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Dallapiccola, Luigi (lōēˈjē dälˌläpēkˈkōlä) [key], 1904–75, Italian composer, b. Pazan, Istria (now in Croatia). Dallapiccola was in a detention camp during World War I; because his wife was Jewish, he suffered persecution under Mussolini. He was the first Italian composer of atonal music, and after 1940 he increasingly used the twelve-tone system (see serial music). His interest in vocal music is revealed in his operas The Prisoner (1949) and Odysseus (1968); the oratorio Job (1950); and the Christmas Concerto (1956) for soprano and orchestra. He also wrote instrumental concertos, ballets, and orchestral works.
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HHS, NIH to enhance transparency of clinical trial results
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), which proposes regulations to reporting requirements for clinical trials subject to Title VIII of the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007 (FDAAA).
The proposed rule clarifies requirements to clinical researchers for registering clinical trials and submitting summary trial results information to ClinicalTrials.gov, a publicly accessible database operated by the National Library of Medicine, part of the NIH. A major proposed change from current requirements is the expansion of the scope of clinical trials required to submit summary results to include trials of unapproved, unlicensed and uncleared products.
"Medical advances would not be possible without participants in clinical trials," said Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., NIH director. "We owe it to every participant and the public at large to support the maximal use of this knowledge for the greatest benefit to human health. This important commitment from researchers to research participants must always be upheld."
ClinicalTrials.gov currently contains registration information for more than 178,000 clinical trials and summary results for more than 15,000. These numbers include trials that are not subject to FDAAA. Among the primary benefits of registering and reporting results of clinical trials, including both positive and negative findings, is that it helps researchers prevent unnecessary duplication of trials, particularly when trial results indicate that a product under study may be unsafe or ineffective, and it establishes trust with clinical trial participants that the information from their participation is being put to maximum use to further knowledge about their condition.
Developed by NIH in close coordination with the FDA, the proposed rule details procedures for meeting the requirements established by FDAAA to improve public access to clinical trial information. FDAAA and the proposed rule apply to certain interventional studies of drugs, biological products and devices regulated by the FDA but, generally, not to phase I trials of drugs and biological products and small feasibility studies of devices. The proposed rule specifies how data collected and analyzed in a clinical trial would be required to be submitted to ClinicalTrials.gov. It would not affect requirements for the design or conduct of clinical trials or for the data that must be collected during clinical trials.
"This proposed rule would close an important gap, making additional information about clinical studies of investigational drugs, medical devices and biological products available to the public," said Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D., FDA commissioner. "It would help eliminate unnecessary duplicative trials, advance biomedical innovation and provide the public with a much richer understanding about the clinical trials for these products."
Notable changes from current requirements and practice outlined in the proposed rule include:
- A streamlined approach for determining which trials are subject to the proposed regulations and who is responsible for submitting required information
- Expansion of the set of trials subject to summary results reporting to include trials of unapproved products
- Additional data elements that must be provided at the time of registration (not later than 21 days after enrolling the first participant) and results submission (generally not later than 12 months after completion)
- Clarified procedures for delaying results submission when studying an unapproved, unlicensed or uncleared product or a new use of a previously approved, licensed or cleared product, and for requesting extensions to the results submission deadline for good cause
- More rapid updating of several data elements to help ensure that users of ClinicalTrials.gov have access to accurate, up-to-date information about important aspects of a clinical trial
- Procedures for timely corrections to any errors discovered by the responsible party or by the agency as it processes submissions prior to posting.

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demonstrate high emotional intelligence and have a passion for business.
- Responsible for evaluating the needs and current practices of the offline and online learning division and delivering a training plan when required.
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- Work with the team to support sales pitches and meet sales goals.
- The Trainer will also be responsible for researching and participating in product evaluation and development to deliver effective programs to the target audience.
- Develop training modules to train participant's communication skills in an online and offline environment for adults.
- Train participants with company modules.
- Be able to assess content, provide input about suitability of content for our participants and recommend changes as needed.
- Participate in product development and review input processes and related special projects as required.
- Corporate education experience and strong facilitation skills (Ability to connect learning to the needs of a business; deliver content designed by others; facilitate and coach groups of managers, leaders and high potentials).
- Background in Education, Business or Equivalent.
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The Settlers (Die Siedler, Serf City: Life is Feudal)
Дата выхода 1 декабря 1993
Платформа Amiga
Издатель Blue Byte
Разработчик Blue Byte
Жанр Стратегия, Симулятор жизни, Менеджер
Игроков 1
Кооператив Нет
Описание The Settlers
The Settlers (also known as Serf City: Life is Feudal, original German title Die Siedler) is a slow-paced strategy video game by Blue Byte Software, released in 1993 for Commodore Amiga and in 1994 for the PC. The player is tasked with building a medieval settlement populated by an army of workers, each of whom perform their own individual task. The player competes against computer controlled opponents or another human player for supremacy of the land and resources.
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New findings suggest post-traumatic growth may often be illusory
GettyImages-502659354.jpgBy Christian Jarrett
After a trauma many people have the sense it has changed them for the better, such as granting them a new appreciation for life or improving their relationships. This has given rise to the appealing notion that there is such a thing as "post-traumatic growth". However, the majority of investigations into this phenomenon have relied on asking people whether they believe they have changed; very few have assessed people prior to a trauma and then re-assessed them afterwards to see if positive changes have actually occurred.
A new study in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships is the first to apply this kind of "prospective design" in the context of relationship breakups in young adults, and – unfortunately for anyone who found comfort and inspiration in the principle of post-traumatic growth – the authors Meghan Owenz and Blaine Fowers say their findings are more consistent with the idea that such growth is mostly illusory, the result of a positive re-appraisal of the breakup and one's current situation.
The researchers recruited 599 undergrads currently in a romantic relationship and assessed them twice on a range of measures: at the beginning, and near the end of the semester. During that time, 100 of them lived through their relationship breaking up, an experience that, typically for their age group, they found extremely distressing (in fact, on a formal scale they rated their feelings of distress on a par with those reported by survivors of natural disasters and cardiac surgery).
At the start of the semester, all the participants completed a version of the commonly used "post-traumatic growth inventory" that had been slightly reworked to refer to their feelings over the last couple of weeks – such as whether they had experienced a sense of closeness with others over that time or had an appreciation for each day.
Near the end of the semester, all the participants re-took this same revamped version of the growth inventory, thus providing a before and after measure of their general outlook and behaviour. Importantly, the 100 students who'd been through a breakup also took the classic version of the inventory, rating how much they felt they had changed for the better in the same domains (such as closeness to others and life appreciation, among others) but specifically as a result of their relationship trauma.
Comparing earlyand late-semester scores on the revamped growth inventory, there was no evidence for positive change, and no evidence that the students who'd been through a break-up showed any more improvement than the students who had not. In contrast, the break-up students did report feeling that the trauma had changed them for the better. Moreover, this perception of growth was higher for students who previously described themselves as more optimistic and who found their breakup more distressing.
Owenz and Fowers believe these findings are consistent with the idea that the perception of growth after trauma is illusory, arising from a (positive) re-appraisal of the situation. Colloquially we might invoke Freud and call this a defence mechanism – looking on the bright side as a way to cope (something that the more optimistic students, and more distressed students, were more inclined to do). More generally, the researchers acknowledge that actual positive growth may be a reality for some people, but they think it unlikely for most.
Future research might paint a different picture. The current findings pertain to young people in a specific culture going through a specific kind of trauma, and they were tested over a relatively short time frame. For now, though, these authors and others believe the burden is on advocates of the existence of post-traumatic growth to provide more robust evidence for their claims, especially using study designs that do not rely purely on people's subjective and retrospective reports of change. The current situation – where post-traumatic growth is considered a reality based on limited research – Owenz and Fowers find "…particularly worrisome, given the rapid move from research 'documenting' post-traumatic growth to interventions and self-help books designed to promote an approach to trauma that remains questionable."
Perceived post-traumatic growth may not reflect actual positive change: A short-term prospective study of relationship dissolution
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8 thoughts on "New findings suggest post-traumatic growth may often be illusory"
 1. Post-traumatic growth takes much longer than the length of a semester. Also, people's assessment ratings are highly relative.
 If someone has never seen a large lake (or the ocean), they might rate a relatively small lake as big and if someone has never seen a rose, they might rate a normal daisy as being very beautiful.
 Similarly, someone who rates their emotions during time-1 of an experiment is only considering other emotions that they have experienced up to that time of their lives in order to rate their present state. When this happens, the researches would not observe a change in the ratings – this is probably why asking people whether they have changed as a result of a particular situation might be the better way to assess this phenomena.
 1. I agree. Additionally, I would also like to know what these assessment criteria were. I would see break-up being useful for growth mainly in the context of relationships. It does make sense though, one must be at least that much smarter that they wouldn't repeat the same mistakes again. Another sort of trauma might cause growth in some other aspect of personality.
 I'm not at all convinced by this study. People aren't stupid, they would see how there would be a gap between what they report in one test compared to the other. There must be some aspect of the situation they were not asked about. I would be more convinced if there was first a qualitative study to learn what sort of growth and for what reasons is reported and then focus the quantitative questions on that.
 2. The general understanding that suffering and distress can be possible sources of positive change is thousands of years old. For example, some of the early ideas and writings of the ancient Hebrews, Greeks, and early Christians, as well as some of the teachings of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam contain elements of the potentially transformative power of suffering.
 When talking about Post Traumatic Growth it is useful to understand that literature does not refer to resilience, hardiness, optimism, sense of coherence or positive ways of coping. All these concepts describe certain attributes that allow people to manage hardship well. In contrast, posttraumatic growth refers to a change in people that goes beyond an ability to cope with and withstand highly distressing circumstances (with the emphasis being on highly). Posttraumatic growth, has a quality of evolving and results usually in a qualitative change in functioning, unlike the apparently similar concepts of resilience, sense of coherence, optimism, and hardiness which they aim to safeguard the sense of self in face of adversity, it aims to transform the sense of self and often better it.
 People with good levels of coping capacity against common stressors, as I imagine people going through university would be, they will report relatively little growth in the aftermath of such trauma as a breakup. That is because these people have coping capacities that will allow them to be less challenged by trauma, and the struggle with the trauma is what is crucial for posttraumatic growth.
 3. A relationship break-up, whilst distressing, is not the sort of trauma usually referred to in the trauma literature. For example, to be given a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder the triggering event would need to be a major trauma such as "… exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury or sexual violation". It is important to make this sort of distinction between "big-t Trauma" (actual or threatened death, etc.) and "small-t trauma" (other distressing life events, like relationship break-up). My personal hypothesis is that post-traumatic growth is associated with the sense of having survived something that truly threatened to destroy you psychologically and come out the other side, leaving you with a qualitatively different perspective on life.
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Hana Pretend Play Marker Drawing Challenge Game w/ Fun Toys for Kids
Hana pretend play a drawing challenge game with marker toys for kids! Auntie takes Hana to the toy store to buy a new drawing marker board for Hana to learn and play with. The Crayola toy comes with a bunch of numbers and letters for Hana to play with. Auntie comes up with a fun challenge to play with Hana that they must draw an animal with the number they draw. Hana draws a duck from the number 2 and Auntie drew a snail from the number 6. Auntie teaches Hana how to spell with magnetic letters.


