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Major Section: QUANTIFIERS
The following example illustrates the use of recursion as a means of
avoiding proof difficulties that can arise from the use of explicit
defun-sk). See quantifiers for more about
the context of this example.
; We prove that if every member A of each of two lists satisfies the ; predicate (P A), then this holds of their append; and, conversely.
; Here is a solution using recursively-defined functions.
(defstub p (x) t)
(defun all-p (x) (if (atom x) t (and (p (car x)) (all-p (cdr x)))))
(defthm all-p-append (equal (all-p (append x1 x2)) (and (all-p x1) (all-p x2))))


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Paths and cylinders
(∞,1)-category of (∞,1)-sheaves
Extra stuff, structure and property
locally n-connected (n,1)-topos
locally ∞-connected (∞,1)-topos, ∞-connected (∞,1)-topos
structures in a cohesive (∞,1)-topos
Simplicial presheaves over some site are
- Presheaves with values in the category SimpSet of simplicial sets, i.e., functors, i.e., functors ;
or equivalently, using the Hom-adjunction and symmetry of the closed monoidal structure on Cat
- simplicial objects in the category of presheaves, i.e. functors.
Interpretation as -stacks
Regarding as a model category using the standard model structure on simplicial sets and inducing from that a model structure on makes simplicial presheaves a model for -stacks, as described at infinity-stack homotopically.
In more illustrative language this means that a simplicial presheaf on can be regarded as an -groupoid (in particular a Kan complex) whose space of -morphisms is modeled on the objects of in the sense described at space and quantity.
Notice that most definitions of -category the -category is itself defined to be a simplicial set with extra structure (in a geometric definition of higher category) or gives rise to a simplicial set under taking its nerve (in an algebraic definition of higher category). So most notions of presheaves of higher categories will naturally induce presheaves of simplicial sets.
In particular, regarding a group as a one object category and then taking the nerve of these (the "classifying simplicial set of the group whose geometric realization is the classifying space ), which is clearly a functorial operation, turns any presheaf with values in groups into a simplicial presheaf.
Here are some basic but useful facts about simplicial presheaves.
Every simplicial presheaf is a homotopy colimit over a diagram of Set-valued sheaves regarded as discrete simplicial sheaves.
More precisely, for a simplicial presheaf, let be given by. Then there is a weak equivalence
Let be the canonical -enrichment of the category of simplicial presheaves (i.e. the assignment of SSet-enriched functor categories).
It follows in particular from the above that every such hom-object of simplical presheaves can be written as a homotopy limit (in SSet for instance realized as a weighted limit, as described there) over evaluations of.
First the above yields
Next from the co-Yoneda lemma we know that the Set-valued presheaves are in turn colimits over representables in, so that
And finally the Yoneda lemma reduces this to
Notice that these kinds of computations are in particular often used when checking/computing descent and codescent along a cover or hypercover. For more on that in the context of simplicial presheaves see descent for simplicial presheaves.
Applications appear for instance at
The theory of simplicial presheaves and of simplicial sheaves was developed by J. Jardine in a long series of articles, some of which are listed below. It's usage as a model for infinity-stacks was developed by Toë as described at infinity-stack homotopically.
- JardStackSSh – J. Jardine, Stacks and the homotopy theory of simplicial sheaves, Homology, homotopy and applications, vol. 3(2), 2001 p. 361-284 (pdf)
- JardSimpSh – J. Jardine, Fields Lectures: Simplicial presheaves (pdf)
For their interpretation in the more general context of (infinity,1)-sheaves see section 6.5.2 of

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text: How should we positively interact with others from all types of backgrounds in ways that acknowledge God's diversity in the world? What are effective ways to engage in cross-cultural collaboration endeavors that honor and respect the culture of those involved with our efforts? The principles of cultural humility, beginning with intentional relationship building, provide a framework that can guide our cross-cultural interactions and partnerships with others both locally and globally, in ways that respect both the culture and backgrounds of others. In this book, Eloise Hockett and John Muhanji share their unique experiences of cross-cultural collaboration using the principles of cultural humility, primarily in Kenya. From Mt. Elgon, to a village in rural Kenya, to working with teachers in schools, John and Eloise describe each project through the lens and perspective of an American and a Kenyan. Within these narratives, Eloise and John also share their journey of how they learned to engage and work with one another and learn from each other. John and Eloise believe their collaborative efforts incorporating the themes of cultural humility fully demonstrate how God can work through each person regardless of their cultural background, in order to carry out His plan in the world. ""At the heart of this book is a deep commitment by the authors to recognize and honor each other's cultures. The examples in this book are both encouraging and useful in themselves, but they also set principles that can be applied to other cross-cultural efforts. At a time when we think communication is becoming very easy, this book provides help when technology is not enough."" --David Brandt, President Emeritus, George Fox University Eloise Hockett has been involved in all areas of education for many years, most recently as a Professor of Education at George Fox University. Eloise is passionate and committed to justice and education for girls and women throughout the world. John Muhanj is the Director of the Africa Ministries Office of Friends United Meeting based in Kisumu, Kenya. John is committed to supporting leadership training and spiritual renewal in the Friends Churches throughout East Africa.


