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Math Lesson ("Systems of Equations")
by Julie Poth: Elementary Science TSA
Pinellas County School District, Largo, FL
Students look at the total costs of rows and columns of whooping crane
food items and figure out how much each food item costs.
Students will explore logical reasoning using unknowns in studying
systems of equations. Students will use logical thinking instead of guessing,
checking, and revising.
out the Meal Deal handout
(1 per student). Also make a transparency of it to use on an overhead
projector. Each of the 9 squares on the handout contains a picture of
a meal worm, bowl of crane chow, or bunch of berries, all of which are
part of the Whooping Crane diet.
Note: The project costs are not actual costs. They
were adapted so the numbers were manageable for students.
the students that the total costs for each row or column is recorded
at the end of each column and row.
that each food item: meal worms, crane chow, and berries -- costs a
specific amount of money. Their goal is to look at the rows and columns
and figure out how much each of the food item costs.
- Ask the
students to look at the rows and columns and put an X on the one row
or one column they think would be the easiest to use to figure the cost
of one food item. Ask them to explain why they chose the ones they did.
will most likely identify row 3 with the three crane chows. Since the
total cost for three crane chows is $15, each crane chow must cost $5.
3 x? = 15. If the students can't explain this, guide them to
- The students
now have a piece of the puzzle to begin solving a system of equations:
They know that the crane chow cost $5. Ask, How can you use this
information to determine the cost of the meal worms or berries?
around the room to observe how the students are solving each element.
When they have determined the cost of the meal worms and the berries,
ask them to explain how they did so. After one student identifies how
he or she solved the problem, ask if anyone used another method.
Have the students design their own 3 x 3 Square Systems of Equations.
Meal Deal handout; teacher questions and observations


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Origami cranes lift spirits of patients and staff
Borrowing from the ancient Japanese legend that promises good luck and healing to those who fold 1,000 origami cranes, the UC Davis Department of Radiation Oncology is now festooned with the tiny paper birds.
The crane-folding project was introduced to the busy cancer center clinic by oncology nurse Terri Wolf, who had learned of the custom from a Japanese friend.
"All I did was fold the first crane," she said. "Everyone in the department got involved -- academic faculty, clinical staff, receptionists and therapists."
Making a paper crane requires 25 folds and, once mastered, takes about five minutes.
In addition to their beauty, the cranes, and the efforts to make them, became a healthy distraction that has proven beneficial for both patients and staff, she said.
"Patients come in ask about them, and it gives us a chance to tell them the story and to get to know them a little better," she said. "Sometimes, I would sit in the exam room and show them how to make a crane. It would give me time to talk to them, and it was relaxing for the patient."
The crane legend was made famous in the book "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes," a story about Sadako Sasaki, a Japanese girl who got leukemia as a result of radiation exposure after the bombing of Hiroshima during World War II. As the story goes, she folded 644 cranes before her death in 1955. In the book's version of events, her friends completed the cranes and buried all thousand cranes with her.
Many radiation oncology patients and family members have contributed to the crane-making project, including a 10-year-old who filled a grocery sack full of cranes in support of her cousin, a patient. Staff members also took part. The department's receptionist, Margie Carrillo, brought the paper home and spent the weekend with her children making cranes.
Crane-making featured prominently at this year's Cancer Survivors' Picnic, where volunteers taught all-comers the origami art.

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Animal colors board books
Printing paper: white cardboard
Process: four-color printing, rounded design, thick cardboard
Animal colors board books are suitable for children aged 0-5 years old.
Animal colors board books are designed according to the shape of the animal. The child remembers the animal characteristics by touching and flipping. Interesting drawing, vivid color matching, attract children's attention, improve reading cognitive interest.
High-quality prepress ctp system, providing accurate outlets, which is the basic guarantee of good printing result.

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An introduction to mechanized reasoning
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review
Colleges, School and Institutes
Mechanized reasoning uses computers to verify proofs and to help discover new theorems. Computer scientists have applied mechanized reasoning to economic problems but–to date–this work has not yet been properly presented in economics journals. We introduce mechanized reasoning to economists in three ways. First, we introduce mechanized reasoning in general, describing both the techniques and their successful applications. Second, we explain how mechanized reasoning has been applied to economic problems, concentrating on the two domains that have attracted the most attention: social choice theory and auction theory. Finally, we present a detailed example of mechanized reasoning in practice by means of a proof of Vickrey's familiar theorem on second-price auctions.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)26-39
Number of pages14
JournalJournal of Mathematical Economics
Early online date18 Jul 2016
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2016
 - mechanized reasoning, formal methods, social choice theory, auction theory


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Deadly Sea Snakes: Alike But Not The Same
December 3, 2012
The lethal beaked sea snake is actually two species which separately evolved to give identical snakes.
AsianScientist (Dec. 3, 2012) – Researchers from Australia and Indonesia have discovered that the lethal beaked sea snake (Enhydrina schistosa) is actually two species with separate evolutions, which resulted in identical snakes.
Senior author Associate Professor Bryan Fry from The University of Queensland said the Australian and Asian beaked sea snakes were originally thought to be from the same species, however, in comparing their DNA, the research team had found these two snakes were unrelated.
Analyses of five independent mitochondrial and nuclear loci for populations spanning Australia, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka indicate that this 'species' actually consists of two distinct lineages in Asia and Australia that are not closest relatives.
The finding, published recently in the journal Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution, is an example of a situation where two species evolved separately but ended up looking similar – a phenomenon known as convergent phenotypic evolution, says Fry.
Convergence in the characteristic 'beaked' morphology of these species is probably associated with the wide gape required to accommodate their spiny prey, he explained, as both species occupy the same specialized habitat of silt-filled shallows of tropical estuaries throughout the Asian and Australian regions.
The beaked sea snake is also responsible for the large majority of recorded deaths and injuries from sea snake bites.
Fortunately, the only available sea snake anti-venom available – raised against the Malaysian E. schistosa – is also effective against the new Australian species.
"This mixup could have been medically catastrophic, since the CSL sea snake antivenom is made using the venom from the Asian snake based on the assumption that it was the same species," said Fry. "Luckily, the antivenom is not only very effective against the Australian new species but actually against all sea snakes since they all share a very stream-lined fish-specific venom."
The Asian snake will retain the original name Enhydrina shistosa, while its Australian counterpart has been elevated to species status and is provisionally referred to as Enhydrina zweifeli, which identifies the region in New Guinea where it is found.
The new snake will be placed in a separate genus to the true Enhydrina genus in a follow-up publication that will resolve the complex higher order relationships of sea snakes.
Source: University of Queensland.
Disclaimer: This article does not necessarily reflect the views of AsianScientist or its staff.


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Purebred Bulls from James J. Hill
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Today marks the death date of James J. Hill, the railway magnate who took a great interest in building up North Dakota. He died in 1916. One of the ways he helped the state develop was by promoting diversification on farms. Wheat had been the foundation of Dakota agriculture, and Dakota wheat flowed to flour mills on Hill's Great Northern Railway, bringing great wealth to President Hill.
But Jim Hill told North Dakota's farmers that they needed to diversify – to plant other crops that could replenish the soil; and to raise cattle and hogs and other livestock for the manure to fertilize fields. Hill believed that cultivating a single crop was "like trying to play the fiddle on one string... the music is not very good."
In an 1885 letter to O.C. Carpenter of Inkster, James J. Hill wrote: "I do not believe that the farmers of North Dakota are doing the best thing for themselves by growing wheat exclusively" and he told Carpenter of his plan to distribute "one hundred thoroughbred bulls" in the region "with the idea of helping those who are unable to help themselves."
Hill sent agents to Scotland to buy the very best Angus and Shorthorn bull-calves and shipped them to selected farmers to improve the quality of livestock in the Northwest. Among those in the Red River Valley who got a bull in June of 1885 was James E. Sullivan. Farmer Sullivan accepted the gift of a shorthorn bull named "Front Rank," a one-year old, born in Scotland in 1884. Sullivan could have the bull, free of charge, for a "period of four years," so the bull would father calves for a high-quality beef bloodline. All that Farmer Sullivan had to do was to "carefully attend" to the health and feeding of the high-class bull.
President Hill offered to give ten bulls to Traill County farmers that same year. How well did Mr. Hill's bull distribution program work out? Well, he ended the free bulls program in 1890, because of the "ingratitude shown by the farmers generally," for most of the bulls were sold and butchered and eaten when the farmers had a bad crop year.
Nonetheless, the purebred bulls that James J. Hill "sent out among the farmers" in the 1880s was a noble effort that "greatly increased the quality and value" of the beef cattle in North Dakota... and that's 'no bull.'
Dakota Datebook written by Dr. Steve Hoffbeck, History Department, MSU Moorhead.
SOURCES: Hill's death on May 29, 1916:"J. J. Hill is Sinking; Death may be Soon, Report from Bedside," Minneapolis Morning Tribune, May 29, 1916, p. 1; "Death of James J. Hill Removes Financier, Builder of Railroads and Master Mind in Development of the Great Northwest Empire," Minneapolis Morning Tribune, May 30, 1916, p. 4.
Sullivan in Grand Forks Herald, June 26, 1885.
"Grand B.B. Distribution" Grand Forks Herald, June 20, 1885.
"Editorial Notes," Grand Forks Herald, January 31, 1885.
"Business Men Enjoy Steaks of Blooded Steer," Minneapolis Morning Tribune, March 8, 1914, p. 1.
"James J. Hill Offers Some Good Advice To Ward County Farmers," Ward County Reporter, September 30, 1909, p. 4.
"James J. Hill to O.C. Carpenter, Inkster, D.T.," P.M. & M.RY Letterbook, 8, (2/14/1885-6/15/1888), p. 71, in James J. Hill Papers, James J. Hill Reference Library, St. Paul, MN.
"Lewis Bond to James J. Hill," General Correspondence by Date, 28 December 1899, in James J. Hill Papers, James J. Hill Reference Library, St. Paul, MN.
"Bulls—Toomey to Anton Ziebl," General Correspondence, 15 February 1899, in James J. Hill Papers, James J. Hill Reference Library, St. Paul, MN.