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1a.Objectives (from AD-416):
Investigate the length of persistence of the new soft insecticides in pistachios that target navel orangeworm (Amyelois transitella), using bioassay and analytical chemistry,and assess spray coverage.
1b.Approach (from AD-416):
Pistachios will be sprayed by commercial cooperators and collected at intervals over a 30-60 day period. These pistachios will be challenged in the lab by infesting them with known numbers of eggs and assessing adult emergence. Samples will be taken from the hull and environment and analyzed to determine insecticide residue, which will be linked to the success of the bioassays. Additional experiments conducted in the field will assess insecticide coverage using sentinel eggs and spray cards.
This agreement was established to support objective 2. B of the in house project. We investigated the persistence and coverage of the two newly registered insecticides Lambda Cy (lambda cyhalothrin) and Voliam Xpress (lambda cyhalothron + rynaxapyr) in order to enhance navel orangeworm (Amyelois transitella) control in pistachios. A 500 gallon PTO-driven Air-O-Fan airblast sprayer filled with water applied at either 70 or 100 gallons/acre, tractor speed 2 mph, was used in these trials. Droplet deposition decreased in a nonlinear manner as the height increased. The dropoff in coverage began by 12 feet and was quite noticeable by 16 feet. Using two nozzles per vane improved coverage but dropoff still occurred. Coverage increased at 18-20 feet because the targets were above the canopy and the leaves did not block the spray. In conclusion, these coverage trials revealed a substantial breakdown in coverage between 14 and 16 feet, despite the use of two nozzles per vane. Based on other studies, this loss of coverage is exacerbated at higher speeds.


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The following iterative steps occur in typical blackboard solving activities:
- A knowledge source makes a change to a blackboard object.
- Each knowledge source indicates the contribution it can make to the new
solution state -- either dynamically or a priori based.
- A scheduler decides a focus of attention.
- A control module prepares the focus of attention for execution:
- If the focus of attention is a knowledge source -- a blackboard object
is chosen to serve as its context (knowledge centred scheduling).
- If the focus of attention is a blackboard object -- a knowledge source
to process that object is chosen and instantiated with the object as its context
(event centred scheduling).
- If both a blackboard object and a knowledge source are the focus of
attention an instance of the knowledge source is made ready for execution with
the object as its context.
- The problem solving process continues until a knowledge source has
indicated that it should stop:
- either an acceptable solution has been found, or
- lack of knowledge or data prohibits further action.

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Long-tailed Thresher Shark (Alopias vulpinus) - Wiki
Long-tailed thresher shark
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[Photo] Thintail thresher (Alopias vulpinus) from NOAA.
The long-tailed thresher shark, Alopias vulpinus, is a thresher shark inhabiting tropical and temperate waters worldwide. Like all thresher sharks, it has a very long upper lobe of the caudal fin, sometimes as long as the body. Its body is brown or grey with a white underside. They can grow to about 25 ft in length and 750 lb. Thresher sharks often hunt in groups or pairs, stunning their prey with their tails before feeding on it. They mostly eat other fish and squid, but have been known to kill seabirds as well.
Thresher sharks are highly migratory, moving northward in the spring in order to breed. They are oviparous and litters contain two to six pups, born five feet long.
Long-tailed thresher sharks are consumed as a food fish in many countries and prized as a game fish. Their hides are used for leather. They are not considered dangerous to humans, but are considered a nuisance to mackerel fishermen, due to their propensity to become tangled in fishing nets. Fully grown threshers have no known predators other than humans.
Other common names for long-tailed thresher sharks include "thintail thresher", "common thresher", "fox shark", "sea fox", "swiveltail", "spindletail", and "thrasher".
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One mistake many people make is thinking that MD5 is something they can use for encryption. This is a common misunderstanding. MD5 is not encryption like you may think, but a cryptographic hashing algorithm. While MD5 is a form of one way encryption, it's not encryption in the standard sense.
So what is encryption, and what is a hash? Encryption is the transformation of information with an algorithm. Generally, encryption requires the use of a key to tranform the information. Encryption makes the information unreadable unless it is decrypted. Decryption is the process of using the key to make the information readable again.
A hash is the result of running a cryptographic hash function against amount of data. This hash is created by running a mathematical function on the data. In the case of MD5, the hash returned is a sequence 32 hexadecimal charecters.
So MD5 is not capable of encryption your data in the way one may assume. MD5 can be used for many purposes. Often, MD5 is used to verify the integrity of a file or string. You include a MD5 hash of a file when distributing it to verify the integrity of the file.