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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A common European crow (Corvus corone) having glossy black plumage.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The common crow of Europe, Corvus corone: so called because it often feeds on carrion. See cut under crow.
- n. The urubu or black vulture of America, Catharista atrata, a common bird of the southern United States, resembling the turkey-buzzard, and feeding entirely upon carrion.
- n. The common crow of America, Corvus americanus.
- n. A name of the European rook, Corvus frugilegus.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. the common European crow (Corvus corone) which feeds on carrion, insects, fruits, and seeds.
- n. See under Carrion.
- n. American vulture smaller than the turkey buzzard
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Young students are invited to explore the field of science and technology through real-life situations that have an impact on their daily lives. By following Waterphil and Conservictor and replicating their actions in the lab, students will see the significant differences between responsible water use and wasteful use. Includes a pairing activity, hands-on activities in the AquaLab and a rally in our permanent exhibit.
Schedule and Duration
The activity takes place every day, Monday to Friday. The Aquaconserv activity lasts for 2 hours. It takes place at the C.I.EAU.
Maximum of 60 students divided into two groups.
The C.I.EAU can accommodate up to 60 children simultaneously for this activity. Two groups are formed and directed towards two different sub-activities. Halfway through, the groups are switched so that all the students experience both the simulations and the activities at the AquaLab.
Rate for the Aquaconserv activity
$225 per group (non-taxable)
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Difference between Simple and Complex View in SQL
A View in SQL as a logical subset of data from one or more tables. Views are used to restrict data access. A View contains no data of its own but it is like a window through which data from tables can be viewed or changed. The table on which a View is based is called BASE Tables.
There are 2 types of Views in SQL: Simple View and Complex View. Simple views can only contain a single base table. Complex views can be constructed on more than one base table. In particular, complex views can contain: join conditions, a group by clause, order by clause.
Working of views:
When call view in SQL query it refers to database and finds definition of views which is already stored in database.
Then the DBMS convert this call of view into equal request on the base tables of the view and carries out the operations written in view definition and returns result set to query from which view is called.
The key differences between Simple and Complex types of Views are as follows:
Contains only one single base table or is created from only one table. |
Contains more than one base table or is created from more than one table.|
We cannot use group functions like MAX(), COUNT(), etc. |
We can use group functions.|
Does not contain groups of data. |
It can contain groups of data.|
DML operations could be performed through a simple view. |
DML operations could not always be performed through a complex view.|
INSERT, DELETE and UPDATE are directly possible on a simple view. |
We cannot apply INSERT, DELETE and UPDATE on complex view directly.|
Simple view does not contain group by, distinct, pseudocolumn like rownum, columns defined by expressions. |
It can contain group by, distinct, pseudocolumn like rownum, columns defined by expressions.|
Does not include NOT NULL columns from base tables. |
NOT NULL columns that are not selected by simple view can be included in complex view.|
In simple view, no need to apply major associations because of only one table.|
In complex view, because of multiple tables involved general associations required to be applied such as join condition, group by or a order by clause.|
CREATE VIEW Employee AS
SELECT Empid, Empname
WHERE Empid = '030314';
CREATE VIEW EmployeeByDepartment AS
SELECT e.emp_id, d.dept_id, e.emp_name FROM Employee e, Department d WHERE e.dept_id=d.dept_id;
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We got a few requests for a how-to on this situation: sometimes, after you replace your hard drive (and therefore copy the files from the old to the new drive), even if you pay attention to preserve the original file paths on the new drive, you see that the files (or the folders) start having this "disconnected" icon:
and if you try to open the files (or the folders), you are asked to insert the old drive, which does not exist anymore:
Why does this happen? Why does Tabbles not know that the files are now on the new drive? And what to do about it? This blog post answers these questions.
First, why does Tabbles not know about it? Well, to be fair, if you had moved your files with Tabbles or with Explorer, everything would be fine, meaning that Tabbles would have detected the move operation, and would have updated its internal paths and disk informations, so it would know that your files are now on the new drive. But since you copied the files to the new drive (or moved them while Tabbles was not installed), Tabbles does not detect the move operation. So it cannot find the files; the disk looks detached to Tabbles.
What is the solution? Unfortunately, for now, there is no point-and-click way to tell Tabbles that a disk has been replaced with another. The solution is to use Sql Server Management Studio to manually run a script. Here are the detailed instructions:
First, (if you are using Tabbles LAN) backup your tabbles.mdf database file, in case you make mistakes and need to restore it later. The location of this file will be something like:
C:/Program Files/Microsoft SQL Server/MSSQL11.SQL2012/MSSQL/DATA/tabbles.mdf
(the actual path depends on where you chose to install Sql Server).
Now we are ready to start.
First, you should take note of the new disk serial number, and the new disk size, as follows:
In Tabbles, locate the new drive in the side panel; right-click on the new drive, and choose:
folder menu > advanced > see which disk contains this file
Then a dialog will open, like this:
Take note of the disk serial number and disk size. These info are about the new drive (or, more precisely, partition).
Now we need to find the serial number and size of the old disk drive (partition). To do this, locate a file with the "disconnected" icon (by opening a tabble that contains it). Then right click the file itself, and choose "advanced -> see which disk contains this file":
And take note of serial number and size.
Now you know four values which we will call: OLDSERIAL, NEWSERIAL, OLDSIZE, NEWSIZE.
Now, intuitively speaking, we need to tell Tabbles the following: "Any file on a drive with serial number OLDSERIAL and size OLDSIZE must be changed to have NEWSERIAL and NEWSIZE".
If you are using Tabbles Cloud, write us at _EMAIL_, tell us the four values, and we'll do the change.
If, on the other hand, you are using Tabbles LAN, do the following:
open Microsoft Sql Server Management Studio:
In this login dialog, enter administrator credentials (the same credentials that you used to create the tabbles database in the first place). For that, it will most likely be sufficient to choose "Windows authentication", if you configured Sql Server so that your Windows user has super-user privileges. Else, you will need to choose sql authentication:
And you will need to write login and password of the super-user, which you defined when you installed sql server.
After login, you need to start a new query with this button:
And enter the following script:
use tabbles;
update [file]
where diskId = '§OLDSERIAL§OLDSIZE';
Of course, replace NEWSERIAL etc. with the actual values. So the actual query will look like this:
use tabbles;
update [file]
set diskId = '§0CED08AF§278768590848'
where diskId = '§AC4D085§451577638912';
then press the execute button:
And the change will be applied. Now you should no longer see the "disconnected" icon in Tabbles, and be able to open the files once again.
I hope this helps. Should you have questions following this tutorial, please feel free to comment here, or in the forum.
There are quite a few how-tos like this that we want to write. See you to the next episode!


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Using your flowchart and pseudocode from week 2, write a program that will calculate the cost of installing fiber optic cable at a cost of.87 per ft for a company. Your program should display the company name and the total cost.
Display a welcome message for your program.
Get the company name from the user
Get the number of feet of fiber optic to be installed from the user
Multiply the total cost as the number of feet times.87.
Display the calculated information and company name.
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Background: Trauma triage criteria have been in place for many years and were updated in 1999 by the American College of Surgeons. We are unaware of any studies that have directly examined the ability of these criteria to reduce short-term mortality by transporting patients to trauma centers rather than to noncenters.
Study design: Retrospective observational cohort study of adult patients meeting physiologic triage criteria who were transported to 9 regional (Level I) trauma centers, 21 area (Level II) trauma centers, and 119 noncenters in New York in 1996 to 1998. For each triage criterion and for one or more of the criteria, odds ratios and their confidence intervals for mortality in regional and area trauma centers versus noncenters and odds ratios and their confidence intervals for mortality in regional centers versus area centers and noncenters were used to measure performance.
Results: Patients in regional trauma centers had considerably lower mortality than patients in area trauma centers and noncenters for two individual triage criteria and for patients with one or more triage criteria (odds ratio, 0.75; 95% CI, 0.63-0.90 for one or more criteria). Also, patients with head injuries who were treated in regional centers had notably lower mortality than patients in other hospitals (odds ratio, 0.67; 95% CI, 0.53-0.85).
Conclusions: In New York, regional trauma centers exhibit considerably lower mortality than area trauma centers or noncenters for adult patients meeting specific physiologic triage criteria. It is important that population-based trauma systems with data from centers and noncenters be developed for the purpose of evaluating and redesigning trauma systems.