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FORGED is an exhibition where Lyra Garcellano postulates several arguments:
1) the valuation of creative output,
2) issues on authenticity and its implications to a work's financial viability, and
3) generated images as goods for trade.
In a period when art forgeries abound, Garcellano employed an artist/worker (whose skills include imitating images of popular Philippine genre paintings and selling them to households) to replicate four of her past paintings. She then added to the equation by painting the certificates of authenticity for each of his replications.
These painted versions of the certificates (added documentation to paintings/art objects that determine their worth) come in two forms: one from its source gallery where the original paintings were first sold and the other, from where the replicated pieces are currently exhibited.
Included in this cycle of repeating images are the accompanying exhibition catalogues of the original works(themselves generated images of the actual paintings) on which the worker based his copies. These catalogues also provide details, such as how the originals look, from which historical series they were part, and the actual size of the works.
What meanings are lost and what are presented by these reproduced images?
What will diminish or boost an artwork's value?
What and who will determine its worth?
These are just some of the questions that FORGED wishes to explore.


Why is it warmer In Summer?
Oddly enough the earth is about 3,000,000 miles nearer to the sun in our northern winter than it is summer. Yet it is much warmer in summer. The reason are not caused by different distances from the sun, but by the slant of the earth's axis as it moves around the sun.
Scientists have learned that the Equator of the earth is tilted 23 1/2 degrees to the path of the earth around the sun. As the earth moves around the sun, the earth's axis always points in the same direction, towards the North Star.
For this reason, during part of the year the North Pole tilts towards the sun and part of the year away from it. When the North Pole is inclined towards the sun, the Northern Hemisphere has its summer. When the North Pole is inclined away from the sun, the Northern Hemisphere has its winter.
In the southern Hemisphere these seasons are reversed. The difference in weather with the season occurs because the sun's rays are more slanting in winter and less slanting in summer. Slanting rays produce less heat for two reasons. One is that they scatter their heat over a larger area of the earth's surface.
The other is that they lose more of their heat in passing through the atmosphere. Other factors, primarily water, land, and altitude, help regulate the climate. Water has a stabilizing effect and helps prevent great changes in the temperature.
Land does not store up heat (the way ocean does), so big temperature changes can take place over large land areas. Air grows less dense with altitude, the lower the temperature.
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Food Storage In An Eco-Friendly Manner
Food Storage In An Eco-Friendly Manner: Food preservation is a top priority for everyone who enjoys cooking at home. It is also a source of concern for those who prefer buying large quantities of food, perhaps enough to last a week or a month.
Knowing how to effectively preserve food can provide you with the following benefits:
1. It will enable a balanced diet while keeping the nutritional value of the food.
2. It reduces kitchen waste and prevents food from deteriorating.
3. Food preservation also prepares you to cook or serve in an emergency.
4. It also helps prevent food-borne diseases caused by harmful bacteria, insects, or rodents.
5. It gives you the courage to buy in quantity, which saves you money.
6. It will make seasonal food available throughout the year.
7. It increases the shelf life of the food.
On our shelves, however, we keep products in plastic containers, plastic wraps, plastic bags, and various sorts of plastic storage. Plastics of all kinds have entered our lives, and we have chosen to ignore the environmental repercussions.
Fortunately, there are several alternatives to using plastic to store food. They are still less priced, contain fewer chemicals, and have beautiful designs.
Here are some suggestions for healthful, eco-friendly food storage:
1. Mason jars: Mason jars are reusable containers that come in a variety of sizes. They can be used to store both fresh and dried items. They can also be used to keep ready-to-eat meals. We usually buy jam in mason jars. Empty bottles can be used as storage containers because their surfaces do not absorb colours, germs, or odours. They are safe to use in the freezer and the oven. With this container, there is no risk of harmful substances entering our food.
2. Glass food storage containers: These are convenient for eating directly from. It's ideal for small portions that you want to microwave and consume right away. Some are waterproof because they are made of toughened glass. Tempered ones, which are available in a variety of colours and designs, are a perfect choice for any child's school lunch.
They are suitable for use in the oven, freezer, dishwasher, and microwave. Because it retains the stench of the old food, a glass container does not produce the bad-smelling odour that plastic containers do. Although more expensive than plastic, it will last longer if handled properly. It's beautiful because it's completely recyclable, which means it's good for the environment.
Wraps made with beeswax Reusable cotton sheet and beeswax wrapping. They are used to cover food and are similar to plastic wrap. They can be tastefully constructed to be moldable, allowing you to push them over the surface of the plate or food item to be covered. A wonderful choice for sandwich lovers or those who prefer to transport food in plastic or aluminium foil. They are also biodegradable and do not leave a sticky residue when washed.
They're easy to clean with cold water and keep food fresh in the refrigerator. Keep direct heat at a distance.
4. Stainless steel containers: Stainless steel food storage containers that are lightweight. These are extremely durable and can endure a great deal of damage. A stainless steel container should not be confused with an aluminium container. Stainless steel containers should always be purchased. They are devoid of BPA and reusable. For those who are wary about using glass containers, this is a nice alternative to plastic. Ideal for kids' lunches and picnics.
Reusable silicone bags are as flexible as plastic bags yet are reusable. They're fantastic for snacks and sandwiches, but they're also fantastic for dried products. The food-grade silicone bag is safe to use in the microwave, freezer, oven, dishwasher, and even in boiling water. Unlike plastic bags, they can withstand temperatures of up to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. They are self-sealing and contain no BPA, latex, or PVC. They keep food fresh while also sealing in nutrients because they are airtight.
6. Silicone covers: A great alternative to plastic wrap, especially when a tighter seal around a container is required. They are elastic sheets that are used to cover pots, bowls, and jars. Furthermore, even when placed in a refrigerator or dishwasher, they retain their elasticity. Its construction is made of non-toxic silicone. Because they are airtight, they keep food fresh and are simple to clean.


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René Magritte Biography
Magritte was born in Lessines, in the province of Hainaut, in 1898, the eldest son of Léopold Magritte, who was a tailor and textile merchant, and Régina, a milliner until her marriage. Little is known about Magritte's early life. He began lessons in drawing in 1910. On 12 March 1912, his mother committed suicide by drowning herself in the River Sambre. This was not her first attempt; she had made many over a number of years, driving her husband Léopold to lock her into her bedroom. One day she escaped, and was missing for days. She was later discovered a mile or so down the river, dead. According to a legend, 13 year old Magritte was present when her body was retrieved from the water, but recent research has discredited this story, which may have originated with the family nurse.Supposedly, when his mother was found her dress was covering her face, an image that has been suggested as the source of several paintings Magritte painted in 1927 - 1928 of people with cloth obscuring their faces, including Les Amants.


