone bill count as a utility bill?
There are a few different utilities that constitute as a utility bill these are, electricity, gas, water, home phone, mobile phone and broadband. All these services are classed as utility bills as they are products that make up the running of your household.


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A localization method based on an enhanced particle filter incorporating tournament selection and Nelder-Mead simplex search (NM-EPF) for autonomous mobile robots navigating in a soccer robot game field is proposed in this paper. To analyze the environment, an omnidirectional vision device is mounted on top of the robot. Through detecting the white boundary lines relative to the robot in the game field, weighting for each particle representing the robot's pose can be iteratively updated via the proposed NM-EPF algorithm. Thanks to the hybridization effect of the NM-EPF, particles converge to the actual position of the robot in a responsive way while tackling uncertainties. Simulation and experiment results have confirmed that the proposed NM-EPF has better localization performance in the soccer robot game field in comparison to the conventional particle filter.
|頁（從 - 到）||3725-3737|
|期刊||International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control|
|出版狀態||已發佈 - 2011 7月|
ASJC Scopus subject areas

source: openbmb/Ultra-FineWeb


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Where are DEC's environmental education summer camps located?
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation runs four environmental education camps for youths. Pack Forest, runs two different sessions for ages 12 to 14 and 15 to 17, and is located in the southern Adirondacks, north of Warrensburg. Camp Colby, for 12 to 14 year olds, is in Franklin County near Saranac Lake. Camp Rushford, for ages 12 to 14, is in Allegany County, and Camp DeBruce, also for ages 12 to 14, is in the southern Catskills, near the village of Livingston Manor.
For more information about these camps, please visit DEC's website or e-mail the DEC environmental education camps at _EMAIL_
Environmental Education Camps
Names and locations of DEC's summer camps for youths

source: HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu


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Aspects of Task-Based Syllabus Design
Introduction and overview
Syllabus design is concerned with the selection, sequencing and justification of the content of the curriculum. Traditional approaches to syllabus developed were concerned with selecting lists of linguistic features such as grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary as well as experiential content such as topics and themes. These sequenced and integrated lists were then presented to the methodologist, whose task it was to develop learning activities to facilitate the learning of the prespecified content.
In the last twenty years or so a range of alternative syllabus models have been proposed, including a task-based approach. In this piece I want to look at some of the elements that a syllabus designer needs to take into consideration when he or she embraces a task-based approach to creating syllabuses and pedagogical materials.
Questions that I want to explore include: What are tasks? What is the role of a focus on form in language learning tasks? Where do tasks come from? What is the relationship between communicative tasks in the world outside the classroom and pedagogical tasks? What is the relationship between tasks and language focused exercises?
Task-based syllabuses represent a particular realization of communicative language teaching. Instead of beginning the design process with lists of grammatical, functional-notional, and other items, the designer conducts a needs analysis which yields a list of the target tasks that the targeted learners will need to carry out in the real-world outside the classroom. Examples of target tasks include:
Any approach to language pedagogy will need to concern itself
with three essential elements: language data, information, and opportunities for practice.
In the rest of this piece I will look at these three elements from the perspective of
task-based language teaching.
By language data, I mean samples of spoken and written language. I take it as axiomatic that, without access to data, it is impossible to learn a language. Minimally, all that is needed to acquire a language is access to appropriate samples of aural language in contexts that make transparent the relationship between form, function and use.
In language teaching, a contrast is drawn between authentic and non-authentic data.
Authentic data are samples of spoken or written language that have not been specifically written for the purposes of language teaching. Non-authentic data are dialogues and reading passages that HAVE been specially written.
Here are two conversations that illustrate the similarities and differences between authentic and non-authentic data. Both are concerned with the functions of asking for and giving directions. I neednt spell out which is which, because it is obvious.
A: Excuse me please. Do you know where the nearest bank is?
B: Well, the city bank isnt far from here. Do you know where the main post office is?
A: No, not really. Im just passing through.
B: Well, first go down this street to the traffic light.
B: Then turn left and go west on Sunset Boulevard for about two blocks. The bank is on your right, just past the post office.
A: All right. Thank you.
B: Youre welcome.
A: How do I get to Kensington Road?
B: Well, you go down Fullarton Road
A: what, down Old Belair Road and around?
B: Yeah. And then you go straight
A: past the hospital?
B: Yeah, keep going straight, past the racecourse to the roundabout. You know the big roundabout?
B: And Kensington Roads off to the right.
A: What, off the roundabout?
Proponents of task-based language teaching have argued for the importance of incorporating authentic data into the classroom, although much has been made of the fact that authenticity is a relative matter, and that as soon as one extracts a piece of language from the communicative context in which it occurred and takes it into the classroom, one is de-authenticating it to a degree. However, if learners only ever encounter contrived dialogues and listening texts, the task of learning the language will be made more difficult. (Nunan, 1999).
The reality is, that in EFL contexts, learners need both authentic AND non-authentic data. Both provide learners with different aspects of the language.
In addition to data, learners need information. They need experiential information about the target culture, they need linguistic information about target language systems, and they need process information about how to go about learning the language. They can get this information either deductively, when someone (usually a teacher) or a textbook provides an explicit explanation, or they can get it inductively. In an inductive approach, learners study examples of language and then formulate the rule.
Here is an example of an inductive exercise I use to review contrasting points of grammar. It is followed by the inductive reasoning of five of my students who carried out the tasks.
|In small groups, study the follow dialogues. Whats the difference between what Person A says and what Person B says? When do we use one form and when do we use the other? A: Ive seen Romeo and Juliet twice. B: Me too. I saw it last Tuesday and again on the weekend. A: Want to go to the movies? B: No, Im going to study tonight. We have an exam tomorrow, you know. A: Oh, in that case, Ill study as well.|
Student A: A use present perfect because something happened in the past, but affecting things happening now.
Student B: Present perfect tense is used only to describe a certain incidence in the past without describing the exact time of happening. However, it is necessary to describe the time of happening when using the simple past tense.
Student C: Simple past is more past than have seen.
Student D: We use present perfect tense when the action happen many times. B. focus on actual date and use past.
Student E: A use present perfect to show how many times A have seen the film. B use simple past to show how much he love the film.
Student A: A is talking about a future action which has no planning. For B, the action has already planned.
Student B: A is expressing something he want to do immediately. B is expressing something he want to do in the future.
Student C: For A, the action will do in a longer future. For B, the action should be done within a short time.
Student D: A doesnt tell the exact time. B confirms the studying time will be tonight. We use the verb to be plus going means must do something.
Student E: A is more sure to study than B tonight.
From these comments, you can see that learners, even those at roughly the same proficiency level, will be at very different stages in their understanding of grammatical principles and rules.
Some proponents of task-based pedagogy argue that an explicit, deductive approach is unnecessary, that it does not work, and that all. Although I am biased in favour of an inductive approach
The third and final essential element is practice. Unless you are extraordinarily gifted as a language learner, it is highly unlikely that you will get very far without extensive practice.
In designing practice opportunities for my learners, I distinguish between tasks, exercises and activities. A task is a communicative act that does not usually have a restrictive focus on a single grammatical structure. It also had a non-linguistic outcome. An exercise usually has a restrictive focus on a single language element, and has a linguistic outcome. An activity also has a restrictive focus on one or two language items, but also has a communicative outcome. In that sense, activities have something in common with tasks and something in common with exercises.
I distinguish between real-world or target tasks, which are communicative acts that we achieve through language in the world outside the classroom, and pedagogical tasks, which are carried out in the classroom. I subdivide pedagogical tasks into those with a rehearsal rationale and those with a pedagogical rationale.
These different elements are further defined and exemplified below.
Real-world or target task: A communicative act we achieve through language in the world outside the classroom.
Pedagogical tasks: A piece of classroom work which involves learners in comprehending, manipulating, producing or interacting in the language while their attention is principally focused on meaning rather than forms. They have a non-linguistic outcome, and can be divided into rehearsal tasks or activation tasks.
Rehearsal task: A piece of classroom work in which learners rehearse, in class, a communicative act they will carry out outside of the class.
Activation task: A piece of classroom work involving communicative interaction, but NOT one in which learners will be rehearsing for some out-of-class communication. Rather they are designed to activate the acquisition process.
Enabling skills: Mastery of language systems grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary etc. which ENABLE learners to take part in communicative tasks.
Language exercise: A piece of classroom work focusing learners on, and involving learners in manipulating some aspect of the linguistic system
Communication activity: A piece of classroom work involving a focus on a particular linguistic feature but ALSO involving the genuine exchange of meaning.
Examples of pedagogical tasks, communicative activities and language exercises from Expressions
Write the past tense form of these verbs: go, is, are, do, have, work, study, buy, pick, make, put, read.
Now think of four things you did yesterday. Write sentences in the blanks.
First I got up and _____________________________________________
Write three hobbies or activities you like / like doing.
Ask each person in your group what they like / like doing. Decide on a suitable gift for each person.
Pedagogical task rehearsal
Write your resume.
Now, imagine youre applying for one of these jobs. Your partner is applying for


