What Is The Rainy Season In France?
What is the rainy season in Paris?
The chance of wet days in Paris varies throughout the year.
The wetter season lasts 10 months, from March 28 to February 4, with a greater than 25% chance of a given day being a wet day.
The chance of a wet day peaks at 30% on May 22.
The drier season lasts 1.8 months, from February 4 to March 28..
What is the best month to go to Paris?
What is the best time of year to go to France?
Where is the best weather in France?
Sunniest places in France It is no secret that the sunniest and warmest part of France is the Côte d'Azur, in particular the coastal area of Var. This is thanks to its position at the foot of the Alps, which protect the area from the wind and inclement weather descending from the north.
What is the rainiest month in France?
MayAverage monthly rainfall in France 2017. This statistic displays the average monthly rainfall in France over the past 20 years. It shows that over the past twenty years the month with the highest average rainfall has been May, with an average rainfall of 99.2 mm. On average, July has been the driest month.
Is it rude to speak English in France?
Is Paris always rainy?
1. Re: Does it rain every day? It does rain a lot.
Does it rain a lot in France?
Bordering the Atlantic Ocean and the English Channel, western France has a temperate Atlantic climate, characterized by relatively mild winters (with average temperatures of 45° F). The chance of sea fog and fine rain is a regular feature of the climate. This area gets an average of 200 days of rainfall per year.
Is Paris warmer than London?
Both cities have almost the same weather, if it's grey in London, it could well be grey in Paris. Paris is usually a little colder in Winter than London and a tad warmer in Summer. London has better beer, Paris has better wine.
What is the coldest month in Paris?
JanuaryParis average temperature At an average temperature of 19.4 °C | 66.9 °F, July is the hottest month of the year. At 3.3 °C | 37.9 °F on average, January is the coldest month of the year.
What month do the French vacation?
What should you not wear in Paris?
In which season does it rain in France?
How many days do you need in Paris?
four daysThere's no wrong answer to how much time you should spend in Paris, but for a solid itinerary, we recommend at least four days.
What is the hottest month in Paris France?
JulyThe warmest month (with the highest average high temperature) is July (25.2°C). The month with the lowest average high temperature is January (7.2°C).
When should I visit Paris?
The best time to visit Paris is from April to June and October to early November when the weather is mild and enjoyable and the tourist crowds are smaller than summer. The cheapest time to visit Paris is early December, January, and February. The very best month to visit Paris is June.
Which part of France has the best climate?
Top 5 Sunniest Places in FranceMarseille. Located between the Mediterranean and the Alps, the climate in Marseille is characterised by long, hot summers, mild winters and lots of sunshine. … Corsica. The island of Corsica is located to the southeast of Marseilles and is just a short flight from Paris. … Nice. … Montpellier. … St Tropez.
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Start your career in marketing at Brookdale!
Obtain the skills to work in sales, as a research analyst, or in retail buying, merchandise distribution, purchasing and advertising.
You will be able to:
- Analyze marketing mix variables and environments
- Recognize problems and design research projects aimed at solution
- Develop promotional strategy within its social, ethical, and regulatory confines
- Evaluate the merchandising practices of differing retail establishments, analyze both layout and display strategies
- Design presentation applying accepted sales strategies
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Under the Köppen Climate Classification climate classification, "dry-summer subtropical" climates are often referred to as "Mediterranean". This climate zone has an an average temperature above 10°C (50°F) in their warmest months, and an average in the coldest between 18 to -3°C (64 to 27°F). Summers tend to be dry with less than one-third that of the wettest winter month, and with less than 30mm (1.18 in) of precipitation in a summer month. SMany of the regions with Mediterranean climates have relatively mild winters and very warm summers.
The Köppen Climate Classification subtype for this climate is "Csb". (Mediterran Climate).
The average temperature for the year in Springerville is 48.4°F (9.1°C). The warmest month, on average, is July with an average temperature of 66.9°F (19.4°C). The coolest month on average is January, with an average temperature of 31.4°F (-0.3°C).
The highest recorded temperature in Springerville is 100.0°F (37.8°C), which was recorded in June. The lowest recorded temperature in Springerville is -28.0°F (-33.3°C), which was recorded in December.
The average amount of precipitation for the year in Springerville is 11.9" (302.3 mm). The month with the most precipitation on average is August with 3.0" (76.2 mm) of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation on average is April with an average of 0.4" (10.2 mm). There are an average of 64.0 days of precipitation, with the most precipitation occurring in August with 13.0 days and the least precipitation occurring in April with 3.0 days.
In Springerville, there's an average of 18.6" of snow (47.2 cm). The month with the most snow is January, with 4.4" of snow (11.2 cm).

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Tomb of Askia
Located in the region of Gao in Mali and built in the fifteenth century, the Tomb of Askia is a monument which is a testament to the wonders of a dynasty fell, for the accuracy of the Songhai dynasty. The tomb bears the name of the founder of the third dynasty and is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. With its 17 meters high, the tomb is the most imposing monument of pre-colonial in the region, and is also the earliest example of Islamic style of architecture which later spread to the region and an example of how you are architecture fused Islam and North Africa. Regularly used as a mosque and cultural center for the city of Gao, the Tomb of Askia is definitely a must for anyone who goes on a visit to Mali.


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Turn South: Southern Women for Change facilitates new approaches for empowering women, tackling poverty, and advancing human rights.
Women at the center, human rights as the standard
Turn South 1) puts women at the center of identifying the root causes of and solutions to tackle poverty; 2) promotes human rights standards as the basis for public policy to address poverty; and 3) lifts up the need to understand our history of sexism, racism, and classism as perpetuators of poverty.
Women connecting actually, listening authentically
The age of the internet has provided new opportunities for organizing, sharing our stories and messages, and reaching new audiences. Yet, many feel more disconnected and isolated. Turn South brings women and their allies together through in-person gatherings. Women sit together, not virtually but actually, to learn one another's lived experiences and desires for change. They sit together to listen to one another and grow common understanding. They sit together to explore collectively how best to become agents organizing for positive change in their communities.
Through its human rights leaders program Turn South develops a long-term relationship with women and girls in rural communities, offering a series of in-person and online educational opportunities. The program is more than a one-time training effort; Turn South is an engaged ally for women working for change in their communities. It commits to sustained support for organizing, coalition building and policy reform efforts. It promotes inter-generational learning and collaboration across diverse communities.
Advancing new discourse
Many schools, churches, and organizations offer community service projects, projects that work to address the impacts of poverty in communities across the country. Turn South works to infuse a human rights perspective into this work and approach. Exploring the links between human rights, local organizing, and community service would contribute significantly to an expanded conversation on how adopting human rights standards is key to tackling poverty.
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Turn South works to find common ground between women human rights activists, practitioners, and social justice leaders and allies. Activists and organizers often have similar goals to improve the lives of many vulnerable communities but different approaches for achieving them. Turn South supports developing common understanding of the different approaches and effective ways to collaborate to meet common goals.