How important are words in communication? The generally accepted number is 7%. If this is true, how is the remaining 93% communicated?
Tone is 38% of communication. What does this mean? It means when someone is attempting to communicate with you, the tone of their voice is 5.43 times more critical than words. For example, when someone says, "Everything is great!" the words (7%) alone do not necessarily communicate what is being expressed.
Everything could be fine or the person could be being sarcastic. If the tone is sarcastic the actual communication means "everything is FAR from fine"
As you go through the "getting gotten" process, listening to the other's tone is critical. Over time, if you are truly getting the other's communication, it will soften. Usually this is a gradual process although sometimes it is almost immediate.
With 7% being communicated through the words and 38% being the tone, the remaining segment deals with the body. It is 7.86 times as important as what is said. How one holds their body, for example, arms crossed or firmly planted on their hips, is a big communication indicator. In addition, much is displayed in their face. How dilated are their eye pupils, how clenched is their jaw, how tight are their lips? Dr. Travis Bradberry, has a great article on these percentages and tricks on reading body language.
Observing the body language change as you go through the "getting gotten" process is key to evaluating your progress. If you are truly getting the other, their body language changes. The arms will uncross, their jaw will loosen, and their lips will relax. Much like tone, body language is usually a gradual process.
Body language and tone are part of getting gotten. What may be an even larger part is the other's "energy." Many people are not optimally sensitive to energy. It is always present, one just has to tune into it. Being very awake, which is having an acute sensory acuity, is required.
Energy changes human molecules. For example, depending on the energy that creates them, tears have different structures. There are three classes of tears: basal, reflex and psychic. Psychic tears are further refined as tears: tears of joy and tears of sorrow. This means they come from basically the same place.
Earthians can cry when they are happy, they can cry when they are sad. Based upon different energy – the individual's tears are different. The emotional energy that creates happy and sad tears are not the same. They look very different under a microscope.
In fact, companies sell salt made from tears; each has a unique taste. If you want to give your meals an extra boost of emotion you can just season your food with salts made from human tears. They're sold by Hoxton Street Monster Supplies in London. Their website promises magical outcomes.
The point here is not the tears, it is about the human energy creating them. Whether you are in a crowd or just with a single individual, human energy is being transmitted. Tuning into the other's energy is critical to the "getting gotten" process.
Feeling the other's energy does not mean taking on their emotion. It is much like smelling. When walking into a kitchen it easy to recognize what one is cooking. The smell recognition doesn't change who you are – it is just information.
The same is true of energy. One can just experience it and allow it to provide useful information. It doesn't need to affect you, even though it is providing useful information. Just "be" with the energy. Feel it.
Once this is done, notice how the energy changes when you stay with it. Don't attempt to change the energy, simply stay with it. When this is done the other's energy will change.
The energy will become quieter and more receptive as you hold "space" for it to "be" just as it is. The other's voice tone will soften, their body language will open and the energy will shift. This is the "getting gotten" process.
When someone is in reaction offer no resistance; attempting to explain or justify anything at this time is counterproductive. Just open your body into a receptive position and then experience the tone of the words and feel the other's energy.
If questions are being asked, direct your response back to the other. Say something like, "Wow! I had no idea this made you feel like this. How did this happen?" If possible, get the other into their story. There is almost always a story inside the emotion. Receive their energy, observe their body language and listen to their voice tone. As you raise your sensory acuity, you will feel where their story is close to the surface. With your attuned energy, ask them to share it. Harvey Deutschendorg confirms that energy is important to having amazing conversations
As you are taking in as much as you can, you will experience the other changing. Just stay with this – sooner or later there will be an opportunity for you to be heard. Do your best not to jump at the first sign of this opening. Wait, continue to be with your heightened sensory acuity until you know for certain the other has transformed into a receptive space.
This is the "getting gotten" process.
Don't expect to do it perfectly; Progress not perfection is the objective. Prediction: The better you are at this, the better your life is. When interacting with another, make "getting gotten" your first priority.
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The long awaited reporting section is now being worked on. This is going to be massive and we hope to improve it with future updates. The idea is to keep it simple for now, but still providing massive calculating power to number-crunch all your financial data.
The design incorporates a Financials summary:
- Payments: including the number of payment entries and total payment earnings. Note: payments are basically manual payment entries.
- Invoices: including the number of invoice entries, the number of outstanding invoices and their total, the number of paid invoices and their total, and the grand total of all invoice earnings for both outstanding and paid.
- We have included a filter that allows you to show a custom or predefined date range.
- Earnings show the grand total of all payments and invoice earnings.
We have included a Student financials table that provides more details on a per-student-basis. This can be handy to see all of your students financial records in one place. This includes: the student name, payment earnings, the last payment, invoice earnings, outstanding payments, last invoice and a grand total of payments and invoice earnings. Again this is filterable via a custom or predefined date range.


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Facial Rejuvenation Surgery: 5 Things You Need to Know
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In recent years, cosmetic anti-aging procedures have gained mainstream acceptance. And while many women start with less invasive treatments, like injections and dermal fillers, at a certain point, some women consider facial rejuvenation surgery, or a face-lift, for longer-lasting and more dramatic results.
If you are considering facial rejuvenation surgery, Lisa Ishii, M.D., a specialist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, shares five things you should know.
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 1. What is a face-lift?
 - Jowls that occur on the jawline
 - Loose neck skin
 - Midface drooping
 - Double chin
 Compared to injections that last anywhere from eight months to two years, a face-lift typically lasts for several years.
 2. How long does it take to recover?
 According to Ishii, one common misconception around a face-lift is recovery time. "Generally, people think recovery will be worse than it actually is," she says. "They expect recovery to take six weeks, when in reality it only takes 10 to 14 days for most people."
 During recovery, people can expect some swelling and bruising while incisions heal. Your surgeon will provide detailed postsurgical care instructions and pain relief recommendations to speed your healing.
 3. What are the benefits of a face-lift?
 Not surprisingly, the primary benefits of a face-lift are increased satisfaction with your appearance and having others see you as more youthful and attractive. "People want what they feel on the inside to be reflected in the mirror," says Ishii. "They also want to know that people around them are thinking positive thoughts about them."
 Ishii's group has conducted new research to measure the impact of face-lifts from the perspective of a casual observer. That research involved showing before-and-after photos of face-lift patients to a group of nearly 500 online survey participants.
 The participants estimated the age of the women in the photos and rated them according to attractiveness, perceived success and overall health. The survey results showed that casual observers saw the women who had undergone high-quality face-lifts as younger, more attractive, more successful and healthier.
 4. What are the risks and drawbacks of a face-lift?
 As with any surgical procedure, there are risks people should consider before heading to the operating room. General anesthesia poses a risk for some people, including older adults and people with health conditions such as obesity and diabetes.
 Some people also have an increased risk of bleeding during surgery. These patients include smokers and people who take anti-clotting medications, such as warfarin.
 If general anesthesia isn't an option, Ishii says it's possible to do the procedure under local anesthesia that numbs the facial area.
 5. Will people be able to tell?
 Some people worry that their faces will looked stretched out or that it will otherwise be obvious that they had surgery. Ishii says this shouldn't be the case with the right surgeon. "If the surgery is performed well, the result will be natural in appearance," she says. "Nobody will be able to tell."
 The key is to find a plastic surgeon with a track record of high-quality results. You can ask the doctor for before-and-after photos of patients so you can get a sense of the quality of their procedures. One important question to ask is whether the surgeon collects data on outcomes, specifically patient satisfaction. If a high percentage of people are extremely happy with the results after five years, you're more likely to have a successful procedure.
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There was a brief warm spell around 9 September, on which date the highest September temperature for six years was recorded, but much of the rest of the month was cool. In fact it was the coolest September since 1993, and heavy rain during the third week caused floods. This was the result of a deep and slow-moving low pressure system delivering copious rain between 23 and 25 September. Prior to that it was dry in East Anglia and south-east England.
The mean maximum temperature in September ranged from 20.2C at St James's Park, London, to 12C at Lerwick, Shetland. The Central England Temperature (CET) was 13.1C, which is 1 degree below average. Daytime temperatures were between 0.2 degrees above average in East Anglia and 1.3 degrees below in western Scotland. The highest recorded temperature was 29.3C at both Writtle in Essex and Cambridge on the afternoon of 9 September. The coldest night was that of 22/23 September, when Braemar, Aberdeenshire, recorded a minimum temperature of -4.1C.
Across England and Wales there was 78mm of rain, which is 102% of the average. Scotland had 81mm, exactly on the average, while Northern Ireland had 98mm, or 123% of average. Much of that rain came from the slow-moving storm during the last week of September. Up to 22 September it was relatively dry, but the following three days had widespread heavy rainfall which led to significant floods. During that period 131mm of rain fell on Ravensworth, North Yorkshire. The wettest location through the month was Cluanie Inn, Wester Ross, which measured 325mm of rain, while Otterbourne in Hampshire was the driest with 24mm.
England and Wales had an average 171 hours of sunshine, which is 116% of the mean. Only 11 Septembers have been sunnier in the last 100 years. Scotland had 127 hours, or 111% of its average, and Northern Ireland recorded 139 hours, which is 113% of the average. Manston in Kent was the sunniest location with 196 hours of sunshine, while Kinlochewe, Wester Ross, had the lowest sunshine total with only 62 hours.


