Assignment 6 (Dead Code Elimination)
This assignment is due Monday April 18th at 11:59pm.
For this assignment you are expected to identify and eliminate dead code. Dead code is any instruction that does not affect the output of the program (a function, in particular). For DCE (dead code elimination), you will need to use def-use chains to reason about instructions that do not affect the outputs. Remember that the output of a function is not limited to what it is returning.
Those who implemented assignment 4 in LLVM, and have relied on the SSA property to find def-use chains with a linear scan of the LLVM-IR, are expected to implement a further requirement for this assignment, whether they are choosing URCC or LLVM for this assignment. That is Common Subexpression Elimination (CSE). An example of this optimization has been illustrated below.
Adopted from [1]
For CSE, you must first do the AVAIL analysis and then reason about expressions that are redundant.
Note 1: Since LLVM does not permit copy instructions, you may need to use the "ReplaceAllUsesWith" method to replace all uses of c with t. Also, since LLVM uses the SSA representation, you might need to insert new phi nodes.
Note 2: You do not need to implement partial redundancy elimination (PRE) for this assignment.
Your are expected to test your optimization pass by counting the number executed instructions. To do so, you are provided with a test script. Download this script into your URCC repository.
If you are using URCC for this assignment, you can easily run "./test.rb all" to run all the tests. You can also run an individual test by running "./test.rb #{program_name}".
If you are using LLVM for this assignment, you will need to reimplement Test.test method in the script above by following the current implementation of that method. This is where you need to compile a program and apply your optimization, and instrumentation. You are allowed to use your peers' test scripts.
The "./test.rb all" command will give you a "urcc_test_results.txt" file that includes the program outputs (along with your dynamic instruction count. Remember to print the instruction count as a single line "INST COUNT: x", where x is the number of total executed instructions). Include this file in your report, along with your test script (if modified) and instructions on how to run the tests. Do not forget to give a thorough explanation about your implementation.
Note: URCC appears to be failing on generating a correct executable for two of the test cases: sort.c and tax.c. You can exclude these test cases by removing them from the test directory.
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Crime in England and Wales _PHONE_ credits (HS1841)
Module Tutor: Dr Garthine Walker
This Advanced Option explores the nature of and attitudes to crime and punishment in early modern England and Wales. Through a dialogue between intensive primary source analysis and close readings of secondary literature, we shall evaluate the assumptions that underpin the history of crime. The range of unlawful activities covered include murder and other homicides such as duelling, spousal murder, and infanticide; property crimes from simple theft and burglary to highway robbery and piracy; the speech crimes of sexual slander, scolding, and sedition; witchcraft, and sexual offences such as rape and sodomy. We may structure our discussions of individual topics and their historiographies around several connected themes. The most prevalent of these is culpability: on what basis did early modern people ascribe guilt or innocence to those prosecuted, and to what extent were beliefs about full or partial culpability reflected in sentences and punishments? We shall discover that culpability was rarely a straightforward concept, but rather has to be considered in relation to several other categories, including class and status, gender, age, honour, religion, and community. The issue of change over time is addressed throughout the module. In order to explore these issues, we shall engage with a rich array of primary sources. Many of these were produced by or about the legal process itself, such as witness testimony, confessions, indictments, legal manuals, legislation, officially sanctioned printed trial reports, ordinaries' accounts of executions, and newspaper accounts of trials and punishments. We also examine the portrayal of crime, criminality and the courts in a number of other popular forms, including the 'street literature' of pamphlet accounts of murder and witchcraft and ballads, criminal biographies, and plays.
Availability of module: Every year
Necessary for: N/A
A range of teaching methods will be used in each of the sessions of the course, comprising a combination of lectures, seminar discussion of major issues and workshops for the study of primary source material. The syllabus is divided into a series of major course themes, then sub-divided into principal topics for the study of each theme.
The aim of the lectures is to provide a brief introduction to a particular topic, establishing the salient features of major course themes, identifying key issues and providing historiographical guidance. The lectures aim to provide a basic framework for understanding and should be thought of as useful starting points for further discussion and individual study. Where appropriate, handouts and other materials may be distributed to reinforce the material discussed.
Seminar and Source Workshops:
The primary aim of the sessions will be to generate debate and discussion amongst course participants, focused in particular on primary source material. Seminars and source workshops for each of the course topics will provide an opportunity for students:
(a) to discuss topics or issues introduced by the lectures,
or (b) to discuss related themes, perhaps not directly addressed by the lectures, but drawing on ideas culled from those lectures.
and (c) to analyse different types of primary sources available, discussing the principal ways in which they can be used by historians.
Seminars and source workshops will provide the student with guidance on how to critically approach the various types of primary source material. Preparation for seminars and workshops will focus on specific items from the sources and related background reading, with students preparing answers to questions provided for each session. Both seminars and source workshops will provide an opportunity to discuss and debate the issues with fellow students. Classes will be divided into smaller groups for discussion purposes, with the results presented as part of an overall class debate at the end of the session.
Students will be assessed by means of a combination of one critical source analysis [10%], an assessed essay [25%] and an examination paper [65%].
Critical Source Analysis will contribute 10% of the final mark for the module. In this module it will comprise one gobbet commentary of 1,000 words.