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Sweet and Clean:
A Glance at the History of Infant Feeding
By Dr. Ruth M. W. Moskop and Melissa M. Nasea
Reprinted with permission from the Tar Heel Junior Historian, Spring 2007.
Tar Heel Junior Historian Association, NC Museum of History
Until the 1900s, an infant's health and survival depended largely on having its mother's milk to drink. Doctors still recommend mother's milk as the best food for babies. Modern, scientifically produced formulas in clean bottles, however, now offer another safe choice for babies in North Carolina and elsewhere.
Few records exist about infant feeding during the Middle Ages, but we know that between 1500 and the late 1700s it was not fashionable for wealthier women in the West to nurse their babies. This trend continued into the 1800s, in spite of expert advice that infants should drink mother's milk, if possible. Often, families hired another woman, called a wet nurse, to feed the baby. Many babies in North Carolina were brought up "by the hand," which means they were fed artificially—with animal milk—or given pap. Pap was a very unwholesome, thin mixture of bread and liquid boiled to a pulpy texture. Cleaning infant cups and pap feeders was almost impossible. They exposed hand-fed babies to harmful bacteria, and the food lacked important nutrients.
Around 1800, things began changing. People recognized that glass was a better material for baby bottles. Because glass is clear, it can be cleaned more easily. Still, many more artificially fed babies died young, compared to naturally fed babies. Medical writers insisted that human milk was best for babies.
During the second half of the 1800s, doctors realized two important things about feeding infants. First, human milk stays almost germ-free as it passes from mother to child. Prepared formula—especially from animal milk—in a bottle, cup, or spoon can be contaminated. Second, cow's milk is very different from human milk. It is less sweet and lacks nutrients. Human infants have a hard time digesting it. The first fact made physicians encourage the use of glass feeding bottles designed for easy sterilization. The second fact made chemists join doctors in trying to modify cows' milk to make it more like human milk.
By 1918, drugstores sold a variety of prepared infant foods. Although mother's milk was best for most babies, the sale of artificial foods like Mellin's and Horlick's increased. Clever advertisements showed enchanting pictures of healthy babies and suggested that mother's milk might not be enough. Doctors offered complicated instructions for homemade artificial feeding formulas well into the 1900s.
Better choices finally came. Similac, first sold as a powder in 1923, and Enfamil, introduced in 1959, are artificial infant foods we still use today. When these formulas are mixed at home with clean water and bottles, artificially fed babies usually grow up just fine. Although it has taken hundreds of years, at least in the United States and in other developed countries, babies now have food that is sweet and clean. Mother's milk is still recommended, but artificial infant feeding has come a very long way, indeed!
At the time of this article's publication, Dr. Ruth M. W. Moskop served as the assistant director, history programs, at East Carolina University's Laupus Health Sciences Library, as well as the director of the Country Doctor Museum. Melissa M. Nasea was the history collections librarian at Laupus Health Sciences Library.
"Breastfeeding." Medline Plus, National Institutes of Health. _URL_
Lepore, Jill. 2009. "MATERNITY DEPT. - Baby Food - Are breast pumps edging out nursing?" The New Yorker. 34. (_URL_ and bibliography (_URL_
Resources about the history of infant nutrition from NC LIVE
Resources about the history of infant nutrition from the North Carolina Digital Collections (Government & Heritage Library Collections/State Archives Collections)
Resources about the history of infant nutrition from multiple libraries (WorldCat.org)
"International breastfeeding symbol," _URL_
"Baby bottle," accession _TAG_.2008.1.1, North Carolina Museum of History
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I helped a member at _URL_ with a problem last week that ended with an interesting solution. The explanation of how it worked was a bit complicated and worthy of sharing, hence this is the topic of today's post.
Count the Working Days Between Two Dates
The requirement was to count the working days between the arrival date (say of a request) and the approval date of that request.
I set up a simple data model as follows
The data table has a unique identifier (ID), a received date and a approved date.
I created a simple calendar table that has just 2 columns; a Dates column and a flag to indicate if each date is a working day. I used 0s and 1s in this second column so that it would be easy to add up this column to calculate the total working days.
I then created a single join between the calendar date and the received date. Technically I could have created the join on the Date Approved column as an alternative, however it is possible (even likely) that some requests will be "open" and hence will not have an Approved Date at some point in time. For this reason I have used the Date Received column to make the join.
Calculated Column or Measure?
There are many ways to write a formula that will work. Of course it is possible to write a calculated column in the data table that contains the total business days for each request. This would not be a complete disaster in this case as the cardinality of this column is likely to be relatively low. However this is not the best approach for a number of other reasons, the main one being that "Measures" are the turbo charged super tools of Power Pivot (read all the reasons here). You should invest time to learn how to write Measures, even (especially) when it is hard. In doing so you will build your skills and depth of understanding of how to use and leverage Power Pivot.
If you laze about in calculated columns world, you will never develop your skills enough to be really good at DAX.
Part Solution: A Simple SUM Measure
The first part of the Measure I wrote to solve this problem is as follows:
= CALCULATE( SUM(Calendar[Is Weekday]), FILTER( ALL('Calendar'), 'Calendar'[Date] >= MAX(Data[Date Received]) && 'Calendar'[Date] <= MAX(Data[Date Approved]) ) )
When reading a CALCULATE formula, you always start with the second parameter – in this case the FILTER function (lines 3 through 7). Filter is an iterator, and in this case it is iterating over the CALENDAR table AFTER any existing filters on the Calendar table are first removed (line 4).
FILTER works through each row in the Calendar table and checks to see if the date of each row in the Calendar table is greater than the maximum Date Received (in the current filter context) and also if that date is less than the maximum Date Approved (also in the current filter context). The FILTER function keeps the rows in the Calendar table that pass this test, and then CALCULATE (line 1) applies this FILTER prior to adding up the week days (line 2). Actually, This FILTER function is not very efficient – a better solution is provided below.
It is easier to understand how the formula works with an example, so read on.
Worked Through Example in a Pivot Table
Look at Request ID 2 in the pivot table below (the second row in the pivot). Pivot tables naturally provide initial filter context to the data model – that's what they do; that's why they are so great.
When looking at Request ID 2 in the above pivot table, the data model has an initial filter context so that only a single row in the Data table is "visible". It is possible to simulate this initial filter context into the Data table by physically applying a filter to the source table (like shown below ID = 2). You can do this in the Power Pivot window, or in this case I have used the linked table in Excel to simulate the filter as shown below.
When you simulate the initial filter context like this, it is much easier to understand how the formula works. Referring back to the formula (lines 6 and 7), you need to ask yourself "What is the MAX value of Date Received in the current filter context?". The answer is clearly 4th Jan and the maximum of Date Approved in the current filter context is 9th Jan. Once you know the answer to the MAX parts of this FILTER function (lines 6 & 7), it is then a lot easier to understand what the FILTER function is actually doing. Remember line 5 of the formula first removes all filters on the Calendar[Date] column (in this example there actually are no filters on the calendar table as there are no columns from Calendar in the pivot). Then FILTER checks each row of the Calendar table to see if the date in each row is >= 4th Jan and also <= 9th Jan. FILTER keeps all rows in the Calendar table that pass this test. Note I could have used MAX or MIN or even VALUES to "harvest" the value in the current filter context. In some cases you can even use SUM or AVERAGE – it really depends on your data and what you are trying to do. In short, the Aggregation functions and VALUES when used this way will "harvest" the value in the current filter context – very useful.
It is possible to simulate the results of this FILTER function on the Calendar table the same way as I showed with the Data table above. In the image below, note how I have used the standard Excel table filter feature to simulate the FILTER function in DAX. After applying the filters in Excel, there are 6 rows left in the table, and 5 of those rows have an "IS Weekday" value of 1.
So when SUM in the formula kicks in, it will return the value 5 – exactly the value shown in the pivot table above.
Note how much easier it is to understand and learn how these functions work when you simulate what is happening in the actual tables? This is a great way to learn to "think in tables".
The First Problem with this Partial Formula
You may have noticed that there is a problem with the partial formula shown above. Referring back to the pivot table (shown here again), see how the Grand Total row is blank?
What is really needed is for the Grand Total row to be the sum of the values shown in the rows in the pivot table ie the Grand Total should be 10. To understand why the Grand Total it is blank, you have to go through the same process I walked through above. In short, the initial filter context of the Grand Total in the pivot table is "completely un-filtered". So MAX of Date Received is 15th Jan and MAX of Date Approved is 11th Jan. If you go ahead and simulate this by applying these filters onto the Excel Calendar table (like before), there are no rows in the Calendar table that pass the test. The Calendar table is therefore completely filtered of all rows – none is visible, and hence the SUM formula returns BLANK (note it is BLANK, not 0).
A More Complete SUMX Solution (Still Not Optimal)
Whenever you get this "Grand Totals don't add up" problem, you should think of SUMX as the solution. I like to think of SUMX as a way to "simulate the natural filtering behaviour provided by the rows of the pivot table". Each row of the pivot table is providing initial filter context for one record in the Data table and hence the formula works on row level. But no such Data table filtering is provided by the Grand Total row and hence the formula doesn't work on Grand Total level. I cover this SUM vs SUMX behaviour in more depth in a blog post here.
Here is a formula that you may think should work, but it actually doesn't work at all.
Work Days SUMX Wrong = SUMX(Data, CALCULATE( SUM('Calendar'[Is Weekday]), FILTER( ALL('Calendar'), 'Calendar'[Date] >= MAX(Data[Date Received]) && 'Calendar'[Date] <= MAX(Data[Date Approved]) ) ) )
In the above formula, SUMX iterates over the Data table (line 2). For each row in the Data table, the formula lines 3 through 10 are executed. Intermediate DAX users can be forgiven for thinking that Context Transition occurs because of the CALCULATE function on line 3 – but in this case it does not happen. Remember earlier in the post I explained that the second parameter of CALCULATE is the first part of the formula to be executed. So in the above formula, the FILTER portion (lines 5 through 9) is executed in the initial filter context without any context transition. The CALCULATE isn't executed until after the FILTER portion is complete. That is why CALCULATE in this case does not force Context Transition and that is why this formula doesn't work.
Here is a formula that does work (Still Not Optimal)
Work Days SUMX= SUMX(Data, CALCULATE( CALCULATE( SUM('Calendar'[Is Weekday]), FILTER( ALL('Calendar'), 'Calendar'[Date] >= MAX(Data[Date Received]) && 'Calendar'[Date] <= MAX(Data[Date Approved]) ) ) ) )
Note above in this new correct formula the addition of a second CALCULATE on line 4. The CALCULATE function (ending on line 12) only has a single parameter (which is the second CALCULATE from line 4 through 11). Because the inner CALCULATE function is the first parameter of the outer CALCULATE, the outer CALCULATE is executed first (note if the inner CALCULATE was the second


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Why Does It Feel So Cold When You Step Out of the Shower?
Waking up is hard, but for some of us, getting out of the shower in the morning is harder. Things are dandy at first: You step into the basin and happily roast under a steamy blanket of hot water. But then you shut off the shower faucet, open the curtain, and whoosh! You're a human popsicle. Why does stepping out from a warm shower make your bathroom feel like Antarctica?
The answer is evaporation. When you step off the bathmat, the water clinging to your skin starts to evaporate. But to change into a gas, that water needs help—namely, it needs heat energy. It acquires that energy by sapping heat from your surroundings. In the case of your morning shower, the evaporating water sucks up heat energy from the droplets that stay clinging to your body. The result? The water on your body cools—and so do you. (The water glistening on your skin isn't the only thing that gets icy. Evaporation also absorbs heat from your skin, making you shiver even more!)
Evaporative cooling may be annoying when you take a wintertime shower, but it's handy during the stifling summer days. It's what makes sweat—your body's cooling mechanism—work. Of course, sweat doesn't always cool you down; it can be useless on a muggy afternoon. The air is so saturated with water that your sweat can't evaporate, leaving you hot and soggy.
Which explains why stepping out of the shower can be such a jolt. The cocoon behind the curtain traps a lot of water vapor, keeping the air in the shower moist and warm. But the air outside the curtain isn't as humid. So when you step out of the shower, you enter an environment primed to make the water on your skin evaporate quickly. Add in the fact that warm water evaporates faster, and your bathroom can feel like an icebox.