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. This is held in place with a bejewelled belt. A multitude of jewellery is also worn by the female dancers. These include earrings, several pairs of bangles, a garland of flowers in the form of a bracelet, bracelets, anklets and an armlet that is worn on the right. Several body chains cross over the body like a sash. A circular or diamond shaped pendant is worn around the neck.
There are several different types of mokot worn by female royalty. The typical mokots that are worn are much similar to those of male royalty. Some crowns are just like tiaras where at the back of the mokot hair is let loose, cascading down the back. Other mokots have a few accessories such as ear pieces that would sit above the ear and help hold the mokot in place while a comb at the back is just an added accessory. Flowers are also worn on the mokot in the same style, but the hanging garlands of flowers are worn on the left and the bouquet is worn on the right. The best example of these royal clothes is illustrated by Khmer classical dance costumes, which are an adaptation of the beautiful royalty costume.
Khmer cuisine is similar to that of its Southeast Asian neighbors. It shares many similarities with Thai cuisine, Vietnamese cuisine and Teochew cuisine. Cambodian cuisine also uses fish sauce in soups, stir-fried cuisine, and as dippings. The Chinese influence can be noted in the common chha (Khmer: ឆារ, Stir frying) and in the use of many variations of rice noodles. A particular popular dish of ultimately Chinese origin is "pork broth rice noodle soup", similar to phở, called kuy tieu (Khmer: គុយទាវ). Indian influenced dishes include many types of curry known as kari (Khmer: ការី) that call for dried spices such as star anise, cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg and fennel as well as local ingredients like lemongrass, garlic, kaffir lime leaves, shallots and galangal that give dishes a distinctive Cambodian flavor. Banh Chaew (Khmer: នំបាញ់ឆែវ), the Khmer version of the Vietnamese Bánh xèo, is also a popular dish.
Khmer cuisine is noted for the use of prahok (ប្រហុក), a type of fermented fish paste, in many dishes as a distinctive flavoring. When prahok is not used, it is likely to be kapǐ (កាពិ) instead, a kind of fermented shrimp paste. Coconut milk is the main ingredient of many Khmer curries and desserts. Cambodians prefer either jasmine rice or sticky (glutinous) rice. The latter is used more in dessert dishes with fruits such as durian while jasmine rice is eaten with meals. Almost every meal is eaten with a bowl of rice. Typically, Cambodians eat their meals with at least three or four separate dishes. Each individual dish will usually be one of either sweet, sour, salty or bitter. Chili is usually left up to the individual to add themselves. In this way Cambodians ensure that they get a bit of every flavor to satisfy their palates.
Regional Cambodian cuisine offers some unique dishes influenced by the traditions of local ethnic groups. In Kampot and Kep, known for its Kampot Pepper Crab or Kdam Chha Mrich Kchei (Khmer: ក្តាមឆាម្រេចខ្ជី) in Khmer. This dish is prepared with a local crab fried with the black pepper from area pepper fields. Kula people, an ethnic group of Pailin Province, originated Mee Kola (Khmer: មីកុឡា), a vegetarian rice stick noodle dish. In southeastern Cambodia, the influence of Vietnamese cuisine are strong, evidenced by Bánh tráng which is ubiquitous in southeastern Cambodia but virtually unknown elsewhere. The region between Siem Reap and Kampong Thom, an area with many Chinese Cambodians, displays Khmer versions of many Chinese dishes.
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The history of visual arts in Cambodia stretches back centuries to ancient crafts; Khmer art reached its peak during the Angkor period. Traditional Cambodian arts and crafts include textiles, non-textile weaving, silversmithing, stone carving, lacquerware, ceramics, wat murals, and kite-making. Beginning in the mid-20th century, a tradition of modern art began in Cambodia, though in the later 20th century both traditional and modern arts declined for several reasons, including the killing of artists by the Khmer Rouge. The country has experienced a recent artistic revival due to increased support from governments, NGOs, and foreign tourists.
Especially in the 60s and 70s, the 'big two' duet of Sinn Sisamouth and Ros Sereysothea had been a large hit in the country. However after their deaths, new music stars have tried to bring back the music. Cambodian music has undergone heavy Westernization.
The Cambodian pinpeat ensemble is traditionally heard on feast days in the pagodas. It is also a court ensemble used to accompany classical dance for ritual occasions or theatrical events. The pinpeat is primarily made up of percussion instruments: the roneat ek (lead xylophone), roneat thung (low bamboo xylophone), kong vong touch and kong vong thom (small and large sets of tuned gongs), sampho (two-sided drum), skor thom (two large drums), and sralai (quadruple-reed instrument).
Cambodian Dance can be divided into three main categories: classical dance, folk dances, and vernacular dances.
Khmer classical dance is a form of Cambodian dance originally performed only for royalty. The dances have many elements in common with Thai classical dance. During the mid-20th century, it was introduced to the public where it now remains a celebrated icon of Khmer culture, often being performed during public events, holidays, and for tourists visiting Cambodia.this classical Dance is famous for its using of hands and feet to express emotion which known as there are 4,000 different gestures in this type of dance. Provided as repeating a golden age in 1960s, Khmer Classical Dance which know as The Royal Ballet of Cambodia after select as UNESCO's Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, has lead one of its dance to be an outstanding dance of all for culture and society. Reamker, a khmer version of Indian, Ramayana had influced strongly to Khmer classical dance. It involved in khmer gesture, movement and story line.The dance that divided from Reamker Dance known as Robam Sovann Macha and Robam Moni Mekala. In Facts, all of Dance reminded the audience of celestial dance which is an angel or Apsara in sansrit mythology in goal of bring the good luck and success to the viewer. The Classical dance is create by the heart of high art as the performer is decorated with themselves with a branches of jewellry.
Apsara Dance, a khmer dance that has survived since the Angkor Era, has been singled out to attract foreign tourists and to make the richness of khmer culture known to the world. Apsara Dance was promoted by Princess Norodom Buppha Devi before the Khmer Rouge times and recently has received an award as one of the main symbols of Cambodia.
Khmer folk dances, which are performed for audiences, are fast-paced. The movements and gestures are not as stylized as Khmer classical dance. Folk dancers wear clothes of the people they are portraying such as Chams, hill tribes, farmers, and peasants. The folk dance music is played by a mahori orchestra.
Cambodian vernacular dances (or social dances) are those danced at social gatherings. Such dances include Romvong, Rom Kbach, Rom Saravan, and Lam Leav. Some of these dances have much influence from the traditional dances of Laos. But Rom Kbach, for example, take heavily from the classical dance of the royal court. Other social dances from around the world have had an impact on Cambodian social culture include the Cha-cha, Bolero, and the Madison.
A testimony of the antiquity of the Khmer language are the multitude of epigraphic inscriptions on stone. The first written proof that has allowed the history of the Khmer Kingdom to be reconstructed are those inscriptions. These writings on columns, stelae and walls throw light on the royal lineages, religious edicts, territorial conquests and internal organization of the kingdom.
Following the stone inscriptions, some of the oldest Khmer documents are translations and commentaries of the Pali Buddhist texts of the Tripitaka. They were written by the monks on palmyra palm leaves and kept in various monasteries throughout the country.
The Reamker (Khmer: រាមកេរ្តិ៍, "Rama's Fame") is the Cambodian version of the Ramayana, the famous Indian epic. The Reamker is composed in rhymed verses and is staged in sections that are adapted to dance movements interpreted by Khmer artists. The Reamker is the most ubiquitous form of traditional Cambodian theatre.
Cambodia had a rich and varied traditional oral literature. There


Ohio Debt Limitations, Issue 4 (1977)
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The Ohio Debt Limitations Amendment, also known as Issue 4, appeared on the November 8, 1977 ballot in Ohio as a legislatively-referred constitutional amendment, where it was defeated.[1] This amendment revises limitations on state government indebtedness.
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Ohio Issue 4 (1977)
Defeatedd No1,999,79172.48%
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Proposed Constitutional Amendment
To adopt Section 1 of Article VIII and repeal Sections 1, 2, 2b, 2d, 2e, 2f, 2g, 2h, 3, 7, 9, and 10 of Article VIII and Section 6 of Article XII of the Constitution of Ohio
 1. To repeal the general state constitutional debt limit of $750,000 and replace it with authority to incur debt from capital improvements by a two thirds majority vote of each house of the general assembly within specified limitations directly related to state revenues.
 2. To permit the state to contract debt without limitation on amount of purpose, in addition to the authority specified above, if that debt is submitted to a vote of the electors by a 3/5 majority vote of each house of the general assembly and approved by a majority of the electors voting on the question.
 3. To require the general assembly to retire at least 4% of the state's indebtedness each year.
 4. To permit the state to borrow funds to meet a current year's appropriations if any such loan is repaid out of that year's revenues.
 5. To repeal part of the constitutional requirements relating to a sinking fund and to require that the general assembly provide for the repayment of state debt.
 6. To enumerate purposes and amounts for which the first $640 million of capital improvement that would have to be appropriated.
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Session 111 - Massive Black Holes and Dynamics of Galaxy Cores.
Oral session, Thursday, January 16
There are currently around 10 galaxies for which there is strong evidence for a massive central black hole. Kormendy amp; Richstone have pointed out a striking correlation between galaxy and BH mass, namely M_bh\sim0.004M_gal. An interesting question is whether this correlation is due to a narrow ridge in the probability distribution p(M_bh|M_gal), or whether it is merely a selection effect.
We attempt to answer this question using a sample of 36 galaxies for which HST photometry and ground-based kinematics are available. Each galaxy is assumed to be axisymmetric, with an arbitrary inclination angle, and a central BH of arbitrary mass. Moreover, each is assumed to be well described by a two-integral DF. These assumptions allow us to calculate the likelihood of the sample given any p(M_bh|M_gal), and thus to calculate bookmakers' odds for different assumed forms for the latter.
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The Flex Alert will remain in effect through 6 p.m. Sunday and was made because of increased demand for electricity due to the heat wave.
Should the situation worsen and power reserves drop to dangerous levels, the independent system operator could direct utilities to conduct involuntary rotating outages — for blocks of customers — across their service areas until sufficient reserve levels are achieved, authorities said.
Southern California recommends that customers:
- Set thermostats no lower than 78 degrees.
- Use electric fans instead of air conditioning when practical.
- Turn off unused appliances and equipment.
- Shut off lights when leaving a room.
- Avoid using evaporative coolers or humidifiers when an air conditioner is running.
- Operate energy-intensive appliances during early morning or evening hours.
- Limit the opening and reopening of refrigerators.
- When possible, businesses should shift power-intensive work processes to off-peak times.