The Assessed Essay will contribute 25% of the final mark for the module. It is designed to give students the opportunity to demonstrate their ability to review evidence, draw appropriate conclusions from it and employ the formal conventions of scholarly presentation. It must be no longer than 2,000 words.
The Examination will take place during the second assessment period [May/June] and will consist of an unseen three hour paper that will contribute the remaining 65% of the final mark for this module. Students must write 3 answers in total. Question 1 is a compulsory source investigation [or 'primary source'] question, requiring students to choose and comment on three extracts from a selection of sources they will have encountered during the module. Students must answer Question 1 and two other questions.
Summary of course content
- Early modern crime & primary sources
- The historiography of early modern crime
- Homicide: legal categories & criminal justice
- Domestic killing & popular print
- Homicide trial reports
- The duel
- New-born child murder
- Infanticide trial transcripts
- Theft & other property crimes
- 'Decline of violence' debate
- Sexual violence: rape & its attempt
- Sexual 'deviance': sodomy & cross-dressing
- Unlawful words: scolding, slander & sedition
- Witchcraft: an exceptional crime?
- The Witch of Edmonton: pamphlet & play
- Punishment: from torturing the body to reforming the soul?
- A criminal underworld? I Ballads, pamphlets, & newspapers
- A criminal underworld? II John Gay's The Beggar's Opera
- display a comprehensive critical understanding of the history and historiographies of crime and criminal justice in early modern England and Wales
- elucidate and evaluate a detailed critical understanding of the relative merits and demerits of a range of interpretations of early modern crime, deviance and punishment
- demonstrate a detailed understanding of the nature and significance of primary sources for the history of crime, including potential problems they pose and how historians have or may best overcome them
- present their analyses and arguments clearly and concisely in one 1,000 word non-assessed assignment and one 2,000 word assessed essay in accordance with the scholarly conventions of historical writing, and in examination answers
Skills that will be practised and developed
- communicate ideas and arguments effectively, whether in class discussion or in written form, in an accurate, succinct and lucid manner.
- formulate and justify arguments and conclusions about a range of issues, and present appropriate supporting evidence
- an ability to modify as well as to defend their own position.
- an ability to think critically and challenge assumptions
- an ability to use a range of information technology resources to assist with information retrieval and assignment presentation.
- time management skills and an ability to independently organise their own study methods and workload.
- work effectively with others as part of a team or group in seminar or tutorial discussions.
Suggested preparatory reading
John Beattie, Crime and the Courts in England 1660–1800 (1986)
Malcolm Gaskill, Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England (2001)
Cynthia Herrup, The Common Peace: Participation and the Criminal Law in Seventeenth-Century England (1987)
Mark Jackson, New Born Child-Murder: Women, Illegitimacy and the Courts in Eighteenth-Century England (1996)
Alexandra Shepard, The Meanings of Manhood in Early Modern England (2003)
Garthine Walker, Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England (2003)
Tim Hitchcock, Robert Shoemaker, Clive Emsley, Sharon Howard and Jamie McLaughlin, et al., The Old Bailey Proceedings Online, _PHONE_ (_URL_, version 7.0, 24 March 2012).

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The genus leucorrhinia, or the whitefaces, all have whitefaces as their name would suggest. Most are a combination of black and yellow or black and red. Some change color due to pruinose, a powdering substance that some dragonflies produce as they age. All whitefaces have black legs.
The dot-tailed whiteface is the most common whiteface found in Minnesota. It can be found in every county in the state, unlike the other whitefaces that are limited geographically. The mature male is mostly black with a single square shaped black spot on the top of abdominal segment seven, see the first picture for an example. Females and juvenile males have yellow top spots on segments one through seven, see the picture above. Dot-tailed white faces are usually found around ponds, marshy areas, as well as quiet lakes and streams.
Dot-tailed whiteface often perch on vegetation in the water, such as lily pads and algae beds. Males are often seen defending their territory from such perches. Even copulation typically takes place on floating vegetation, as pictured above. After they finish the female will lay the eggs in the water next to some floating vegetation. The male will hover guard while she lays the eggs making sure no other male can get to the female until after she has finished bearing his future offspring.

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same as that of our domestic Ciconia boyciana from the Amur region of Russia in 1996 and proliferated. The number of proliferated Ciconia boyciana today is about 140, eight of which were released into the wild in 2015 with the remaining population scheduled to be released on a step-by-step basis as well.
16. Fishes disappeared from the Korean peninsula
Fishes disappeared from the Korean peninsula
Acipenser sinensis
The Acipenser sinensis is a freshwater fish belonging to the order Acipenseriformes, and family Acipenseridae. The Acipenser sinensis is also a migratory fish species and occasionally appears in the Han River, Geum River, Youngsan River, etc. Most recently, one wild Acipenser sinensis was caught at the Geum River estuary in December, 1995. The population of Acipenser sinensis has reduced due to collection of their eggs (caviars), water pollution, and the limited development of their habitat. International trades of Acipenser sinensis have been banned since 1998.
Efforts to restore Acipenser sinensis
A series of researches have been conducted in Korea in a bid to restore the Acipenser sinensis population. In 2009, more than 1,300 Acipenser sinensis were brought from North Korea and have been cultivated in freshwater and seawater ever since along with restoration researches.