I recently worked on a CTF challenge by CyberSpace Kenya which I ended up winning. This is a writeup on how I solved the challenge. We were provided with an android app to reverse engineer and submit 3 flags.
Flag 3
I haven't done tons of mobile app reverse engineering but as I was learning about the subject in previous challenges I found this 2-step approach to work well:
 - Extracting the apk contents with apktool
 - Reversing the app code with jadx-gui
Using apktool is pretty simple just run this command on the apk:
> apktool d cyberspace-ctf.apk
This generates files in a folder cyberspace-ctf as below:
├── AndroidManifest.xml
├── apktool.yml
├── assets
├── lib
├── original
├── res
├── smali
└── unknown
Checking the AndroidManifest.xml and res/values/strings.xml doesn't reveal any flag. Usually grepping recursively through the apk files for interesting names would hint at something. After a few tries with the words flag, flag1, flag2, flag3 I got some interesting output.
Without much thought I opened jadx to find more mentions of that ValidateFlag3 and found the code.
Reading through the code I was able to figure out that the validate function does the following:
 1. takes our input
 2. xor encrypts it with a key(which is generated by getKey() function)
 3. base64 encodes it
 4. checks if it is equal to the hardcoded flag3.
From previous experience I know that with xor encryption if you have the key and the encrypted data getting the plain text output is simple. Let me illustrate:
encrypted = key ^ plaintext
plaintext = key ^ encrypted
Getting the code to work in java isn't as easy so I decided to use python and script the solution.
import base64
key1 = "hUZAf9gFIARRFTAvKRDs8A=="
key2 = "gp9jPELztMsd51Ih81gO0Q=="
flag3 = "RJ9qOOqa7pAinT19vyuQRHOGSi3FnPW5La0BYb4tnw=="
data1 = base64.b64decode(key1)
data2 = base64.b64decode(key2)
key = []
for i in range(len(data2)):
 key.append(data1[i] ^ data2[i])
decodedflag = []
input = base64.b64decode(flag3)
encryptedFlag = input
for i in range(len(encryptedFlag)):
 decodedflag.append(encryptedFlag[i] ^ key[i % len(key)])
b = [chr(s) for s in decodedflag]
Flag 3: CFI{plz_no_secret_in_java_code}
Since I found flag3 first I must have missed some stuff.
Flag 1
Refering back to my earlier screenshot, after performing the grep there's some base64 encoded data which I should have been more keen to look at!
Flag 1: CS_KE{base64_encoding_is_not_that_secure}
Flag 2
Now flag 2 was the last to find. Since most of the clues we have been finding were in that assets/ file let me have a look at it.
Something I noted was that jadx didn't find this file, that why the approach to use two tools is good IMO. A friend of mine has pointed out that it was actually there under Resources/assets on the jadx ui, nevertheless using two or more tools for analysis is still a good practice IMO. There is a lot of code in this file that is not easily readable, so I just googled what this file is.
I found that this file contains minified-javascript, it is created when an android app is developed using react. We already saw mentions of react when reading the code in jadx.
Reading the code in it's minified form isn't easy so js-beautifier to the rescue. I then opened the readable version in vs code and searched for the validateflag function again.
I landed here and we can clearly see the function that contained the base64 and the the other one that called flag3, due to their order flag 2 is what is left.
I took the same approach to porting the code to python as it is easier for me to work with. I had to do a bit of googling to understand the js flow but came up with this:
def f(n):
 t = 2
 r = 0
 e = []
 for r in range(len(n)):
 if 1 & r:
 t += 13
 t -= len(n) % 9
 u = ord(n[r]) + t
 return e
At the end, the output of the function is checked if it is equal to that list of numbers which is a hex representation of characters. Instead of trying to undo the transformation that was going on in the function where they add 13… which I tried for a few hours and failed, better to bruteforce all possibilities.
I came up with this script for that:
import string
k = [64,80,78,141,124,124,123,151,144,141,134,166,146,158,148,172,158,192,166,197,176,204,190,210,209,201,206,229,204,232,228,246,220,253,234,245,258,268,250,262,282]
all = string.printable
a = "a"*41
flag = [a[i] for i in range(len(a))]
def f(n):
 t = 2
 r = 0
 e = []
 for r in range(len(n)):
 if 1 & r:
 t += 13
 t -= len(n) % 9
 u = ord(n[r]) + t
 return e
for i in range(len(flag)):
 for j in range(len(all)):
 flag[i] = all[j]
 out = f(flag)
 if out[i] == str(k[i]):
Flag 2: CFI{obfuscated_javascript_is_not_secured}
This was a good ctf for practising some code review. I also had never played around with an app made with react so that was something I learnt.
I'd like to thank the CyberSpace Kenya team for putting up the challenge as well as ZuluMeats for the prize.
You can find more challenges on their website:
For any questions you can reach me on Twitter.
Twitter: ikuamike
Github: ikuamike


library(dplyr); library(ggplot2)
The likelihood function is fascinating. It's a statistic or "data reduction device" used to summarize information. Practically it's very useful for constructing statistical intervals, comparing models, and measuring the quantity of information extracted by a particular model.
Like statistics in general, the likeihood function is also really great at reducing data. That's ridiculously handy in a "Big Data" world. Somewhat suprisingly, the function is also really useful for squeezing the very most information out of data, making the most of small data.
Consider the joint (data + distribution) probability density (or mass) function \(f(x|\theta)\). This relatively familiar function is equal to \(L(\theta|x)\). Equal!
The difference is whether one considers the parameters fixed ("given"), or the data fixed ("given").
The idea of treating the data we observed as "fixed" leads to the maximum likelihood estimation procedure. The MLE procedure is incredibly flexible, it's kind of like the swiss-army knife of estimation. In particular it's very useful for binned, truncated or censored data.
Here I'll show how the method can be used to construct intervals.
Suppose we're running a business and we've just started a sales process. We have have no idea what our hit rate will be, but we want to make some financial projections through the end of the year.
We assume that our skill doesn't appreciable change throughout the year nor do the quality of the leads. :-p
We start emailing leads and recording how many times we get to a "yes!" Our business manager is impatient and after emailing 10 leads demands to know how many we'll close throughout the year. Of course we're going to give them a range because we're uncertain and they're running a their own scenarios. This is a new process and the business doesn't yet depend on it, so we're pretty tolerant of error. In fact, we're okay with a 75% chance that the interval will contain the year-end value.
We've closed three deals after emailing the ten leads.
sales <- 3
leads <- 10
We create a function that, given our data, can tell us how likely a particular value of p (the probability of closing a deal) is.
binomial_likelihood <- function(p) {
 dbinom(sales, leads, p)
Now let's try a bunch of values between 0% and 100%.
d <- tibble(p = seq(0, 1, 0.001)) %>%
 mutate(likelihood = binomial_likelihood(p)) %>%
 mutate(maximum_likelihood = max(likelihood),
 relative_likelihood = likelihood / maximum_likelihood)
d %>%
 ggplot(aes(x = p, y = relative_likelihood)) +
 geom_line() +
 geom_hline(yintercept = 0.25) +
 ylab("Relative likelihood") +
 xlab("Probability of converting the lead") +
 theme_bw(18) + theme(axis.text = element_text(colour = "black"))
Using the relative likelihood method,
d %>%
 filter(relative_likelihood < 0.25) %>%
 arrange(relative_likelihood) %>%
 tail(2) %>%
 pull(p) %>%
## [1] "10.7%" "56.1%"
We tell the business manager, at least 1 in 10 and probably not more than 1 in 2. Look how much uncertainty we eliminated with just ten leads!


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6.23 Confucius said, "When a cornered vessel no longer has any corners, should it be called a cornered vessel? Should it?" - The Analects, quoted in Wing-Tsit Chan's Source Book in Chinese Philosophy, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1963
The Confucian school, like many other schools of Chinese philosophy, had a theory about names and actuality, commonly called the "rectification of names." The Confucians held that the rectification of names was an ethical project, not merely a metaphysical or logical concern, because all things must be fit into their proper scheme in the universe. But you don't have to be a Confucian to want to set the record straight on Buddhism and the quotes about it attributed to various luminaries and used to promote (or defend?) the dharma.
To wit: There are two similar versions of a prominent Einstein quote on Buddhism floating around the web, reproducing themselves in viral fashion.