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The term was also used by US air forces during the war. Fred Hamann's Air Words (1945) defines black box as radar.2
When the flight recorders started being installed on civilian aircraft in 1958, the name was applied to these devices. The original WWII black boxes were literally colored black and many pieces of avionics equipment still come in black housings, but the term is applied to all of them regardless of color.
There is another type of black box that also takes its name from these WWII devices. A black box can be a mechanism whose internal workings are not understood, but its function is. If an engineer knows that the device will give output Y if he inputs X but doesn't understand why, then that is a black box. The Journal of the British Interplanetary Society records this from 1953:
As far as the layman is concerned, a phantastron is a "black box" which will divide the frequency of its output pulses by any integral number between 2 and 20.3
This sense is from the fact that aircrews did not understand how their black boxes worked (the components and processes were closely guarded military secrets), they just knew they did.
1Dictionary of Forces Slang: _PHONE_, edited by Eric Partridge, 1970 Reprint (Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1948), 17.
2Fred Hamann, Air Words: A Popular Aviation Definitionary of the Language Flyers Speak (Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1945), 8.
3Oxford English Dictionary, black box, a., 2nd Edition, 1989, Oxford University Press, accessed 29 Dec 2008 <>.
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We explore the theme of Symbols in Melbourne's CBD through the medium of street art, cultural typography and iconic architecture focusing on lines of inquiry, key concepts and questions. We also provide an activity for students where they also create their own piece of street, art, signage or symbolism in the lanes.
People use symbols to be expressive and communicate.
Lines of Inquiry:
– why people use symbolism.
– how specific groups use symbolism.
– What is a symbol?
– How are symbols created?
– Why do groups use symbols?
– How can we use symbolism to express ideas?
Our Primary school kids had a wonderful time despite the wet weather and also gained an understanding of how important places can become symbolic over time. They also loved the art work and and lanes and symbols and many are keen to follow up with further work…
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Ion-beam-sputtered (IBS) Coatings for Ultrafast Lasers and Applications
N. Anderson, L. Wang and T. Erdogan
In optics, dispersion is the phenomenon in which the phase velocity of a light wave in the material depends on its frequency (wavelength). One of the most well-known examples of dispersion is the splitting of white light into its full spectrum of colors (wavelengths) as it passes through a glass prism. Chromatic dispersion also causes the focal length of imaging lenses to be wavelength dependent, and thus specially designed lenses are required to mitigate chromatic effects on image quality in applications like optical microscopy. Both of these examples of so-called material dispersion involve continuous wave (cw) light. For pulsed light the effects of material dispersion are even more pronounced, with the most striking effects observed when ultrashort laser pulses are used. Here ultrashort laser pulses are defined as pulses having a temporal full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) below about 1 picosecond (ps), and therefore typically measured on the femtosecond (fs) timescale (10-15 sec). (As a result of an optical analog to the Heisenberg Uncertainty relation, such...
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The Challenge of Residency at Sage College, 1900s–1920s
In 1929, Pauline Davis and Ruth Peyton were denied residency in Sage College. The Dean of Women, R. Louise Fitch, made the decision, and President Livingston Farrand (_PHONE_) upheld it. Their actions contrasted with Cornells open door policy, which called for decisions about residency to be based on merit, not on race, religion, or creed. In previous decades, African-American women such as Jessie Fauset (Class of 1905) had lived at Sage College. In 1911, Farrands predecessor, Jacob Gould Schurman (_PHONE_), had ruled in favor of admitting two African-American women to Sage College after 269 white women students had petitioned against them. Schurman declared, University doors must be open to all students irrespective of race or color or creed... By the time the decision was made, however, the two African-American women had already left Cornell.
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In seven games this season, Carl Hagelin is scoreless, is a minus three, six penalty minutes, 16 shots, 12 hits and five giveaways in around 16:30 of ice time.
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three lactations: MY×fat percentage (F%), MY×protein percentage (P%) and MY×somatic cell score (SCS)) of Brazilian Holstein cattle. It was demonstrated that the effects of heat stress can be harmful for traits related to milk production and milk quality of Holstein cattle even though most herds were maintained in a modified environment, for example, with fans and sprinklers. For MY, the effect of heat stress was more detrimental in advanced lactations (−0.22 to −0.52 kg/day per increase of 1 THI unit). In general, the mean heritability estimates were higher for lower THI values and longer days in milk for all traits. In contrast, the heritability estimates for SCS increased with increasing THI values in the second and third lactation. For each trait studied, lower genetic correlations (different from unity) were observed between opposite extremes of THI (THI 47 v. THI 80) and in advanced lactations. The genetic correlations between MY and milk quality trait varied across the THI scale and lactations. The genotype×environment interaction due to heat stress was more important for MY and SCS, particularly in advanced lactations, and can affect the genetic relationship between MY and milk quality traits. Selection for higher MY, F% or P% may result in a poor response of the animals to heat stress, as a genetic antagonism was observed between the general production level and specific ability to respond to heat stress for these traits. Genetic trends confirm the adverse responses in the genetic components of heat stress over the years for milk production and quality. Consequently, the selection of Holstein cattle raised in modified environments in both tropical and sub-tropical regions should take into consideration the genetic variation in heat stress.
The Radiocarbon Laboratory of the Universidade Federal Fluminense, in Brazil, has been successfully applying the zinc reduction method for graphitization of carbon samples since the development of its early protocols in 2009. Successive methodological research aiming to improve and, ultimately, optimize the precision and accuracy of our results indicates that graphitization temperatures as low as 460°C promote erratic 13C isotopic fractionation, but an approximately constant fractionation of about –5‰ is achieved at 520°C. In this work, we present isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS) δ13C results for 14C reference materials graphitized at 550°C with variable amounts of zinc. Based on the results obtained from the addition of 20, 35, and 50 mg of zinc, we conclude that a slightly lower variation in 13C isotope fractionation during graphitization is obtained with less zinc. Moreover, the average isotopic fractionation is not altered by increasing the graphitization temperature from 520°C to 550°C.