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These are some excerpts taken from the book
"Fair is the Place" about early Cape Breton life.
Notes for RANALD MACDONALD:
Most of what follows is taken from "Fair Is The Place", by Mildred and
John Colin MacDonald of Judique, Nova Scotia.
Ranald MacDonald (Pioneer) was born on Eilean Shona, Scotland, on the
Baillie farm there. He was the son of James of Baillie and he followed
his father and brother Alasdair to Canada about 1796. Ranald was
probably married when he emigrated but his wife's name is unknown, and
unfortunately, nothing more is known of her. When Ranald came out to
Nova Scotia, he was more than likely accompanied by his wife and also by
his brother, Donald Ban. They probably landed at Pictou and then made
their way to the Arisaig area of Antigonish County where they would have
met up with other brother Alasdair (1730 - 1820's) and his family. No
doubt, their father James was either dying or already dead when they
arrived, so this must have saddened them. In 1798, Ranald and his family
crossed over to Long Point, Cape Breton, where he took up 180 acres just
south of his brother Alasdair's grant. Ranald's name and his son James
both appear in the 1818 census of Cape Breton.
In the years that followed their initial settlement, the "Clann Sheumais"
MacDonalds of Judique (named for James of Baille) developed a reputation
as strong fighters. Their men were considered proud and because they
were so often of such massive stature, they were rarely challenged
Notes for RANALD MACDONALD:
Ranald was of the first generation of our ancestors to be born in
Canada. When his generation came of age, there was no place left along
the shore to establish their homestead, so they were forced to clear the
lands in the back and build their homes there. So it was that Ranald and
Sarah settled in Rear Centennial where, it is believed, they built their
house in the 1820's. Ranald took over the property originally granted to
his brother James. Their house was built all of wood and there wasn't an
iron nail used in its construction. The house never know the luxury of
running water or electricity. There was not even a water pump in the
kitchen. Water had to be drawn from the well outside.
At some point in time, Ranald gave a half of his land to his son John
and the other half to son Joe and they, in turn, raised their own
families next door to each other along the Centennial Road.
Ranald and Sarah had seven children, four boys and three girls. Sarah
was born in Scotland in 1812 and was listed as a widow at age 59 in the
1871 census and head of house.
27. RANALD MACDONALD (JOHN, RANALD,
RANALD, JAMES OF
BAILLIE, DONALD MÓR, ALAISDAIR,
IAIN OG, IAIN
was born 1872 in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and died July 10, 1938 in
Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He married MARY JANE CHISOLM January 10, 1909
in St Paul's Church, Dorchester, Mass., daughter of ALLAN CHISOLM and
Notes for RANALD MACDONALD:
fishing to farming and so he tried to spend most of his time in pursuit
of the former. As a result, most of the farm chores were left to Mary
Jane, the children, and an occasional hired hand. Ranny, not unlike many
other men from the rear, would leave his home on Sunday night and not
return until Saturday evening. He would walk the five miles or so to the
shore where he had a shack equipped with a bed and a stove. He would
take with him provisions for a week's stay. He fished mostly for
lobsters from a dory in the waters in and around St. George's Bay.
Ranald, his wife, Mary Jane, and their family were the last of their
people to work the farm in Rear Centennial. Life on the farm had been
extremely harsh and difficult but because everybody around them lived
under the same conditions, the difficulties of everyday life were hardly
considered unusual. The farm was self-sustaining and, in spite of the
long, severe winters, there was usually ample food and wool to feed and
clothe a large family.
Mary Jane didn't leave the property for good until sometime in the
mid-sixties. By this time, most of the people had stopped farming for
their livelihood and had moved into newer homes with modern conveniences
closer to the main road, (Route 19).
One of the first ancestors to emigrate to
the United States below.
(JOHN, RANALD, RANALD, JAMES OF BAILLIE, DONALD MÓR,
ALAISDAIR, RUAIRI, ALAISDAIR, IAIN OG, IAIN MUIDEARTACH,
ALAISDAIR) was born 1874 in Centennial, CB, NS, and died February 7,
1944 in Portsmouth, NH. She married JAMES (SHEMAN GOUL) MACDONALD May
10, 1893 in Immaculate Conception Church, Portsmouth, NH, son of DOUGALD
MACDONALD and CATHERINE MACDONALD.
Notes for MARIAH MACDONALD:
Mariah MacDonald m.
James MacDonald on May 10th, 1893 at the Church of the Immaculate
Conception, Portsmouth, N. H. She was one of at least eight children
(four boys and four girls) born to John MacDonald and Catherine
MacEachern. She was born in the house believed to have been built by her
grandfather Ranald in the early 1820's. Her father was a farmer as were
all their neighbours and their house was located on the Centennial Road
between her uncle Joe's place on the south (her cousin, Mary Jess
O'Brien's family), and the MacInnis farm (more cousins) to the north.
Her husband, James, was known by his Gaelic nickname, "Sheman Goul"
(i.e., Jimmy, son of Dougald). He was the grandson of Peter and Margaret
MacDonald and the oldest of at least twelve children born to Dougald and
Katherine MacDonald of Creignish Rear and they lived on a farm at the
northeast quadrant of the crossroads in the Rear. However, when the
Empire census was taken in 1891, James was listed as a fisherman while
all his siblings were enumerated as farmers. James was the first of his
family to emigrate to the States. Local tradition has it that he
captained a fishing boat out of Gloucester, Mass. We know that his
brother Roderick (Rory) settled in Gloucester and he had at least one
son, Douglas, who visited Portsmouth a number of times. His brother, Dan
H., (the sixth son and eighth child), remained in the Rear and ran a
grocery store and post office at the crossroads.
According to Ann MacDonald Burke, Mariah's niece and daughter of Ranald,
James went off to the States to find work. When he was established, he
sent home for his young bride to be, Mariah, who was then nineteen years
old. They lived most of their years together at 30 Burkitt Street just a
few houses away from her sister, "Katie Bill" O'Brien. He died in N. H.
in December, 1943; she in early February, 1944.
Notes for JAMES (SHEMAN
James MacDonald m. Mariah MacDonald da. of John (Ranald) MacDonald and
Catherine MacEachern of Rear Centennial. (See pg. 399 Fair Is The Place
by Mildred and John Colin MacDonald). James was the only one of his
family listed as a fisherman. Local oral tradition has it that James
captained a fishing boat out of Gloucester, Massachusetts and when he
had enough money settled in Portsmouth, New Hampshire where he married
Mariah and raised his family. See also Notes on Mariah MacDonald.
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|Abstract Title:||Quantification of fugitive dust emissions from bulk solids managing activities in ports|
|Session Choice:||Fence line monitoring & measurement of fugitive/diffuse emissions|
|Presenter Name:||Dr Vicenta Sanfelix|
|Co-authors:||Dr Irina Celades|
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|Company/Organisation:||Instituto de Tecnologia Cerámica|
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Activities developed in ports can entail the generation of atmospheric emissions that can affect the health of people living in nearby communities, as well as contributing significantly to regional air pollution problems. The major air pollutants related to port activities include particulate matter from bulk solids managing and shipping emissions.
In the case of bulk solids managing, the fugitive emissions, those that are pollutant releases that are not discharge into the air from a somewhat disperse area or volume, are a major environmental issue.
The relative importance of fugitive emissions in bulk solids terminals and in certain industrial activities has induced the quantification of fugitive particulate matter emissions and it is becoming increasing priority. However, the experimental measurement of fugitive emissions of particulate matter entails inherent complexity because they are usually discontinuous, of short duration, may be mobile, and are affected by weather conditions, so specific information in this regard is scarce.
Despite this complexity, a dispersion model that enables satisfactory dispersion calculations was developed. This consists of numerically solving the pollutant transport equation, while incorporating the Monin-Obukhov similarity theory. By using this numerical approach, in contrast to Gaussian dispersion models, wind shear effects and plume meandering were accounted for directly. The developed model is considered sufficiently flexible to realistically model fugitive PM sources.
Source inversion by dispersion modelling of air pollutants requires field campaigns in which the relevant pollutant concentrations, in this case PM10, are measured at a sufficient number of points and resolution (ranges from seconds). Weather data, such as high-frequency wind speed, friction velocity, and sensible heat flux, were also needed as model inputs. Finally, a detailed characterization of the sources at issue was performed.
The model is applied to field campaigns determining specific PM10 emission factors for several fugitive sources: raw materials loading and unloading at bulk solids wharves and truck circulation. These sources were studied under actual operating conditions. Different raw materials were handled during the experimental campaigns. A physical characterization (the particle size distribution, specific surface area, and Hausner ratio) of these materials was studied, in order to evaluate the influence of some parameters of the material on the dustiness.
The dispersion model developed, and the methodology proposed for carrying out the experimental campaigns have allowed to obtain PM10 fugitive emissions factors satisfactorily.
The studied materials were found to exhibit significantly different fugitive emissions under the handling operation conditions used. These differences cannot be explained in terms of generic emissions factors. These limitations suggest more accurate quantification of fugitive PM emissions is needing to enable identification of the most problematic operations in order to select appropriate corrective measures.