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Purpose: The aim of this study is to describe the management of cataract and refractory glaucoma in a case of congenital aniridia (AN)-1. Methods: In an 18-year-old female patient affected by congenital AN, bilateral coloboma of the zonula and lens, cataract and glaucoma, pars plana vitrectomy, cataract extraction and subsequent transcorneal ciliary body argon laser photocoagulation were performed. Results: Five years after laser treatment, the best-corrected visual acuity was 20/50 and the intraocular pressure was stable at 18 mm Hg with topical pharmacological management consisting of timolol 0.5% and latanoprost 0.005%. Conclusions: From our experience, transcorneal ciliary body photocoagulation after cataract extraction and vitrectomy could be a useful technique to manage high ocular pressure in eyes affected by congenital AN. © 2013 S. Karger AG, Basel.
- Congenital aniridia
- Lens coloboma
- Limbal stem cell deficiency
- Transcorneal ciliary body photocoagulation


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The moment a bagworm hatches and before it begins to eat, this caterpillar begins making is case or bag. Once this is complete the caterpillar will crawl inside the case and never emerge again until it changes into an adult moth. The cases appear to act as a protection against predators and are often well camouflaged. Each caterpillar of the species makes a very distinctive case, which has made it easier to identify the species than a study of the adult moths. The cases are fashioned out of silk and usually include some plant material, twigs, leaves and fibers that are cemented into the matrix. The size of these cases will range from 1\4 inch up to 6 inches in some species.
When the caterpillar finishes its bag and has crawled inside it can begin feeding. As it eats the head and thorax stick out from the case but it quickly retreats inside to rest after it has finished securing the bag to solid object with silken threads. The rear end of the bag is left open for the disposal of its excretions. As the bagworm begins to grow it simply adds more materials to the front of the bag to increase it in length and diameter. Like all caterpillars, the bagworm feeds voraciously on the leaves of some plants. They are considered to be pest of fruit trees, sometimes completely stripping the tree completely bare.
Once a bagworm has eaten its fill they pupate inside their bag. In the pupa stage the bagworm's body is completely reorganized as it is transformed into a moth. The male bagworms turn into adult moths that are strong fliers but with short lives and incompletely developed mouth parts so they cannot feed. The female bagworms in some cases stay inside their pupal shell inside their bag. Others develop much like the males but become degenerate being forced to subsist on food that was stored up when she was a caterpillar. The female's legs and wings are reduced and in some cases even missing leaving her to become little more than an egg laying machine. In some species the females are able to crawl completely out of the pupal case and the bag where they wait for the males to find them.
It is believed that the male bagworm is guided by scent that is emitted by the female. Once fertilization has taken place the female will crawl back to her bag, lay her eggs and die. When the female is unable to leave her bag the male will mate with her through the open end of the bag. The female will then die with the eggs still inside her body and the baby caterpillars make their way through her body to begin construction of their own bags. There are many species of animals besides the bagworm whose powers of movement are very limited. Even so these animals have been able to spread, in some cases enormous distances.
Scientists believe that the bagworm is able to move great distances due to other agents that carry them. Just as water animals get carried on mud on the feet of birds or mammals, many small animals are carried by the wind, being swept high enough to be carried across oceans to other continents. There is at least one way known that bagworms are spread. The eggs of this caterpillar are very hard shelled and when a bird eats the contents of a bag containing the body of the female and her eggs, the eggs are passed through the birds system unharmed to be dropped miles away.


A Poem and a Lost Scottish Classic
As we approach the end of this unprecedented year it seems appropriate to post this short poem.
That was the year when
everything shut down
and all we could hear
were the birds.
That was the year when
we hid from each other
and couldn't say goodbye
to the dying.
That was the year when
the masked looked
askance at the unmasked.
That was the year when
we found out what
was essential and what
was inessential.
That was the year when
I found out there was more
to life than life.
That was the year when
I found out there is more
to death than death.
That was the year when
I unstitched a few
malevolent masks.
That was the year when
I found out there was a
a human need to reach
out and touch others.
* * *
I am reading a novel at the moment which is pertinent to our present pandemic. It is titled The Silver Darlings, by a Scottish author, Neil M Gunn. It was first published in 1941, perhaps that date is significant in itself. The 'silver darlings' of the title are in fact herrings as the novel traces the Highland fishermen and their families in various situations. (They are silver not only because of their colour but because they provide sustenance and profit for the population.) Each chapter (26 in total) has a title and chapter 10 is The Coming of the Plague. The plague turns out to by dysentery but the effects on the population are the same; the need to isolate those infected and many deaths. With our present pandemic I've heard people reference Albert Camus; The Plague and other novels or plays but I'd be surprised if many people have heard of this Scottish novel. The historical setting is around the highland clearances when many were moved off the land and hence found employment in the fishing industries. There is an underlying political dimension to the novel. (Neil Gunn was a Scottish Nationalist.)
As some of you may know my father was a Scot and I may even have heard him mention Neil Gunn. It is a pity I will never know if he read this book. There are salmon fishermen in our ancestry so that is another reason for connecting with the characters.
So, what is it about the novel which makes it other than just a ripping old adventure story? In a word, its humanity. The characters are all believable and three-dimensional. But above that, I have been moved by the honest down to earth evocations of situations involving suffering and joy, for example when he describes compassion in action and the love between the characters. There are many poetic descriptions of the countryside and sea. Many commentators today talk of the loss of community: in this novel there is a strong sense of community. It is easy to feel nostalgia for the past and over-romanticise it, but Neil Gunn writes without sentimentality of a way of life which has vanished from the so called developed world.
The plague chapters are very moving and are impossible to read without comparison to our present situation. Again, he doesn't exaggerate the suffering and writes with much empathy. (I do wonder how the war affected him and how involved he was. Some research for a rainy day! I had a quick look online and there is no mention of the war although he was living in Scotland in the 40s.)
I am only half way through the novel so I have not made my mind up as to how satisfying it is in the end as a work of art. From what I have read so far, I would recommend it as a novel which provides insights into a way of life of the past and how natural forces (disease and the elements) affect us all.
January 2021
I have now finished reading the novel and can say it is one of the most life-enhancing novels I've read. The relationship between Catrine and her son is very well developed. The overall tone of vitality and optimism is refreshing; there is none of the angst associated with mid twentieth century literature. Some may conclude that this is because it is a naturalistic 'escapist' narrative, but I found depths of insight here which would contradict this assessment.
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The Federal Civil Service in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
during the 1800's
May 4, 2005:
Beginning in 1867, with Confederation, a large number of civil servants arrived
in Ottawa from each of the new provinces.
In the early days government was small. The largest departments reflected the
priorities of the day -- Agriculture, Post Office, Customs and Excise.
Archibald Lampman, poet, worked in the Post Office Department.
There was an early Department of Finance (1867) but it was only involved in accounting
functions. There were no economists until the 1920's. The federal Income Tax was instituted
in 1917 as only a temporary measure. They'll probably be abolishing it soon.
When I first started working in the Department of Finance (for 30+ years), we
were located in the Confederation Building. Prior to that time, the building housed
the Department of Agriculture.
The Post Office Building was located at Confederation Square, across from the East
Photo Source: James Ballantyne collection, Library and Archives Canada
View across Rideau Canal locks to Sappers Bridge and Ottawa Post Office, 1903
Reference Number: PA-133655 (copy negative number)
The railway tracks shown in the photo are located between the locks and the Chateau
Laurier Hotel. I believe that it was built by J.R. Booth. It crossed the Ottawa River
and ran as far north as Maniwaki, Quebec.
May 8, 2005:
Geological Survey of Canada
Charles Smith would like to contact Francis McDermott who is a descendant of
Michael McDermott who was an early surveyor in the Bytown area.
The reason for my interest is that I have transcribed the 1845 Ottawa River Journal of Sir
William E. Logan, founder of the Geological Survey of Canada. Logan spent several days in
Bytown, and he refers to Michael McDermott, the provincial land surveyor in Bytown.
Perhaps Francis McDermott has an interest in these (limited!) comments.
No, Logan did not come to Ottawa at the time of Confederation. He lived in Montreal. In
1845, the Geological Survey (GSC) was based there. The capital of Canada was then in
Kingston. The Geological Survey moved to Ottawa in 1881, and it was located at the
corner of Sussex Drive and George Street. A Historic Sites and Monument plaque now
marks the site. The GSC moved to the Victoria Museum building in 1910. The GSC moved
to Booth Street in 1959, where it is now located. To jog your memory, Mount Logan in
the Yukon was later named after him.
Perhaps you remember the recent fuss about changing the name of Mount Logan to Mount Pierre
Thank you again.
July 20, 2005:
E-mail _EMAIL_ (new e-mail address... Al)
April 23, 2006:
Alexander Jeffrey Cambie and his wife Elizabeth Poston came from Quebec City. He
worked in the Department of Agriculture and was a member of the Civil Service Masonic Lodge (see link below, dated July 1, 2009).
January 29, 2008:
Denise Dufour is researching her grandfather, Georges Blanchard, who worked at
L'Imprimerie d'Ottawa, c. 1930. Printing services for the federal government have
been a combination of contracting out and in-house printing since Confederation.
I remember hearing a lot about "PP and S" around the kitchen table in the 1950's.
"PP and S" stood for "Public Printing and Stationery" as the printing agency was then
July 1, 2009:
I am the secretary of Civil Service Masonic Lodge in Ottawa and I have been researching our
The first meeting of Civil Service Lodge in Ottawa was held on November 14, 1865. Originally,
all members of our lodge were required to be civil servants, thus the origin of our name.
A history of our Lodge can be found at _URL_ under Lodge History/Renowned Members.
Here is an excerpt of names of Worshipful Masters of the Civil Service Lodge, between 1861 and 1900,
as posted on our web site:
Civil Service Lodge No. 148 AF&AM
Names for search engine: Rowan, Hayden, Spink, Munro, Remon, Cambie, McLean, Walsh, Blyth, Coutlee,
Rogers, Cassels, Maingy, Campbell, Boardman, Blair, Roper, Macdonnell, Saunders, Harris,
Learoyd, Scott, Garrett.
January 15, 2010:
The Federal Government property known as the Experimental Farm, forms a major part of the Greenbelt which
surrounds the City of Ottawa.
Photo Source: Our Times, A Pictorial Memoir of Ottawa, page 105
August 10, 2010:
Photo Source: National Capital Region Heritage, page 138
The Langevin Block, Wellington Street and Elgin Street
designed by Thomas Fuller
For many decades, this building housed the Department of External Affairs
October 12, 2012:
If you are researching ancestors who were in the Ottawa area in the early part of the twentieth century, you
may find their names, date of birth, salary, Department and Branch in the Civil Service List of Canada.
These hard-cover volumes are available at the Library of the Ottawa Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society:
Here are the entries from their catalogue today:
View 971 CSL 1917 Civil Service List 1917
View 971 CSL 1918 Civil Service List 1918 Liste Du Service Civil
View 971 CSL 1912 The Civil Service List of Canada, 1912
View 971 CSL 1913 The Civil Service List of Canada, 1913
View 971 CSL 1915 The Civil Service List of Canada, 1915
Search their catalogue for much more local history material.
E-mail Al Lewis
Back to Bytown or Bust - History and Genealogy in the Ottawa area