Leiocassis longirostris
Leiocassis longirostris is a freshwater fish species belonging to the order Siluriformes, and family Bagridae. The fish were widely dispersed throughout the Han River, Daedong River, Cheongcheon River, Imjin River and the Geum River Until around 1930 but none has been observed since the 1970s. The fish are presumed to go extinct in Korea due to water pollution, destruction of habitat with the construction of estuaries and overfishing.
Efforts to restore Leiocassis longirostris
In an effort to restore the Leiocassis longirostris, the Inland Fisheries Research Institute imported Leiocassis longirostris from China, which are the same as domestic ones in 2000 and succeeded in producing fries. About 2,000 fries were released to the Geum River in 2016 to facilitate the restoration of its population.
17. Skeleton of bird and mammal
Skeleton of bird and mammal
Birds bave ability to modify their bones to be able to fly effectively. Mammalian bones are filled with bone marrow while avian bones are hollow and airy, which makes avian hones lighter than the mammalian counterparts.
18. Defensive features of herbivorous dinosaurs-Tail club and tail spikes
Defensive features of herbivorous dinosaurs
Plant-eating dinosaurs protected themselves from predators in various ways. To protect themselves from and counter-attack predators, Ankylosaurus had hard bony plates on its back and sides and large bony tail club, and Stegosaurus had two rows of bony plates and spikes at the end of tail.
19. Defensive features of herbivorous dinosaurs-Thick skull
Defensive features of herbivorous dinosaurs
plant-eating dinosaurs protected themselves from predators in various ways. Pachycephalosaurus has a very thick skull for head-butting and bony knobs around the skull to attack the predators.


How is Drupal Different From WordPress?
DrupalHow Drupal is different from WordPress depends on who is asked, but there are fundamental differences. Below explains the differences and advantages of each platform.
The Basics
In the beginning, WordPress was a simple blogging platform, but its functionalities have gradually expanded through a community of web designers who continually contribute their own plug-ins and themes. WordPress is now an efficient and user-friendly way for users to manage online content without having a strong development background. On the other hand, Drupal is a robust system that is best for website developers who want enhanced functionality and taxonomy systems. Drupal is noted for having a flexible taxonomy that helps users to tag and categorize content in complex websites. Drupal is not recommended for novices because extensive training is needed for basic systems building and content management.
Security performance is one of the biggest differences between Drupal and WordPress. That is, Drupal comes with enhanced and advanced security, which is why most government websites, such as the Whitehouse's, are built with Drupal. At the opposite end, Worldpress has embedded system vulnerabilities that allow hackers to easily target a weakly designed plug-in and destroy mountains of data and hundreds of websites. Because of these concerns, WordPress community members have created various security applications that minimize the security risks, such as WP Engine and MediaTemple. Most people use the Drupal security extensions Acquia and Pantheon.
Mobile Design and Development
Because the majority of consumers use their mobile devices to access the Internet, both Drupal and WordPress offer user-friendly mobile themes for website owners. Most Drupal mobile starter themes are available for download off of the Drupal website, and WordPress users can download the popular WPTouch solution. One basic difference is that Drupal provides website developers with extended content fields on every page. Another notable difference is that almost all of Drupal's mobile themes should be run off a sub-domain, which may create potential mobile indexation and search engine challenges. WordPress offers a very convenient mobile app for content editing.
Search Engine Optimization
There have been ongoing debates about the superiority of WordPress over Drupal for years. However, SEO algorithms historically do not prefer one content management system over the other one. There is a lot that can go wrong on Drupal sites if the developer has limited experience because of the advanced options and complex extensions. Because WordPress is simpler, there is less room for design errors. When website owners are maximizing their on-page optimization, they must consider the page load times because Drupal offers excellent caching features and WordPress only offers limited caching plug-ins.
How are They Similar?
Drupal and WordPress are both open source software under GPL licenses. This means that they are free and open to adjustment by anyone. Because of this, each platform has their own devoted online community of supporters and technicians. Both programs are mostly written in PHP, which is a server-based scripting language that is used for web development and programming software. Drupal and WordPress both support MySQL as their database management system. Oracle's MySQL is one of the most popular open source database programs available. Each one uses standard themes, plug-ins, templates and extensions.
Related Resource: Why Search Engine Optimization is Important
In the end, how Drupal is different from WordPress depends on the technical needs and preferences of the user.


Coin Finder
Coin finder
Have you met Poseidon? Would you like to see Thor's famous hammer depicted on a coin? Try our coin finder to discover the heroes of yesterday and villains from centuries ago.
Greek and Roman gods and goddesses appear as some of the most common coin designs from the ancient world. The great general Alexander may even have included his own facial features on portraits of Herakles which graced his coinage. Instances such as these helped to blur the line between man and god. Certain Roman Emperors favoured particular deities. Domitian (AD 81-96) favoured the Goddess Minerva. Commodus associated himself with the hero, Hercules.
You can search for: Zeus, Apollo, Hercules, Helios, Demeter, Tanit, Arethusa, Dionysos, Athena, Victory, Iris, Roma, Neptune, Poseidon, Baal, Persephone, Odysseus, Sol, Britannia
Roman Emperors frequently appeared in military attire on their coins. This was likely an attempt to curry favour with the military, who could make or break a ruler. Occasionally, weapons appear alone on coins. In the case of Boeotia in Mainland Greece, the famous shield takes pride of place on the obverse of distinctive silver staters.