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There was no better way to start expanding my drum scores with an improvised drum sound composition and writing what I hear onto paper. I saw big circles as my bass drum and small dots as my high snares, dynamically seen the shapes of the flowy fills and square patterns of their repetitiveness. I saw it all in my head and it was time to put their existence on paper. "18:18" was the first piece to visually exist in a piece of paper, which consisted in small black and white detailed marks on a 22"x30" paper. My Drum Art was finally communicating via shapes and written language.


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Threshold Design Institute teams will work together to apply human-centered design methods to the unique needs and opportunities found within their schools.
The design process will involve:
Empathy Building: conducting ethnographic and action research on campus or in the community
Interpretation: problem-finding / framing > developing design drivers & addressing design constraints
Ideation: create a range of potential ideas at multiple scales
Prototyping: building tangible responses to community needs
Testing and Evolution: interacting with strategic feedback and assessment of the design solution
Going beyond the concept of a traditional cohort experience, we imagine Threshold Design Institute as a dynamic community of innovative educators and school leaders across Latin America seeking multi-disciplinary collaborators to push their professional and school boundaries.


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time working in the profession and an outstanding event in the career presented significant associations. Conclusion: factors such as smoking, religious belief, family income, length of time working in the profession and an outstanding event in the career can cause professionals to have accidents and/or cause changes in self-esteem, which can compromise their physical and mental health and their quality of life and work. PMID:28443993
Santos, Sérgio Valverde Marques Dos; Macedo, Flávia Ribeiro Martins; Silva, Luiz Almeida da; Resck, Zelia Marilda Rodrigues; Nogueira, Denismar Alves; Terra, Fábio de Souza
to analyze the occurrence of work accidents and the self-esteem of nurses in hospitals of a municipality of Minas Gerais. descriptive-analytical and cross-sectional study developed with 393 nursing professionals from three hospitals of a municipality in southern Minas Gerais. The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale and a questionnaire to characterize the population and work accidents were used for data collection. Data analysis was performed using Person's chi-squared test, Fisher's exact test, Cronbach's alpha, odds ratio and logistic regression. of the professionals studied, 15% had suffered an accident at work and 70.2% presented high self-esteem. Through the analysis, it was observed that smoking, religious belief and an outstanding event in the career were significantly associated with work accidents. In relation to self-esteem, family income, length of time working in the profession and an outstanding event in the career presented significant associations. factors such as smoking, religious belief, family income, length of time working in the profession and an outstanding event in the career can cause professionals to have accidents and/or cause changes in self-esteem, which can compromise their physical and mental health and their quality of life and work.
Full Text Available Objective: To determine the overall perception and utilization of the pharmacist managed medication therapy management (MTM clinic services, by healthcare professionals in a large, urban, university medical care setting.Methods: This was a cross-sectional, anonymous survey sent to 195 healthcare professionals, including physicians, nurses, and pharmacists at The University of Illinois Outpatient Care Center to determine their perception and utilization of the MTM clinic. The survey consisted of 12 questions and was delivered through a secure online application. Results: Sixty-two healthcare professionals (32% completed the survey. 82% were familiar with the MTM clinic, and 63% had referred patients to the clinic. Medication adherence and disease state management was the most common reason for referral. Lack of knowledge on the appropriate referral procedure was the prominent reason for not referring patients to the MTM clinic. Of the providers that were aware of MTM services, 44% rated care as 'excellent', 44% as 'good', 5% as 'fair', and 0% stated 'poor'. Strengths of MTM clinic identified by healthcare providers included in-depth education to patients, close follow-up, and detailed medication reconciliation provided by MTM clinic pharmacists. Of those familiar with MTM clinic, recommendations included; increase marketing efforts to raise awareness of the MTM clinic service, create collaborative practice agreements between MTM pharmacists and physicians, and ensure that progress notes are more concise.Conclusion: In a large, urban, academic institution MTM clinic is perceived as a valuable resource to optimize patient care by providing patients with in-depth education as it relates to their prescribed medications and disease states. These identified benefits of MTM clinic lead to frequent patient referrals specifically for aid with medication adherence and disease state management.
Simon, Shirley; Campbell, Sandra; Johnson, Sally; Stylianidou, Fani
The research reported here set out to investigate the features in schools and science departments that were seen as effective in contributing to the continuing professional development (CPD) of early career science teachers. Ten schools took part in the study, selected on the basis of their reputation for having effective CPD practices. To gain different perspectives from within the organisations we conducted interviews with senior members of staff, heads of science departments and early career teachers. A thematic analysis of the interviews is presented, drawing on findings from across the 10 schools, and exemplified in more detail by a vignette to show specific features of effective CPD practice. The study has revealed a wealth of practice across the 10 schools, which included a focus on broadening experience beyond the classroom, having an open, sharing, non-threatening culture and systemic procedures for mentoring and support that involved ring-fenced budgets. The schools also deployed staff judiciously in critical roles that model practice and motivate early career science teachers. Early career teachers were concerned primarily with their overall development as teachers, though some science specific examples such as observing practical work and sessions to address subject knowledge were seen as important.
Elvira, Quincy; Imants, Jeroen; Dankbaar, Ben; Segers, Mien
How to facilitate learning by novices (students) on their road to expertise has attracted the attention of a vast number of researchers in cognitive and educational psychology as well in the field of learning and instruction. Although many studies have investigated the phenomenon of expertise development, the implications of the findings for…
Chitiyo, Morgan; Hughes, Elizabeth M.; Changara, Darlington M.; Chitiyo, George; Montgomery, Kristen M.
Since 1980 when Zimbabwe obtained political independence, special education has not received the same priority as the entire education system. One of the manifestations of this discrepancy is the shortage of qualified special education teachers in the country. In order to address this trend and promote the development of special education,…
Tod, David A; Bond, Kath A; Lavallee, David
The purpose of this study was to explore professional development themes in experienced strength and conditioning coaches. Strength and conditioning coaches (N = 15, mean age = 34.3 years, SD = 5.2 years) with 11.4 (SD = 4.9) years experience working with elite, professional, or talented athletes were interviewed about their professional development. The interviews were transcribed verbatim and content analyzed. Over time, subjects' service-delivery practices became more flexible and client driven. Their role understanding also broadened to include various dimensions, such as the need to consider various stakeholders and the value of good relationships with athletes. The subjects shifted from relying on external justification for professional decision making to their experience-based knowledge. The subjects believed athlete work experience, interactions with senior strength and conditioning coaches and other colleagues, the professional literature, and nonprofessional experiences, such as their own athletic experience and sales or managerial training, were the primary influences on their professional development. Typically, the subjects experienced anxiety about their competence, both early in their careers and when working in new contexts or with new athlete groups, but over time, they developed increased confidence. In addition, the subjects experienced reduced narcissism over time about the control they had over athletes and their competitive results. The current results provide information about the characteristics of effective strength and conditioning coaches, the ways they develop their competencies to help athletes, and the emotions they experience throughout their careers. These results may help strength and conditioning practitioners in planning and optimizing their professional development and effectiveness with athletes.
Halabi, Abdel K.
The Society for the Provision of Education in Rural Australia (SPERA) recognises education as a lifelong process, and there is a need for continuing education and training to be available to rural communities. This paper examines the satisfaction levels of accounting continual professional development (CPD) when provided by a rural accounting…
ir. Veronique van de Reijt; dr.ir. Quinta Kools
Research topic/aim The professional development of teacher educators (T Eds) is increasingly being recognised as a topic of paramount importance, partly caused by the attention for the lifelong learning of those responsible for teaching student teachers. In this presentation we focus on the
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Full Text Available Introduction: the main purpose of this paper is to present the theoretical and practical aspects of professional and personal self-development of future professionals, the construction of the structural model and the determination of levels of self-development. The study of personal and professional self-development attributes of future professionals is of special interest to modern researchers, as well as for practicing psychologists studying the problem of self-realization and self-improvement in their professional fields. This article discusses the theoretical approaches to the study of the model and structure of personal and professional selfdevelopment. It analyses the results of the comparative empirical study of the features of students self-development with various levels of formation of motivational-semantic sphere. The authors carried out the detailed theoretical analysis of the problem of personal and professional self-development. They offer the structural model of the process, including the set of interrelated value-semantic, reflexive and regulatory components. The study revealed that the personal and professional self-development is a comprehensive system based on the active personal transformation being carried out in the course of behavior and activities self-regulation of their behavior, designed to achieve personal and professional goals. Materials and Methods: diagnostic methods were used to identify the level of self-development and personal qualities of students. Processing of the data was carried out by means of correlation, factor and cluster analysis. Results: this article considers the results of the empirical study conducted with the help of psycho-diagnostic methods aimed at identifying the level of self-development of future professionals, its structure and features. The scientifically valid results are obtained, allowing to identify the levels of self-development of students as well as to identify factors af