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over the image on the browser menu (Edit : Browser menu in case your SuperMemo menu pops up). Press Esc to make sure you are not pasting back to the HTML component. Paste the image from the clipboard to create a separate image component. This component will proliferate in incremental reading to provide your texts with context. Alternatively, and more conveniently, you can use Download images (Ctrl+F8) to do the same on selected pictures embedded in the article
Proliferating remote images in incremental reading
Storing pictures on remote servers is a great idea but they do not proliferate as in SM2000. Can I have proliferating pictures in image components and still keep them on the remote server?
You can have remote pictures proliferate in incremental reading, but you will not use image components for that purpose. Instead, define an additional HTML component and paste the picture from the main text to the newly added HTML field. That field will proliferate in incremental reading and the picture will still be loaded from the remote server
Wrong highlight on Extract
(Beta, Wed, Feb 27, 2002 17:14)
When I select text and click the "extract and memorize" button on the Read toolbar, sometimes the text is not marked with color. It is extracted, however
This is a know problem in SuperMemo 2002. This problem occurs more frequently in rich articles that include tables, multimedia, or remote pictures. Please experiment with HTML filters to resolve this problem in most cases. SuperMemo alleviates the trouble by detecting cases where the document does not load entirely. A prompt message is displayed: "Wait until document loads"
Learning : Review does not work
(Beta, Marcus, Brazil, Sat, Mar 23, 2002 18:46)
I created some extracts and tried to work with them by choosing Contents : Process branch : Learning : Review. Unfortunately it did not work. Why?
Review will consider all elements except dismissed elements and those elements that have already been processed on this particular day. The latter condition makes sure that you can do a comprehensive review in various subsets without duplicating your work on a given day. If you return to the same branch on the next day, the mid-interval review will be possible again
Marking extract with source references
(Beta, 2/27/02 10:33:56 PM)
How does reference tracking work?
Choose options from the Reference menu in the source article to tag the title, author, date, etc. Those tags will then propagate at the bottom of each extract and cloze. Hover your mouse over the Reference link button in the element toolbar to quickly see the reference in longer extracts. Click the same button to go to the source or parent elements
One character selections in cloze
(Beta, Rob, Sun, Feb 17, 2002 14:27)
Why is the last character selected when extracting a cloze?
On one hand it indicates which keyword has just been processed, on the other, selections make it possible to use Enter to move to the next element in repetitions
Enter on selections resumes repetitions
(Beta, Sean, Australia, Fri, Feb 22, 2002 15:46)
It is annoying when I select some text in RTF or HTML component and press Enter. Instead of putting a new line, SuperMemo automatically begins repetitions
This behavior is by design. Enter is your default key used when progressing through the learning cycle. After choosing Cloze or Extract, Enter does not replace the selection in the editor. Instead, it makes it possible to continue the repetitions. Although using Del and Enter instead of just Enter in these circumstances may seem non-standard, you will quickly find this key indispensable in learning. Situations when you use Enter on a selection for editing are by two orders of magnitude less frequent than the typical situation when you proceed with repetitions after using incremental reading tools
Creating cloze deletions contributes to the learning
(Luis, Brazil, Monday, December 18, 2000 9:05 PM)
Do you think it is possible to develop a routine to automatically create cloze deletions from a given extract?
Even with a dose of artificial intelligence, such a routine would not be of much use due to semantic redundancy and quite a bit of effort that needs to be put in reformulating texts in incremental reading. More importantly, spotting keywords for cloze deletions is the first step in committing the learning material to memory. Eliminating this step would negatively affect learning. Last but not last, converting text to quality cloze deletions is the best part of incremental reading that adds spice to learning and builds motivation. Automatic cloze generator would thus align itself with quick-fix tools (such as sleeping pills, caffeine pills, or diet pills)
Fastest way to change the current category
(Beta, Thursday, March 14, 2002 9:32 AM)
What is the fastest way to change the current category?
You can use Ctrl+Alt+C shortcut or keep the Tools toolbar in view in your layout. In incremental reading, you are more likely to add all your material to your one "To Do" category that stays current all the time. Then you use Category combo in Element Parameters (Ctrl+Shift+P) to incrementally move items to target categories once the items have been completed
Problems with Cloze
(Beta, Mohammad, Pakistan, Thursday, February 28, 2002 4:02 PM)
1. I have a topic "With cloze you AUTOMATICALLY generate answers" 2. I select Cloze 3. I get: Q: With [...] you AUTOMATICALLY generate answers - [...] (RED) A: Cloze
Probably you have applied Cloze twice. The second time it was executed on an item that was a cloze question itself
A-Factors and text length
(Beta, Sat, Mar 16, 2002 8:11)
If I have read a paragraph from an article and set a read-point, will SuperMemo automatically modify element's A-factor with a new value (i.e. the length of the whole article minus the length of the paragraph I have just read)
No. Text length is only used to heuristically propose an A-Factor at import time to free the user from the need to think about A-Factors. The "intensity of reading" will provide a way of prioritizing on its own: the faster you read, the lesser the chance your article will drift to remote intervals. However, once you use Ctrl+Shift+R or Ctrl+J to reschedule the article (e.g. if its interval increases too fast), SuperMemo will notice that action and adjust A-Factor accordingly. Naturally, there is no hard science behind those adjustments. They have been worked out by trial and error. It is also up to the user to get "the feel" of incremental reading to truly understand the consequences of reading vs. postponing a given piece of material
A-Factors of extracted elements will differ
(SuperMemo R&D (Beta), Tue, Apr 09, 2002 12:13)
I extracted some texts using Remember extract a couple of times and each time A-factors were different
A-Factors are basically derived from the length of the text. Long articles will get a very low A-Factor (e.g. 1.1) while short extracts will get a high A-Factor (e.g. 2.9). A-Factor will also be slightly modified depending on the length of the first interval. As intervals are always slightly different from the optimum interval, A-Factors will also differ slightly. For more, read about interval dispersion in the discussion of SuperMemo Algorithm (for example, see Random dispersal of optimal intervals section here)
Some HTML files are kept as plain text in registry
(Beta, Romania, Feb 17, 2002)
I have some HTML component texts that I tried to located on my hard disk with "Find in file". But some files cannot be found. Why?
HTML texts that include no formatting are converted to plain text to save space. These are not kept as HTML files but are part of the text registry only. You will not find them with "Find in file" unless you search through registry files
"To Do" Extract
(Beta, Sweden, Sun, Feb 17, 2002 14:27)
I would like to see the option: "To Do Extract"
All article extract procedures can be considered "To Do". Only the prioritization method differs. You can prioritize via the pending queue, via the learning process or via a tasklist. In the pending queue, extracts are processed FCFS (first come first served). On tasklists, extracts can be prioritized by value/time ratio. However, the best way of prioritizing article extract is via incremental reading (Remember extract). Only this method provides for dynamic prioritization, i.e. extracts are methodically reprioritized depending on the progress and outcome of reading
Customizing cloze font
(Beta, 2/27/02 10:17:58 PM)
Is there a way to customize the font used to mark text taken out for cloze deletions?
You could define a default template for the category in question and check Auto-Apply for that category. If your template uses plain-texts, you can affect the font used for questions and answer in cloze deletions
Default word processor
(Beta, Mon, Feb 25, 2002 18:22)
On the Read toolbar, Default word processor button is not responding
You need to have an Edit association created in your Windows registry for the file format of the currently selected component. If there is no association, the command will be


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Madonna of the Trail Statues - Missouri
In the late 1920's, the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) commissioned the design, casting and placement of twelve memorials commemorating the spirit of the woman pioneer. These memorials were placed along the route of the National Old Trails highway and extended from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles, California.
The idea for the Madonna of the Trail Monuments began in 1909 when some Missouri women wanted to mark the Santa Fe Trail. Later, the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) joined their effort. The groups began working side by side with the National Old Trails Road Association which was headed by then Judge Harry S Truman, of Independence, Missouri. That highway closely approximated the paths of Braddock's and Washington's Road, the National Road, Boone's Lick Road, the Santa Fe Trail, and the Old Trail. The road ran from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles. When a plan to place 3,095 mile markers failed, the group elected to place monuments in each of the state through which the highway ran.
The monument itself was conceived by Arlene B. Nichols Moss, of St. Louis, Missouri. Moss was inspired by a statue of Sacajawea that stood in Portland, Oregon. On September 7, 1927, the group selected a statue of a pioneer woman clutching two small children and a rifle.
The statue was sculpted by August Leimbach and cast in an amalgam of crushed granite, stone, marble, cement and lead ore. The statue stands ten foot tall and weighs over five tons.
The statue sits on pedestal that measures five foot by five foot by six foot high and weighs twelve tons. On the pedestal are inscriptions dedicated to national and regional history. The front face of each pedestal reads:
N.S.D.A.R. MEMORIAL TO THE PIONEER MOTHERS OF THE COVERED WAGON DAYS.
The back face of each pedestal reads:
THE NATIONAL OLD TRAILS ROAD
The pedestal sits on a foundation that sits three feet underground and two feet above.
Five of these monuments are found along the shoulder of Route 40.
Here links to the Madonna of the Trail statues found along the National Old Trail Highway.
For more information:
Feedback: Do you have corrections or contributions for this page? Want to make a suggestion? Click here to send me an e-mail. I am espcially interested in memories, stories, postcards and photographs. Thanks!
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I am trying to bind a variable in this prepared statement, but i keep receiving the error:
Call to a member function bind_param() on a non-object
//CALL FROM PAGE ONE
//FUNCTION ON PAGE 2
$DBH = getDBH();
$qSelect = $DBH->prepare("SELECT * FROM users WHERE username =?");
as the error-message says,
$qSelect seems to be not an object. try to debug this by using
var_dump($qSelect); right after your prepare-call. also check if
getDBH() returns what you need.
sounds like the prepare-call fails (don't know why) and so it returns
false is not an object, so you can't call
bind_param() on that.
EDIT: you havn't given the info, but it looks like you're using PHP's PDO. In that case, take a look at the documentation.
If the database server successfully prepares the statement, PDO::prepare() returns a PDOStatement object. If the database server cannot successfully prepare the statement, PDO::prepare() returns FALSE or emits PDOException (depending on error handling).
You should configure your server to return those PDO-Exceptions, which would tell you why the prepare call fails.