Zeus' deadly thunderbolt also shows up on various coins from the Greek World. The Vikings issues silver pennies from York featuring swords, which they related to only too well, and honoured the Norse God, Thor, with depictions of his powerful hammer.
Coins you can search for are: Shield, Thunderbolt, Axe, Falx, Sword, Spear, Flail, Club, Bow and Arrow, War Galley
Animals have appeared on coins since the earliest issues from the 7th Century BC. City states in Greece and Asia Minor often used animals as iconic badges of their cities; most famously the Owl for Athens. In later centuries, heraldic beasts were adopted by the monarchies of Europe from the Middle Ages onwards. The horse also appears frequently through history, even to the present day – Saint George is depicted on horseback, spearing the dragon, on the British gold sovereign.
There is an array of different animals you can find on coins. Such as… Horse, hare, elephant, tortoise, snake, lion, bull, eagle, dolphin, owl, boar, bee, stag, camel, goat, tuna, ram, dove, crab…
Historical Figures
Coins depicting, or issued by, famous figures throughout history are often some of the most popular with collectors. From the Roman period, coins of Julius Caesar, Caligula and Nero are very well collected. Every monarch of England issued coins, and these remain a key collecting area today.
Some inspiration: Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Hadrian, Claudius, Mark Antony, Cleopatra, Constantine the Great, Brutus, Augustus, Victoria, Edward
In a similar way to animals, plants began to be used on coins of the Greek world as symbols or badges of the cities which issued them. The Greek word for 'Rose' was very similar to the island of 'Rhodes' and thus, the flower was adopted as a symbolic motif for the city.
In North Africa, the affluent city of Kyrene chose to depict the Silphium Plant on its coins. This super-plant, which was claimed to have hundreds of different uses (including acting as an Aphrodisiac), was driven to extinction due to its popularity.
You can search for: Wheat, Rose, Celery Leaf, Pomegranate, Tree, Wreath, Grapes, Silphium
Instruments in ancient coinage were usually linked to the Greek God, Apollo. The lyre, or kithara, features on many coins including those from Olynthos in Macedon. The emperor Nero issued a bronze coin featuring himself as Apollo, playing the instrument.
War trumpets were commonly used by Celtic tribes, and these can be seen on Roman coins, which celebrate victory over the Gauls and Germans. The lyre, or kinnor, also appears on coins of the Second Jewish Revolt, and has been described as the national instrument of the Jewish people.
The Romans frequently depicted monumental buildings on their coins. The colosseum appears on an extremely rare brass sestertius of the emperor Titus. Trajan's column, also still standing in Rome today, featured on coins of the victorious emperor.
The shop fronts of traders appeared on small tokens during the 17th Century and in the 18th Century the die engraver, Skidmore, issued a series of tokens celebrating various buildings and churches in London and the surrounding area.
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Y'know those small images that appear in your web browser's address bar as you move from site to site? Or that appear in your list of favourites or bookmarks next to each site?
Those are Favicons, short for Favourites Icons. They are a great way to help users see at a glance what site is open in their browser, especially if they have several tabs open at once.
How do I create one?
A favicon is simply a 16 x 16 pixel square image.
Typically the icon is a representation of your organization's logo or letters of its name or colour scheme. The image below shows some examples open in separate tabs in the Firefox browser.
You can create one from scratch using your favourite image editing program (or asking your graphic designer for a favour), or you can use one of several online tools to create one for you.
These two tools generate icons from images you upload:
The following tool generates an icon from text you type (great for organizations without a logo, or one that doesn't reproduce well in the small size of an icon):
The image can be in any format supported that a web browser can display, such as GIF, PNG and JPEG.
How do I add one to my website?
Once you have an icon image, save it to a location on your web server. Traditionally the file was named "favicon.ico" and saved in the root folder. However, the latest browsers support alternate locations and file names.
If you choose to name your file favicon.ico, note that the image format may still be a PNG, GIF, JPEG, etc.; it's only the extension that is changed to ".ico".
To include the icon in your website, edit the pages to add one of the following lines to the section:
where type is the image type (e.g. png, jpg, gif, etc.) and href points to the image location on your web server.
Note that the first link tag example does not conform to W3C recommendations, so the second example is preferred.
How do I add one to my Inmagic WebPublisher PRO pages?
If you have used the Andornot Starter Kit to publish your textbase online, you may be able to simply edit the file "\layout\include\HeadTag.htm" to add the above line to the section of most pages served by WebPublisher PRO. You may also need to edit your search pages. It all depends on how your site is configured.


👏 You can access ncp package with using ncp variable in browser devtools!
Asynchronous recursive file copy utility.
code/package/bundle size
bundle minified
bundle gzipped
ncp - Asynchronous recursive file & directory copying
Build Status
Think cp -r, but pure node, and asynchronous. ncp can be used both as a CLI tool and programmatically.
Command Line usage
Usage is simple: ncp [source] [dest] [--limit=concurrency limit] [--filter=filter] --stopOnErr
The 'filter' is a Regular Expression - matched files will be copied.