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limits on freedom of movement in practice. Citizens have the right to travel freely within the country and to change their workplace as desired. Unmarried women must be 21 years of age or older to obtain a passport and travel abroad without permission of a male relative. Married women must obtain their husbands' permission to apply for a passport. A married woman with a passport does not need her husband's permission to travel, but he may prevent her departure from the country by placing a 24-hour travel ban on her through immigration authorities. After this 24-hour period, a court order is required if the husband still wishes to prevent his wife from leaving the country. In practice, however, many travel bans were issued without court order, effectively preventing citizens (and foreigners) from departing.
All minor children under 21 years of age require their father's permission to travel outside the country. This also applies to dual national children born to citizen fathers and noncitizen mothers. The Government does not recognize dual nationality. A citizen father can place a travel ban on his (under 21) children through the Ministry of Interior or through a local court if he does not wish for them to travel without his permission. There were many reports of citizen fathers/husbands confiscating their children's/wives' travel documents to prevent them from departing.
Citizens were largely free to emigrate and to return. Security forces in Kuwait City occasionally set up checkpoints to detain individuals for immigration purposes and to apprehend undocumented aliens (see Section 1.d.). In July 2002, the Ministry of Interior allowed expatriates a 45-day grace period to legalize their residency status or to depart the country without facing legal action. During the year, there were some reports of police harassment of foreign workers at security checkpoints.
The law permits the Government to place a travel ban on any citizen or foreigner who has a legal case pending before the courts. The law also permits any citizen to petition authorities to place a travel ban against any other person suspected of violating local law. In practice, this has resulted in many citizens and foreigners being prevented from departing the country without investigation or a legal case being brought before a local court. This practice has become less prevalent in recent years but still persists. The travel ban is a tool used by some citizens to prevent domestic servants from departing the country. Although illegal, many citizen employers routinely confiscate the passports of foreign employees, which forces them to remain in the country against their will. There does not appear to be any concerted Government effort to prevent employers from engaging in this practice.
Members of licensed NGOs must obtain government approval to attend international conferences as official NGO representatives (see Sections 2.b. and 4). The Government severely restricted the ability of its bidoon population to travel abroad (see Sections 2.d. and 5). However, the Government permitted some bidoon to travel to Saudi Arabia during the year for the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
Since 2001, there have been no special restrictions against or permits required for Palestinian workers wishing to return to the country. According to the latest estimates, there were approximately 30,000 to 40,000 Palestinians, 30,000 to 40,000 Jordanians, and 5,000 Yemenis resident in the country.
The Government permitted the ICRC to verify if deportees objected to returning to their countries of origin; it detained those with objections until they either changed their minds or made alternative arrangements to travel to another country (see Section 1.d.).
Although the law does not include provisions for the granting of refugee status or asylum to persons who meet the definition in the 1951 U.N. Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees or its 1967 Protocol, in practice the Government provided protection against refoulement but did not grant refugee or asylum status. The Constitution prohibits the extradition of political refugees. The Government stated that it did not deport persons who claimed to fear persecution in their home countries; however, it often kept such persons in detention rather than grant them permission to live and work in the country (see Section 1.d.). The Government cooperated with the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and other humanitarian organizations in assisting refugees and asylum seekers. The UNHCR maintained an office in the country and had access to refugees in detention.
Section 3 Respect for Political Rights: The Right of Citizens to Change Their Government
Citizens do not have the right to change their government. The Constitution provides that the elected National Assembly has a limited role in approving the Amir's choice of Crown Prince (the future Amir). If the Assembly rejects the Amir's nominee, the Amir then submits three names from which the Assembly must choose the new Crown Prince. There is no universal suffrage. The only citizens who have the right to vote and seek election to the National Assembly are males age 21 and over who have been citizens for at least 20 years and are not members of the armed forces, police, or other uniformed personnel of the Ministry of Interior.
Under the Constitution, the Amir holds executive power and shares legislative power with an elected National Assembly. The Amir appoints the Prime Minister, who presides over a 16-member Cabinet (Council of Ministers), who he chooses in consultation with the Amir. In accordance with the practice of the ruling family (but not specifically the Constitution), the Prime Minister always has been the Crown Prince; however, in an unprecedented development in July, the Amir named one of his younger brothers, not the Crown Prince, as Prime Minister; the new Prime Minister promptly formed a new Cabinet.
The Constitution empowers the Amir to suspend its provisions and to rule by decree. The Constitution provides that cabinet members sit in the National Assembly and vote on legislation. At least one member of the Cabinet must be an elected member of the National Assembly.
There are 50 elected National Assembly members. Members serve 4-year terms, and the most recent National Assembly elections were held in July. The Government banned political parties; however, several well-organized and unofficial blocs, acting much like political parties, existed and were active in the National Assembly. The Government acknowledged and, at times, worked with these blocs, which were organized on the basis of common ideological goals. Because of the ban on political parties, National Assembly candidates must nominate themselves as individuals and may run for election in any of the country's 25 constituencies. The top two finishers in each constituency are elected in single-round balloting.
The Constitution provides that the National Assembly can overturn the Amir's decrees, but only those made when the National Assembly is not in session. The National Assembly exercised this authority in previous years in some cases; however, the National Assembly did not amend any of the Amir's proposals during the year.
Members regularly require ministers to appear before the full National Assembly for formal question sessions when they are dissatisfied with their or the Government's performance. On occasion, pressure exerted by the National Assembly, including through votes of no confidence, has led to the resignation or removal of ministers.
A law promulgated in 1998 bans primaries previously conducted by religious sects and tribes; however, such primaries or by-elections, which are limited to tribal members and do not include all eligible voters in a given electoral constituency, continued in practice.
The July National Assembly elections were generally free and fair, although there were some credible reports of government and opposition vote buying, illegal and unevenly held tribal primaries (by-elections), ballot box tampering in some constituencies, and lax enforcement of some election laws. Recounts were ordered and undertaken in 2 of the 25 electoral districts due to allegations of vote fraud. During the year, candidates from several constituencies filed court petitions challenging the July National Assembly election results on allegations of ballot box tampering. In December, the Constitutional Court dismissed these petitions.
Women continued to be denied the right to vote and run for office and had little opportunity to influence government. There were no women in the 50-seat National Assembly and no women in the Cabinet. Women held some relatively senior nonpolitical positions within some ministries.
The new Prime Minister appointed 1 minority Shi'a member to the 16-member Cabinet as the Minister of Information. Of 50 National Assembly members, 5 were Shi'a (after the July elections).
Several tribes conducted illegal primaries (by-elections) to select candidates for participation in the National Assembly elections held in July. Such primaries are limited to tribe members and thus do not include all eligible voters in a given electoral constituency. Some Shi'a claimed that if they had held such primaries as other groups did (in violation of election laws), they would have gained more seats in the National Assembly. In December, the National Assembly's Legislative and Legal Affairs Committee approved requests from the Public Prosecutor to lift the parliamentary immunity of four parliamentarians suspected of participation in illegal tribal primaries held before the July elections.
Section 4 Governmental Attitude Regarding International and Nongovernmental Investigation of Alleged Violations of Human Rights
The Government permitted the existence of NGOs; however, it continued to deny NGOs, including new local human rights groups, licenses. All NGOs must obtain a license from the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor in order to operate officially (see Section 2.b.). The only local human rights NGO is the Kuwait Human Rights Society, whose license application has been pending since 1992. Without a license, the NGO cannot have its own official facility, obtain government funding, operate any official accounts, or dialogue directly and officially with the Government on human rights issues. Despite its unofficial status, however, the NGO produces an annual report on human rights in the country, publishes a quarterly magazine, and meets some senior Government officials occasionally. The NGO reportedly paid for the legal fees and the return travel of an abused Indian maid in 2002 who had been