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The Path Of Pan de Sal
"Pan de sal is the bread of our history, at the core of our culture, at the heart of our tastes."
Photography by
Story by
Sonny Thakur
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On Mabini Street in Barrio Kapasigan, a red van filled with firewood is parked in front of a two-story white house, inscribed with "Dimas-Alang" and the year "1919." A man in a white sando wraps the logs in a towel and carries them inside Panaderia Dimas-Alang. The bakery uses the logs to fuel its century-old wood-fired oven (pugon) to make traditional breads—a rarity in Metro Manila these days, when many have switched to gas ovens. Panaderia Dimas-Alang is one of the remaining bakeries that still keep to tradition since it was founded in Pasig in 1919.
At the heart of this panaderia is their pan de sal, once hailed by a local magazine as one of the best in the metro. Panaderia Dimas-Alang's pan de sal has its roots from traditional recipes, with just a hint of salt and the breath of the wood-fired oven clinging to its light, crisp crust.
It is the pan de sal most recognize: a small, oval bread with a brown crust, dusted with breadcrumbs, and narrow, pointed leaf-like edges on the top that distinguishes it from an ordinary dinner roll. This type of pan de sal is baked on a half-sheet pan (plancha) hence it's also known as pan de sal de plancha.
A wood-fired oven (pugon) and baker's peel in Panaderia Dimas-Alang
The pugon and its long baker's peel is on the ready for loading the prepared dough for baking.
In the old days, these types of bread were entirely done by hand. They have since been able to adapt to modern processes, particularly by using mixers to prepare the dough. The pugon remains an important element of the traditional pan de sal, but its popularity diminished after the ban on cutting of the bakawan (mangroves) used as fuel and the rise of the gas oven.
Still, bakers continue to shape the pan de sal by hand so the result has the same shape, texture and flavor as what can be deemed "traditional," especially in the memories of older consumers who grew up on them. To taste pan de sal a little salty, almost bland is to savor the simple, pure flavor of bread, Filipino-style.
A baker kneads and shapes the dough to prepare it for cutting
A bakery worker cuts the dough into pan de sal
The maestro panadero rolls and tucks the edges of the dough to form into a baston before cutting, the Spanish word for cane or walking stick. This is a special technique done in making the traditional pan de sal.
At the supermarket, there are the rounded, less crusty, soft and lighter-colored pan de sal: pre-packaged, sanitary and uniform, as the dough has been produced in quality-controlled processes and modern equipment. The sweet pan de sal is also being made today at a small panaderia or in larger bakery chains, which have adapted to the preferences of contemporary times. It deviates from the origin of its name: "bread of salt." If you compare the formulations, the "new" pan de sal has 18 percent sugar while the old-fashioned has only 1.75.
Both traditional and modern pan de sal variations co-exist to this day at the panaderia. The shift from the traditional happens when certain variables of pan de sal-making change: the move from manual mixing to machine mixers, baking in a pugon to gas ovens, using fresh or active dry yeast to instant dry yeast (reducing fermentation time).
The danger is that many of us come to know only the kind of pan de sal most convenient and accessible to us. What do we lose when we forget or never know the form and taste of the traditional pan de sal? What if our breadmakers forego tradition in favor of profit and convenience?
In essence, we lose a little of who we are. Pan de sal "is our basic tinapay, our 'bread of salt,' whether putok or pang-araw-araw (the daily bread). It is the bread of our history, at the core of our culture, at the heart of our tastes," writes Doreen Fernandez eloquently in her book Palayok.
"It is brown and plain like the Filipino, good by itself or alone, crisp on the outside and soft on the inside. It is good, basic and strong—just the way we are, and would like the nation to be."
A baker at Panaderia Dimas-Alang shapes the dough for other baked goods
Six years ago, we traveled to as many local bakeries as we could to do research for Panaderia: Philippine Bread, Biscuit and Bakery Traditions, a book I co-authored with food writer Amy A. Uy. One of the first bakeries we visited was Panaderia Dimas-Alang. Inside, we found traces of traditional breadmaking—the cavernous pugon with its long baker's peel, the wooden drawer the size of a door where the dough is rolled in breadcrumbs, and vintage escaparate to display the breads.
Manolo Lozada, the owner, inherited the bakery from his parents Lucio Lozada and Felisa Santos Lozada who had acquired it from an offshoot of a much older bakery from the 1900s. He wrote down their old recipes in order to preserve them after interviewing their maestro panadero (or master baker), Emiliano Torres, who was also his cousin and a very good baker.
"But the measurements are a little embarrassing," he said. "Sometimes it says 'one cup from a tin of evaporated milk,'" referring to how the panadero of old would cut an empty milk tin in half to serve as container and measuring cup.
What do we lose when we forget, or never know, the form and taste of the traditional pan de sal?
Manolo is a painter, but after inheriting the bakery he studied at the Philippine College of Arts and Trades (PCAT) to learn the rudiments of baking. The lessons included ingredients measured by weight rather than volume. The milk tin method is common in the history of other panaderia in the Philippines. A precursor to the weighing scale; it spoke of the bakers' resourcefulness. But for a time, it kept the panaderia from becoming more efficient—accurately measured ingredients produce better yield, which in turn reduces wastage.
The older panadero clung to their tin cans and plastic pitchers out of habit, until the bakery owners adopted the weighing scale.
Still, some traditional practices live on.
A bakery worker tends to the pugon at Panaderia Dimas-Alang
Merced Bakehouse in Quezon City is a bakeshop founded in 1972 that makes panaderia breads alongside 70s-era specialties like the chocolate beehive and birthday cakes with marshmallow icing. The head baker Juanito Pacia, fondly known as Simeon, shapes two kinds of pan de sal (kalabasa and malunggay). He also bakes Merced's popular egg pan de sal, smaller in size, soft and yellow-hued from the eggs and butter.
Simeon, who has been working here since 1980, hails from the town of Cuenca, Batangas, also the hometown of many bakers working in other panaderia across the country. As a baker for the past 33 years, he has become accustomed to the changing times.
"We used active dry yeast and blocks of fresh yeast before. Now we use instant dry yeast with bread improver," he said. He also knew how to measure with empty milk tins. "But it's better to use the scale. One has to look after the cost of ingredients," he said.
Three shelves of freshly baked loaves of bread
The cost of ingredients directly affects how local bakers made bread. As the price of flour increases, the weight of the pan de sal decreases. Our great-grandparents enjoyed big, hefty pan de sal. In 1908, the health department issued a 30-day food guide for Filipinos, which listed pan de sal as part of the breakfast menu. The menu chart indicated that one large piece of pan de sal weighed 80 grams and was sold for two cents apiece. Its nutritional information was also listed as having "198.72 calories, 5.68 protein, 41.84 carbs,.96 fat."
Perhaps the closest version to this type of pan de sal that still exists to this day is the pan de sal de suelo, traditionally baked directly on the floor of a pugon to get the ridge or crack on the top. It requires the pugon to be very clean, as the dough pieces have to be directly loaded onto the oven floor. At Kamuning Bakery, the pugon's floor is swept clean daily before the bread is baked. Once cleaned of debris and dirt, Kamuning's pugon is further wiped down with katcha or flour bags turned inside out.
The bakers' work stations near a wood-fired oven at Panaderia Dimas-Alang
Six years later, I return to Panaderia Dimas-Alang. The bakers wear their signature orange t-shirts emblazoned with the white bakery logo. But the black hairnets have been replaced with white baker's skull caps. Inside the


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Differed Tax is difference in the tax liability as per
Accounting profit and Tax liability as per Income tax Act
Differed tax araises due to timing differences of
recognition of various tax deductible transactions in both
Accounting and tax calculations.
Eg: Depreciation on Fixed Assets.
for example As per companies act one asset is eligible for
100% depreciation in the first year itself, but the case
may not be the same under sec 32 of the Income tax act it
may gives some other rate of depreciation on that
asset.lets assume it allows only 50% in the first year and
remaining in the subsequent year.
as per accounting books shows a lower profit and tax
liabiltity due to higher depreciation claimed in this year
ony compared to IT profit.
It is a clear case of Differed tax asset..... we will pay
more in this year we will carry it as a differed tax asset
in our balance sheet which is going to be offset in the
coming year...... in the short range period difference will
apprear but in long range timing difference is going to be
One more thing Differed tax will not araise due to
permanent differences between these two profits.
If you reverse the above example it will give the situation
of differed tax Liability.
A tax liability that a company owes and does not pay at
that current point, although it will be responsible for
paying it at some point in the future. This is often caused
by a difference in a company's balance sheet, due to the
differences between accounting practices and tax
regulations. Occasionally, a company will have a difference
in their taxable income and income before tax due to these
differences, resulting in a deferred tax liability.
To get into Deffered Taxes.. Lemme cleard the basis:
Book Income: Income calculated suing accounting principles
in accordance with GAAP.
Taxable Income: Income calculated in accordance with the
Government stipulated policies and procedures, that govern
Now put simply the concept of DEFFERED TAXES arises beacuse
there is a difference in the amount of tax liablity
calculated using accounting principles as VS. tax
liablities using Government mandated laws.
=> Therefore the reason why DEFFERED TAXES occour is due to
temporarily timings difference between book value and
Example: A company uses Straight-Line Method of
depreciation for its accounting records. But the law allow
an accelerated depreciation method of writing of an assets.
The company takes advantage of this due to favourable tax
treatment in as much as it's able to report lower income
and hence pay lower taxes.