The 'concurrency limit' is an integer that represents how many pending file system requests ncp has at a time.
'stoponerr' is a boolean flag that will tell ncp to stop immediately if any errors arise, rather than attempting to continue while logging errors. The default behavior is to complete as many copies as possible, logging errors along the way.
If there are no errors, ncp will output done. when complete. If there are errors, the error messages will be logged to stdout and to./ncp-debug.log, and the copy operation will attempt to continue.
Programmatic usage
Programmatic usage of ncp is just as simple. The only argument to the completion callback is a possible error.
var ncp = require('ncp').ncp;
ncp.limit = 16;
ncp(source, destination, function (err) {
 if (err) {
 return console.error(err);
You can also call ncp like ncp(source, destination, options, callback). options should be a dictionary. Currently, such options are available:
 - options.filter - a RegExp instance, against which each file name is
tested to determine whether to copy it or not, or a function taking single parameter: copied file name, returning true or false, determining whether to copy file or not.
 - options.transform - a function: function (read, write) { read.pipe(write) }
used to apply streaming transforms while copying.
 - options.clobber - boolean=true. if set to false, ncp will not overwrite
destination files that already exist.
 - options.dereference - boolean=false. If set to true, ncp will follow symbolic
links. For example, a symlink in the source tree pointing to a regular file will become a regular file in the destination tree. Broken symlinks will result in errors.
 - options.stopOnErr - boolean=false. If set to true, ncp will behave like cp -r,
and stop on the first error it encounters. By default, ncp continues copying, logging all errors and returning an array.
 - options.errs - stream. If options.stopOnErr is false, a stream can be provided, and errors will be written to this stream.
Please open an issue if any bugs arise. As always, I accept (working) pull requests, and refunds are available at /dev/null.
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Ice Safety Tips
Ice Safety Tips
Ice safety is very important as breaking through the ice can be very dangerous or even deadly. The colour of the ice can indicate how strong it is. Of course, in our area the lakes are almost always covered with snow and so you can't actually see the ice. However, before you get on the ice it might be a good idea to clear a small patch and observe the ice colours.
Gray Ice: If the ice is gray, it is weak. Often it turns gray after melting and then refreezing.
White Ice: White ice means that there are water-saturated snow freezes on top of the ice forming another layer. Often this white ice layer has air pockets causing it to be weak.
Blue or Clear Ice: Blue or clear ice is the strongest. However, its safety is still dependent on its thickness.
Mottled, Slushy or Rotten Ice: Mottled, slushy and rotten ice are all different names that mean the same thing. For this ice, it is not so much the colour but the texture. This ice is melting and slushy. Its strength is deceptive, so be extra careful around mottled, slushy or rotten ice.
When it comes to ice colour, an easy slogan to remember is this:
Thick and blue, tried and true;
Thin and crispy, way too risky
Other factors that play into ice safety are weather changes and the current temperature; Cracks or breaks; Standing water; Ice thickness; etc.
If you want to take your truck or car unto the ice, an extra safety measure is to make a hole next to your vehicle. If water starts to creep through, it is time to move your vehicle as it may mean that the ice around your vehicle is beginning to sink.
The Environment of Canada website has provided a glossary of ice terms and their definitions:
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- remove a file from software database
removef [ [-M] -R root_path] [-V fs_file] pkginst path...
removef [ [-M] -R root_path] [-V fs_file] -f pkginst
removef informs the system that the user, or software, intends to remove a pathname. Output from removef is the list of input pathnames that may be safely removed (no other packages have a dependency on them).
The following options are supported:
After all files have been processed, removef should be invoked with the -f option to indicate that the removal phase is complete.
Instruct removef not to use the $root_path/etc/vfstab file for determining the client's mount points. This option assumes the mount points are correct on the server and it behaves consistently with Solaris 2.5 and earlier releases.
Define the full path name of a directory to use as the root_path. All files, including package system information files, are relocated to a directory tree starting in the specified root_path. The root_path may be specified when installing to a client from a server (for example, /export/root/client1).
removef inherits the value of the PKG_INSTALL_ROOT environment variable. (See ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES, below.) If PKG_INSTALL_ROOT is set, such as when the -R option is used with pkgadd(1M) or pkgrm(1M)
Note - The root file system of any non-global zones must not be referenced with the -R option. Doing so might damage the global zone's file system, might compromise the security of the global zone, and might damage the non-global zone's file system. See zones(5).
Specify an alternative fs_file to map the client's file systems. For example, used in situations where the $root_path/etc/vfstab file is non-existent or unreliable.
The following operands are supported:
The pathname to be removed.
The package instance from which the pathname is being removed.
Example 1 Using removef
The following example uses the removef command in an optional pre-install script:
echo "The following files are no longer part of this package and are being removed." removef $PKGINST /myapp/file1 /myapp/file2 | while read pathname do echo "$pathname" rm -f $pathname done removef -f $PKGINST || exit 2
If present, defines the full path name of a directory to use as the system's PKG_INSTALL_ROOT path. All product and package information files are then looked for in the directory tree, starting with the specified PKG_INSTALL_ROOT path. If not present, the default system path of / is used.