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Question of the week: How do bones and muscles work together?
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Posted by alicemercer on 22nd April 2007
Heart and lungs from older edition of Gray's Anatomy from Wikipedia
We continue studying the human body:
Links to sites on human biology
A tour of the human body from fourth graders
Question of the week:
Why do you think some of the parts are colored blue, and some are colored red in the drawing shown above?
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Posted by alicemercer on 3rd March 2007
We will start our study of the systems of the human body this week.
- A cool clickable map of the human body
- A tour of the human body from fourth graders
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Posted by alicemercer on 3rd February 2007
We start a unit on Life Science by studying plant structure and reproduction.
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Issue #32: 10 Reads, A Handcrafted Weekly Newsletter For Software Developers
The time to read this newsletter is 150 minutes.
Writing may be the skill with the highest return of all – Seth Godin
 1. Undervalued Software Engineering Skills: Writing Well: 5 mins read. I echo with the author. Being a senior engineer in my organization this is one advice I usually end up giving to people. The key points from the post are:
 1. In a large engineering organization writing is the only medium that will help you propagate your message forward.
 2. You can learn to improve your writing skills. It is a learnable skill.
 3. Writing code is not the only activity in software development.
 4. When you write things down, you build better understanding of the topic. I personally find that writing helps me think clearly about a problem.
 2. Why Github used Haskell for Semantic?20 mins read. We need more such posts from the community. These type of posts can help developers understand how organizations take technical choices. The key lessons for me in this post are:
 1. The problem Github is trying to solve with Semantic is related to domain of programming language theory. This domain is an active research area and most of the researchers in this domain use Haskell for its brevity, power, and focus on correctness. Writing in Haskell allows us to build on top of the work of others rather than getting stuck in a cycle of reading, porting, and bug-fixing
 2. Haskell makes it nigh-impossible to build programs that contain such bugs
 3. Haskell used in industry at scale. Facebook open sourced a project called Haxi that is written in Haskell.
 3. Let's build a SQL parser in Go!: 20 mins read. I enjoyed reading this post. It shows in a step by step manner how to write a SQL parser. The author implemented it in Go.
 4. How I decimated Postgres response times for my SaaS: 15 mins read. There are two key points in this post:
 1. You can only fix a problem if you can successfully reproduce in your local environment. I know this sound common sense but ask yourself honestly how many times you have tried solutions without reproducing the problem in a local environment only to discover that your proposed solution does not work. This happened to me this week.
 2. Composite index in PostgreSQL can help you avoid heap sort if you do order by in your query.
 5. 13 Tips for Writing a Technical Book: 15 mins read. A lot of useful advice. I wrote a similar post when I published my first book. The key points for me in this post were:
 1. Pad the timeline
 2. Schedule regular time to write: every morning, every weekend, etc
 3. Use lots of TODOs to keep track of what's left
 4. Getting good technical editors is hard
 5. Writing is lonely
 6. Remote working – Bringing sanity to mind & lessons worth learning: 20 mins read. This post covers the other side of remote working — anxiety and depression. The article shared tips that can help.
 1. First thing you need to do is to get out of the denial mode. Mental issues can happen with anyone. Setup a weekly wellbeing check-up with yourself.
 2. Create a schedule and stick to it. Know when to stop and detach from work.
 3. Setup a separate remote working space.
 4. Limit your digital life. Talk to people
 7. Amdahl's law: 10 mins read. Amdahl's Law is a formula which gives the theoretical speedup in latency of the execution of a task at fixed workload that can be expected of a system whose resources are improved. In essence, it says you can't speed up beyond the sequential part of your program irrespective of how many cores you add. Gene Amdahl's said, If 50% of the execution time is sequential, the maximum speed up is 2, no matter how many cores you use. Good video that you can watch on Amdahl'w Law is by Professor Ben H. Juurlink.
 8. Blameless PostMortems and a Just Culture: 15 mins read. Having a "blameless" Post-Mortem process means that engineers whose actions have contributed to an accident can give a detailed account of:
 1. what actions they took at what time,
 2. what effects they observed,
 3. expectations they had,
 4. assumptions they had made,
 5. and their understanding of timeline of events as they occurred.
 9. Love DevOps? Wait until you meet SRE: 10 mins read. If you have not heard about SRE then this post will help you get started. SRE as defined by its mastermind Ben Treynor is "SRE is what happens when a software engineer is tasked with what used to be called operations".
 10. 3 Mindfulness Rituals That Will Make You Happy20 mins read. You are not your thoughts.
Video of the week
Linux Tip: How to create a list of directories inside a directory and place an empty file in each of them
Today, I wanted to create a list of directories inside a directory and place an empty file in each of them. In this quick post, I will share two commands that can do that for you.
$ mkdir $(printf "%02i-day " $(seq 1 50))
$ find. -type d -exec touch {}/.gitkeep \;
You don't have to type $. It is only to signify command-prompt.
Tools Software Engineers Should Know: 6 Things You Can Do with NetCat
In the second post of the tools series, I am going to cover netcat utility. It comes prepackaged on most of the linux distributions. The netcat utility is often referred to as a Swiss army knife of networking tools. It has a long list of features. Few of them are mentioned below.
 1. Outbound or inbound connections, TCP or UDP, to or from any ports
 2. Full DNS forward/reverse checking, with appropriate warnings
 3. Ability to use any local source port
 4. Built-in port-scanning capabilities
Continue reading "Tools Software Engineers Should Know: 6 Things You Can Do with NetCat"
Mental Models for Software Engineers: Regret Minimization Framework
I became aware of Regret Minimization Framework quite recently while reading a random post on the web. With in that timeframe it has helped me take a couple of big decisions with clarity. Had I known this earlier I could have avoided taking few bad decisions.
Regret Minimization Framework is a mental model that wants you to project into the future and look back at your decision so that you can quantify which of the options could lead to minimal regret. Then, you should go with the option that will lead to minimum regret.
Continue reading "Mental Models for Software Engineers: Regret Minimization Framework"
Issue #31: 10 Reads, A Handcrafted Weekly Newsletter For Software Developers
The time to read this newsletter is 200 minutes.
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth – Aesop
 1. How to remove duplicate lines from files keeping the original order: 15 mins read. Finally learnt something about awk. The post explains how you can remove duplicate lines in a file while preserving their order. This deduplication on steroids. It is in my todo list to learn awk one day.
 2. Google's Chrome Becomes Web 'Gatekeeper' and Rivals Complain: 15 mins read. I have read this multiple times. Chrome is at the core of Google's digital strategy. Google needs to track us to show ads and make money. This is the reason they are coming up with updated Chrome Extension API that will limit what ad blockers can do. In my view, the big problem is not Chrome or Google. We have ads because people want to earn money from their content. Google does not put ads magically; site owners add Google ad tracking scripts that share information with Google. Till the time, we don't create a better financial model for content creators. This problem can't be solved. Brave browser by Brendan Eich, co-founder of Mozilla and the current CEO of Brave Software Inc. is trying to do some work on it but it is still early days for it.
 3. Tests that sometimes fail: 30 mins read. Author makes following valid points:
 1. Flaky tests are useful at finding underlying flaws in our application. In some cases when fixing a flaky test, the fix is in the app, not in the test
 2. Common patterns of flaky tests
 1. Flaky tests caused by hard coded ids because they rely on database sequences
 2. Making bad assumptions about DB ordering. Result returned by SQL query is unordered.
 3. Incorrect assumptions about time
 4. Bad assumptions about the environment
 3. Mitigation patterns
 1. Run test suite in a tight loop, over and over again on a cloud server. Each time tests fail we flag them and at the end of a week of continuous running we mark flaky specs as "skipped" pending repair.
 2. One big issue with flaky tests is that quite often they are very hard to