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Research Reveals Fathers Are Happier Parents Than Mothers
Over the past decade, there has been a significant amount of evidence collected that suggests that having children does not make people happy.
However, according to a study by a group of psychologists from the University of British Columbia, UC Riverside, and Stanford, there is a psychological benefit to parenting — particularly among fathers.
Researchers say they found that, "parenthood was associated with greater satisfaction and happiness only among fathers," and that mothers were not actually happier than women without children.
In fact, married fathers seemed to be the happiest of them all.
If parenting is associated with more joy than misery, dads appear be capitalizing on the "joy" portion of the experience.
Even though fathers appear to be happier, researchers say the one consistent psychological benefit consistent in both parents across the board appeared to be "a stronger sense of meaning in life" than people without children.
Researchers admit that studies like this one may actually cause parents to overestimate their well being because of widespread beliefs about the desirability of parenting.


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I've exhausted the census records for my paternal Granddad's ancestors so I have moved on to my paternal Grandmothers. So far they're all farmers! But I'm having a bit of trouble understanding what is said in the 1891 census:
From the bottom, I can read Scholar and Ag Assistant (?). The top one has me confused however. The first word seems to be Father (The owner of the occupation, Jeffrey Cowton, is 23 in 1891). The household does have three children; Mary E, Robert F and Ethel I Cowton, however I can't work out who their father is as Jeffrey has a number of siblings!
If anyone can make sense of the occupation I'd be very grateful!


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Venison is the name given to any of the species of deer sold as meat in the UK. The lean, red meat is low in fat and full of flavour and has become popular and widely available. Deer can be classified as wild deer, park deer (reared in herds that roam parklands) or farmed deer (rearing varies from free-range to intensive). The most common varieties of deer in the UK are red, fallow and roe.
There is little difference in taste between wild and farmed deer, although farmed venison is more likely to be younger, a little milder in flavour and perhaps slightly fattier; wild venison may be slightly tougher but more flavoursome. Farmed venison is available all year. Wild venison is also available almost year round, as the different species have different seasons.
Venison can be substituted for beef in most recipes. The most popular cuts for roasting are the saddle, loin, fillet and haunch (leg). Because the meat is so lean it needs careful cooking; quick roasting is ideal. Tougher cuts (shoulder, neck and shin) should be braised or stewed or made into mince for venison burgers or sausages. Non-native imports include chital, a spotted deer that's imported from Bangladesh, and can be cooked in the same way as British venison.
Article by Louisa Carter


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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has kicked off its Knockout Mouse Project (KOMP), a massive effort to delete over a third of the genes in the mouse genome. Today, the institute named four centers that together will receive nearly $50 million over 5 years to create mutant cell lines and mice. The resource is expected to provide researchers with a mouse mutant for whatever disease or development gene they want to study.
Three of the centers--Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute in California, the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California (UC), Davis, and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton, U.K.--will work together to make about 5000 unique knockouts. The fourth center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals in Tarrytown, New York, plans to generate about 3500 additional mutants using technology it has developed for its drug-discovery program. "NIH has picked some great people," says Marina Picciotto, a mouse researcher at Yale University.
The NIH program is part of a global endeavor to knock out every gene in the mouse genome (Science, 30 June, p. 1862). In January, Europe and Canada embarked on the European Conditional Mouse Mutagenesis Program (EUCOMM) and the North American Conditional Mouse Mutagenesis Project, respectively, which have a combined goal of creating more than 30,000 knockouts in embryonic stem cells. China has plans for a similar resource. Mice and humans share similarity in some 25,000 genes, yet to date only about 11,000 different knockouts have been made. By coordinating their efforts, the projects hope to close this gap.
The Sanger Institute is also one of the leaders of the EUCOMM effort, but Sanger Director Allan Bradley says there will be no overlap between the two programs. "KOMP and EUCOMM researchers will be working side by side, but they'll each be targeting a different set of genes," he says.
Just which genes KOMP will go after will be decided by the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, which has received $2.5 million to help coordinate the project. Another $2.5 million will go to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and the Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto to improve the performance of the reagents used by the KOMP centers.
Researchers should begin reaping KOMP's benefits in 6 to 9 months, says program director Colin Fletcher, when they can start ordering materials from Regeneron and UC Davis to make their own knockout mice. By next fall, he says, NIH will have set up one or more distribution centers that will quickly get knockouts into the hands of researchers who need them.
"That's going to save investigators lots of money and time and greatly accelerate the pace of mouse research," says M. Celeste Simon, a mouse researcher at the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center. "It's a very wise investment for NIH."