about Klaus father's work during the 3rd Reich.
 Based on the records of Zurich based Esher Wyss and its German subsidiary in Ravensburg, the following represents my good faith attempt to reconstruct the diminimus historical records and discern the truth. Unfortunately, the record of Klaus' father and even the name of his father have been scrubbed [I challenge anyone to find the name of Schwab's father]. Given the importance of knowing who Klaus Schwab is and how he came to be the leader of the Great Reset, I offer this information as my opinion. It is only my opinion and I call upon Klaus Schwab and/or the WEF to correct any inaccuracies so the world might have a more complete picture of Klaus' formative years under the Fuhrer's rule.
 It would appear that the name of Escher Wyss' subsidiary in Ravensburg (where Klaus' father was managing director) was Andritz. It was established in Ravensburg in 1856 as a subsidiary of Escher Wyss & Cie., Zurich. In 1941, Andritz became part of the Duisburg Demag Group (DEMAG). From September 1942 to April 1945, DEMAG used slave labor from Sachsenhausen concentration camp to build Panzer armored vehicles for the Nazi War Machine. If in fact Klaus's father was the Managing Director of DEMAG, what was his role and responsibilities at DEMAG's slave labor facilities?
 Alternatively, A/G Esher Wyss (the parent company of the Nazi subsidiary which employed Klaus' father) had engineered the 14,500 HP turbine for the Norsk -Hydro Works heavy water plant in Rjukan Norway. The Norsk-Hydro facility powered by Escher Wyss, was the only industrial plant under German control capable of producing heavy water (deuterium oxide, D2O) essential for making plutonium for the Nazi atomic bomb. But for the Norwegian resistance fighters, who blew up Escher Wyss' power station on 27th February 1943, would Hitler have been able to drop an atomic bomb on England?
 Again, because the records have been scrubbed, (which is not atypical of Nazi's hiding their past – see Operation Paperclip) the public has no way of knowing Klaus father's exact role, if any, in utilizing concentration camp slave labor or assisting in the development of a Nazi atomic bomb.
 Given Klaus Schwab's preeminent position as head of the World Economic Forum, chief architect of the great reset and leader of the 4th whatever, We The Herd call upon Herr Schwab to release the records of his family history, so that we can know the full truth about this man who now seeks to re-set the world.
 - Sean says:
 Thanks. Sure. And screw him.
 - Martin says:
 Interesting stuff, Jt Kong. The WEF certainly does look like a BEAST to be reckoned with; and if this is the case the BEAST will certainly have a head…Klaus Schwab(?) I suggest you network with The Amazing Polly on bitchute. She is quite proficient in your ability to link people w/ people and other various associations.
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 "The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, & what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves. yet where does this anarchy exist? where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusetts? and can history produce an instance of a rebellion so honourably conducted? I say nothing of it's motives. they were founded in ignorance, not wickedness. god forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion. the people cannot be all, & always, well informed. the past which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive; if they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. we have had 13. states independant 11 years. there has been one rebellion. that comes to one rebellion in a century & a half for each state. what country before ever existed a century & half without a rebellion? & what country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms. the remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them. what signify a few lives lost in a century or two? the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. it is it's natural manure." — Thomas Jefferson
 Only a man who lives in a disarmed nation would come to a life and death struggle with paper, ink and stamps or votes. Here, we have not been disarmed yet. Can anyone in my country tell me what the signal is to start shooting?
 Our urgent "letters" regarding liberty are cast in lead and inserted in brass envelopes and rapidly dispatched with powder.
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 Everyone ready for the winter of darkness?
 - Paul says:
 "No one enters a room, & places THEIR LANTERN beneath the table, but rather, places IT upon the tabletop, casting light everywhere & illuminating the entire room."
 And so can YOU!
 Best Wishes.
 17. Erika says:
 Possible voter fraud on video evidence in Michigan.(two attornies document)
 Steven Crowder (youtube) election feed
 Keep your eye on it.
 18. Larry C says:
 The last time I saw a Time magazine, I mistook it for a piece of tissue paper.
 19. ReluctantWarrior says:
 The system is rotten to the core and it doesn't matter who wins.
 20. hayden says:
 As history shows to get away from tyranny/environmental change etc we all need to migrate to another land all come together and start our own nation up away from the corrupt nations. im sure there is plenty of us to migrate set up new country take up arms and fight for our way of life.
 No bastard owns the land im sure there are places still on the earth were we can all migrate too and start over.
 lets take our pick…_URL_
 and move to one of these regions and start fighting back, that how its always been and always will be. And when space flight becomes common there will be mass migrations with people trying to escape tyranny.
 I find it empowering being able to start your own way of life and not be owned by some bastards.
 21. Loop Garoo says:
 This is written in such a way that even Joe Sixpack and his wife, Karen, can grasp it. I plan to shorten it to fit a 1-page memo that I can personally pass out to restaurant and business owners who are still following orders from Trump, the Freemason. Employees tell me, "I need this job …" But, the company attorney needs his job, too. Few have the balls to resist. We are not the same men who fought WWII. Today, men are courteous little fellows in capri pants and man buns. No wonder the birth rate is down. 🙂
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 "We the people" of the world are actually in agreement. If we set aside these tools and mechanisms they use to manipulate us into a false perception of the world, into a state of psychosis, a separation from reality, from all that is available to us, we actually naturally agree.
 They live in fear of 7 billion people when they realize they are actually in agreement.
 That is real power.
 So any system they devise will never ever, not ever achieve that. Truth be told, they have actually run a rebellion against it throughout time. If we fall into the trap of defending any aspect of their fictional system, new or old, we fall into disagreement.
 There's a reason that happens.
 Every. Single. Time.
 Their entire system is built to benefit and protect them and their absolute freedom, to do as they will, no laws to limit them. That is why they are heavy on the use of labels, play the game of favoritism, class system, hierarchy, external rulers, and many other fabricated divisive tactics that do not, do not, do not exist in reality. All are superimposed misperceptions, misinterpretations, misunderstandings, misrepresentations, misdirections over the real world to mislead.
 Without agreement, these same arguments will repeat and never end.
 They don't want the arguments to end, because that means the end of them.
 And the thing that keeps you coming back to these issues are the unsettled, unfinished arguments that are never truly ever resolved, added to and perpetuated. A constant state of negativity, a destructive impact and influence on all of our relationships. It is the cause of discord. Not positivity that is life giving.
 Again, they fear 7 billion people when they are in agreement, so they built a fictional system based on the perpetuation of their historical lies. They not only re-write history to cover up their past deceptions, they re-write the recent past and present, and write plans for the future.
 If these people ever had to spend a few moments being one with their breath, they would likely consider it


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Writers of short fiction choose their words with great care and precision. Because they use few words to tell their stories, each and every word becomes more weighty, in a sense. In The Philanthropist and the Happy Cat (1911), a pithy short story by Saki, words are especially significant. I learned about the existence of this short story on Mel's blog, The Reading Life, where I'm often first introduced to sundry short stories.
As I read The Philanthropist and the Happy Cat, there were a few words that I thought I'd investigate for Wondrous Words Wednesday. Hosted by Kathy from Bermudaonion's Weblog, I enjoy this meme immensely; it's the consummate meme for wordsmiths, readers, dictionary fiends, and others who care deeply about words. My word discoveries this week enhanced my understanding and appreciation of the story.
1. snuggery: a small, cosy, comfortable room or place. The British spelling of 'cosy' seems more appropriate here, as this word is chiefly British. (Do my British book blogging friends read in their snuggeries? It sounds quite lovely, to curl up with a book in the snuggery!)
In the story there are several references to the snuggery, about which Jocantha Bessbury, the protagonist, announces her "simmering satisfaction", near the start of the story.
"She was very well pleased, for instance, with the snuggery, which contrived somehow to be cosy and dainty and expensive all at once."
"And as with the snuggery, so with the rest of the house, and as with the house, so with the other departments of Jocantha's life; she really had good reason for being one of the most contented women in Chelsea."
Married and comfortable, Jocantha is pleased with herself and her lot in life, and only wonders if her cat, Attab, may be more content than she is.
The snuggery takes on greater meaning in the context of the story, in both a literal and figurative way. Jocantha is very content, until she leaves the confines of her snuggery, of her small place. This word is perhaps the most important word of the entire story.
2. thraldom: slavery, thrall; the state of being under the control of another person.
I know I've come across this word before, maybe even on this meme, but I didn't remember it. In this sentence, Jocantha imagines the future of boy with the "beautifully-brushed" hair who has caught her eye.
"He would exchange that humdrum thraldom in due course for a home of his own, dominated by a scarcity of pounds shillings, and pence, and a dearth of most of the things that made life attractive or comfortable. "
In the story, Jocantha may discover that she is in a state of thraldom herself, bound to the comforts of marriage and home, to domesticity, to the cozy but confining "snuggery".
3. "Yellow Peacock"
In the story, Jocantha, starts to feel sorry for others, and decides to find a lonely girl in a tea-shop who she will then give two tickets to a performance of the "Yellow Peacock". I became curious, then suspicious, about the name of the play in the story; had it been an actual play in theaters? Luckily, I quickly discovered some relevant matters on Wikipedia's page of Theatrical Superstitions. First of all, peacock feathers are never supposed to be brought onstage, as a costume element, prop, or set piece. Actors and directors have blamed peacock feathers for all kinds of theater mishaps, including collapsing sets. The color yellow is also suspect. Yellow is considered to be quite unlucky. This belief dates from the days of religious plays, when yellow was the color worn by actors who played the devil.
The fact that the play in the story is called "Yellow Peacock", a less than fortuitous name for a play, makes this story, which is mocking in tone, even more comical.
I highly recommend The Philanthropist and the Happy Cat, which is about four pages long and can be read online. For a review of this story, please visit The Reading Life.
What wondrous new words have you encountered during recent reading?