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After reviewing my last posting, I realized that although I covered the specifics of style definitions and nVision, I missed a critical set of information. You see, there are limitations in Excel as well as nVision that can easily be worked around if you understand the following:
The posting and formatting process nVision follows
Because nVision uses excel for storing results and for formatting, a basic understanding of the steps that are followed, and excel behavior will give you some insight as to the hooks available for formatting outside of the nVision stylesheet functionality discussed in the previous posting.
So, in a nutshell, here are the steps followed in nVision in running a report once it has retrieved the data to be included:
Step 1: Insert rows or columns in the worksheet
It inserts the appropriate number of rows or columns for the results of the nPlosion. When it does this, it calls the excel function to do this. This is important to know, because the standard excel behavior for an insert occurs. You may be thinking "yea… so…?"
So… This means you can leverage some of the cool things that excel does on an insert with respect to data ranges and formatting:
- If you insert a row or column in the middle of a range (either a named range, or a range that is used in a formula, chart, etc), the references in the range are automatically updated. This means that you can bind a chart to nPloded data without having to write a macro!
- If you insert a row or column in the middle of two cells that have the same formatting, the new cell in the new row or column is given the formatting as those around it. This means that if you apply conditional formatting to a cell in the row or column with the nPlosion specified as well as the one above it, all nPloded rows or columns will also have the conditional formatting applied (even though styles in Excel don't support conditional formatting).
In other words, by paying attention to where nVision inserts rows or columns, you have additional control over the behavior of the results.
Step 2: Paste the data into the worksheet
This is done using some bulk APIs available in excel. Because it only pastes the values (and formulas for formula nPlosion), it does not override the formatting.
Step 3: Apply the styles
I'm not sure whether this is done prior to pasting the data, but it actually doesn't matter because the paste data step doesn't affect the formatting of it. The important point is that the default behavior of excel for inserting a row is applied prior to the step of applying the appropriate nVision styles.
One additional point is that excel styles are not all or nothing from a formatting perspective. In other words, you can define a style to only include the cell color and nothing else. This gives you a lot of flexibility, and also allows you to retain formatting in the original layout as needed. Because of this, you can think of the formatting as being applied in layers (where you can override part of what comes from a lower layter).
Putting this into practice
Although there are a couple of examples above as to how to put it into practice, I believe the following example does a pretty good job of putting it all together.
Imagine that you have a report that shows payroll costs, FTEs, and Percent over/under budget as three different colums. It nPlodes the total amount for a general manager into the department detail. Notice that the number formatting for each column should be different: currency for column 1, a number with no decimals for column 2, and percentage for column 3.
Because the nVision stylesheets do not support multiple amount styles for row nPlosion, the number formatting needs to come from the report layout, where the columns are created. Therefore, the report developer would need to do the following:
- Apply the number formatting for the different columns as needed in the nVision layout(one for dollars, one for percentage, etc.)
- Modify the amount styles (the ones that end in "A") to exclude number formatting. You may want to save off a new stylesheet workbook for use in this type of report in the future.
- When you run the reports, the number formatting won't be applied from the styles, while the other formatting, such as font size, border, and pattern will be applied.
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Constructing Identities provides a refreshing overview and analysis of social constructionism's place in social psychology. Author Mike Michael offers a distinctive and coherent account that revolves around two main questions: How can social constructionism account for changes in human identities? And in what ways might social constructionism accommodate a role for nonhumans--whether technological or natural--in the constitution of identity? With interdisciplinary breadth the book locates these questions between the social psychological tradition and the highly influential contributions of actor network theory that has so dominated the sociology of scientific knowledge. The fruitful mix of these traditions sustains a clear and coherent discussion of how issues around agency, hybridity, marginality, and the "other" can contribute to a better understanding of human identity.
Constructing Identities will be invaluable reading for students and academics in social psychology, the sociology of scientific knowledge, and anyone addressing the central issue of identity.


text: The role of bats as potential sources of transmission to humans or as maintenance hosts of leptospires is poorly understood. We quantified the prevalence of leptospiral colonization in bats in the Peruvian Amazon in the vicinity of Iquitos, an area of high biologic diversity. Of 589 analyzed bats, culture (3 of 589) and molecular evidence (20 of 589) of leptospiral colonization was found in the kidneys, yielding an overall colonization rate of 3.4%. Infection rates differed with habitat and location, and among different bat species. Bayesian analysis was used to infer phylogenic relationships of leptospiral 16S ribosomal DNA sequences. Tree topologies were consistent with groupings based on DNA-DNA hybridization studies. A diverse group of leptospires was found in peri-Iquitos bat populations including Leptospira interrogans (5 clones), L. kirschneri (1), L. borgpetersenii (4), L. fainei (1), and two previously undescribed leptospiral species (8). Although L. kirschenri and L. interrogans have been previously isolated from bats, this report is the first to describe L. borgpetersenii and L. fainei infection of bats. A wild animal reservoir of L. fainei has not been previously described. The detection in bats of the L. interrogans serovar Icterohemorrhagiae, a leptospire typically maintained by peridomestic rats, suggests a rodent-bat infection cycle. Bats in Iquitos maintain a genetically diverse group of leptospires. These results provide a solid basis for pursuing molecular epidemiologic studies of bat-associated Leptospira, a potentially new epidemiologic reservoir of transmission of leptospirosis to humans.


Workday Adaptive Planning Knowledge Center
FAQs for Sheets
How-to: Configure parameters that automatically update
Yes, you can do this by linking together your time parameters. You can link any time element, except for timespan, to a single period parameter.
Example: You have a report with three segments with separate time parameters that you want to set up so that update automatically changing one parameter will automatically update the other parameters.
To link parameters:
 1. Drag and drop the first time element to the parameter bar
 2. Then, drag and drop the other two time elements on top of the first parameter
 3. After adding the parameters, right-click on the Period parameter to verify that the elements are connected
 In Parameter Settings, several dynamic time options are available when you scroll to the top of the Initial Choice setting such as current month and last actuals month.
How-to: Calculate percent of sales for an account
You can use the Display as Percent report element to display results for multiple accounts.
Example: You have a revenue account called Book Sales want to know what Book COGS is as a percentage of Book Sales.
To calculate percent of sales:
 1. Click Display As and add the % of Account element to your report
 2. Right-click on the newly added % of Account element and select the Book Sales account as the denominator for the calculation
 3. Add any account that you want to see as % of Book Sales
How-to: Create a subtotal for different time periods from different versions
You can use the Custom Display As element to create a subtotal.
Example: You want to create a subtotal using the first six months a budget version and the last six months of a forecast version. Assuming that your report already has 2 segments set up (#1 first 6 months for the budget version and #2 last 6 months for the forecast version), we can set up a third segment that will contain our calculations for the subtotal.
To create a Custom subtotal:
 1. Add a new segment
 2. From the Calculations menu, add a Difference element to the new segment
 3. In the Difference Options, include the two versions that you want to use for the subtotal and make sure to offset the Subtract Version 6 months Backwards
 4. From the Calculations menu, add a Custom Calculation element below the difference element in the segment that sums the last 6 months
 - Because the difference element is offset, it will sum the first 6 months with the last 6 months
 5. From the Display As menu, add a Custom element to the bottom of the segment and include the formula below where "offset version" is the version offset in the Difference element
 - if(this.version.name = "offset version", -ACCT.this, ACCT.this)
In the steps above, we are using a workaround to make the difference element a sum instead. The reason we use the difference is because it allows us to operate with 2 different versions in a single calculation, where as it is impossible, currently, to formulaically refer to values in another version from you current version.
How-to: Create a variance between two different versions and time periods
You can create a report that shows the variance between Budget 2020 version for FY2020 and Budget 2021 version for FY2021 by offsetting the time for one of the versions forward or backward.
To create the report:
 1. Place both the Budget 1 and Budget 2 versions in one segment
 2. Add a 2020 Time element to the segment or Filter
 3. Right-click on the Budget 2 version and select Properties
 4. Shift the version forward by 12 months.
 - By shifting the time forward, the Budget 2 version will display data for 2021 when the Budget 2 version is displaying data for 2020
 5. Add a Difference element next to the versions.
 6. Right-click on the Difference element, select Properties and verify that the Difference element is creating the proper variance and that the Budget 2 version is shifted forward by 12 months.
The resulting report should give you 3 columns: one for Budget 2020, one for Budget 2021, and one for the variance between the two versions.
How-to: Remove total rows for accounts
Totals can't be removed for a parent account in Report Properties. When the option to "Show totals at bottom" is checked in Report Properties, the total for the parent account will be shown as a row at the bottom of the rollup. When you uncheck "Show totals at bottom," the totals will appear in the same row as the parent account at the top of the rollup. As a workaround to remove totals, you can remove totals by dragging each account to the report builder separately.
To remove totals:
 1. From Design Elements, add a custom header to the report, right-click to select Properties, and update the label to represent the parent account
 2. Drag and drop the accounts that rollup to the parent account that we didn't add to the report to prevent displaying its total
How-to: Reverse the sign for non-GL accounts in Reports
Because the reverse sign feature in reports only applies to GL accounts, you can use a custom calculation to reverse the sign for non-GL accounts in a matrix report.
Example 1:
 - Formula -1*ACCT.Example
 - Translation: Multiplies the account by -1 to reverse the sign for the account
Example 2:
 - Formula: if([Budget]<[Actuals], div(([Budget]-[Actuals])/[Actuals])*-1, div(([Budget]-[Actuals])/[Actuals]))
 - Translation: If the Budget value is less than Actuals, then take the variance and multiple by negative one, otherwise just take the variance
How-to: Create a rolling 12 month average report