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The Proprietary Trading team at Alpiq in Olten is seeking an intern for 3 months for a project to strengthen the knowledge base and data gathering around the European gas markets.
Your main responsabilities
- Developing tools and enhancing existing and new trading models by using programming techniques, mostly applied to data scraping, storing, mining.
- Creating tools for systematic monitoring of the main European gas markets.
- Maintaining, expanding and enhancing existing tools for traders to have important information available live.
- Collaboration with Analysis teams regarding data management in order to maximize data quality.
- University degree in Data Science, Engineering, Computer Science or Quantitative Economics
- 0-5 years of experience in a similar role
- Strong Coding (R, Python, etc.) and database skills (SQL)
- Understanding of energy markets is a plus
- Fluency in English required
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A sleeping woman's internal thoughts extrude through the surface of her skin in the form of words and numbers
By Di Mainstone, Hollie Miller, Heiko Prigge, Judy Jacob, Adam Stark, Liisa Pesonen
As seen at the Cannes Film Festival's Short Film Corner 2014
Words & Numbers visualises a woman's internal thoughts as they burst through the surface of her skin in the form of words and numbers. As she sleeps her tear ducts weep numbers. These abstract equations spell out a story, whilst playfully growing and moulding themselves around her body until sinking back into her skin.
The sleeping woman's dreams and anxieties revolve around a mysterious man with elegant eyes. The sleeper appears to count details, days and memories of this man. These thoughts form complex equations to which there is no answer. Time passes and her recollections become confused as numbers mix with words and time appears to fluctuate. We wonder if this man is a figment of her imagination or someone she has yet to meet…
Di Mainstone began by writing the story of the dreaming girl. Di and Hollie Miller then mapped out detailed thumbnails, visualising the story, and cut out all of the fonts in foam. Hollie and Di tested where these words and numbers could be placed on the body and how they might travel across the skin. They then transformed Di's living room in to a studio and worked with photographer Heiko Prigge to create a stop frame animation. Di manipulated the small words step by step on Hollie's body and also built larger structures that Hollie disassembled and manipulated with her movement. Design assistant Liisa animated various elements of the story and Judy Jacobs edited the film.
Words & Numbers is an experiment of how Di's body-centric sculptures can inspire or trigger sound via movement. Di and Hollie imagined that each letter had a particular sonic personality. These ideas were passed onto sound artist Adam Stark who created a mesmerising score that brought the piece to life.
Cannes Film Festival 2014
We are thrilled to announce that Words & Numbers has just been featured at the Cannes Film Festival as part of Short Film Corner 2014.


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This is a theoretical comparison between the costs involved in operating a diesel, electric or gas/petrol counter balanced forklift truck over a period of say 5 years. The comparison gives the cost for an activity cycle per forklift truck.
What is meant with activity cycle is a task for instance to pick up a load and transport it say 25 meters, place the load in a rack (2.5 meters high) and travel back to fetch another load. The cost comparison model has been so designed to calculate the cost involved in the performance of any combinations of activities to form an activity cycle.
This is a theoretical cost model and no environmental aspects are taken into account.
|THE COST COMPARISON MODEL|
The model is divided into the following sub sections.
These are the performance of the particular make and type of forklift trucks in use e.g. max travel speed, lifting speed, etc.
No detail is given here of the further stages of the model - it covers inter-alia the following:
This is the work cycle the forklift is doing. As mentioned in the introduction, each activity cycle is a combination of individual activities. For each activity you must give information such as distance to be travelled, percentage of max speed, etc.
These are the items such as the motor sizes driving the battery operated truck, fuel consumption and tank sizes. These variables are used to determine the power needed to perform each activity cycle.
This is where the fixed cost for the equipment is calculated. The model assumes the equipment would be financed by a 5 year period loan and that the equipment has a residual value at the end of the 5 years. The loan period can be adapted. Tax aspects are ignored but can be added to the model if required.
This is all the operating costs such as: fuel, tyres, maintenance and labour.
All costs are added to obtain a cost per activity cycle as performed in a 5 year period, with other words what that particular activity costs the user during the "life" of the forklift truck in present value rand terms per forklift truck and for the required fleet size.
|SOME COMPARISON RESULTS|
The model has been used for the three different activity cycles. For all three activity cycles the same performance and cost variables have been used, only the activities have been changed.
Activity cycle one: Is for small movements and lifting. Like order picking and truck loading type of activities where the forklift truck does not need to travel over long distances, but is doing a lot of load handling.
Activity cycle two: Is more medium travelling distances and moving. The type of activity were a pallet is moved from the palletisation area to for instance a cold store and placed in a rack.
Activity cycle three: Is for moving of loads over longer distances. Typical operations would be moving loads between warehouses or cold stores where trailer transfer is possibly called for.
It should be noted that this is just an example of what the model can do. End results are very much dependent on the variables entered into the model.
The time taken to complete an activity cycle therefore is very much dependent on the performance parameters of each forklift.
|Interesting to note that the running cost for activity cycle one does not differ very much between the forklifts.|
|Both the LP Gas and Electric forklift trucks do much better in smaller activities such as in activity cycle 1.|
Because the model can accept virtually any forklift task and operation cycle, it is an ideal program to use in order to determine the relative cost of the activity cycle when using each forklift propulsion type - even, within limits, different forklift makes, or more importantly when using larger or smaller capacity forklift trucks to do the same task.
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What is the difference between fact and opinion? A fact is a thing or an
event that people — with different opinions or beliefs — accept as a real or
Every civilization encounters moments when it ceases to grow and develop. The
unwillingness to recognize, contemplate, understand, and assimilate new facts
defines the problem: it is always easier to agree than to dissent.
As a student of history, I have consistently read, studied, and absorbed original
texts and sources. In other words, I avoid textbooks.
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Preferences, Practices, and Virtues: An Ethical Reflection on the Universal Apostolic Preferences
The Society of Jesus has promulgated the Universal Apostolic Preferences (UAPs) for the decade 2019-29. We know what the UAPs are: to seek God, walk with the poor, accompany youth, and collaborate in the care of the earth. And we know what they are for: the ongoing conversion of persons and institutions in their commitment to the mission of reconciliation of justice. But what, exactly, is a "preference" anyhow? In this reflection, I draw on the moral tradition of virtue ethics to argue that the preferences are best understood as "practices" or, in other words, as the fundamental actions by which crucial virtues like mercy and justice are developed in persons and in institutions. I also argue that seeing the preferences as practices in the context of virtue ethics opens up fruitful possibilities for fostering engagement with the UAPs at Jesuit institutions of higher education.
DeCosse, David E.
"Preferences, Practices, and Virtues: An Ethical Reflection on the Universal Apostolic Preferences,"
Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal: Vol. 10:
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Science has never been so cuddly! Introduce budding, young scientists to the basic organs and systems of the human body. Unbutton the doll's chest to explore the organs inside. Match the different organs to different body systems. Squeeze the heart, lungs and stomach to hear different sounds!
Includes: 1 doll 18" (46 cm) tall, 7 organs approximately 3½" (9 cm) and guide.
- Fun way to introduce students to the basic organs
- Students can connect sounds with different organs
- Great way to learn what organs go with what body system