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We explored various texts including Elmer, The Tiger Who Came To Tea and Dear Zoo.
We read the story of Elmer and talked about how Elmer is 'unique'. We discussed that we are all different and unique. We had a go at making our very own Elmer.
The children also considered the similarities and differences between Elmer and other Elephants.
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The children were curious to learn about what was happening in Austria. We talked about it being very hot and windy which was making the fires spread. We researched the animals that live in Australia and designed an animal rescue center for the animals to go and recover in. After we designed the building, we used the resources in the outdoor area to build the enclosures.
The Tiger who came to Tea
This story by Judith kerr is a favourite in Aspen class.
The children used various material to make a tiger mark… Roar!
 We used words to describe the tiger such as, orange, black, stripy, furry and soft.
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Carry on from the theme of animals we looked more closely at animals that live in the zoo.
we wrote some fantastic descriptive writing to describe the animals from the story.
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Dairy industry provides big contribution to rural economies
Nebraska's dairy industry produced about 1 billion pounds of milk last year, and in the process it helped drive the economy in many rural communities through employment, taxes, purchasing feed and equipment and more.
"The state's dairy receipts totaled about $200 million last year, but when you figure in the impact that reverberates through the economy based on those dollars, the true economic impact is in the neighborhood of $500 million," said Randy Klein of the Nebraska Corn Board.
Klein noted that for each 75 cows a dairy has, it directly employs one person. That means a 300-head dairy would employ about four people. A 1,200 cow dairy would employ about 16 people. "Really, employment goes well beyond the dairy farm because a dairy needs feed, veterinary care, equipment, trucking, milk processing and more. Dairies are incredible at boosting rural economies," Klein said.
An average cow consumes about $1,000 in feed each year, which means Nebraska's 58,000 dairy cattle consume about $58 million in feed. "A portion of that feed is corn and distillers grains, the corn ethanol feed product," said Mark Jagels, a member of the Nebraska Corn Board and a farmer from Davenport. "Dairies add a lot of value to those products and many others, and it would be great to see Nebraska's dairy industry strengthen and grow."
One way the Nebraska Corn Board supports the dairy industry is by backing the Alliance for the Future of Agriculture in Nebraska, or A-FAN. When farmers are looking to expand or add a livestock operation, A-FAN can help by providing guidance.
Over the last year, however, A-FAN has produced a series of videos that highlight agriculture in Nebraska, including several that pertain specifically to the dairy industry.
Dairy-focused videos take viewers on a tour through a modern dairy and examine issues like cow care, food safety, how a dairy recycles its water, the economic impact of a dairy and other relevant subjects that viewers may find fascinating.
"These videos offer a tremendous insight into dairy farms, and some even include the reaction by people who had never been on a large dairy before," Jagels said. "I'd encourage anyone to go to A-FAN's website and take a look at these videos and all the other videos A-FAN has posted."
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Light-contact sparring is the most popular type of sparring. Its critics, and even supporters, often referred to it as playing tag. Light-contact sparring is identical to no-contact sparring except that attacks are focused so they just touch the target. Ideally, this touch will be similar to tapping a person on the shoulder to get his or her attention. The person will be aware of the touch but will not feel any pain or any threat from the touch.
Light-contact sparring is similar to playing baseball, Baseball players tag the runners with the ball; they do not try to hit or harm the runners. However, this does not make baseball injury free, heavy contact does accidentally occur and it may lead to injury, but deaths are extremely rare.
Risk of injury. Although only light-contact is permitted, there is more risk of injury in light-contact sparring than in no-contact sparring. Techniques are focused two or three inches closer to the point on the opponent's body where injury may occur so, the chance of injury is increased.
Level of expertise required. As with no-contact sparring, light-contact sparring techniques are perfectly performed and precisely executed while using maximum power. However, while the means is important in light-contact sparring, the result has priority over the means. The touch is more important than how it was delivered.


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c. 1200, "to strike, hit, beat, knock;" c. 1300, "to deprive of life," perhaps from an unrecorded variant of Old English cwellan "to kill" (see quell), but the earliest sense suggests otherwise. Sense in to kill time is from 1728. Related: Killed; killing. Kill-devil, colloquial for "rum," especially if new or of bad quality, is from 1630s.
kill (n.2) Look up kill at
"stream," 1630s, American English, from Dutch kil, from Middle Dutch kille "riverbed," especially in place names (such as Schuylkill). A common Germanic word, the Old Norse form, kill, meant "bay, gulf" and gave its name to Kiel Fjord on the German Baltic coast and thence to Kiel, the port city founded there in 1240.
kill (n.1) Look up kill at
early 13c., "a stroke, a blow," from kill (v.). Meaning "act of killing" is from 1814; that of "a killed animal" is from 1878. Lawn tennis serve sense is from 1903. The kill "the knockout" is boxing jargon, 1950.


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The mission of the Developing Scholars Program is:
- to increase the number of intellectually curious students of color and first generation college students who choose KSU.
- to improve retention of such underrepresented students by matching students with faculty mentors for the purpose of providing early opportunities for scholarly research.
- to guide more of such underrepresented students toward graduate or professional school.
- to provide a more diverse community of workers for the twenty-first century.
The goals of the Development Scholars Program include:
- Identify, recruit, motivate, and enable more underrepresented students to obtain a Bachelor's degree from Kansas State University
- Increase K-State faculty involvement and understanding of the needs and richness of diverse perspectives that underrepresented students bring to the university environment
- Improve academic success and create opportunity for underrepresented students at Kansas State University
- Foster development of a community of student researchers by providing educational enrichment activities and ways for students to interact, network, socialize, and collaborate with each other and with the larger academic community
- Nurture a strong work ethic, intellectual curiosity, community problem-solving, and enjoyment in the act of learning
- Continue to improve the retention and graduation rates of underrepresented populations at Kansas State University
- Increase the numbers of underrepresented students who transfer to Kansas State University from community colleges and who graduate
- Establish a "pathway of progress" to provide opportunities for underrepresented students to pursue diverse academic interests and to enter graduate programs, professional schools, or to find placement in their professional fields upon graduation
- Provide opportunities for faculty to interact with students from diverse cultural backgrounds who can bring fresh perspectives to the research environment
- Evaluate the impact and effectiveness of participation in the Developing Scholars Program for faculty and students
- Share with other institutions of higher learning what is learned


} \psi + g \left[ \left( \bar{\psi} \psi \right)^2 - \left( \bar{\psi} \gamma_5 \psi \right)^2 \right]. \] It is invariant under ordinary and chiral gauge transformations \[ \begin{align} \psi &\to e^{i \alpha} \psi, \qquad &\bar{\psi} &\to \bar{\psi} e^{-i \alpha} \\ \psi &\to e^{i \alpha \gamma_5} \psi, \qquad &\bar{\psi} &\to \bar{\psi} e^{i \alpha \gamma_5}. \end{align} \]
To investigate the content of the model a simple mean field approximation for the mass was adopted \[ \begin{align} m &= -2g \left[ <\bar{\psi} \psi> - \gamma_5 <\bar{\psi} \gamma_5 \psi> \right] \\ &= 2g \left[ tr S^{(m)}(0) - tr \gamma_5 S^{(m)}(0) \right], \end{align} \] where \(S^{(m)}\) is the propagator of the Dirac field of mass \(m\,\) or more explicitly, \[ \frac{2 \pi^2}{g \Lambda^2} = 1 - \frac{m^2}{\Lambda^2} \ln \left(1 + \frac{\Lambda^2}{m^2} \right), \] where \(\Lambda\) is the invariant cut-off. This equation is very similar to the gap equation in BCS theory. If \(\frac{2\pi^2}{g\Lambda^2} < 1\) there exists a solution \(m>0\.\)
From this relationship a rich spectrum of bound states follows, \[ \begin{array}{cccc} \hline \hline \text{nucleon} & \text{mass} \mu & \text{spin-parity} & \text{spectroscopic} \\ \text{number} & & & \text{notation} \\ \hline 0 & 0 & 0^- & ^1S_0 \\ 0 & 2m & 0^+ & ^3P_0 \\ 0 & \mu^2 > \frac{8}{3} m^2 & 1^- & ^3P_1 \\ \pm 2 & \mu^2 > 2 m^2 & 0^+ & ^1S_0 \\ \hline \hline \end{array} \]
The bosonic field in the superconductor and the pseudoscalar particle in the NJL model are special cases of a general proposition formulated by Goldstone (1961).
Whenever the original Lagrangian has a continuous symmetry group, which does not leave the ground state invariant, massless bosons appear in the spectrum of the theory.
Other examples are:
physical system broken symmetry massless bosons
ferromagnets rotational invariance spin waves
crystals translational and rotational invariance phonons
These massless bosons are now known in the literature as Nambu-Goldstone bosons. In nature, however, the axial current is only approximately conserved. The model made contact with the real world under the hypothesis that the small violation of axial current conservation gives a mass to the massless boson, which is then identified with the \(\pi\) meson. Actually the NJL model, reinterpreted in terms of quarks, has been the starting point of a successful effective theory of low energy QCD, see e.g. the review by Hatsuda and Kunihiro (1994).
After the NJL model, SSB became a key concept in elementary particle physics, in particular electroweak unification (Weinberg S, 1967) requires SSB.
 - Baker, M and Glashow, S L (1962). Spontaneous Breakdown of Elementary Particle Symmetries. Physical Review 128(5): 2462-2471.
 - Heisenberg, W; Dürr, H P; Mitter, H; Schlieder, S and Yamazaki, K (1959). Zur Theorie der Elementarteilchen. Zeitschrift für Naturforschung 14a: 441-485.
 - Heisenberg, W (1960). Recent research on the nonlinear spinor theory of elementary particles. Proc. 1960 Annual Intern. Conf. on High Energy Physics, Rochester : 851-858.
 - Bardeen, J; Cooper, L N and Schrieffer, J R (1957). Microscopic Theory of Superconductivity. Physical Review 106(1): 162-164.
 - Nambu, Y (1960a). Axial Vector Current Conservation in Weak Interactions. Physical Review Letters 4: 380-382.
 - Nambu, Y (1960b). Quasi-Particles and Gauge Invariance in the Theory of Superconductivity. Physical Review 117: 648-663.
 - Nambu, Y and Jona-Lasinio, G (1961a). Dynamical Model of Elementary Particles Based on an Analogy with Superconductivity. I. Physical Review 122(1): 345-358.
 - Nambu, Y and Jona-Lasinio, G (1961b). Dynamical Model of Elementary Particles Based on an Analogy with Superconductivity. II. Physical Review 124(1): 246-254.
 - Goldstone, J (1961). Field theories with Superconductor solutions. Nuovo Cimento 19: 154-164.
 - Hatsuda, T and Kunihiro, T (1994). QCD phenomenology based on a chiral effective Lagrangian. Physics Reports 247(5-6): 221-367.
 - Weinberg, S (1967). A Model of Leptons. Physical Review Letters 19(21): _PHONE_.
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Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory, Englert-Brout-Higgs-Guralnik-Hagen-Kibble mechanism, Gauge invariance, Gauge theories, Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model (Particle physics, Nuclear physics), Symmetry breaking in quantum systems
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Kevin M. Fleming
INFO 340
Seattle Campus
Introduction to Relational Database Management Systems
Introduction to relational database management systems, focused on relational theory and the application of conceptual, logical, and physical database modeling. Key topics include the relational model, SQL, entity-relationship modeling, three-tier architectures, implementation of database applications, and related topics in information systems. Prerequisite: CSE 142.
Class description
1. Develop a conceptual understanding of relational database systems 2. Develop a conceptual understanding of information retrieval systems 3. Develop skill set in working with database and information retrieval tools. 4. Develop an understanding of how databases fit into the larger scope of software and project development.
Student learning goals
Understand and understand core Database Theory
Understand and have knowledge of the role and components of modern Database Management Systems (DBMS)
Have knowledge in Database Design, with the ability to evaluate real-world problems and develop a relational model to support solutions to the problem.
Have a solid understanding of the Structured Query Language (SQL) and be able to construct queries to retrieve information for given problems.
Understand Information Retrieval systems, how the relate and differ from databases, and their use in modern systems, especially web search engines.
Understand and be able to develop software that interacts with databases.
General method of instruction
The course will be blend of lectures, lab work, homework, and projects. Hands on projects and real world problems will be emphasized.
Recommended preparation
A background in programming and logical though processes are highly recommended for this course. Completion of CSE 142 / 143.
Class assignments and grading
Homeworks will be assigned weekly and there will be two projects. A midterm and final will also be given.
Grading is done on a point basis. Assignments, projects, and tests will have a total number of possible points. This will generate a percentage of points earned for the course. A grading formula will be used to assign student's grades based upon the percentage of points earned.
Last Update by Kevin M. Fleming
Date: 11/02/2010