5 Couple Activities *Scientifically* Proven To Improve Relationship!
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When you wan to have a fun night or spend time with your partner, you might check google for helping you but you never go and look for a scientific journal. Google always has answer for all your questions but there are times when those answers do not give the desired results.
You want to spend time with your partner to be closer to them and get the roots of your relationship stronger but if the activities that you do are not that effective then the results might not be desired ones.
So here is a list of activities that you can do together that are also scientifically proven to improve your relationship.
1. Play 20 Questions
This game is the most famous and cliche but it is also the most effective one. It brings people closer when they talk about life, feelings, etc.
2. Workout Together
When you exercise, your body releases endorphin, which would help you feel positively towards each other and also the increased heart rate would make your excitement level rise.
3. Reading Together
Research shows that people grow closer by revealing and sharing new thoughts, ideas and fantasies with each other, [and]reading a book and then discussing it is a fun way for couples to grow closer. It makes you more attractive in the eyes of the partner.
4. Doing Household Work Together
Yes the task is tedious but when you do it with your partner, you work in a sync which improves the relation. Washing the dirty dishes is what you do daily but what can be done is investing a whole day to clean and remodel your home.
5. Do Daring Adventures Together
Yes, this makes the couple grow closer. Because you feel nervous and get the support from your partner, and enjoying the thrill together brings you closer.
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The other week I decided to write some blogging software and came up with WOBlog. WOBlog is rather different from most WebObjects apps as it actually has "friendly" URLs. And I don't mean friendly in the sense that it is using the.../wa/foo/bar/ direct actions but friendly in the sense that if I didn't tell you and you didn't look at the HTTP headers you'd probably never know that I'm using WebObjects.
WebObjects is vastly different from standard web server application software. In a typical IIS/ASP.NET, Apache/PHP, or Apache/PERL configuration the webserver software is responsible for resolving the URLs to filesystem paths. Before we detail how WebObjects handles URLs we should first cover how an ordinary webserver does it.
Static Content in a Document Root
The simplest web server program is one that resolves an incoming URL to a file path on disk then sends the client the exact contents of that file. So if the client requests _URL_ the server looks for /var/www/html/foobar.html and returns its contents. There are still specialty webservers that do only this but the vast majority of them have several facilities for causing other code on the server to be executed in response to an HTTP request.
CGI in a Document Root
The easiest to understand example of dynamic content is a CGI script. The webserver sees _URL_ and as before resolves this to a file on disk /var/www/html/foobar.cgi. Instead of serving the file as-is the webserver software is configured to execute any files with the extension.cgi by simply running them as programs. On a UNIX system the extensions don't matter to the OS so the foobar.cgi program can be anything. It might be compiled C or C++ or even FORTRAN (I'm sure that someone has done this, if only as a joke). On many early websites, executing CGI was nearly synonymous with executing a PERL script.
On many webservers you could include additional components in the URL such as _URL_ Because a file on the filesystem cannot contain subfiles there is no ambiguity; the "baz" portion of that URL cannot refer to anything on the filesystem. With this scheme one could have a whole bunch of purely dynamic content all served behind the foobar.cgi program. That said, having periods in directory names usually looks odd to most people. Also having the webserver configured to directly execute any content with the extension.cgi and the executable flag set is seen by some administrators as a security risk because anyone with write access to the web site's document root could put any arbitrary program in the directory and cause it to be executed in the context of the server.
CGI in its own directory
In response to these problems one alternate solution is to treat the web's document root (located at say /var/www/html/ on the filesystem) as containing only pure content. Then an additional directory such as /var/www/cgi-bin/ would be added to the webserver's configuration such that any URL's beginning with /cgi-bin/ would go to that directory instead. This has the effect then of hiding /var/www/html/cgi-bin/ since everything is redirected to the other folder. In this scheme nothing in /var/www/html/ will ever be executed by the webserver. Thus the administrator can safely give any number of users access to change the static content portions of the site but only give trusted administrators rights to put new cgi-bin programs on the site.
As an added bonus, every file in cgi-bin that is executable by the system is considered executable by the webserver. So we can now have /cgi-bin/foobar instead of /foobar.cgi. Also, as above with _URL_ we can have _URL_ and the /cgi-bin/foobar file will still be executed. This scheme offers a clue as to why WebObjects uses /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ at the start of its URLs.
Web Server Modules
At some point the fork/exec of a new process needed to run the script becomes a fair amount of overhead for the server so CGI has been mostly replaced by in-process modules. The most common of these for Apache is mod_php although there are many more. In this case the Apache module contains the interpreter code in an initialized state. The Apache server software is instructed to send any requests for a.php file to the built-in mod_php handler. The Apache software is still responsible for resolving the request URL to an on-disk file and passing the request URL, other server information, and the filename to the (now built in) interpreter.
In addition, because the mod_php (or other) interpreter stays loaded into the webserver process it becomes possible to maintain application state in process memory. With traditional CGI one would have to write the state to disk, database, or some other form of persistent storage. Depending on module the persistence of state can be confined per site or even to particular directories within a site. So _URL_ and _URL_ might share in-process data but _URL_ might share a different set of state.
Windows with IIS and ASP.NET has a similar setup. The web server software is configured to use an ASP.NET application to handle any files (note: files, not URLs) with an aspx extension. The administrator then configures IIS such that all.aspx files for the _URL_ site are to be run by the ASP.NET application contained in that site's document root. One can also configure a subapplication (sometimes known as subweb) such that _URL_ goes to a different folder with a different ASP.NET application.
In any case, URLs which aren't one of the registered extensions (.aspx,.ashx, and others) do not get sent to ASP.NET. So all other content on the site like.jpg,.png,.js, and.css files is served directly by IIS. Also, IIS takes care to deny requests for any.aspx.vb or.aspx.cs files, the web.config file, and a few other files. Often times the web.config file and/or the code will contain passwords for database servers so this is generally a good thing.
It should be noted that Global.asax in the root directory of the configured application can contain an override method to alter the processing of the request. But for the request to make it there in the first place IIS must have already known to send it to the ASP.NET application which generally means there must be an.aspx file on disk in the appropriate place.
Decoupling the URL from the implementation file
In recent years it is considered somewhat uncouth to expose the implementation details of your site to the user in the form of direct file paths to the.aspx or.php files. It is much nicer for the user if he can see _URL_ instead of _URL_
Enter URL rewriting. Rewriting is the process of turning something like _URL_ into _URL_ URL Rewriting generally occurs as a function of the webserver code. For Apache this is mod_rewrite which uses rules in.htaccess files or in certain places in the httpd.conf file. There are also modules for IIS which, like mod_rewrite, look for regular expressions in web.config and rewrite the URL to something that can be resolved to a file on disk.
The main drawback, in this author's opinion, is that you still must have some.aspx file or.php file on disk. The rewriting occurs inside of IIS or Apache and ultimately results in it doing the same old dance of loading and executing a file or telling the in-process handler to process the file. There is no opportunity to execute other code before the request reaches the page because for the request to reach code it must first reach a page.
URL handlers within the application
Things are different with IIS 7 and its "integrated pipeline" where the ASP.NET code gets a shot at the URL early. But the integrated pipeline is only a first step towards decoupling URLs from the filesystem. The MVC feature actually begins to allow ASP.NET to load an arbitrary page based on an arbitrary URL. But like URL rewriting you have to register which particular URLs (by regex) will show which particular pages. Unlike URL rewriting you do get an opportunity to run some code and decide to return something else besides the page. But you cannot decide to return some arbitrarily different page.
In part 2 we'll explore how WebObjects handles URLs.


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As promised yesterday, here's some another Windows 8 Education app developed in Australia.
Link Lesson Coder, is from Lucas Moffitt, who's a developer in Newcastle (the Australian version, not the English one). It's an app designed to allow teachers (or other lesson observers) to reflect up classroom practice, and then analyse those reflections later. As a teacher or lesson observer, you scale and make some notes to review your lessons, and then later download these to Excel to see how you're progressing, and where you may want to spend more time in your planning. This is a noteworthy app for a couple of extra reasons:
And Lucas's Twitter stream tells me there's more teaching and learning apps coming from him soon, especially after this tweet on Christmas Eve "..the Australian Curriculum offers json formats of the new syllabus files. I'm going to build a million apps"
Read the full list of recommended Windows 8 apps for education


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An information paper, released in September 2007, described revisions to Australia's national and international accounts to be implemented in 2009. These revisions result from the updating of the respective international standards - the System of National Accounts (SNA) and the Balance of Payments Manual (BPM). This information paper is one in a series that provides more detail about the most significant changes being made to Australia's national and international accounts.
This paper discusses the treatment of Workers' remittances. Workers' remittances are cash or in-kind transfers by resident households in one economy to households of other economies. A methodology has been developed to estimate Workers' remittances debits (i.e. transfers out of Australia). The new data series will commence from September quarter 1989 and will be included under Personal transfers in the Secondary Income Account of the Balance of Payments from the September quarter 2009 issue of Balance of Payments and International Investment Position, Australia (cat. no. 5302.0).
DEFINITION AND STANDARDS
Workers' remittances are current transfers made by employees to residents of another economy. For many economies, Workers' remittances can represent a sizeable and stable source of funds that can exceed official aid or financial inflows from foreign direct investment. Workers' remittances is of considerable interest to economists and analysts because it can have a significant impact on poverty reduction and / or can finance economic growth in receiving economies.
The definition of Workers' remittances has not changed between the BPM 5th edition (BPM5) and the BPM 6th edition (BPM6), although in BPM6 Workers' remittances are included as a supplementary item under the Personal transfers category. Relevant extracts from BPM5 and BPM6 follow.
BPM5, paragraph 302 - Workers' remittances
Workers' remittances cover current transfers by migrants who are employed in their new economies and considered residents there. (A migrant is a person who comes to an economy and stays, or is expected to stay, for a year or more.) Workers' remittances often occur between related persons. Persons who work for and stay in new economies for less than a year are considered non residents; their transactions are appropriate mainly to compensation of employees. Workers' remittances are not currently estimated in Australia's Balance of Payments due to the difficulty in collecting or estimating this data.
BPM6, paragraphs 12.47 to 12.50 - Personal Transfers (includes Workers' remittances)
Personal transfers consist of all current transfers in cash or in kind made or received by resident households to or from non-resident households. Personal transfers thus include all current transfers between resident and non-resident individuals, independently of:
(a) the source of income of the sender (irrespective of whether the sender receives income from labour, entrepreneurial or property income, social benefits, and any other types of transfers; or disposes assets); and
(b) the relationship between the households (irrespective of whether they are related or unrelated individuals).
By convention, current transfers between households with regard to lotteries and other gambling are included under personal transfers.
Workers' remittances are current transfers made by employees to residents of another economy. They are included as a supplementary item.
The connection to the residence status of the person concerned is important in determining whether a personal transfer is involved. In the case of workers, personal transfers include only those transfers abroad made by workers who are residents of the economy in which they are employed.
Funds sent abroad by individuals who are resident in the economy in which they are employed, self-employed, or operating a business, for the purpose of making a deposit in his or her own account with a bank located abroad represent a financial investment, which is recorded in the financial account, rather than as a personal transfer. But, any withdrawals to provide resources to a relative or another person (without a quid pro quo) should be recorded as a personal transfer.
In BPM5 Workers' remittances is recorded in its own category and is a sub-component of 'Current transfers'. The current presentation is shown in table 23 of Balance of Payments and International Investment Position, Australia (cat. no. 5302.0). BPM6 includes Workers' remittances under a new category termed 'Personal transfers'. Personal transfers is a sub-component of the 'Secondary Income'. In BPM6 Workers' remittances is a supplementary item meaning that each country can decide if this item should be recorded separately.
Along with other changes to the international accounts, the revised treatment of Worker's remittances will be implemented in the September quarter 2009 issue of Balance of Payments and International Investment Position, Australia (cat. no. 5302.0). Workers' remittances will be presented as a supplementary item in the 'Secondary income' table. The new classification and estimation methodology will also be applied in the 2008-09 issue of Australian System of National Accounts (cat. no. 5204.0) and the September quarter 2009 issue of Australian National Accounts: National Income, Expenditure and Product (cat. no. 5206.0).
WORKERS' REMITTANCES CREDITS (INFLOWS)
It is not currently possible to estimate the value of Workers' remittances credits (inflows) as there is no information available regarding the amounts expatriate Australians remit back to Australia. It is considered unlikely that Australia receives significant amounts of remittances. Therefore, both the Personal transfers credits item and the Workers' remittances credits supplementary item will be recorded as not available (n.a.).
NEW METHODOLOGY AND DATA SOURCES FOR WORKERS' REMITTANCES DEBITS (OUTFLOWS)
The estimate for Workers' remittances debits (outflows) is derived using the following formula:
Total Workers remittances = population of remitters x average amount remitted, where
- Population of remitters = foreign born population x percentage remitting to another economy
- Average remitted = average income of foreign born employees x percentage of income remitted to another economy
ESTIMATES OF WORKERS' REMITTANCES DEBITS AND IMPACT ON THE CURRENT ACCOUNT
- The data sources for the above components are:
- Estimates of foreign born employees (i.e. foreign born population) and average weekly earnings (i.e. average income) of foreign born employees aged between 15 and 54 years are derived from Employee Earnings, Benefits and Trade Union Membership, Australia (cat. no. 6310.0).
- The percentage of foreign born employees remitting to another economy and the percentage of their income remitted to another economy are obtained from the 2004 report on the Second Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants in Australia (LSIA2), The Changing Settlement Experience of New Migrants, prepared by the National Institute of Labour Studies, Flinders University.
Secondary income (Current transfers) debits will increase by $676 million in 2006-07 due to the incorporation of an estimate of Workers' remittances. This is likely to increase current account debits by between 0.2% and 0.3%.
Table 1: Estimates of Workers' remittances debits and impact on the current account 1996-97 to 2006-07
Workers' remittances debits
Current account debits
Estimated impact on
Current account debits
Over the past ten years the value of Workers' remittances has increased from $414 million to $676 million, an average increase of 5% per year. The percentage increase was lower in 2000-01 and 2003-04 due to falls in the employed foreign born population.
Estimates for Workers' remittances debits have been compiled from September quarter 1989 onwards. Estimates could not be compiled for earlier periods because estimates of the average weekly earnings of foreign born persons are not available prior to 1989-90. As a result, both the Personal transfers debits item and the Workers' remittances debits supplementary item will be recorded as not available (n.a.) prior to September quarter 1989.
Workers' remittances are one part of Personal transfers albeit usually the most significant. Due to the lack of information currently available on other Personal transfers, Workers' remittances debits and Personal transfer debits will have the same value.
For further information about revisions to Australia's national and international accounts to be implemented in 2009 see:
For further information please contact Peter Meadows on 02 6252 7209.
This page last updated 2 June 2011