The Chinese Wonder Woman is not Mulan
[Hanfugirl Pre-International Women's Day Special]
Pretty sure 99% would immediately think of Mulan when you think of mapping a Chinese figure to Wonder Woman–Disney did a great job in telling her story but there's actually no real proof that she really existed in history (not that Wonder Woman does of course). Guess what, Fact is sometimes more amazing than Fiction. There was actually a real person who lived over 3000 years ago in China, who embodied everything that Mulan stood for in terms of female empowerment, and more.
Her name is Fu Hao (妇好). Or Lady Hao. She was an empress, a general, and a high priestess.
Her story was recorded on oracle bones of over 3,000 years ago in Shang dynasty China. Possibly the earliest Chinese female general to be recorded in writing. In fact, she was likely to be the one who wrote on those oracle bones as well since she was the high priestess tasked to conduct oracle bone reading ceremonies.
fuhao engraving oracle bone
Similar to Wonder Woman whose identity is that of half mankind half goddess, Fu Hao was also seen as someone who was able to communicate with the other realm, therefore, tasked to lead large rituals and religious ceremonies on behalf of the emperor. If you've been following my Sailormoon series, the idea of a matriarchal society or women being seen as a powerful medium between heaven and earth, the spirit and the physical world in ancient China would not come as a surprise to you.
The ancient Chinese worshipped the deer and the earliest jade artefact that has deer totem originated from the same period as Fu Hao–the Shang dynasty. As such, I thought it fitting for the iconic Wonder Woman tiara to be taking the form of a deer totem in the case of Fu Hao. After all, deers were seen as the ancestors of women by the ancient Chinese societies. They were deemed as embodying the spirit and the mystical powers of female/mothers. Wonder woman's tiara adorned with a red star was a symbol of her status as Princess of Paradise Island, so it is fitting that I swap the deer for her red star in my recreation of Fu Hao as Wonder Woman (or Wonder Woman as Fu Hao).
Deers were also worshipped and admired for their swiftness and for their combat capability using their powerful antlers.
Remember Princess Mononoke? The powerful spirit was in the form of a deer.
Then there's the Lasso of Truth which Wonder Woman created many powerful moves of great destructive powers with. I have equated that to the jade thumb ring for archery which was unearthed at Fu Hao's tomb with very interesting engravings that bear a certain resemblance to the totems from the Amazonian culture. Some credited Fu Hao for the invention of the thumb ring in archery. It was meant for the Asian way of archery which pulls the string of the bow back using the thumb instead of the European way which uses the fingers. The use of a thumb ring can protect the user's thumb from the large tension that's built up, and apparently allows greater flexibility while riding a horse–that's also why it is popularly also known as the Mongolian technique because they continued using it.
The thumb ring is a non-living proof that Fu Hao commanded armies, fought amongst her men, and was an extremely formidable warrior herself. Based on records from the oracle bones, she fought many battles in her lifetime and conquered many lands for her husband-emperor.
There are two holes at the bottom which were meant for strings to go through with the other end secured to her wrist so she could take the ring off and put it back on easily. Replica of the artefact made from a bone.
Like wonder woman who is believed to live eternally, the Shang dynasty emperor also thought of his empress to have continued living after her death. The physical form of Fu Hao sustained injuries and was in a poor state after many battles. She died at the age of about 30 years old. But to the Emperor, her spirit continued to live and he conducted several ghost marriages for her to be married to the past ancient emperors with the hope that her spirit would continue to watch over his land and him through such marriage alliances.
This is all the more important because Fu Hao was the high priestess who not only hosted many important rituals for the state and country but also was seen as a spirit medium who could decipher the wills of heaven and spirits through the reading of oracle bones.
I'd liked to imagine that Wonder Woman might have been one of her reincarnations, or perhaps, she continued to live on in different forms throughout different periods in history, wearing different dresses and with different identities (not unlike Wonder Woman who adopted a new identity as Diana Prince and lived through the world wars until present day with no sign of aging).
Wonder woman's main colour schemes are the 3 primary colours and black and white, which coincidentally was the corresponding colours of the 5 elements in ancient Chinese beliefs. This colour scheme was exceptionally popular during Ming dynasty (the red and blue combination), and I adapted the Ming dynasty dress for this shoot.
I also particularly liked the latest movie's Wonder Woman in her blue gown with a gorgeously dangerous weapon tucked behind. Of course, logistical reason first– The Tang dynasty dress is the only one that I can think of that somewhat resembles the gown she wore, and also so happens I have a similarly coloured Tang dynasty dress and top!
But more than that, Tang dynasty is yet another era in (relatively) recent Chinese history that has a slight burst of matriarchy. It was a period where powerful queens were present in many cultures all over the world, not only in China (I've written about it with slightly more details here). The style of cleavage showing dresses were believed by academics to be an influence which the Chinese took from India and ancient Greece. Apt isn't it?
Particularly, I thought that having the arrows tucked behind would be a nice and relevant visual reference to the sword. Also, just in case you are wondering, it is not that hard to tuck something behind your back if you have a strong enough dress… or tying technique. 😉
Quiver and Arrow, Java, Early 1800s. Collection of the British Museum on loan to the Asian Civilisations Museum as part of this exhibition. It was a very advanced and civilised culture even before the British colonisation of this region, thus such fine crafts and materials were able to be crafted. I've not seen any quiver this exquisite in Chinese culture (maybe I'm not familiar with the history of archery), although gold quiver was found in around 400BCE in the Greek tomb of Philip II.
I visited the Raffles in Southeast Asia exhibition at the Asian Civilisations Museum recently and came across this set of arrow and quiver collected by Raffles (ok I didn't know that this is the term for the arrow holder until today–see! Always learn new things!), but I can definitely imagine that in an alternate universe, the Wonder Woman Fu Hao could be having something like this at her back for her arrows!
I wish there was more information about this quiver but guess we'll never know.
Of course, we still love Mulan the animation, and I am also anticipating the release of the actual action film when it's out. But in all honesty, I would think that Fu Hao is a much closer equal to Wonder Woman than Mulan. After all, she didn't need to pretend to be a man in order to fight for her country. She was glorified as a woman, and her gender was the source of her empowerment instead of a liability as in the case of Mulan.
In all honesty, if Mulan existed and she got found out that she actually deceived the emperor, not only would she be persecuted, her family would be implicated too. I am actually in the midst of another project research and preparation that talks about gender neutrality in ancient China… So stay tuned (still finding my last model!).
Yes, Yes, I'm always experimenting with new mediums and ways of expressions. Fun for me, fun for you!
I've been doing the East meets West, Old meets New Hanfu series the past year and was recently given the challenge by Our Grandfather Story to find the Chinese equivalent of Wonder Woman. The video should be out soon (I've seen the draft, and am lovin' it!)
As I mature, I realised the importance of representation in media on one's cultural pride and identity. And since we can't possibly wait around for Hollywood and Disney to do that for Asian culture, especially since they don't always get it (not their fault, it's not easy), I figured that I could have fun adapting it on my own. Bearing in mind that superficial looks is just one part, the knowledge and history is what can last for much longer.
Since International Women's Day is around the corner, this is going out to all women–you can be anyone you want, anyone you dream of, if you just believe (such motherhood statement I realise, but hey, that's a special privilege as a woman I guess!)!
Don't wait for others to define you!
[Apparently the correct ancient pronunciation of her surname Hao好, is supposed to be Zi 子–taking the right side of the word.]
OK here's the full video by the Old Grandfather Story folks!
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Hillside Home School
Hillside Home School was the renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright's first major design. Built in 1886, this was a boarding home for children who received their education in the same building. It was located in rural Spring Green, Wisconsin.
This project was financed by Frank Lloyd Wright's aunts, Jane and Nell Lloyd-Jones, who founded this coeducational school based on a new approach of "Learning by Doing." Frank Lloyd Wright, who was himself homeschooled, supported the apprenticeship model and ultimately converted this school to one for architects in 1928, more than a decade after it had closed.


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damber (plural dambers)
- (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) A rascal; a dishonest person; a man belonging to a criminal gang.
- 1994, Scott, Amanda, Dangerous Illusions, →ISBN:
- Happen we seen there was a damber in the ruffmans, and since we'd no yen t' deck the chates, we'd ha' binged a wast but for the rhino we was promised.
- 2010, Berne, Eric, What Do You Say After You Say Hello?, →ISBN:
- The gallows laugh is the dying man's joke, or famous last words. As already noted, the crowds of spectators at Tyburn or Newgate hangings in the eighteenth century used to admire people who died laughing: 'I was the capper, see,' says Daniel Then. 'We had the cull all set up and then something went wrong. The others got away but I got nabbed, ha ha ha!' And 'Ha, ha ha,' roars the crowd in appreciation of the jest as the trap is sprung, 'the damber died game.'
- [Francis Grose] (1785), "Damber", in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: Printed for S. Hooper, […], OCLC _PHONE_.
- "damber" in Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant, volume I (A–K), Edinburgh: The Ballantyne Press, 1889–1890, page 293.
- Farmer, John Stephen (1891) Slang and Its Analogues, volume 2, page 249
- Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang. Routledge, 1973. →ISBN.