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Address by Steven W. Koehn, Maryland State
Can you imagine Maryland without a state forest or state park? Well, a little less than one hundred years ago, in 1905, there was such a time.
John and Robert Garrett made a generous donation of 1,917 acres of forest land in Garrett County to the State of Maryland. The Garrett brother's original donation consisted of 3 parcels:
Records show that the Garrett deed was prepared on January 30,1907 and later recorded by Fred. W. Besley on April 10th, 1907 at 8 AM, "For the purposes mentioned in Sec. 3 Chap.294 of Acts of MD 1906" – what we call today the Forest Conservation Act of 1906. (Note: Governor Edwin Warfield signed it into law on April 5, 1906.
During the preliminary discussions with the State, the Garrett brothers imposed several conditions before they deeded over the land to the State. Some of these conditions were written into law in the Forestry Conservation Act of 1906.
The law in essence declared war on the Age of Forest exploitation. The law made it clear that the science of forestry would be the tool to heal Maryland's devastated landscape. The 1906 Forestry Conservation Act was so progressive and pioneering, that it quickly put Maryland in the forefront of the national forestry conservation movement at the State level. The law called for a "State Forester" to be in charge of carrying out its mandates. The first to fill that position was Fred W. Besley (_PHONE_).
As a result of the passing of the 1906 Forest Conservation, Maryland became third state in the country to have a State directed forest management program pioneering many scientific forest management programs that were later adopted across the country (the other two states were Wisconsin and Pennsylvania).
To fully appreciate the 1906 Forest Conservation Law, it is important to remember what the condition of the forests was like in the early 1900's.
The 1906 Forestry Conservation Act addressed a variety of additional environmental concerns of that time: over-cutting of timber, livestock grazing in woodlots, and wildfires. All of the above activities had a negative impact on forest regeneration.
The Law also provided guidelines for purchasing additional public lands. For example, in 1906 the State could spend no more than five dollars per acre when purchasing additional public lands.
Just consider one accomplishment of many resulting from the Garrett Brother's initial benevolence.
There were zero acres of state public land in Maryland before their donation in 1906; outdoor recreation did not exist on state public lands, simply because there were no state public lands in Maryland.
Today, as we celebrate the Centennial of the Maryland Forest Service and the Maryland State Park Service, there is just a little less than 500,000 acres of state public land, making up about 10% of Maryland's land base.
At the same time the forest land base throughout the state increased from a little less than 30% 100 years ago to 40% today. That's incredible, especially when you recognize that during the same time the population of Maryland tripled in size in 100 years, from about 1.8 million in 1906 to about 5.6 million people in 2006.
The Forest conservation leaders of the past proved that it is possible to have
economic growth while at the same time improving the forest resource base and
quality of life issues. Somehow, they figured out that delicate balance.
We can ask, "What will Maryland's forested landscape look like 100 years from now?" Well, what Maryland's forests will look like 100 years from now is up to us!
If the history of state and private forests in Maryland reveals anything, it is that land and people are intertwined throughout that history. It took 100 years of selfless dedication by a series of charismatic and influential forest conservation leaders to help restore the forest and develop a suite of forestry programs and services targeting our nation's state and private forestlands for improvement. In the past 30 years, user demands on State-owned forestland have dramatically increased as have the threats to the continued viability of privately owned forested lands. This is a pivotal time in the history of the state and private forestlands. It is a moment that cries out for a new cadre of charismatic and influential forest conservation leaders.
Now is the time for all of us to step forward and become the catalyst to lay the foundation for the next century of progress.
There's much work before us. We can't always depend on personalities to appear like John Garrett or Robert Garrett, or Fred W. Besley to bail us out. We have to get involved ourselves if we are to make a difference and have healthy and sustainable forests for today and tomorrow. Now, let's get to work!
Note: This centennial event was celebrated 100 years to the day Fred W.
Besley filed the Garrett land gift in the Garrett County Court House.
Photographs (top to bottom):
Garrett State Forest - Cradle of Maryland Forestry


How to configure a graph using a system or schema option.
option(arg)[.set( value ) | get() | unset( value)]
Options are only available for Classic Graph, and are deprecated in DataStax Graph 6.8.
Graphs can be configured per graph using the following options, in either the Schema API or the System API; see those pages for examples of using option().
Table 1. Graph-Specific OptionsGraph-specific options are preceded by graph; for example, graph.allow_scan.
Option argument Setting Example Description Default
allow_scan true Allow full graph scan queries. Use only during development. true
schema_mode Production Set mode to Production or Development. Development
default_property_key_cardinality Multiple The default cardinality for automatically defined properties. Single
tx_autostart true Set transaction to start automatically or open manually. false
Table 2. TraversalSource-specific optionsTraversalSource-specific options are preceded by graph.traversal_sources.* where * must be a specified traversal source such as the graph traversal g; for example, graph.traversal_sources.g.type. The most common TraversalSource is the graph traversal g.
Option argument Setting Example Description Default
Table 3. Transaction-specific optionsTransaction-specific options are preceded by graph.tx_groups.* where * must be specified as a transaction group or default. For example, graph.tx_groups.default.read_only will make all transactions not explicitly named read_only, whereas graph.tx_groups.myTxGroup.read_only would apply only to transactions which are given the group name myTxGroup.
Option Setting Example Description Default
internal_vertex_verify true Set transaction to verify that vertices for internally provided auto-generated vertex ids actually exist. false
external_vertex_verify false Set transaction to verify that vertices for externally provided user-defined vertex ids actually exist. true
prefetch true Sets the query executor to asynchronously pre-fetch data based on its expected execution of the traversal prior to the data being requested. This can reduce transaction latency but can cause throughput to worse. true
read_only true Set a transaction to read-only. false
single_thread true Set a transaction to be only accessed by a single thread. false
thread_bound true Set a transaction to be bound to a particular thread. false
vertex_cache_size 4000 Maximum size of the transaction-level cache of recently-used vertices 10000l
Configure a Classic graph. Options can be set with either the graph - Classic engine or Schema API, and get or unset operations are accomplished with the Schema API.


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corner A in order to fix corner 2. But now we have two correct adjacent corners (B and 2), so we can apply the algorithm again as I described in the first case.
The same happens for the third orientation, whereas the second and the fourth orientation do not end up nicely after the application of the algorithm. Thus, in this case, we conclude that, before the application of the algorithm, we have to orient the cube so that one of the correct corners is in the upper right front. We then apply the algorithm and after that, we proceed as I described in the first case (where the two correct corners are next to each other).
So there you have it: two methods for solving the 2X2. Each method requires knowledge of only two algorithms. This was my first and foremost concern: fewer algorithms and cases to remember (the downside being that we need to perform more turns until the cube is solved).
This guide is also useful for the 3X3. This is how you solve the whole of the 2X2 and how you also solve the corners of the 3X3. So, if you need a beginner's guide to only help you with the corners of the 3X3, you can use this guide.
Happy cubing and keep in mind that a solved cube is a cute cube (yes, yes, you have to endure this lame joke, too).