Managing Social Content to Maximize Value and Minimize Risk
The use of social business applications can lead to improved collaboration, knowledge sharing and innovation across your organization. It also creates a new set of content management challenges. How can you incorporate knowledge and information generated in interactions into business processes and put it to work for the larger organization? How can you quickly and cost-effectively find information needed for legal or regulatory proceedings? The social content management strategy you put in place can make all the difference in the ultimate long-term value you receive and risks you face from social solutions. In this AIIM white paper, you will learn about the roles of content publishing systems and content management systems in social business strategies and steps you can take to help ensure that your social business efforts are as successful as possible.
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Using Taskset for Priority Tasks
Unless you're using a really old machine or cheap netbook, almost any system you touch with Linux these days is going to be a multiprocessor system. Any server machine deployed within the past five years should have at least two CPUs, and most desktops released in the past three years have at least two cores. For a number of reasons, you might want to "pin" some tasks so they run exclusively on a single CPU or set of CPUs.A tisket, a tasket, be sure to use the open source server tool taskset for priority tasks.
Whether you want to ensure resources for a process, ensure that a process doesn't hog all system resources or improve a process that doesn't scale well to multiple CPUs, you can use
taskset to assign a task to specific CPUs. It's pretty simple.
taskset, you "bond" a process to a CPU. Let's say you want to run Google Chrome on one CPU. You'd run something like this:
taskset 0x00000001 google-chrome
Now Chrome will be limited to CPU 0 (0x00000001 is the "mask" for CPU 0). If you wanted to assign it to two CPUs, you would use
taskset 0x00000003 instead. Or you could use the
-c option and specify the CPUs by numerical ranges. See the taskset man page for more on that.
To see what processors a task is assigned to, try running
taskset -p XXXX, where XXXX is the process ID (PID). If you're on a two-core system, for example, and haven't set the affinity, it will return 3. If you've assigned it to both cores/CPUs, then it will return 3. I don't make the syntax, I just write about it...
Is this going to speed up your system or be worth doing with all tasks? Nope. It is, however, something you can try to experiment with when you're having performance problems or having issues with a process/application causing problems with the rest of the system. I'd recommend testing it out on your desktop or test systems before attempting it in a production environment -- but with the right combination, you might be able to solve some system problems in short order.
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FIT-PGDAcad. year: 2020/2021
Matematics representation of 3D objects, modeling of curves and surfaces, transformations, projections, lighting and lighting models, hidden surface detection/removal, colour models, basic algorithms of animation, virtual reality problems, architectures for computer graphics support.
Doctoral state exam - topics:
- Projections, homogeneous co-ordinates, projection of points, lines, triangles and other objects.
- Rasterization, general principles, construction of rasteriazation equations for lines.
- Colours, physics fundaments of colours, colours models used in computer graphics, acquisition and rendering of colour images.
- Visibility, methods of visibility detection, representation of scenes, limitations of representation, holography.
- Realistic rendering, rendering of moving objects and scenes, additional aspects of realistic and real-time rendering.
Learning outcomes of the course unit
Student is able to implement discussed algortihms into the applications rendering 3D scenes and objects.
Recommended optional programme components
Recommended or required reading
Moeller, T., Haines, E., Real-time Rendering, AK Peters, 2008, ISBN _PHONE_
N. M. Thalmann; D. Thalmann : Editorial issue 31.3; Computer Animation And Virtual Worlds. 2020, ISSN _PHONE_
Plus literature recommended during the lessons (papers).
Foley, J., van Dam, A., Feiner, S., Hughes, J.: Computer Graphics - Principles and Practice. 3rd ed. Addison - Wesley, Massachusetts, 2013, ISBN _PHONE_
Žára, J. a kol.: Počítačová grafika - principy a algoritmy, Computer PRess, Praha, 2005, ISBN _PHONE_
Plus other "ad-hoc" literature (papers).
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
- Individual presentation
Language of instruction
The aim of the course is to get the student acquanínted with the principles of 3D computer graphics with focus on the contemporary methods used in real-time and photorealistic graphics rendering of 3D scenes.
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
During the course, it is necessary to submit the summary of a selected topic and pass the exam. Teaching is performed as lectures and controlled seminars, the missed classes need to be replaced by self-study.
Type of course unit
39 hours, optionally
Teacher / Lecturer
In the first part of semester, teaching is through standard "lectures of teacher to students".
Breakdown of topics (example):
- Introduction to the course, brief evaluation and "mapping of knowledge" of the students, update of the lecture topics
- Projections revisited, homogeneous co-ordinates, example of projection construction, projection of points, lines, triangles and other objects
- Rasterization, general principles, construction of rasteriazation equations for lines, circles, and ellipses
- Colours, physics fundaments of colours, colours models used in computer graphics, acquisition and rendering of colour images
- Geometry algebra - introduction, principles, objects, operations, demonstration and examples of usage, overview of advantages/disadvantages
- Visibility, methods of visibility detection, representation of scenes, limitations of representation, holography
- Realistic rendering, rendering of moving objects and scenes, additional aspects of realistic and real-time rendering
In the next part of semester, the course is conducted through a series of seminars where students present a presentation on topic of their choice that is followed by a discussion.
Guided consultation in combined form of studies
26 hours, optionally
Teacher / Lecturer


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Noun (futsuumeishi) May take the particle 'no' government and peopleRegierung und Volk
官ON: カン bureaucrat, the government 民ON: ミンKUN: たみ people, nation, subjects
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The written notice taken by a grand jury of any offence, from their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of indictment laid before them at the suit of the government upon such presentment, when 'proper, the officer emloyed to prosecute, afterwards frames a till of indictment, which is then sent to the grand jury, and they find it to be a true bill. In an extended sense presentments include not only what is properly so called, but also inquisitions of office, and indictments found by a grand jury.The difference between a presentment and an inquisition, is this, that the former is found by a grand jury authorized to inquire of offences generally, whereas the latter is an accusation found by a jury specially returned to inquire concerning the particular offence.
The writing which contains the accusation so presented by a grand jury, is also called a presentment.
contracts. The production of a bill of exchange or promissory note to the party on whom the former is drawn, for his acceptance, or to the person bound to pay either, for payment.
The holder of a bill is bound, in order to hold the parties to it responsible to him, to present it in due time for acceptance, and to give notice, if it be dishonored, to all tho parties he intends to hold liable. And when a bill or note becomes payable, it must be presented for payment.
The principal circumstances concerning presentment, are the person to whom, the place where, and the time when, it is to be made.
In general the presentment for payment should be made to the maker of a note, or the drawee of a bill for acceptance, or to the acceptor, for payment; but a presentment made at a particular place, when pavable there, is in general sufficient. A personal demand on the drawee or acceptor is not necessary; a demand at his usual place of residence of his wife or other agent is sufficient.
When a bill or note is made payable at a particular place, a presentment, as we have seen, may be made there; but when the acceptance is general, it must be presented at the house or place of business of the acceptor.
In treating of the time for presentment, it must be considered with reference, 1st. To a presentment for acceptance. 2d. To one for payment. 1st. When the bill is payable at sight, or after sight, the presentment must be made in reasonable time; and what this reasonable time is depends upon the circumstances of each case. The presentment of a note or bill for payment ought to be made on the day it becomes due, and notice of non-payment given, otherwise the holder will lose the security of the drawer and endorsers of a bill and the endorsers of a promissory note, and in case the note or bill be payable at a particular place and the money lodged there for its payment, the holder would probably have no recourse against the maker or acceptor, if he did not present them on the day, and the money should be lost.
The excuses for not making a presentment are general or applicable to all persons, who are endorsers; or they are special and applicable to the particular' endorser only.Among the former are, 1. Inevitable accident or overwhelming calamity. 2. The prevalence of a malignant disease, by which the ordinary operations of business are suspended. 3. The breaking out of war between the country of the maker and that of the holder. 4. The occupation of the country where the note is payable or where the parties live, by a public enemy, which suspends commercial operations and intercourse. 5. The obstruction of the ordinary negotiations of trade by the vi's maj or. 6. Positive interdictions and public regulations of the state which suspend commerce and intercourse. 7. The utter impracticability of finding the maker, or ascertaining his place of residence.
Among the latter or special excuses for not making a presentment may be enumerated the following: 1. The receiving the note by the holder from the payee, or other antecedent party, too late to make a due presentment; this will be an excuse as to such party. 2. The note being an accommodation note of the maker for the benefit of the endorser. 3. A special agreement by which the endorser waives the presentment. 4. The receiving security or money by an endorser to secure himself from loss, or to pay the note at maturity. In this case, when the indemnity or money is a full security for the amount of the note or bill, no presentment is requisite. 5. The receiving the note by the holder from the endorser, as a collateral security for another debt.
A want of presentment may be waived by the party to be affected, after a full knowledge of the fact.


Why there's Rainbow Beach sand sitting on the moon
WE ALL love to walk along the fine sands of Rainbow Beach, but not many people would know the sand's link to Neil Armstrong's historic first ever moon walk 50 years ago.
Rutile extracted from Cooloola Coast sand deposits back in the '60s had gone into the manufacture of titanium used on the Apollo 11 space craft.
In fact the spindly legs of the lunar module made from our Wide Bay sand, were the first part of the craft to touch the moon and are still up there today.
At the time about 90 per cent of the world's titanium came from Australia.
Queensland Titanium Mines Pty Ltd at Rainbow Beach filled a large part of the export market ensuring our place in space history.
Titanium made from the Wide Bay's sand was used to build the Apollo 11 command ship Columbia, its lunar module lander Eagle and the Saturn five rocket that put the men into orbit.
The space capsules heat shield that protected the craft during re-entry into the earth's atmosphere was also made of titanium alloys.
Sand mining ceased at Rainbow Beach in the mid-1970s due to environmental concerns.