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Security around the globe just got a boost with the release of a stationary, digital beamforming radar from Cassidian Sensors and Electronic Warfare of Unterschleissheim, Germany. The SPEXER 1000 brings military-class performance to security applications, allowing facilities to monitor a 120° field of view economically across a range as long as 17km (10.6 miles). The complete system is designed for easy installation and integration with command and control systems on stationary and mobile platforms monitoring land, sea, or air.
Terrorists and insurgents often focus on high-value domestic targets such as oil fields and power plants, making perimeter security a key concern. Visible and IR imaging systems can provide remote monitoring, but they're vulnerable to environmental effects like fog and duststorms and require design tradeoffs in areas such as field of view, depth of focus, and cost. The x-band SPEXER 1000 provides an alternative.
A stationary frequency-modulated continuous-wave radar, the SPEXER 1000 can monitor the zone of 120° with an update rate of 1.5s.
Photo courtesy of Cassidian
Like other non-optical radars, the SPEXER 1000 can only generate a limited set of results -- position and velocity -- but in some ways, therein lies its strength. Using the system, a guard at a refinery can easily assess a broad buffer zone at a glance, rather than having to constantly scan banks of screens to detect suspicious activity.
Conventional radar systems often rotate to cover 360°, but that's not always necessary in security applications. Often, perimeters can be secured by monitoring specific areas of vulnerability, which speeds up the process while reducing power demand and avoiding the acquisition and processing of unnecessary data. An airport system, for example, could ignore passenger entry points but would need to cover regions at the ends of runways or around the fuel depot.
The SPEXER 1000 consists of a stationary, frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar featuring 30 receive channels, each with dedicated analog-to-digital conversion. The system, developed by Cassidian, leverages digital beamforming techniques to scan the field of view electronically, with each channel independently covering a range of ±50°. The design allows users to focus on areas of interest while speeding the update rate to 1.5s. Users can even set the system to cover only designated subsectors within the overall field of view, further reducing both scan time and energy consumption. The increased dwell time enhances dynamic range, allowing the unit to track targets moving at speeds as low as 0.7km/hr (0.5 mi/hr).
Detecting the velocity of objects involves nuances. A person has what we can think of as a group velocity -- the speed at which he or she is walking or running -- along with a set of local velocities, which represent the movement of arms and legs. Digital processing capabilities, combined with the dwell time, let the Cassidian radar correlate data with complex velocity signatures to differentiate a saboteur on foot from a truck. This not only permits rough object classification, but it can also reduce false positives such as signals generated by small animals.


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[This is a part of a lecture provided in Nepal Law Campus on the topic of Feminist Jurisprudence by Professor Jane Aiken. She is a Lecturer from Washington University and has recently arrived in Nepal in order to be confronted with the actual situation of Nepalese Women's status and feminist movement in Nepal. She has been working on establishing a Social Policy Law Program – An Exchange Program for law students between W.U. and T.U. She has expertise in Law, has 19 years of teaching experience and holds a Master of Laws in Public Advocacy. She has been representing women who are victims of violence, Prostitutes, Women Prisoners, HIV affected women, Torts, Civil Wrongs, Evidence, Constitutional Law, Gender, Race and sexuality.]
Feminism in U.S. started as a new conceptual change in terms of gender, society and equality where as in Nepal, clear discrimination against women can be evidenced. Law provides equality to every individual in every term. Each individual holds individual rights. Every person is free from being harmed and if harmed everyone can seek for justice; be it harm from state to individuals or form individual to individual. Every individual is thus autonomous.
Liberty and Equality are two primary interests of a constitution. A constitution provides you with the right to liberty and right to equality. American constitution as well as Nepalese constitution confirms this notion. Critically speaking of law, law has been a reflection of the dominant classes and races. Traditionally too, conflicts are accused by dominant classes and races. Medically, these are all only about genetic disorders.
Lets draw our attention towards Critical Legal Studies CLS. CLS, itself draws its theories from other theories like economic, social, cultural etc. CLS argues that only wealthy and powerful uses the law. The disadvantaged are only convinced of justice and that is all they get! CLS was an outcome of law scholars of Realist School of Law, of Legal Realism. They showed up with a new theory "Realist Indeterminacy Thesis". It states that legal outcome is not a product of law-facts-precedents, as we have known normally; but statutes always drive it. Then 'Why a legal system exists?' CLS provides us with a possible answer that, it is important to have a legal system-a structure that makes people believe and thus decrease conflicts and reject notion of rights.
Why a Feminist Jurisprudence (Legal Theory) is there? FJ is a result of CLS. It was started from some 'Anglo American White women' (though it may have not represented the views of Blacks, then!). FJ express its views on laws of change – the way it should have been. There is a fundamental belief shared by all i.e. the law is written from a male point of view and it does not reveal women emotions and thus it disadvantages women. It is the law that expresses men and women to be different. The difference we are talking bout here is critical and needs our attention. The question of difference must itself be questioned. The difference is nothing but sophistication In Nepal, there is a rising question of change in the status of women. Why does such a condition exist? Isn't it a product of vested difference on our minds? We must analyse the difference and identify the false assumption of difference whilst we sore our throat for Gender Equality.
Difference Is Intrinsic – Not A Comparison
Assignment of difference is arbitrary. We are all different from each other but the level of difference on some specific characteristic is important i.e. negative. Why treat a female sex different from a male sex? Why can't we take it naturally? Sex, in terms of gender, should not be compared.
The Norm Need To Be Stated
There should be an appropriate problem in order to differentiate women form men. There should be a norm – a law, unless there is such, no one has a right to differentiate between the genders. Take for instance, 'pregnancy' as a matter of difference in U.S. One may lose her job if she gets pregnant during the period she has been working: it is justifiable because they have a law for it because they have a norm. Here, a clear difference can be seen. The difference is pregnancy in women and men. If we state 'pregnancy' we see a problem but if we say 'women' its not a problem.
A False Assumption – The Observer Can See Without Perspective
True reality exists. ' Come on, there is not out there all evil men!' Consider a judge who has not been married, who has not raised children, holds no household: His decisions on the subjects of marriage-divorce-children-household-alimony would never be like the way it really should be. One has to go through such circumstances on which the verdict is being given. Lecturer Yuvaraj Sangraula delivered a same example – there is a majority of Brahmins in the Supreme Court Judges: If a verdict were to be established on a case of a Brahmin v Dalit, the decision would surely be inclined towards the Brahmin sentiment. Same condition applies if a Muslim against a Hindu filed a case. The need here is a matter of perception by the bench: Go beyond the observation –what you have been seeing may totally be a false assumption. Do not focus on the problem; see beyond it- a solution lies there!
The Status Quo Is Natural, Not Coerced And Good
The theory is a product of CLS and hence reflects US examples only but it reveals the inner truth. Take for instance an American example again: Government changes things – Courts decide and there is always a huge uproar. A change can be a disruption for every person good.
E.g. Disabled people use wheelchairs to travel. They have got sidewalks, pavements for their safety. A matter of concern for them was noticed that it was difficult for them to go through steps in the sidewalks. The matter was taken to the court, soon it was decided that the steps in the sidewalks needed to be sloped for the benefit of disabled. A law was also passed. It was a change in Status Quo because it was natural, not coerced and good. The law was not made by a disabled nor was it passed by a disabled, even the jury had not disabled members. Others, as they always do, did raise a question of mobility!
CLS has always criticised that law benefits the Whites, as Blacks did not make it: as for Nepal, it is always said that law was made by Brahmins and hence does not reflect the sentiments of others. Accordingly, in Nepal, we are confronted with racial discrimination. Racial Discrimination itself is not a matter of difference to talk about. Racial Individuality is invisible considering that Sexual Individuality is visible. 'Invisible Ideology' applies for Critical Race Theory i.e. for Dalit – so called untouchables and deprived in the Nepalese Society. The matter to be considered is that Racism is not a matter of Biological differences. You cannot separate them from your sense of sight. Its what you have in your mind and its what they have in their minds too. There is no such actual difference between us in order to raise a question of difference among us. It is just a matter of perception through our minds. When we cannot see a difference feel a difference, we do not have a right to talk about the difference either. Isn't it time, we started ignoring such differences that really do not exist among us?