A computed column can be described as an expression that is evaluated in a table in the form of a column value. The computed column can have either a physical or logical representation. This means, if a computed column is created or altered to apply the persisted attribute, the actual computed value from the expression will be stored in the table physically. If the persisted attribute is not set, the column is evaluated upon request, and is logical. It is important to note that when persisted is utilized, a computed column is evaluated at any time the columns that are part of the expression being used are updated in any way.
Cardinality is an interesting topic when computed columns are used. In many cases, tuning steps are taken by using computed columns when arithmetic operations are used in queries such as
SELECT Col1 FROM tbl WHERE Col2 + Col3 = 1
The above query can be tuned in many cases by altering the table to add a computed column that already performs the expression Col2 + Col3. Once this is done, statistics can be or are, created on the columns and the estimation of 30% selectivity is not performed. SQL Server 2005 and on uses an estimated 30% selectivity sample or estimation in the case of the query shown above in order to generate the plan. This can be a performance bottleneck in large tables.
Once the computed column is created and persisted, the query could be altered to look like the following
SELECT Col1 FROM tbl WHERE ColComputed = 1
Indexing on ColComputed is typically performed at this point to fulfill the objective of an optimal execution plan.
Taking a deeper look
As we've discussed, using computed columns can be a good tuning method in some cases. Computed columns and cardinality or estimation of rows is also directly affected by how the computed column is created.
To look at the cardinality a little closer, take the following query that was written to read the Credit database from SQLSkills.
select corp_name +'' + city from corporation where
corp_name +'' + city = 'Corp. Boston Key StonesInc. '
A query written this way is not as uncommon as you may think. I've seen many instances in both client and mobile applications where string values like the above 'Corp. Boston Key StonesInc.', are sent to the database engine to prevent multiple calls and trim the packet that is needed to be sent. This type of query requires some work on the tuner's part to find an optimal plan.
Looking at the plan as it is written above, we can see there is areas that can be improved. One of those areas is the estimation versus the actual rows that are generated.
In a lot of cases, the major difference between estimated and actual rows can mean outdated or stale statistics. However, in this particular case, the statistics were created at the time this query was executed, given the auto create statistics setting on the database. The root cause of this difference in estimated versus actual rows is due to the use of corp_name + ' ' + city. There are 500 rows in the corporation table so the 106 estimated rows is generated from the estimated 30% selectivity that is performed.
We can look at this in another table with more rows, member.
select member_no from member where lastname + ',' + firstname = 'INFANTE,WLTANAWOIKGLQR'
The member table has 10,000 rows and the estimated rows generated from the above query are 1000. As we've seen, the 30% is an estimated number that can be thought of as, up to 30% on a high range. In this case, only 10% was generated.
Computed Column
Fixing the above plan when performance problems are seen from the query being executed several times can be done by utilizing computed columns. This method is the same concept that was mentioned earlier when a calculation is performed on two or more columns in order to retrieve data matching the expressions final value. There is really one gotcha that should be taken into account when creating a computed column: whether it should be persisted or not. Let's look at a non-persisted computed column first.
Alter the corporation table to add a computed column on the expression corp_name + ' ' + city.
ALTER TABLE corporation
ADD [corp_city_computed] AS (([corp_name]+' ')+[city])
Execute the query below and review the results in Plan Explorer.
select corp_name +'' + city from corporation where
[corp_city_computed] = 'Corp. Boston Key StonesInc. '
We've actually introduced more problems with the computed problem as seen above. Now the compute scalar operations are required, and notice the estimated versus actual rows are now showing 500. 500 is the total number of rows in the corporation table. The reason for this is the failure to use persisted on the computed column. Recall, without a persisted computed column, the expression is evaluated every time the systems needs to read the data. So, in order to fulfill the query, the entire nonclustered index is scanned and the computed column is evaluated. Although we've corrected the fact that the estimated and actual rows (cardinality) are now the same, we've introduced something that can be, in some cases, even more of a performance problem.
Add Persisted
In order to fully take advantage of the objective of using computed columns to enhance the performance of the query, the persisted attribute needs to be set. To do this, run the following ALTER statement on corporation.
ALTER TABLE corporation
DROP COLUMN [corp_city_computed]
ALTER TABLE corporation
The ALTER statements above will drop the computed column and add it back on the corporation table while using the persisted setting. This will force the data to be evaluated and stored in the table. Be careful at this point. Creating a computed column with persisted on a large table will take time. The ALTER statement will execute for a variable amount of time based on the expression and the rows that must be evaluated at the time the ALTER statement is performed. During this time, locks will be taken on the table and blocking will, more than likely, occur.
Executing the same query to select on the corporation table results in the following plan.
Given the computed column and persisted nature, the estimated versus actual rows now show a value of 1 for each.
Utilizing computed columns can be extremely effective for tuning certain queries to resolve cardinality issues. While this can be effective, having the persisted setting on or off is vital to the overall effectiveness of the computed column. When creating computed columns, persisted or not, take care in the time it may take to ALTER the table based on the number of rows, data types utilized for the columns in the expression for the computed column and overall, time that may be used with high level locks that can cause severe blocking.
To read more on the selectivity estimate, "Statistics on Computed Columns" by Benjamin Nevarez.


Science Can Now Make Human Blood from Skin
By: Amanda Chang - Nov 8, 2010
References: montrealgazette
Time consuming and mis-matchy blood transfusions may be a thing of the past as scientists at McMaster University have discovered how to make human blood from skin. That's right folks, the potential to personally make your own blood from the very skin on your bones is just around the corner.
The procedure to make human blood from skin involves taking a tiny extract of skin, extract fibroblasts, then add proteins of DNA within a petri dish to complete the process. Researchers predict this lab-grown blood could be ready for testing within a span of two years.


Create Development Wallet
Private keys are stored locally in Keosd. Private keys are one half of public-private key pairs which are used by asymmetric cryptography. The corresponding public keys is stored on the blockchain and associated with an account. It is these keys that are used to secure accounts and to sign transactions.
Use Cleos to run commands on the blockchain and to interact with accounts and keys via wallet and other commands.
Create a Wallet
The first step is to create a wallet. Use cleos wallet create to create a new "default" wallet using the option --to-console for simplicity. If using cleos in production, it's wise to instead use --file so your wallet password is not in your bash history. For development purposes and because these are development and not production keys --to-console poses no security threat.
cleos wallet create --to-console
cleos will return a password, save this password somewhere as you will likely need it later in the tutorial.
Creating wallet: default
Save password to use in the future to unlock this wallet.
Without password imported keys will not be retrievable.
About Wallets
A common misconception in cryptocurrency regarding wallets is that they store tokens. However, in reality, a wallet is used to store private keys in an encrypted file to sign transactions. Wallets do not serve as a storage medium for tokens.
A user builds a transaction object, usually through an interface, sends that object to the wallet to be signed, the wallet then returns that transaction object with a signature which is then broadcast to the network. When/if the network confirms that the transaction is valid, it is included into a block on the blockchain.
Open the Wallet
Wallets are closed by default when starting a keosd instance, to begin, run the following
cleos wallet open
Run the following to return a list of wallets.
cleos wallet list
and it will return
Unlock a Wallet
The keosd wallet(s) have been opened, but is still locked. Moments ago you were provided a password, you're going to need that now.
cleos wallet unlock
You will be prompted for your password, paste it and press enter.
Now run the following command
cleos wallet list
It should now return
 "default *"
Pay special attention to the asterisk (*). This means that the wallet is currently unlocked
Import keys into a Wallet
Generate a private key, cleos has a helper function for this, just run the following.
cleos wallet create_key
It will return something like..
Created new private key with a public key of: "EOS8PEJ5FM42xLpHK...X6PymQu97KrGDJQY5Y"
Import the Development Key
Every new EOSIO chain has a default "system" user called "eosio". This account is used to setup the chain by loading system contracts that dictate the governance and consensus of the EOSIO chain. Every new EOSIO chain comes with a development key, and this key is the same. Load this key to sign transactions on behalf of the system user (eosio)
cleos wallet import
You'll be prompted for a private key, enter the eosio development key provided below
Never use the development key for a production account! Doing so will most certainly result in the loss of access to your account, this private key is publicly known.
Wonderful, you now have a default wallet unlocked and loaded with a key, and are ready to proceed.
Use these to help follow the tutorial series easily
Enter the public key provided in the last step in the box below. It will persist the development public key you just generated throughout the documentation.
What's Next?
Start Keosd and Nodeos: Steps to start Keosd and Nodeos.