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See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
Package commands are largefile(5)-aware. They handle files larger than 2 GB in the same way they handle smaller files. In their current implementations, pkgadd(1M), pkgtrans(1) and other package commands can process a datastream of up to 4 GB.


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Face value
Face Value
face value
See par value.
Face value.
Face value, or par value, is the dollar value of a bond or note, generally $1,000.
However, bonds may trade at a discount, which is less than face value, or at a premium, which is more than face value, in the secondary market. That's the bond's market value, and it changes regularly, based on supply and demand.
The death benefit of a life insurance policy which is the amount the beneficiary receives when the insured person dies. It's also known as the policy's face value.
face value
see PAR VALUE 1.
face value
The value of an instrument (promissory note, bond, stock, etc.) as stated on the face of the instrument.The face value does not always equal the market value.
Example: A 5-year-old mortgage note with a face value of $100,000 and an amortization term of 20 years at 2.8 percent interest is worth far less than $100,000 for two reasons: (1) The principal balance is now a little under $80,000. (2) Why would anyone invest even $80,000 to earn 2.8 percent interest when he or she can get better returns in the marketplace? For both reasons, an investor would pay much less than the $100,000 face value to buy the mortgage.
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* The "face amount" of the card is treated as the amount paid for the communications service and, thus, the amount subject to the 3% tax (Sec.
Interestingly, mortality decreases by increasing face amount in the ultimate durations (as it did in the select period) suggesting some impact of underwriting may persist beyond the 25-year select period.
For a hypothetical $100,000 UL product where premiums fund positive cash value at age 100 and where a chronic illness acceleration rider pays l/24th of the face amount each month over a 24-month period; and policy death benefit equals face amount in all durations, more than 25% of the total benefits paid will shift from mortality benefits to acceleration benefits by the addition of the rider.
Product Name: Minimum face amount $50,000; does not vary
The liability would be increased by the interest expense and reduced by interest paid to accrue the liability from the discounted value at issuance to its face amount at maturity.
Shortly after the sale, the sellers assigned their rights to receive the future payments to a bank (in which one of the sellers was an officer and director) for their face amount, less a $750 discount.
As of end-2017, treasury bonds still accounted for the bulk of outstanding debt paper with a face amount of P4.126 trillion, up from P3.871 trillion in November.
Time Warner Inc (NYSE:TWX) said on Wednesday that it priced an underwritten public offering of USD600m of 3.875% senior notes due 2026 at a price equal to 99.951% of their face amount and USD300m of 4.85% debentures due 2045, at 96.812% of their face amount (additional debentures).
Selling the policy in the traditional life settlement market is a long shot, as this market generally seeks larger face amount policies, usually at least $500,000.
The policyowner who elects to convert the maximum amount of coverage using the enhanced and basic conversion options can end up with a permanent life insurance face amount of 250% the term face amount.
The size of a life insurance company often is measured by the face amount of its portfolio, that is, the amount of life insurance it has issued that is in force.


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Brussels 1895 – 1970
Brussels 1895 – 1970
Swyncop Charles was born in Brussels on March 21, 1895 emerged as a distinguished Belgian painter during the first half of the 20th century, leaving an indelible mark on the art world with his vibrant and captivating works. Born into a family with a passion for art, Charles inherited his artistic inclination from his older brother, Philippe Swyncop, who served as his first painting mentor.
As a young artist, Charles Swyncop delved into various genres, showcasing his versatility as a painter. He painted landscapes, city views, seascapes, still lifes, flowers, children, genre scenes, figures (particularly Spanish beauties), and portraits. His early education at the Academy of Brussels under the guidance of notable teachers such as Jean Delville, Herman Richir, and Alfred Bastien laid the foundation for his artistic prowess. The influence of his studies in Rome and Venice, where he immersed himself in iconography and the techniques of the great masters, became apparent in his later works.
In 1920, Swyncop played a pivotal role as assistant to his teacher Alfred Bastien in creating the panoramic masterpiece, "Panorama de l'Yser." This collaboration, alongside painters like Charles Léonard and Jef Bonheur, showcased his dedication to large-scale and impactful artworks. The painting, initially exhibited in the mosque of the Cinquantenaire Park in Brussels, later found a permanent home in Ostend, though it suffered severe damage during World War II.
Throughout his career, Swyncop's artistic journey intersected with Spain, much like his brother Philippe. However, Charles brought a unique touch to his paintings, employing subtle and spontaneous brushstrokes reminiscent of the French Fauvists. His colorful sea views echoed the influences of Henri Matisse and André Derain, setting him apart in the art scene.
In 1930, Charles Swyncop's talent garnered recognition when he was commissioned by the Ministry of Colonies to create decorative panels for the World Fair in Antwerp. A testament to his artistic contributions, Swyncop became a member of the esteemed group 'La Lierre,' showcasing his works alongside prominent artists like Alfred Bastien, Julius Brouwers, and Henri De Clerck in their annual exhibitions.
Beyond his prolific career as an artist, Swyncop dedicated himself to nurturing the next generation of talents as a teacher at the art academy of Brussels from 1938 until his passing in 1970. His legacy endures through the charming and lively works that grace the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, each canvas reflecting the spirit of an artist who blended classical training with a modern, Fauvist-inspired approach.