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Measure it and solve it
Would you like to become a special consultant in a large bank, or would you rather make the optimisation models that control electricity production in Scandinavia?
Are you considering a career in research, developing mathematical optimisation models that measure the productivity of the Danish health sector, or would you rather participate in designing computing systems that control the price determination of options?
Then the Mathematics-Economics programme is right for you.
Mathematics-Economics educates economists who use mathematics, computer science and statistics to analyse economic problems. The relations between the two fields are good. Mathematics makes great use of economics and vice versa. Also, you learn how to solve several types of complex problems and to think analytically and logically.


BART Rider Action Alert: State support for public transit at stake
BART Rider Action Alert: State support for public transit at stake
Dear Rider:
We at BART want to make you aware that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the State Legislature are considering permanently eliminating the very program that funds public transit. That program is called the State Transportation Assistance (STA) fund. They may slash these funds in order to once again address the ever-increasing state budget deficit.
Over the past two years, the Legislature and the Governor have diverted nearly $3 billion in transit money to the state budget shortfall, which in turn leaves us in a huge budget shortfall. This has occurred as transit ridership has increased in record-breaking numbers, in part because of high gas prices, traffic congestion and public's desire to fight global warming. Cutting transit programs is a terrible prescription for California just as historic laws urge people to use public transportation to meet greenhouse gas mandates.
Now is the time for MORE—not less—public transit.
BART has communicated the following requests to our state elected officials:
1. Maintain the $306 million STA funding level for the current budget year.
2. Oppose elimination of future transit funding.
3. Identify a secure source of transit funding to support long-term state and local goals.
These cuts are under consideration right now. If you have an opinion, contact the Governor and your state legislator immediately. Here's how:
State Assembly:
State Senate:


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From Wikizilla, the kaiju encyclopedia
The Psychovultures' scientific name, Vultura Insanus, comes from the word "vulture" and the Latin word insanus, meaning "crazy" or "insane."
Psychovultures resemble hairless bats, though they lack prominent ears or noses.
- Thermal vision
- Electrical blast from mouth
- Although the Leafwing is described as being a subspecies of the Psychovulture, the creatures' species names indicate that they belong to different genera entirely, with the Leafwing's genus being named as Icarus while the Psychovulture's genus is Vultura.


Yin Metal
Yin Metal is a jewel. Was born to be noticed, to shine and experience the bright side of the life. Yin Metals usually have a particular talent, ability and they strive to show this to the outside world. They came to this world to accomplish great things, to become special and to show their abilities and talents to the others. They love recognition and praise.
Yin Metals are very special, talented, creative, have a good sense of how to make themselves noticeable by others and how to make special even the most everyday things. Their physical appearance is very important to them. Most of the time Yin Metals achieve attention by others with two things. One is when they withdraw and want others to notice that they are withdrawn and other is when they actually take centre stage and show themselves.
If they don't have a good physical appearance they will draw attention to themselves in the mental plane (Stephen Hawking is one of the best example to illustrate this feature of Yin Metal).
Yin Metals set high expectations for themselves, want to prove themselves that they are better in certain areas than others, want to be proud of themselves and do everything possible to achieve this. This element will pursue lifelong learning.
They are very polite, elegant, friendly, easily find the common voice with everyone. They like culture, arts, try to avoid things which they consider to be beneath them. Those born with this element also like beauty and quality. No one endures harder deprivation, difficult circumstances than Yin Metals. They see through things very easily, have organised thinking, are gifted with very good intuition.
Most of the time Yin Metals make decisions calmly, don't interfere in things which they don't have anything to do with, except if their renown is affected. Yin Metals have very good interpersonal skills, kind and polite but if someone questions their reliability, competency and perfection will sink into emotional chaos and will make wrong decisions just to prove their own truth. For this element is very important what others think about them, want to appear in the best light in eyes of their friends and acquaintances. They want to be up to date with everything, mainly in those fields which are related to their work or hobby. Want to know the answer to every question related to their areas of interest. If they don't know the answer, they see this as a personal failure and will research until they will find it, for them this is a ''personal thing''.
One of their greatest strengths is their verbal abilities, their logic and reasoning abilities are also exceptional. They are that type of characters who are able to prove their own truth in every circumstance.
One of the most important thing to be remembered related to a Yin Metal person is to not confront them openly with their own mistakes or defects. Yin Metals always want to see themselves as perfect as possible and will never admit openly if they made a mistake or were wrong. If we have a problem with a Yin Metal it is better if we approach gently this problem without confronting them directly and always leave them a way of escape. The main thing is the message to go through, but not in a direct way. If a Yin Metal realises that they made a mistake, they will do everything to correct it but just in that way that we won't attack them directly with this mistake.
For Yin Metal is very important to show a picture of themselves to the outside world, that they are very competent in what they are doing, however sometimes if they get to a high position where they can shine they can become arrogant easily.
Being a Metal Element, Yin Metal seem cold, distant, unapproachable at first sight but in fact they are very sensitive and have a delicate soul. They don't like arguments, loud words, their soul is more noble than to participate in these. When they are faced with great pressure by the other party, they usually back out elegantly.
Yin Metal in relationships
Yin Metal seem at first cold and distant but if someone breaks through this unapproachable wall, they will find a very sentimental and romantic person. For this breakthrough, Yin Metal might need a long time though so the person who wants to conquer this element, will need a lot of patience.
Yin Metals are never pushy. They want their chosen one to be able to initiate and conquer them.
Respect and recognition are also their key words within their relationship. They await from their partner maximal respect and politeness and they will give the same in return. If they get these, they will stick to their partner through anything and everything. Yin Metal can't handle loud arguments and await praise from their partner as well.
The partner of Yin Metal should also never confront them directly with their own mistakes within the relationship. It is better to give them time to recognise their own faults and correct them rather than telling these straight to their faces. If someone does this they will talk themselves out anyway and will never recognise openly that they were wrong.
For a Yin Metal it is important to be able to look up to their partner. Their chosen ones appearance also bears a key importance. They see their partner as their own extension, if this person is messy and sloppy they will feels that these qualities determine them as well.
Yin Metal feels an instinctive attraction towards those people in whose chart can be found Yang Fire, Snake or Horse animal.
Work and career
Yin Metals are very creative, they approach everything from a different angle than the big majority. They will appreciate most that type of work where they will have the possibility to use their creativity. Yin Metals want to feel themselves special in their workplace as well as in their personal life, often striving to be in leading position. This element is not about the hard work, they are the strategist and planner rather than the implementer.
They good at outsourcing tasks to others, mainly those parts which they don't want to deal with. In order to achieve their dreams it is important for Yin Metal to understands that those things which they don't like and consider beneath them needs to be dealt with as well.
They are distant with their colleagues, never mix with those who are under them in hierarchy. Like to go out just with those who are at the same level as them or higher.
Don't tolerate dilettantism, bluntness and incompetency. For them is a must to always know the answer of those questions which their colleagues are asking from them. Yin Metal is inclined to rivalry in their workplace as well.
Yin Metal hate stressful, dirty, circumstances which are under their dignity, and put great pressure on them. They like to be in a place where they can create, plan, lead and achieve their goals in a way how they would like to.
Yin Metals are very good team players, they need a team beside them and they will achieve success the easiest if will cooperate with others.
Yin Metal child
Yin Metal children need to be praised and recognised the most from the ten elements. This will influence their confidence and success in their later life. If they don't get enough praise and attention they will do everything, including being naughty just to get the wanted attention.
Parents of Yin Metal children shouldn't deny the attention from their child because if they don't get this during their early years they will seek it desperately in adulthood and will tend to rival with others. They can build on attention received in childhood in their later life. This will help them to become more confident adults.
Yin Metals are driven by the feeling from their very young age that have a mission on this Earth, and that they are destined to do great things.
As a parent, Yin Metal sees their children and his all family as their own extension. It's very important for them to be proud of their children. They sometimes satisfy their own attention seeking through their own children. Yin Metal needs to be careful with this because not every child is born to shine and play act in front of audiences. If their child is impolite, ill-mannered, Yin Metal feel as a huge failure of their own. Yin Metal needs to recognise that they and their own children are separate individuals and their children's behaviours do not necessarily qualify them.
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