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post #21 of 25
I really think this is *so* dependent on the specific situation: on the languages used and on the personalities and talents of the parents and children.
I kind of agree with Taqah that 'just speaking' with one parent will usually not be enough for fluency. (Eclipsepearl I'd say that frequent trips to English-dominant areas fulfilled that extra-reinforcement need for your kids.)
I also think that the differences between languages are quite important. Teaching a widely used language like English or Spanish is a different ballgame than trying to teach a less common one. Availability of media (books DVDs etc), availability of speaking communities for exposure, and obvious motivation for the children to learn (vs the backlash of language rejection bc it is 'not-cool' to speak the language of your funny-sounding immigrant parent) are huge.
Also teaching a language that has many commonalities/cognates with the community language is different than teaching one with a totally different alphabet, grammar and vocab.
Eg a kid with one Spanish-speaking parent who is growing up in the US in a neighborhood with lots of Latinos might well become fluent with no more effort required from the parent than just using the language consistently. Another kid growing up in the same neighborhood with one Croatian parent... not so much.
post #22 of 25
Definitely going places where English is spoked have helped but it would have been possible without. We didn't spend enough time on each visit to make a huge difference but it helped psychologically. They often made slight improvements after each time but our language success was not solely dependent on those visits.
My children would still be fluent in English, even if we hadn't made so many trips, because that's the only language we use on a daily basis together. I personally know quite a few families where the child is fluent in only one parents' language.
Remember too, we are talking about the ability to speak the language. The example you gave of a Croatian child, perhaps growing up in N. America, would be a good example. They still can be fluent, if the Croatian speaking parent is consistent and tries to expose the child to the language through other mediums (books, DVD's, Skype, etc.)
The new technologies are really making this task so much easier! No more hunting down English language cassettes (just switch the DVD) and communication with friends and family is so much better than just 10 years ago.
If you took that child and placed him directly in a Croatian language school in Croatia, probably he would not be able to pick up the material right away nor would test at age level. I know mine would have difficulty if we suddenly moved to the States.
Most international parents at least make a few visits, if not, family come to visit them (especially in say, a refugee situation). Where I'm from, there are a lot of people originally from Iran. Their children still speak Farsi, even with only one parent from there but visits to that country are out of the question. So it's actually rare to have a child completely isolated from the culture and people of that language (although I'm sure it exists, I don't know any cases like that).
So success, if you measure it by the fact the child speaks the language, is possible. You may not have a completely, equally bilingual child as you would if you, for example, lived in Southern California or Texas and spoke Spanish. My kids don't have the level of vocabulary or the writing ability of American children their age. They also make mistakes children their ages wouldn't, but they speak English with an American accent. New words and writing ability are something that can be worked on later on.
The advantage children have when little is to learn to speak another language without an accent, without relying on their stronger language to communicate. I may have to listen to a whole minute of "the thing that you use to...that looks like..." because she doesn't know what an egg timer is called in English but she's explaining it without an accent in English.
post #23 of 25
I think it best if the both of you speak in your mother tongues to your children. They have an opportunity to grow up being trilingual. To this day I regret that my parents did not do this but instead just spoke English with me.
post #24 of 25
Originally Posted by Eclipsepearl View Post
You certainly can't just expect to speak a language to your child and expect that this will be enough.
LoL! I actually did just this. I spoke only English and always English to them. They were in normal French schooling. I did have plenty of videos, English language toys, books and we made frequent trips to the U.S. and England to reinforce it. I also joined organizations and participated in events, even if it was just to show them I wasn't the only one who spoke English in the world!
I only speak English to them, in public, in front of my non-English speaking parent. We're not rude and it's usually obvious what we're saying We don't have big conversations in front of French speakers and often switch to include anyone when we do say something interesting/funny/important.
I did put my kids in local schools. While it's a bilingual program, it's French and German. Only my son has had to take English and not until he was 10. He's kind of bored. Many think we're nuts but it worked. They're trilingual! Their English is not as good as their French but not far behind. None have accents.
So OPOL with only one person speaking the minority language can work. I have three little proofs of my efforts. You just have to stick to it.
Ditto to everything. Except my kids are only with me about 30% of the time, so they really have only one person in their life to speak English with (and learn English from) and not everyday by a long shot. (although when they were little, they were with me nonstop and heard English and learned to speak in English ahead of their other two languages).
Anyway, OPOL definitely works. My kids speak both of the local languages (their school is in Swedish which is a minority language in Finland, but their dad is part of that minority) as well as English, all fluently, and without an accent.
I strongly feel that you should conduct your relationship with your child in your mother tongue, period. My dad did not (he's from Iran), he just spoke English to me, and I have always wished he had spoken Farsi with me, as my Farsi is weak at best now that I don't have his mother around to speak with anymore (my grandmother never picked up English so she taught it to me when I was little). I think it really sucks to have a relationship with a parent with a language barrier between us.
To the OP, the only way to teach Russian to your child (if you are his only source of exposure to the language) is to be a purist about it. If you want him to learn English, it will need to be from elsewhere.
post #25 of 25
Had to laugh when I read that. Not to get OT but I know a guy here in France. He uses Swedish with the kids but since they're not growing up in Finland, they're not learning Finnish. So funny how they have to constantly explain that they're Finnish citizens but speak... Swedish lol!
I took Scandinavian Politics in college and they talked about the Swedish minority in Finland. It's held up as a model example of the treatment of a minority group... Anyway, when I met him, I saw him start to explain and I popped in with "Oh you're Swedish minority Finn!" and the look of relief that he did not, yet again, have to explain it all...
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National Day is a special day for people to celebrate their country every year. Most countries have National Days, usually national holidays, and people do not go to work or school. In many countries that used to be colonies, National Day is called Independence Day because it commemorates the day they got rid of the old empire. In other countries, such as China, the National Day commemorates when the old government of the country was changed to a new government. In the past, the birthday of a king or emperor was often seen as the National Day.


text: "The Pansiya Panas Jathaka Potha" is the most populer and respectable Buddhist story book in Sri Lanka which was written in the Ancient period of Kurunagala. The book was based on a Pali book named "Pali Jatha Katha" This book is well famous in both local and foreign Buddhist society. The content of this book guided people to understand the value of a proper life and directed them to a successful and a correct path. Also it explained the Co-immorals of the society with 547 meaningful stories. The was used from the common people to well educated society in the past. The chanting techniques of this book is so unique in Sri Lanka, because of lack of protected communication methods to the modern generation, we have been loosing the traditional chanting styles. Therefore through his research Ven Bibiladeniye Mahanama thero has identified the traditional chanting style of Jathaka Katha and self -inflicted contribution to conserved this with a total number of 547 stories as a digital audio format with a record keeping about 513 hours with a participation of more than 100 Buddhist monks. Finically Sponsored By Mr. Nesli Ranjith.