TIP #229: Scripted Control of Name Resolution in Namespaces
Title:Scripted Control of Name Resolution in Namespaces
Version:$Revision: 1.10 $
Created:Wednesday, 03 November 2004
This TIP proposes extensions to the namespace command to allow scripts to control how individual namespaces map names to commands.
Tcl has, for historic reasons, attracted many different styles of object system, and a favoured mechanism for implementing objects is on top of namespaces (which were introduced in Tcl 8.0 based on work done previously in [incr Tcl]). However, a common problem that these OO systems face is the inability to make namespaces efficiently map names of entities within classes etc. into the object instances. This TIP provides a simple mechanism for doing this.
No mechanism is provided for affecting the resolving of variable names. Best practice is to ensure that variables not present in the current namespace are imported explicitly through the upvar or variable commands (depending on context) and the fact that there is any possibility of non-local variable name resolution has been behind a number of bugs in the core (e.g. Bug #981733).
Proposed Change
Namespace Path Subcommand
The namespace command will gain a new subcommand, path, with the following syntax:
namespace path?list?
This command sets and queries the current namespace's command name resolution path. If list is present, namespace path sets the path to the list of namespaces named in the list and returns the empty string; all the namespaces must exist or an error is thrown. If no list argument is provided, namespace path doesn't change anything and returns the current path.
Updates to Other Commands
The info commands command shall be updated so that, when no namespace is present in its pattern part, it shall return all (matching) commands that are visible without namespace qualifiers at this point. The info procs command will not be so modified.
Name Path Behaviour
Only names without a leading namespace separator in them are resolved using the namespace's path. When resolving command names, resolving relative to the current namespace is always preferred (unless a resolver is installed, of course), and resolution relative to the global namespace is always done after resolving relative to everything in the path (unless the global namespace is explicitly in the path, when it happens earlier). This means that the old behaviour is exactly what you get when the path is empty, and also ensures that virtually all scripts continue to work when a path is set; if it was possible to remove the global namespace from the actual path (as opposed to the settable part), virtually all scripts would break. If an extension installs a custom name resolver, that completely overrides the command name resolution path mechanism (to maximize backward-compatability; it is not anticipated that much code will try to mix the two mechanisms in a namespace).
Note that each namespace's path is isolated from the path of every other namespace, including the parent namespace. Systems using the namespace path mechanism as part of an implementation of inheritance will want to set up the path for each object namespace explicitly (this value can be statically precomputed on a per-class basis); indeed, where multiple inheritance is involved it will probably be more efficient to compute the path than let Tcl guess.
The path is parsed completely at the time the namespace path command is run, and the resulting list of namespaces is used directly. If a namespace on some namespaces' path is deleted, it is immediately excised from the path of every namespace that refers to it.
The following script returns "::foo":
namespace eval ::foo {
 proc boo {} {namespace current}
 namespace eval bar {
 namespace path ::foo
The following script return "::foo::bar":
namespace eval ::foo {
 proc boo {} {namespace current}
 namespace eval bar {
 proc boo {} {namespace current}
 namesspace eval spong {
 namespace path ::foo
A patch is available[1].
This document has been placed in the public domain.
TIP AutoGenerator - written by Donal K. Fellows


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Not taking the time to properly determine shrink rate can have a big impact on the quality of the final product—including its geometry, performance, and appearance.
Material suppliers typically provide information on the shrink rate of their materials. This number is usually based on ASTM Standard D955 and a.125-inch thick plaque with a specific gating size and location. Although this is a good place to start, this value is typically not accurate enough for many products, especially critical, highly complex parts.
Wall thickness of the part, mold gate size, and processing conditions such as packing pressure and mold temperature are major factors in determining shrinkage of the part. For example, thinner wall sections cool faster, resulting in less shrinkage. Larger gates will result in longer packing time, also providing less shrinkage.
Shrink rates also vary according to flow direction. After gate locations are selected, it is important to analyze the part to determine the basic direction of flow. On long, narrow parts—gated at the end, for instance—flow will essentially parallel the length of the part. In these cases, the "in-flow" shrink rate is used for this dimension of the part. The "cross-flow" shrinkage is used for dimensions that are perpendicular to the long dimension. For parts with random fill directions, an average of the in-flow and cross-flow directions can be used. For parts with critical dimensions, prototyping is the safest option (the mold can be also left steel-safe so that critical areas can be "tweaked" if needed after a production molding process is established).


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Studying elephants' long-distance communications
Stanford biologist Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell and her colleagues conducted an elaborate elephant communication experiment in Namibia's Etosha National Park in July 2004. Their findings suggest that elephants produce powerful, low frequency vocalizations that travel through the ground. These seismic signals might be used to find distant mates or identify potential predators.
In this video, Caitlin and husband Tim Rodwell demonstrate how wild elephants react when acoustic recordings are converted into seismic vibrations—a daytime experiment in which the sounds of frightened elephants are played back underground, and a nighttime test using a synthesized warble tone.