Streaming Analytics
Streaming Analytics #
Event Time and Watermarks #
Introduction #
Flink explicitly supports three different notions of time:
 - event time: the time when an event occurred, as recorded by the device producing (or storing) the event
 - ingestion time: a timestamp recorded by Flink at the moment it ingests the event
 - processing time: the time when a specific operator in your pipeline is processing the event
For reproducible results, e.g., when computing the maximum price a stock reached during the first hour of trading on a given day, you should use event time. In this way the result won't depend on when the calculation is performed. This kind of real-time application is sometimes performed using processing time, but then the results are determined by the events that happen to be processed during that hour, rather than the events that occurred then. Computing analytics based on processing time causes inconsistencies, and makes it difficult to re-analyze historic data or test new implementations.
Working with Event Time #
If you want to use event time, you will also need to supply a Timestamp Extractor and Watermark Generator that Flink will use to track the progress of event time. This will be covered in the section below on Working with Watermarks, but first we should explain what watermarks are.
Watermarks #
Let's work through a simple example that will show why watermarks are needed, and how they work.
In this example you have a stream of timestamped events that arrive somewhat out of order, as shown below. The numbers shown are timestamps that indicate when these events actually occurred. The first event to arrive happened at time 4, and it is followed by an event that happened earlier, at time 2, and so on:
··· 23 19 22 24 21 14 17 13 12 15 9 11 7 2 4 →
Now imagine that you are trying create a stream sorter. This is meant to be an application that processes each event from a stream as it arrives, and emits a new stream containing the same events, but ordered by their timestamps.
Some observations:
(1) The first element your stream sorter sees is the 4, but you can't just immediately release it as the first element of the sorted stream. It may have arrived out of order, and an earlier event might yet arrive. In fact, you have the benefit of some god-like knowledge of this stream's future, and you can see that your stream sorter should wait at least until the 2 arrives before producing any results.
Some buffering, and some delay, is necessary.
(2) If you do this wrong, you could end up waiting forever. First the sorter saw an event from time 4, and then an event from time 2. Will an event with a timestamp less than 2 ever arrive? Maybe. Maybe not. You could wait forever and never see a 1.
Eventually you have to be courageous and emit the 2 as the start of the sorted stream.
(3) What you need then is some sort of policy that defines when, for any given timestamped event, to stop waiting for the arrival of earlier events.
This is precisely what watermarks do — they define when to stop waiting for earlier events.
Event time processing in Flink depends on watermark generators that insert special timestamped elements into the stream, called watermarks. A watermark for time t is an assertion that the stream is (probably) now complete up through time t.
When should this stream sorter stop waiting, and push out the 2 to start the sorted stream? When a watermark arrives with a timestamp of 2, or greater.
(4) You might imagine different policies for deciding how to generate watermarks.
Each event arrives after some delay, and these delays vary, so some events are delayed more than others. One simple approach is to assume that these delays are bounded by some maximum delay. Flink refers to this strategy as bounded-out-of-orderness watermarking. It is easy to imagine more complex approaches to watermarking, but for most applications a fixed delay works well enough.
Latency vs. Completeness #
Another way to think about watermarks is that they give you, the developer of a streaming application, control over the tradeoff between latency and completeness. Unlike in batch processing, where one has the luxury of being able to have complete knowledge of the input before producing any results, with streaming you must eventually stop waiting to see more of the input, and produce some sort of result.
You can either configure your watermarking aggressively, with a short bounded delay, and thereby take the risk of producing results with rather incomplete knowledge of the input – i.e., a possibly wrong result, produced quickly. Or you can wait longer, and produce results that take advantage of having more complete knowledge of the input stream(s).
It is also possible to implement hybrid solutions that produce initial results quickly, and then supply updates to those results as additional (late) data is processed. This is a good approach for some applications.
Lateness #
Lateness is defined relative to the watermarks. A Watermark(t) asserts that the stream is complete up through time t; any event following this watermark whose timestamp is ≤ t is late.
Working with Watermarks #
In order to perform event-time-based event processing, Flink needs to know the time associated with each event, and it also needs the stream to include watermarks.
The Taxi data sources used in the hands-on exercises take care of these details for you. But in your own applications you will have to take care of this yourself, which is usually done by implementing a class that extracts the timestamps from the events, and generates watermarks on demand. The easiest way to do this is by using a WatermarkStrategy:
DataStream stream =...
WatermarkStrategy strategy = WatermarkStrategy
 .withTimestampAssigner((event, timestamp) -> event.timestamp);
DataStream withTimestampsAndWatermarks =
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Windows #
Flink features very expressive window semantics.
In this section you will learn:
 - how windows are used to compute aggregates on unbounded streams,
 - which types of windows Flink supports, and
 - how to implement a DataStream program with a windowed aggregation
Introduction #
It is natural when doing stream processing to want to compute aggregated analytics on bounded subsets of the streams in order to answer questions like these:
 - number of page views per minute
 - number of sessions per user per week
 - maximum temperature per sensor per minute
Computing windowed analytics with Flink depends on two principal abstractions: Window Assigners that assign events to windows (creating new window objects as necessary), and Window Functions that are applied to the events assigned to a window.
Flink's windowing API also has notions of Triggers, which determine when to call the window function, and Evictors, which can remove elements collected in a window.
In its basic form, you apply windowing to a keyed stream like this:
 .keyBy()
 .window()
 .reduce|aggregate|process();
You can also use windowing with non-keyed streams, but keep in mind that in this case, the processing will not be done in parallel:
 .windowAll()
Window Assigners #
Flink has several built-in types of window assigners, which are illustrated below:
Window assigners
Some examples of what these window assigners might be used for, and how to specify them:
 - Tumbling time windows
 - page views per minute
 - TumblingEventTimeWindows.of(Time.minutes(1))
 - Sliding time windows
 - page views per minute computed every 10 seconds
 - SlidingEventTimeWindows.of(Time.minutes(1), Time.seconds(10))
 - Session windows
 - page views per session, where sessions are defined by a gap of at least 30 minutes between sessions
 - EventTimeSessionWindows.withGap(Time.minutes(30))
Durations can be specified using one of Time.milliseconds(n), Time.seconds(n), Time.minutes(n), Time.hours(n), and Time.days(n).
The time-based window assigners (including session windows) come in both event time and processing time flavors. There are significant tradeoffs between these two types of time windows. With processing time windowing you have to accept these limitations:
 - can not correctly process historic data,
 - can not correctly handle out-of-order data,
 - results will be non-deterministic,
but with the advantage of lower latency.
When working with count-based windows, keep in mind that these windows will not fire until a batch is complete. There's no option to time-out and process a partial window, though you could implement that behavior yourself with a custom Trigger.
A global window assigner assigns every event (with the same key) to the same global window. This is only useful if you are going to do your own custom windowing, with a custom Trigger. In many cases where this might seem useful you will be better off using a ProcessFunction as described in another section.
Window Functions #
You have three basic options for how to process the contents of your windows:
 1. as a batch, using a ProcessWindowFunction that will be passed an Iterable with the window's contents;
 2. incrementally, with a ReduceFunction or an AggregateFunction that is called as each event is assigned to the window;
 3. or with a combination of the two, wherein the pre-aggregated results of a ReduceFunction or an AggregateFunction are supplied to a ProcessWindowFunction when the window is triggered.
Here are examples of approaches 1 and 3. Each implementation


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Twenty-four years ago, New Zealand Post announces that 432 post offices are to be closed (8 February 1988)
The first post office was provided by the government in 1840. By 1900 there were 1700 branches servicing a population of around 800,000.
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They were particularly important for rural communities. Many post offices around the country were specially photographed, an effort that hints at just how central these buildings were to local identity and life. Examples taken by Muir & Moodie and the Burton Brothers are shown above and below.
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The Pangolin Specialist Group's website, _URL_, will serve as an authoritative resource on pangolins, providing conservationists and the public with current information about the animals' natural history, research projects, and strategies to combat the threats that put pangolins at risk.
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