Savant Syndrome Definition | Causes | Genius Disease | Symptoms
Savant Syndrome Definition | Causes | Genius Disease | Symptoms
Read about the (Genius Disease) savant syndrome psychology definition, it causes, treatment and also read about some interesting personalities diagnosed.
Savant Syndrome Psychology Definition :
It is a condition in which a person posses mental illness but on the other hand, they do also possess Extraordinary skills that may be associated with reading and remembering things faster than a normal person or maybe performing fast calculations.
what is savant syndrome
What Is Savant Syndrome?
 - In layman language, the word savant refers to a person who possesses some extraordinary skills in a particular area of a Subject.
 - It is a very rare condition and happens to only 1 in a million peoples.
 - person suffering from diseases has some of the extraordinary skills and abilities that make them outshine from normal individuals.
 - This condition often comes with the birth of a child and then it is detected during childhood or it can develop in later life after CNS or brain injury.
 - The extraordinary skills of Savant fall under five different categories: music, art, calendar calculating, mathematics or mechanical/visual-spatial skills.
In some exceptional cases, other skills include : language (polyglot), unusual sensory discrimination, athletics or brilliant knowledge in specific fields such as neuron physiology, statistics, navigation or computers. The affected Individual may show one of these skills or multiple skills. Hence it is Genius's Disease.
Savant Syndrome Causes
Usually, this condition occurs by birth but there are some causes which can be a reason for this Disorder.
 1. It may occur due to injury on brain
 2. This can occur due to a change in genes or genes.
 3. Premature birth of a child. ( Less than 35 weeks)
 4. an individual may acquire disease due to hierarchical conditions.
causes of savant syndrome
There are no definite causes of such disorder but doctors and researchers are still conducting research for the same.
Savant Syndrome Symptoms
Savants possess central nervous system disease and they can be easily noticed on the basis of their abnormal behavior.
Though this is a disease, it is not a curse but a boon to an effected individual in some way or another. The individual with such disorder or disease may possess mental illness but at the same time, they are blessed with some extraordinary skills. They are imperfectly perfect with their abilities.
Savant Syndrome Example
We have some remarkable personalities with such disorders and it is really interesting to know about them and their exceptional abilities.
The 13-year-old blind boy who could perfectly repeat any piece of the piano just listening it at once. He was also able to play two different songs at the same time.
Lerman began drawing charcoal portraits at the age of 10. He is the savant with an IQ of over 150. By the age of 14, his pieces were appearing in New York art galleries having worth of $1,200.
He comes to our mind when we hear the term autistic savant. He performed the role of an autistic savant in the film RAIN MAN which was released in 1988 and it was inspired by (KIM PEEK).
Savant Syndrome Characteristics
Savants show brilliancy and have the ability to naturally master the Areas falling into music, art, mathematical calculations, navigation, history, and sensory skills.
 - Memorize books at one glance and recall any word of the same immediately.
 - Measure distance without any instruments.
 - Play multiple music instruments without practicing it before.
 - Superfast numeric calculation of dates or any numeric value in seconds.
 - Advanced and brilliant learning skills.
savant syndrome characteristics
Savant Syndrome Treatment
Once the infected individual was treated by the specialist and prescribed with major tranquilizers and antiparkinsonian drugs. Gradually with time, the patient responded well. There is currently no fixed treatment procedure for the disease. Researchers and scientists are looking forward to finding the cause and cure for the disorder.
the above disorder is not actually a disorder but a boon the infected person. the person with such disorder may lack some mental abilities but on the other hand, they do also possess some exceptional skills and abilities that make them superior from normal individuals.
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Social-science migrating field station: monitoring the Human-Rangifer link by following herd migration
The aim of this project is to establish mobile field-stations as an innovative research instrument for long-term comparison of human-Rangifer interactions in the subarctic zone. The primary focus of observation is the human-Rangifer link under current impact of socio-economic and climate change. Establishing a mobile observation facility ('nomadic camp') offers the best possibilities for long-term observation in the natural environment of the tundra. Thus, researchers use the same practice of following herds that most Rangifer users themselves have used for centuries. The trajectory of the mobile station is determined by the annual migration of a chosen Rangifer herd. The data is recorded in a standardized form, dealing with impact/response description related to socio-economic and climate change, respectively. This data is transmitted from the field on a web-site of the project at regular sessions. After completion of the first migration in the center of the Kola Peninsula (NW Russia), the station shall be made available to other researchers of the human-Rangifer link. Every effort shall be made to continue the work of the station on a longitudinal basis, inviting the cooperation of interested sub-arctic oriented institutions.


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Effective nonverbal communication between patients and clinicians fosters both the delivery of empathic patient-centered care and positive patient outcomes. However, few efforts to develop tools for enhancing clinician communication have focused on nonverbal aspects of the clinical encounter. We describe a novel system that both uses social signal processing technology (SSP) to capture nonverbal cues in real time and displays ambient visual feedback on control and affiliation---two primary, yet distinct dimensions of interpersonal nonverbal communication. To explore clinicians' acceptance of and reaction to an ambient visual feedback from such a system, we conducted a Wizard-of-Oz lab study to simulate system use with 16 healthcare professionals. We further followed up with 7 of those participants and iterated on the design with a new visualization. Our results indicate that reflective visual feedback on nonverbal communication provides an acceptable way to provide clinicians with awareness of their nonverbal communication. Furthermore, we discuss implications for the design of visual feedback to encourage empathic patient-centered communication.
}, author = {Rupa A. Patel and A. Hartzler and M. Czerwinski and W. Pratt and A. Back}, month = {May}, publisher = {IEEE Pervasive Health}, title = {Visual Feedback on Nonverbal Communication: A Design Exploration with Healthcare Professionals}, url = {_URL_ year = {2013}, }


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Sir Francis Grant
Grant, Sir Francis, 1803–78, Scottish portrait painter. He was self-taught in painting, for which he abandoned a career in law. He began as a painter of hunting scenes ( The Melton Hunt and The Cottesmore Hunt ) but gained success as a fashionable portrait painter. Among his sitters were Scott, Macaulay, Disraeli, Palmerston, and Landseer. Sir Francis was president (1866–78) of the Royal Academy.
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Electrical Engineer / Electrician Interview question
General terms used in electrical engineering
This is the peak current that occurs when power is first applied to a unit. It is measured in peak amperes
This is the relationship of the actual power usage to the apparent power usage.
For example :
Actual Power = 100 watts of power when averaged over a period of time.
Apparent Power = RMS Current X RMS Voltage.
RMS Current = 1.28 A
RMS voltage = 120Vac
Apparent Power = 1.28 A x 120 Vac
= 153.6 VA
Power Factor = 100 watts/153.6 VA
= 0.651 or 65.1%.
True RMS current
The acronym RMS stands for Root Mean Square. The definition of Root Mean Square is the square root of the mean square of the variable values taken throughout one cycle.
This is a measurement of the normal running current, but instead of an average or RMS value, the peak value is given. This is the highest value that the current reaches during a given half cycle.
A typical load of the rectifier/capacitor-input type.
This is the integral of the instantaneous voltage multiplied by the instantaneous current over a half cycle.
BTU/hr stands for British Thermal Units per hour. The British Thermal Unit is equivalent to the quantity of heat necessary to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit (at 39.2°F). It provides a measurement of power converted to a form that is useful for sizing heating and cooling systems.


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Objective: To present the case of a patient with anxiety and depressive symptoms who developed the clinical picture of stiff-person plus syndrome (SPS-plus).
Background: Before the onset of typical SPS symptoms, psychiatric symptoms (like depression and anxiety) may be prominent and as such misleading, resulting in the diagnosis of a psychiatric condition.
Method: We describe the case of a woman who initially presented with anxious depression and remained resistant to treatment with different classes of antidepressants and additional therapy with lithium and atypical antipsychotics.
Results: Evidence of neurologic dysfunction and significantly increased levels of serum autoantibodies for glutamic acid decarboxylase supported the diagnosis of SPS. The patient appeared to benefit from short-term immunosuppressive therapy with methylprednisolone.
Conclusions: The authors believe that anxious depression and SPS-plus seen in this patient are the result of the same underlying autoimmune process, together forming a unique syndrome. Anxious and depressive symptoms in SPS can be explained by alterations in GABAergic neurotransmission.