The BBC: as transparent as a dirty pond
The BBC won't tell us what's in the pond so let's take a closer look at that shopping trolley.
The BBC won't tell us what's in the pond so let's take a closer look at that shopping trolley.
I've made quite a few attempts recently to get information out of the BBC. It has generally been a frustrating experience, which it shouldn't be when you consider that the BBC are publicly funded and are therefore subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000, and that one of the challenges set for them by the BBC Trust is to "set new standards of openness and transparency". You might also think that after all the recent revelations of child abuse by BBC employees, not to mention deeply flawed journalist work on Newsnight, that they would be really keen to open their hearts and minds and answer questions from the public on any topic. But no.
The metaphor that came to mind to describe the BBC's 'transparency' was 'a dirty pond'. One so dirty that you cannot see what is happening in the water. Don't worry, this isn't leading to puns about the BBC being fishy. It does however lead to a strategy with which to challenge the opaque BBC. Just like a dirty pond, you can build up a picture about what goes on beneath the surface at the BBC by analysing what floats up to the surface. Or as the BBC prefer to call it, "their output". This is not a new idea of course – people have been demonstrating how the BBC routinely omits news stories and other content that doesn't support the establishment or the mainstream patriarchal view for some time. But it's an idea I'm going to run with in future posts.
I'll leave you with two examples of BBC opaqueness:
1. Anyone who has ever FOI'd the BBC will be painfully familiar with "Part VI of Schedule 1 to FOI Act" which "provides that information held by the BBC and the other public service broadcasters is only covered by the Act if it is held for 'purposes other than those of journalism, art or literature'" The BBC loves this exemption and has spent the equivalent of thousands of license fees defending challenges to it in court… But while expensive lawyers can prove the legal argument, is it ethically defensible to use that exemption to avoid answering questions like this:
 How do you ensure that the "extensive network of correspondents around the globe and trusted press agencies" who "alert newsroom editors to news developments" are operating free from bias…?
Shouldn't the BBC be keen to display the processes it has in place to make sure its output is bias free?
2. The BBC, unlike many other public sector organisations, spurns the "citizen journalist". Approach their press office with a well-drafted, polite question, as a member of the public working on a CJ basis and they will ignore you. A certain irony in that I thought. Especially as many journalists fire ill thought out questions at public services as part of 'story-gathering' – questions they never use the answer to and which therefore waste public money in the asking.
Now, let's have a good look at that shopping trolley.
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 An area I'd like to know more about is: how do they select the journalists who cover foreign countries? Are language skills crucial? How is knowledge of the local culture assessed? A few years ago, I remember the Paris correspondent (sorry, I can't remember his name) being asked whether he spoke French fluently when he took the job. His reply was: "I do now." Which of course suggests that he brushed up his French on the job. I also remember when some Leicester City footballers were accused (falsely) of rape in Spain. The BBC journalist couldn't speak Spanish and was dependent on Spanish journalists telling her in English what was happening. We have one of the most diverse cultures in the world, with people who speak the language and know the culture of most countries in the world. However, when something occurs in India or China, almost always there is a white person, probably private school and Oxbridge, covering the event. Skin colour is of course notin itself the issue. The issue is that that person does not speak the local language and does not have any real knowledge of the country.
 When John Simpson was recently on BBC fivelive, he announced his 'sneaking kind of liking' for Saddam Hussein. I find it alarming that a senior BBC correspondent should find a mass murderer attractive and it possibly suggests that John misses having a tyranny to go with his own egomania.
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As a widely utilized phenomenon, condensation heat transfer is deeply related to the efficiency of energy utilization in industry. In recent decades, the condensation of vapor mixture attracted extensive attention, since the possibility to achieve high performance of heat transfer. During the condensation of some binary vapor Marangoni condensation), a special phenomenon was discovered that the spontaneous movement of condensate drop occurred. It was observed that condensate drops moved from the low temperature region to the high temperature region on a heat transfer surface. Therefore, the surface tension gradient induced by the temperature gradient was considered as the driving force. However, another affecting factor on the spontaneous movement of condensate drops, the direction of vapor flow, was also discovered. In this study, the experimental study was performed, and the results showed that the condensate drops tended to move towards the inlet direction of vapor flow.
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Objective: The present study aimed to explore client-therapist congruence in helpfulness evaluations session-by-session and its association with therapy outcomes. As suggested by West and Kenny's truth and bias model, we constructed congruence as both temporal congruence (i.e., the correlation between therapists' and clients' helpfulness judgments over time) and directional discrepancy (i.e., the average difference between therapists' and clients' helpfulness judgments). Method: Seventy-eight clients were treated by 22 experienced therapists within a 12-session course of integrative psychotherapy. At the end of each session, clients and therapists rated their perceptions of session helpfulness and, at the beginning of the next session, clients rated their own psychological functioning. Results: Therapists' and clients' helpfulness judgments were temporally congruent across treatment, and therapists' judgments were lower than those of their clients. Moreover, we found that therapists' negative directional discrepancy, but not temporal congruence, was associated with improvement in clients' psychological functioning as well as with clients' global treatment evaluations. Conclusion: Our results highlight the importance of therapists' vigilant assessment of session helpfulness in a course of brief integrative psychotherapy. As such, they strengthen the importance of further research regarding client-therapist congruence (in different aspects of the therapeutic process) and its association with therapy outcomes. Clinical or methodological significance of this article In this study, we found that therapists' tendency to provide lower session-helpfulness assessments than did their clients was associated with better therapeutic outcomes. These results may highlight the importance of therapists' cautious and humble stance when assessing their perception of session helpfulness across treatment.
- process-outcome research
- truth and bias model


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The Spectrum Analysis Solution (SAS) System: Theoretical Analysis, Hardware Design and Implementation
AbstractThis paper describes a multichannel super-heterodyne signal analyzer, called the Spectrum Analysis Solution (SAS), which performs multi-purpose spectrum sensing to support spectrally adaptive and cognitive radar applications. The SAS operates from ultrahigh frequency (UHF) to the S-band and features a wideband channel with eight narrowband channels. The wideband channel acts as a monitoring channel that can be used to tune the instantaneous band of the narrowband channels to areas of interest in the spectrum. The data collected from the SAS has been utilized to develop spectrum sensing algorithms for the budding field of spectrum sharing (SS) radar. Bandwidth (BW), average total power, percent occupancy (PO), signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR), and power spectral entropy (PSE) have been examined as metrics for the characterization of the spectrum. These metrics are utilized to determine a contiguous optimal sub-band (OSB) for a SS radar transmission in a given spectrum for different modalities. Three OSB algorithms are presented and evaluated: the spectrum sensing multi objective (SS-MO), the spectrum sensing with brute force PSE (SS-BFE), and the spectrum sensing multi-objective with brute force PSE (SS-MO-BFE). View Full-Text
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Narayanan, R.M.; Pooler, R.K.; Martone, A.F.; Gallagher, K.A.; Sherbondy, K.D. The Spectrum Analysis Solution (SAS) System: Theoretical Analysis, Hardware Design and Implementation. Sensors 2018, 18, 652.
Narayanan RM, Pooler RK, Martone AF, Gallagher KA, Sherbondy KD. The Spectrum Analysis Solution (SAS) System: Theoretical Analysis, Hardware Design and Implementation. Sensors. 2018; 18(2):_URL_ Style
Narayanan, Ram M.; Pooler, Richard K.; Martone, Anthony F.; Gallagher, Kyle A.; Sherbondy, Kelly D. 2018. "The Spectrum Analysis Solution (SAS) System: Theoretical Analysis, Hardware Design and Implementation." Sensors 18, no. 2: 652.
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ocusing on the first option, there is a drop-down menu that gives you control over the electrode group for which you'd like to view the results. The screenshots illustrate just some of the customized plots and advanced plotting functionality that you can incorporate into apps.
Left: The electric fields around the electrodes. Right: The electric fields on the finger.
Scrolling through this list, you can see how each electrode has a potential applied to it in turn, just like a real touchscreen device. For some sets of results, you can even observe the characteristic disturbance of the finger, which bodes well for your sensing device. The Deformation option is particularly visually appealing, applying a height to the electric field plot that is proportional to the magnitude, giving you the ability to take in the results at a glance.
Adding a deformation to the electric field can make the results even clearer.
Extracting the Capacitance Values
You will also find a plot of the capacitance values between each electrode pair included here. It may look daunting initially, but there is no need to worry. We'll show you how you can set up features to extract such data in a more compact and useful format.
When you return to the Command Console, select the Matrix Table button. Through a handy Export button, you can save the capacitance values as a table in an external file. This is far more amenable to subsequent data crushing for setting up the touchscreen control software and, with the Copy Table and Headers to Clipboard button, it is possible to move your data quickly between programs.
As explained in the blog post we referenced earlier, there are two different types of capacitance matrix: the Maxwell Matrix and the (Mutual) Capacitance Matrix. While the Maxwell Matrix is the one computed automatically by COMSOL Multiphysics, the (Mutual) Capacitance Matrix is often the one of interest in touchscreen design. The latter type is generated in our example app via a method — a demonstration of how you can add advanced functionality to apps to get exactly the results you need.
A Final Time Saver
Another feature, which may have already caught your eye, is the Report button. This option can be used to automatically generate reports based on the simulation results from the app. Whether you need your results for further consideration or want to generate some images for a presentation to the project leader, reports can serve as a helpful resource.
With just one click, you can produce a report in HTML or Microsoft® Word software. The report automatically generates a table of contents, while noting all of the relevant model parameters, its setup, and the key results. You can choose the additional contents and the level of detail that are included beyond that.
Learn More About Apps and Their Role in Touchscreen Technology
- Download the app presented here today: Touchscreen Simulator
- Read about how Parade Technologies is designing apps for touchscreen devices in this blog post
- Looking to get started on creating apps of your own?
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Chapter 16. Internationalization, localization and themes
16.1. Internationalizing your app
16.1.1. Application server configuration
16.1.2. Translated application strings
16.1.3. Other encoding settings
16.2. Locales
16.3. Labels
16.3.1. Defining labels
16.3.2. Displaying labels
16.3.3. Faces messages
16.4. Timezones
16.5. Themes
16.6. Persisting locale and theme preferences via cookies
Seam makes it easy to build internationalized applications. First, let's walk through all the stages needed to internationalize and localize your app. Then we'll take a look at the components Seam bundles.
A JEE application consists of many components and all of them must be configured properly for your application to be localized.
Starting at the bottom, the first step is to ensure that your database server and client is using the correct character encoding for your locale. Normally you'll want to use UTF-8. How to do this is outside the scope of this tutorial.
Each user login session has an associated instance of java.util.Locale (available to the application as a component named locale). Under normal circumstances, you won't need to do any special configuration to set the locale. Seam just delegates to JSF to determine the active locale:
It is possible to set the locale manually via the Seam configuration properties, and, but we can't think of any good reason to ever do this.
It is, however, useful to allow the user to set the locale manually via the application user interface. Seam provides built-in functionality for overriding the locale determined by the algorithm above. All you have to do is add the following fragment to a form in your JSP or Facelets page:

 element of the JSF configuration file (/META-INF/faces-config.xml). However, you have learned to appreciate that Seam's component configuration mechanism is more powerful than what is provided in Java EE. For that reason, you can configure the supported locales, and the default locale of the server, using the built-in component named To use it, you first declare an XML namespace for Seam's international package in the Seam component descriptor. You then define the default locale and supported locales as follows:
Naturally, if you pronounce that you support a locale, you better provide a resource bundle to match it! Up next, you'll learn how to define the language-specific labels.
JSF supports internationalization of user interface labels and descriptive text via the use of . You can use this approach in Seam applications. Alternatively, you can take advantage of the Seam messages component to display templated labels with embedded EL expressions.
Seam provides a java.util.ResourceBundle (available to the application as a org.jboss.seam.core.resourceBundle). You'll need to make your internationalized labels available via this special resource bundle. By default, the resource bundle used by Seam is named messages and so you'll need to define your labels in files named,,, etc. These files usually belong in the WEB-INF/classes directory.
So, in
And in
You can select a different name for the resource bundle by setting the Seam configuration property named org.jboss.seam.core.resourceLoader.bundleNames. You can even specify a list of resource bundle names to be searched (depth first) for messages.
If you want to define a message just for a particular page, you can specify it in a resource bundle with the same name as the JSF view id, with the leading / and trailing file extension removed. So we could put our message in welcome/ if we only needed to display the message on /welcome/hello.jsp.
You can even specify an explicit bundle name in pages.xml:
Then we could use messages defined in on /welcome/hello.jsp.
There is also a session-scoped instance of java.util.Timezone, named, and a Seam component for changing the timezone named By default, the timezone is the default timezone of the server. Unfortunately, the JSF specification says that all dates and times should be assumed to be UTC, and displayed as UTC, unless a timezone is explicitly specified using . This is an extremely inconvenient default behavior.
Seam overrides this behavior, and defaults all dates and times to the Seam timezone. In addition, Seam provides the tag which always performs conversions in the Seam timezone.
Seam also provides a default date converter to convert a string value to a date. This saves you from having to specify a converter on input fields that are simply capturing a date. The pattern is selected according the the user's locale and the time zone is selected as described above.
Seam applications are also very easily skinnable. The theme API is very similar to the localization API, but of course these two concerns are orthogonal, and some applications support both localization and themes.
First, configure the set of supported themes:
Note that the first theme listed is the default theme.
Themes are defined in a properties file with the same name as the theme. For example, the default theme is defined as a set of entries in For example, might define:
css../screen.css
template /template.xhtml
Usually the entries in a theme resource bundle will be paths to CSS styles or images and names of facelets templates (unlike localization resource bundles which are usually text).
Now we can use these entries in our JSP or facelets pages. For example, to theme the stylesheet in a facelets page:
Or, when the page definition resides in a subdirectory:
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The locale selector, theme selector and timezone selector all support persistence of locale and theme preference to a cookie. Simply set the cookie-enabled property in components.xml:


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The International Order of Alhambra is a fraternal organization of Catholic men and women (age 18 years and older) dedicated to assisting persons that are intellectually disabled or handicapped.
The Order's mission is to:
- Provide assistance, education and residences for persons developmentally disabled;
- Identify, mark, preserve, and commemorate Catholic historical places, events and persons of international importance;
- Promote fraternalism and sociability among its members and their families.
The International Order of Alhambra focuses its primary efforts on providing assistance to persons intellectually disabled through its charitable programs and projects. It perpetuates Catholic heritage through its Historical Memorials program, an initial purpose and goal of the Order. And, the Order places emphasis on fraternalism and sociability to provide a cohesive force of human and financial resources to achieve its purposes.
As a Catholic organization the members of the Order coordinate their efforts and assistance programs with respect the respective Bishops under whose auspices such activities may fall – to accomplish the following for persons intellectually disabled, and to:
- Provide assistance to private schools chartered to serve the needs of persons intellectually disabled so that they may serve their students in need of both secular and religious special education and vocational training.
- Provide assistance to establish residences for persons with developmental disabilities, and to provide assistance to respite care facilities and programs for their parents, giving preference to private or public projects endorsed by Catholic Bishops.
- Provide assistance through the Order's scholarship program to educate undergraduate students studying to become special education teachers, and provide assistance to persons engaged in giving care and comfort to persons developmentally disabled.
- Provide human and/or financial resources to enhance the quality of life for persons intellectually and developmentally disabled by participating in programs and activities like Special Olympics; recreation, field day programs and summer camps; field trips, boat rides, zoo trips, circus trips, picnics, Christmas parties, dinner dances, etc.
The Historical Memorials program has existed from the founding days of the Order of Alhambra, as reported in the foreword of "The Order of Alhambra: Its History and Its Memorials," by Reverend Vincent A. Lapomarda. In there it is noted "…just as the very name of the Order recalls a crucial turning point in the history of religion and culture among the Catholics of Europe, so Alhambra was founded to perpetuate the glorious moments in the history of religion and culture among Catholics in North America."
Accordingly, to this day, a major purpose of the International Order of Alhambra is to identify, mark, preserve, and commemorate Catholic historical places, events and persons of international importance. Over 180 such memorials have been established in Canada and the United States. A registry of these memorials and their locations is maintained by the Headquarters Office permanent staff.
Fraternalism and sociability are dominant characteristics of the International Order of Alhambra. These characteristics are specifically identified in one of the purposes of the Order, i.e., "To promote social, fraternal and intellectual associations and through its Caravans provide a practical means to form enduring fellowship and friendship among its members." These characteristics of the members of the Order are perpetuated to provide camaraderie and enjoyment while raising funds to achieve the Order's goals and objectives of assisting persons with intellectual disabilities.


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text: stoilis writes "A collaboration between Deborah Gordon, a Stanford ant biologist, and Balaji Prabhakar, a computer scientist, has revealed that the behavior of harvester ants, as they forage for food, mirrors the protocols that control traffic on the Internet. From the article: 'Prabhakar wrote an ant algorithm to predict foraging behavior depending on the amount of food – i.e., bandwidth – available. Gordon's experiments manipulate the rate of forager return. Working with Stanford student Katie Dektar, they found that the TCP-influenced algorithm almost exactly matched the ant behavior found in Gordon's experiments. "Ants have discovered an algorithm that we know well, and they've been doing it for millions of years," Prabhakar said.' The abstract is published in the Aug. 23 issue of PLoS Computational Biology."