Runway Model SDK
These documents serve as a reference for the Runway Model SDK. With a few lines of code, you can port existing ML models to the Runway platform so they can be used and shared by others.
This SDK supports both Python 3.6+. You can install the module using either pip or pip3 like so:
pip3 install runway-python
Published versions of the SDK are hosted on the PyPI project website.
Runway Models
A Runway model consists of two special files:
 - A python script that imports the runway module (SDK) and exposes its interface via one or more runway.command() functions. This file is used as the entrypoint to your model.
 - runway.yml: A configuration file that describes dependencies and build steps needed to build and run the model.
Runway models expose a standard interface that allows the Runway app to interact with them over HTTP. This is accomplished using three functions: _USER_.setup(), _USER_.command(), and
Any Python-based model, independent of the ML framework or toolkit, can be converted into a Runway model using this simple interface. For more information about the runway module, see the module reference page.
This is example code for demonstration purposes only. It will not run, as the your_image_generation_model import is not a real python module.
import runway
from runway.data_types import category, vector, image
from your_image_generation_model import big_model, little_model
# The setup() function runs once when the model is initialized, and will run
# again for each well formed HTTP POST request to http://localhost:9000/setup.
_USER_.setup(options={'model_size': category(choices=['big', 'little'])})
def setup(opts):
 if opts['model_size'] == 'big':
 return big_model()
 return little_model()
inputs = { 'noise_vector': vector(length=128, description='A random seed.') }
outputs = { 'image': image(width=512, height=512) }
# The _USER_.command() decorator is used to create interfaces to call functions
# remotely via an HTTP endpoint. This lets you send data to, or get data from,
# your model. Each command creates an HTTP route that the Runway app will use
# to communicate with your model (e.g. POST /generate). Multiple commands
# can be defined for the same model.
_USER_.command('generate', inputs=inputs, outputs=outputs, description='Generate an image.')
def generate(model, input_args):
 # Functions wrapped by _USER_.command() receive two arguments:
 # 1. Whatever is returned by a function wrapped by _USER_.setup(),
 # usually a model.
 # 2. The input arguments sent by the remote caller via HTTP. These values
 # match the schema defined by inputs.
 img = input_args['image']
 return model.generate(img)
# The function triggers a call to the function wrapped by
# _USER_.setup() passing model_options as its single argument. It also
# creates an HTTP server that listens for and fulfills remote requests that
# trigger commands.
if __name__ == '__main__':'', port=9000, model_options={'model_size': 'big' })
If you are looking to port your own model, we recommend starting from our Model Template repository hosted on GitHub. This repository contains a basic model that you can use as boilerplate instead of having to start from scratch.
Example runway.yml
Each Runway model must have a runway.yml configuration file in its root directory. This file defines the steps needed to build and run your model for use with the Runway app. This file is written in YAML, a human-readable superset of JSON. Below is an example runway.yml file. This example file illustrates how you can provision your model's environment.
version: 0.1
python: 3.6
entrypoint: python
cuda: 9.2
framework: tensorflow
 - image_dataset/*
 - pip install runway-python
 - pip install -r requirements.txt
Continue on to the Runway YAML reference page to learn more about the possible configuration values supported by the runway.yml file, or hop over to the Example Models page to check out the source code for some of the models that have already been ported to Runway.


Natural Gas Severance Tax Proposals
Act 46 of 2010, more commonly known as Pennsylvania's 2010-2011 budget bill, contained a commitment by the General Assembly to pass a natural gas severance tax by October 1, 2010, with an effective date of no later than January 1, 2011. This article will provide a brief summary of things to watch for as the General Assembly "makes the sausage" this month.
Severance taxes throughout the United States are generally based on the volume of gas extracted, the value of gas extracted, or a combination of the two. In the case of a tax based on the volume of gas extracted, there is a flat rate in terms of cents per thousand cubic feet (MCF). The gas is simply metered through the well as it is extracted. The problem with the volume method is that it does not take into account the value of the gas being extracted. For instance, when gas prices are very high, the taxing jurisdiction will not share in the increased revenues. Conversely, when gas prices are very low, the tax may be a severe impediment to extracting the gas at all.
The alternative is to tax the value of gas extracted "at the wellhead," which means before any deductions are made for transportation and distribution costs. The downside of this type of tax is that it is difficult to forecast for state budgeting purposes. It is also more difficult to enforce the tax, because sales and prices must be monitored and audited, rather than simply reading a volume meter at the wellhead.
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Description: In response to steamship concerns regarding the dangerous shoals on the eastern shore of the Hudson River just north of New York City, Congress authorized the building of a lighthouse in 1847 near Tellers Point and Sing Sing Prison. Officials, however, changed their mind and a site a few miles south was chosen instead. The new site was part of a profitable vineyard operated by Kingsland Point Property, and the two parties could not agree on a selling price, delaying the project indefinitely.
Captain Joseph Ackerman lit the light for the first time on October 1, 1883, a ceremony he would repeat many times during his twenty-one years of service at the rock-rimmed cast-iron tower. The 54-foot-tall conical tower consists of five levels. The first level, having a diameter of eighteen feet, served as a combination kitchen/dining room/living room. Bedrooms were located on the next two levels. The fourth level was split into two rooms, a bedroom and a small storeroom. The fifth level stored fog bell equipment, and the lantern room topped it all off.
The only Caisson style lighthouse on the Hudson River, the Tarrytown Lighthouse housed a fourth-order Fresnel lens, which originally exhibited a fixed white light characteristic from a 56-foot focal plane. The characteristic was switched to fixed-red in 1894 and then in 1902, it was changed to flashing red.
General Motors expanded its automobile plant along the river in 1923, altering the course of the Pocantico River. Slowly, the east shore of the Hudson River expanded until only 50 feet separated the lighthouse from the shoreline.
When the Tappan Zee Bridge was completed in 1955, the Tarrytown Light was no longer needed. Its candlepower was reduced from 7000 to 1500 in 1957, and the inevitable deactivation occurred in 1961. The lighthouse was listed for disposal and fell into disrepair.
In 1969, Westchester County began plans to accept the lighthouse from the General Services Administration (GSA), and ownership was transferred in 1974. Westchester County has worked diligently to restore and maintain the structure. During the 1970s, a metal footbridge was constructed to connect the lighthouse to the shoreline.
On October 1, 1983, the 100th anniversary of the beacon's first lighting, the Tarrytown Lighthouse was opened to the public. Today, Westchester County occasionally conducts tours of the lighthouse, treating visitors to furnishings and photographs depicting life at the lighthouse.
As part of a $800,000 project, funded by Westchester County and the Village of Sleepy Hollow, the lighthouse will be stabilized, have its wooden floors replaced, and receive a new coat of paint. The work should be finished in 2013.
Located just north of the Tappan Zee Bridge
(Interstate 287) on the eastern shore of the
Hudson River. The lighthouse is owned by Westchester County Parks. Tower closed.
The lighthouse is owned by Westchester County Parks. Tower closed.
Pictures on this page copyright Kraig Anderson, used by permission.


A good summary of the Zerg race is given on wikipedia as follows:
In other words, if the zerg see some biological feature they like, they assimilate the creatures that possess that feature to evolve into more adaptable creatures.
Furthermore, the starcraft wiki goes into some details about the Zerg's genetic structure:
zerg genetic material consists of DNA, seemingly in the shape of a double helix. However, when a zerg strain's DNA evolves, it becomes less flexible. -_URL_
The question is, given what we know about biology and evolution thus far, would it be possible for such a race of aliens to exist in the real universe?
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 $\begingroup$ To clarify for those not familiar with the game; The "details" about the Zerg's genetic structure exist mainly to hand-wave the fact that you can only shapeshift your units INTO more specialized units, and you can't un-shapeshift your units back to the stem-unit. (ie: A Zerg Drone may 'evolve' into one of eleven different bio-structures, but none of them can morph back into a drone). $\endgroup$ – Ayelis Jun 12 '15 at 0:13
 - $\begingroup$ The Zerg units "evolving" into different units in the game is also a non-science-ism. Evolution requires many generations, with only some individuals surviving to produce the next generation. From a science point of view, units morphing into different units is like caterpillars becoming butterflies: the transform is 'programmed' into the DNA, but the DNA itself doesn't change. $\endgroup$ – JanKanis May 7 '20 at 14:09
The first part is definitely possiblehumans can already artificially modify the genomes of living organisms to do pretty much whatever we want. One of the means we use to do this, in fact, is retroviruses, which I suppose technically are the zerg if you wanted to loosen the definition a bit; they inject their DNA into living organisms' genomes, and those organisms produce copies of the virus.
Then there's bacterial conjugation; bacteria directly swapping sections of genome. It's one of the ways genetic traits manage to proliferate between bacteria.
Now, whether the "hivemind" thing would work depends on the precise mechanism of hivemind communication. Faster-than-light? Very unlikely. Not actually theoretically impossible (just locally impossible), because wormholes and black holes, but (as far as we know at the moment) the living organisms would need to be slingshotting their radio signals around orbiting black holes with relatively precise trajectories, or they'd need to be somehow producing enormous amounts of exotic matter / negative energy. Staggering quantities. Suns' worth.
However, if they just coordinated thoughts with massless particle transmitters-receivers (like your TV remote) while still maintaining separate brains and coordinating multiple thought processes (like a distributed operating system), that'd work just fine. In a very real sense, your brain is itself a hivemind, because all of the cells which comprise it could survive separately from each other in the right medium. Even the organelles within those cells (cf. mitochondria) can maintain a degree of autonomy under the right conditions.
I have no idea what they mean by the DNA becoming "less flexible", so I can't really comment on that.
Also, full disclosure, I'm not a geneticist or physicist. So, if any of you are, and feel I've misrepresented something, feel free to call me out on that / edit and correct.
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 $\begingroup$ This is what your "hive-mind" section reminded me of. $\endgroup$ – Tom Anderson Jun 12 '15 at 11:37
 - $\begingroup$ _USER_ Haven't run across that webcomic, before. Thanks, man. :) (Also, rereading what I wrote, I've decided to use the phrase "massless particle receiver-transmitter" way more often in everyday life. As in "pass me that massless particle receiver-transmitter", "...You mean the wireless router?", "Yeah. That's what I said.") $\endgroup$ – Parthian Shot Jul 15 '15 at 1:38
 - $\begingroup$ The Zerg themselves are indeed more of a dissociated/distributed hivemind (there are even politics between "nodes", iirc); in the first game, at least, when doing the Zerg campaign you play as one such node rather than as the Overmind itself. $\endgroup$ – JAB Sep 14 '16 at 16:41
I think there is an animal that is kinda similar to that. The ants, Zerg tend to be like a colony and the queen (which can be the overmind) can tell them what to do. Also, specific ants do specifics things. For example: Honey Pot Ants recolect food and then provided to other ants; Worker make the colony bigger; Warrior Ants fight to protect the colony, etc... Which is how Zergs work (I play SC2).
However, the only way to assimilate another living attribute doesn't really exist. I mean, there may be some viruses or bacteria that can do that or something similar, but not an animal or plant. The only way to change the genetic of a living thing is manually, and by that I mean artificially modify their genes.
EDIT: I just found this website where it shows how Ant and Zergs are similar _URL_
 - $\begingroup$ Do you have any evidence that queen ants tell the rest of the colony what to do? $\endgroup$ – kingledion Dec 4 '16 at 5:12
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I was recently sent a review of the 2010 book, "The Power of Pull", by John Hagel III (buy now at Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com or Kalahari.net). I believe he collaborated with John Seely Brown and Lang Davison. I have not yet read the book, but the reviews online and description indicate it's one that should be read.
Individuals and companies can no longer rely on the stocks of knowledge that they've carefully built up and stored away. Information now flows like water, and we must learn how to tap into the stream. But many of us remain stuck in old practices – practices that could undermine us as we search for success and meaning. In this revolutionary book, three doyens of the Internet age, whose path-breaking work has made headlines around the world, reveal the adjustments we must make if we take these changes seriously. In a world of increasing risk and opportunity, we must understand the importance of pull. Understood and used properly, the power of pull can draw out the best in people and institutions by connecting them in ways that increase understanding and effectiveness. Pull can turn uncertainty into opportunity, and enable small moves to achieve outsized impact. Drawing on pioneering research, The Power of Pull shows how to apply its principles to unlock the hidden potential of individuals and organizations, and how to use it as a force for social change and the development of creative talent. The authors explore how to use the power of pull to:
- Access new sources of information
- Attract likeminded individuals from around the world
- Shape serendipity to increase the likelihood of positive chance encounters
- Form creation spaces to drive you and your colleagues to new heights
- Transform your organization to adapt to the flow of knowledge
The Power of Pull is essential reading for entrepreneurs, managers, and anybody interested in understanding and harnessing the shifting forces of our networked world.
The review I was sent by email:
There is a big shift happening that will change the way companies get the maximum value from their talent. Companies that adapt to the changes will be stronger, more productive, more committed and more engaged than ever before. The companies that are not preparing for this future may struggle to stay alive.
What Is the Big Shift?
The big shift is what The Power of Pull authors John Hagel, John Seely Brown and Lang Davison call a "reordering of life, learning, socializing, playing and working." It's driven by new technology, social media and increased performance and digital storage capacity, as well as public policy changes such as trade liberalization, immigration and deregulation. The authors said these drivers have created three overlapping waves.
The first wave is evident: The evolution of a new digital infrastructure has given unprecedented access to and distribution capabilities for information. Simultaneously, shifts in public policy have made the movement of people, products, money and ideas across national boundaries easier than ever. The second wave is a movement from putting primary value on knowledge stocks, such as intellectual property and trade secrets, to knowledge flows, where valuable knowledge is being continuously created. We see examples of this in the ways social networks and other collaboration tools help people find each other, share knowledge more effectively and develop long-lasting relationships that create even more knowledge.
Finally, organizations are beginning to develop the third wave, what the authors describe as institutional innovations. Here, organizations foster and participate in creation spaces, platforms people access to attract the resources they need to improve their performance and achieve a purpose for which they share a passion.
Most companies have created wealth the classic way, by developing a formula to repeat a solution to a problem. This formula allows the company to efficiently address greater and greater numbers of the problem — for example, through manufacturing processes such as an assembly line. That in turn enables "ne plus ultra" of profitability: economies of scale, which usually result in lower costs due to the effect of the experience curve, and hopefully increased barriers to entry.
How Are Companies Vulnerable?
Hagel, Brown and Davison point out a twofold problem. First, the experience curve is one of diminishing returns on performance; it offers less value the more organizations produce, plus it has a lower limit of zero cost. Second, global competition and greater information available to consumers undercut barriers to entry, making it harder for companies to push larger numbers of their products to the market. It is becoming increasingly difficult to remain competitive simply by becoming larger because consumers can find what they want in ever-increasing numbers of alternative choices.
Finally, much of the push-based business thinking also was based on accuracy in demand forecasts. The better organizations could predict demand for a product or service, the better they could control costs and increase profits. But the waves of the big shift are making forecasting demand harder thanks to the increasing rate of change in technological developments, consumer tastes and product innovations from competitors, which can alter demand more quickly than organizations can react.
Consider how push-based principles of business were worked out during the height of the Industrial Age, when labor was viewed primarily as a component of an assembly line. Much was done to create efficiencies of scale to further reduce costs and variance in labor. Jobs were broken down into specialized tasks to remove the inefficiencies of task switching from the production equation. Individual performance could be measured easily and rewarded through extrinsic means such as bonuses and pay. As Dan Ariely discusses in The Upside of Irrationality, performance of routine tasks has been shown to respond positively to extrinsic rewards.
This also made for a fairly predictable model upon which to plan hiring and training programs. Further, training could be more efficient by having each training event focused on a specialized task for as great a number of employees as could be handled. Breaking down work into component tasks and applying external rewards for performance served business quite well for some time.
However, knowledge workers gradually became more important to creating corporate wealth. Knowledge workers typically do not perform routine tasks primarily; instead they are often called upon to apply research, analysis and critical thinking to solve problems. To management, it was logical to continue using the carrot-and-stick approach of extrinsic reward systems as the main motivation for performance. But Ariely cites research that indicates extrinsic rewards can have a negative impact on the performance of tasks requiring more cognitive effort, with distortive rewards being dangerous to the organization as well as society. Intrinsic rewards improve knowledge worker performance more often. In Drive, Dan Pink describes these as autonomy — the ability to choose how to work; mastery — personal growth and fulfilling potential; and purpose — finding meaning and relevance in work.
Ariely also said that breaking jobs into their component tasks can have negative consequences that can outweigh efficiency gains. Many knowledge worker jobs have been engineered to become more efficient by breaking them down into specialized tasks. But often once this happens the worker no longer sees his or her contribution as purposeful because the task is an anonymous piece connected to some unseen output. Ariely shows that this destruction of meaning greatly reduces the worker's motivation to do more of the task. Autonomy is also reduced, since the job has become tightly defined in order to be more efficient, with strict procedures to be followed. Opportunities for mastery also are reduced when a job is limited in scope.
In short, current approaches to managing talent are not helping companies get the most value from talent, and in some cases actually damage its value. The push-oriented mindset of management, which is primarily focused on cost, efficiency and scale, is apt to find itself running just to stay in place because those advantages are no longer sufficient in a rapidly changing world. There is a severe shortage of engagement, commitment and passion in talent that could be a tremendous resource to bring new solutions to customers' needs and companies' challenges.
To reverse this trend, The Power of Pull authors propose that the best way for companies to survive and even thrive in the big shift is to find, attract and participate in high-value knowledge flows. In these flows, knowledge is not just being shared, it's being continuously created. In other words, if the waves of the big shift are driving change, it may be best to learn how to ride those waves.
Uncovering Passion and Purpose
To succeed at riding the waves, a company can transform from a machine whose formula pushes training to employees to a platform that pulls resources and then connects both talent and knowledge to achieve a particular purpose. That shared purpose should be an initiative or difficult problem the organization is wrestling with, which will further attract more talent that shares the same passion for that initiative or solving that problem.
This is a different way of solving problems from the push model, which focused on creating a repeatable process. The network effect of connecting more, focused talent on an initiative or problem provides increasing returns on performance — something the authors refer to as capability leverage. The question then is: How can we ignite engagement, commitment and passion in talent?
People sometimes have trouble determining what they are passionate about. One place to start is with the individual's sense of identity. In The Why of Work, Dave and Wendy Ulrich focus on employees' strengths rather than gaps. When employees ask, "What am I known for?" they are essentially trying to find their identity in the organization and how it provides meaning to their work. The answer to their question often lies in discovering an employee's signature strengths, things that make that person stand out from the rest. Passion is not always about a particular strength; sometimes it's about the positive sense of self-worth and meaning that exercising that strength gives. The challenges that interest a person also can help to identify their passions.
Just as individuals have an identity, so do organizations. Each organization has capabilities that distinguish it from others. With this information, talent leaders can blend employees' personal strengths with organizational capabilities and help employees know how — or even if — they fit into a company.
To evaluate talent and determine whether an organization is


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Photographs of the Newgrange Passage TombThis is a photograph of the Newgrange area. You can see the tomb is located on a gently sloping hill. The sheep in this photo will give you perspective on how large this tomb is!
This is a close-up photograph of the building nearest the tomb. It is located some 10 meters from the tomb. It is unclear exactly what its relation is to the tomb, but some have called it a satellite tomb and others have called it a hut.
This is the portal stone of Newgrange.
This is kerbstone 52 on the northern perimeter of Newgrange. It shows some of the carved designs that could very well be pictures of the Sun.
This is a close-up photo of the Newgrange passage tomb. Again, you get perspective as to how big the structure is by the people standing in the picture. It is estimated that it would have taken a workforce of 300 at least 20 years to construct Newgrange, because it is so big!
Another image showing the portal stone of Newgrange. The portal stone of Newgrange counts as kerbstone number 1.
Another photo of kerbstone number 52 at Newgrange. There are actually 97 kerbstones that surround the main Newgrange mound. Many are decorated as can be seen in these images.
This is kerbstone number 93 of Newgrange.
This is kerbstone number 67 of Newgrange. This pattern is known as S-shaped spirals or returning spirals since the spirals feed into each other.
These are photographs of the Newgrange tomb.
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Jan Bily. The remaining images (labelled _URL_) are from Knowth.com


Brain injury turns Italian man into Frenchman with poor language skills
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A brain injury has turned an Italian man French, even though he doesn't speak the language very well.
Scientists from the University of Edinburgh and the Somma Lombardo Hospital in Italy, detailed the man's odd condition in the medical journal Cortex.
The man, who is 50 and described only by his initials, JC, had a brain injury stemming from an arterial anomaly four years ago. Abruptly afterwards, he began to talk in French. He only reads French magazines, enjoys French movies and eats French food.
The researchers said JC's previous history with French amounted to high school language classes and a "fling" with a French woman while the man was in his 20s. This was the first time he had used the language in 30 years.
Despite his newfound desire to speak French -- what the scientists call a "compulsive foreign language syndrome" -- JC still can't speak it very well.
But what he lacks in accuracy, he makes up for in "exaggerated intonation," the scientists say.
And he doesn't let it get him down: "unjustified euphoria," they call it -- even offering to teach his neighbours how to speak French.
"When a trauma to the brain occurs -- due to a car accident or a stroke, tumour, or other causes -- some parts of the network may be spared while some others temporarily or irreversibly damaged," Regina Jokel, a speech-language pathologist told ABC News in 2010, after studying a Croatian teen who began speaking German.
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Thu August 9, 2012
Uncovering Secrets Buried At A Neglected Cemetery
Originally published on Thu August 9, 2012 10:07 am
At most cemeteries, hearing weed cutters and lawn mowers trimming grass around graves would seem normal enough. But at Lincoln Cemetery in Montgomery, Ala., these are the sounds of progress.
Lincoln Cemetery was established in 1907 for African-Americans. But with no one in charge of the cemetery or keeping up with burial records, abuse, vandalism and neglect became rampant and the cemetery is in disrepair. Grass and weeds grew three feet high. People picked apart old, crumbling graves and took bones of the deceased.
And no one is quite where people are actually buried.
"When somebody would be buried here, they were burying people on top of people. See these two markers? They laid them up on this grave. So we're not sure which one of these spaces that person is in," says Phyllis Armstrong, a volunteer helping to clean up Lincoln.
Lincoln was designed for 700 graves. So far, volunteers have recorded more than nine times that amount — a total of 6,700 graves, some of which are actually under nearby roads.
Phillip Taunton heads the local group overseeing the cleanup.
"It's immoral and it's unethical for anything like this to be taking place, especially here in the city of Montgomery," Taunton says.
City leaders agreed. Two years ago, officials created an authority to restore the cemetery. Now, volunteers like Armstrong come out almost every day to cut grass, rake leaves and pick up litter. But the problems underscore a darker part of Southern history. Lee Anne Wofford of the Alabama Historical Commission says Lincoln is a direct result of segregation.
"What people don't understand is that it also applied in death. Not just at bus stations or restaurants or bathrooms, but in death also. So, you have separate cemeteries for whites and blacks," Wofford says.
Wofford walks to the grave marker of a woman who was key in the civil rights movement. Aurelia Browder-Coleman was a friend of Rosa Parks and was lead plaintiff in a historic court case. Browder v. Gayle ended segregation of Montgomery city buses in 1956. But Browder-Coleman's major contribution to the civil rights movement didn't keep her from segregation in death. Her marker was found leaning against a tree in Lincoln, and Wofford says no one even knows where she's buried.
"So you have prominent people who are just forgotten, lost. Where are they? But they were so significant in what they did in overturning long-standing laws," Wofford says.
This fall, a judge in Montgomery is set to decide who owns Lincoln Cemetery. hundred years. Until then, volunteers like Phyllis Armstrong will continue to clean and document graves and try to uncover the secrets that have been kept hidden for more than a hundred years.


text: Small-molecule organic photovoltaic cells often employ a planar heterojunction (PHJ) geometry where the electron donor and acceptor materials are stacked one on top of the other. The thin-film growth scenario of such PHJs can be very different from the one of a single compound on a bare substrate. We have investigated the growth of PHJs, consisting of two different donor–acceptor pairs, namely, α-sexithiophene (6T)/C60 and 6T/diindenoperylene (DIP) using real-time in situ X-ray scattering. For both donor–acceptor material combinations, we observe that the coherent in-plane crystalline size of the second material strongly correlates with the one of the bottom one, and hence a strong templating effect of the 6T on the material deposited subsequently, indicating a strong interaction between the two materials in the PHJ. Furthermore, a change in the structure of the 6T film during the deposition of the second material was observed, which shows that the deposition of an additional material on top of a templating layer can partially change the crystal structure of the templating film itself.


810 - Images of Public Wealth: Property, Identity, and Well-being in Native Tropical America
18.07.2012 | 08:00 - 13:30
18.07.2012 | 17:30 - 19:30
Convener 1: Santos-Granero, Fernando (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Miami, Ud States of Am / USA)
N otions of 'ownership' and 'property' in native tropical American societies have received little attention from specialists and are long overdue for examination. This session aims at exploring a particular kind of property: community property or 'public wealth.' Although this notion would seem to be out of place in the non-state, highly individualistic, and generally object-poor societies of native tropical America, there is evidence that at least in some of them ritual paraphernalia, skillful specialists, and sacred sites have been viewed as important components of public wealth. The same can be said of some of the objects –trucks, boats, personal documents and land titles– that have started to circulate in contemporary indigenous societies as a result of greater engagement in market activities, government programs, and non-governmental projects. Often considered to be collective assets –though not necessarily collective property– such objects, peoples, and places play a central role in shaping the identities and ensuring the reproduction and well-being of local collectivities.
Participants are encouraged to explore five important connections: Firstly, the connection between public wealth and indigenous notions of ownership, property and inheritance. Is public wealth synonymous with collective property? Can items of personal property be considered to be part of collective wealth? Can public wealth be considered as a form of collective, inalienable 'patrimony'? Secondly, the connection between public wealth and social and symbolic production. Is public wealth internally generated through long-term convivial relations between like people, or is it an external creation derived from predatory relations with radically different Others? Is it an embodied aspect of a community's self, or an instance of incorporation of foreign substances and artifacts? Thirdly, the connection between public wealth and personhood. What is the role of public wealth in the construction of persons and, thus, in the reproduction of local collectivities? Are items of public wealth 'figurations' of collective subjectivities, or 'materializations' of collective capacities? How does public wealth shape personal and collective identities? Fourthly, the connection between public wealth and leadership. Does control over public wealth reinforce positions of leadership? Or is public wealth a means through which collectivities control their leaders? Finally, the connection between public wealth and well-being. How does public wealth contribute to individual and collective well-being? Is public wealth an expression of, or a pre-condition for, community well-being?
Particular importance will be placed to understanding how indigenous notions of public wealth and well-being –based on the accumulation of intangibles such as vitality, good health, and conviviality– differ from those entertained in Euro-American societies –more inclined towards the accumulation of material goods. The session proposes to examine these questions through an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together anthropologists, archeologists and historians, and analyzing a broad range of past and present indigenous societies. In so doing it hopes to tend bridges and intensify dialogue between scholars from different disciplines, thus enriching current theoretical debates on Amerindian sociality, personhood, materiality, and identity.
Keywords: property, public wealth, well-being, indigenous peoples, tropical America
Title Author Country Co-Author
2347 - Amazonian Kichwa leadership: The circulation of wealth and the ambiguities of mediation Guzmán-Gallegos, María A. Norway / Norwegen
2818 - Chiefly Houses and Ancestral Vitalities: Life as Public Wealth among the Ancient Taino Santos Granero, Fernando Panama / Panama
2824 - Clashing Concepts of the ¿Good Life¿: Knowledge, Vision, and Beauty versus National Wealth in Amazonian Ecuador Whitten, Norman Ud States of Am / USA
3256 - It's Ear-y: Amazonian Music Performance as Public Wealth Seeger, Anthony Ud States of Am / USA
4950 - The notion of common wealth in object-poor societies. Goods, exchange and inheritance amongst Yanomami people Alès, Catherine France / Frankreich
5164 - "¡Aquí no hay recursos para repartir!": The translation of a project budget into public wealth. Micarelli, Giovanna Colombia / Kolumbien
5434 - Public Property and Well-being in Northwest Amazonia: A Diachronic Perspective Cipolletti, Maria Susana Germany / Deutschland
5776 - Controversial Possessions: Conviviality, Animosity and the Ambiguous Assets of Public Wealth Margiotti, Margherita United Kingdom/Ver Königr
9247 - Bodily Deixis, Encompassing Personhood, and Public Property in Amazonia Heckenberger, Michael Ud States of Am / USA
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