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When the body produces more acidic wastes, the kidneys must work more and more because these agencies have to filter wastes from the blood of this acid. Swelling of kidney disease, poisoning the urine, urinary bladder, are calculated by the acid, this situation can be improved by drinking alkaline water. It also helps control the osmotic pressure of the kidney.The hotel also makes members of the general environment highly acidic. The salt in the acid salts hotel is due to the combination of calcium and magnesium to reduce toxicity of phosphoric and uric acids. Drinking alkaline water with many numbers will reduce acidity in the urine and neutralize acids and prevent the acid form.
Prof. Kuwata Keijiroo, Doctor of Medicine:
The difference between drinking alkaline ionic water and the normal water is that the excretion of urine is slightly more than intake. However, for severe kidney failure patients, water intake has to be restricted. Consuming alkaline ionic water for these patients in controlled amounts proved to be beneficial. Normal tap water contains phosphate, calcium carbonate and the acidic ions. These acidic ions tend to reduce the efficiency of the calcium ions. Pure alkaline ionic water does not have these problems and it can effectively strengthen the heart and increase urination. After consuming the alkaline ionic water for a month, the amount of urea and uric acid in the blood will show a marked improvement but will
not disappear completely.
However, if you continue to drink alkaline ionic water for a period of 6 to 12 months, the urea and uric acid should be grossly reduced. Intake of protein during this period should also be controlled; persistent drinking of alkaline ionic water should eliminate the toxic effect of the urea and uric acid from the body.
According to a foreign paper report, patients undergoing dialysis tend to have their negative ions significantly reduced and the positive ions increased. Hence, according to the above experiment and from my personal clinical experience, drinking alkaline ionic water increases the positive ions which will have a significant effect on various kidney diseases. When kidney diseases do not respond to various drugs, it is good to treat them with alkaline ionic water.


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thunder-python 0.1.0
Large-scale neural data analysis in Spark
Latest Version: 1.4.2
Large-scale neural data analysis with Spark - project page
Thunder is a library for analyzing large-scale neural data. It's fast to run, easy to develop for, and can be run interactively. It is built on Spark, a new framework for cluster computing.
Thunder includes utilties for data loading and saving, and modular functions for time series statistics, matrix decompositions, and fitting algorithms. Analyses can easily be scripted or combined. It is written in Spark's Python API (Pyspark), making use of scipy, numpy, and scikit-learn. Experimental streaming analyses are availiable in Scala, and we plan to port some functionality to Scala in the future for improved performance.
Quick start
Thunder is designed to run on a cluster, but local testing is a great way to learn and develop. Many computers can install it with just a few simple steps. If you aren't currently using Python for scientific computing, Anaconda is highly recommended.
 1. Download the latest, pre-built version of Spark, and set one environmental variable
export SPARK_HOME=/your/path/to/spark
 1. Install Thunder
pip install thunder-python
 1. Start Thunder from the terminal
>> from thunder.utils import DataSets
>> from thunder.factorization import ICA
>> data = DataSets.make(sc, "ica")
>> model = ICA(k=2).fit(data)
To run in iPython, just set this environmental variable before staring:
export IPYTHON=1
To run analyses as standalone jobs, use the submit script
thunder-submit timeseries/stats
We also include a script for launching an Amazon EC2 cluster with Thunder presintalled
>> thunder-ec2 -k mykey -i mykey.pem -s launch
Thunder currently includes five packages: classification, clustering, factorization, regression, and timeseries, as well as an io package for loading and saving (see Input format and Output format), and a util package for utilities (like common matrix operations). Packages include scripts for running standalone analyses, but the underlying classes and functions can be used from within the PySpark shell for easy interactive analysis.
Input and output
Thunder is built around a commmon input format for raw neural data: a set of signals as key-value pairs, where the key is an identifier, and the value is a response time series. In imaging data, for example, each record would be a voxel or an ROI, the key an xyz coordinate, and the value a flouresence time series. This is a useful representation because most analyses parallelize across neural signals (i.e. across records).
These key-value records can, in principle, be stored in a variety of cluster-accessible formats, and it does not affect the core functionality (besides loading). Currently, the loading function assumes a text file input, where the rows are neural signals, and the columns are the keys and values, each number separated by space. Support for flat binary files is coming soon.
All metadata (e.g. parameters of the stimulus or behavior for regression analyses) can be provided as numpy arrays or loaded from MAT files, see relavant functions for more details.
Results can be visualized directly from the python shell ir iPython notebook, or saved as MAT files, text files, or images.
Road map
If you have other ideas or want to contribute, submit an issue or pull request!
 - New file formats for input data
 - Automatic extract-transform-load for more raw formats (e.g. raw images)
 - Analysis-specific visualizations
 - Unified metadata representation
 - Port versions of most common workflows to scala
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Apr. 2, 2010 As peach trees go, it doesn't look much different from its kin at the Clemson University Musser Fruit Research Farm, but appearances can be deceiving. This one, a Lovell variety, has a unique genetic characteristic that made it a standout in the orchard. Its DNA -- its genetic set of instructions for living -- has been sequenced by scientists, enabling further research to identify beneficial traits to grow better trees and fruit.
The tree's DNA sequence is being published worldwide April 1, opening a new era in fruit-tree research that could have far-reaching implications for the future of peaches, as well as many other valuable plants. The research is available online at _URL_.
This genome sequence is the culmination of an extensive research program pioneered at Clemson University under the leadership of Albert "Bert" Abbott, who holds the Robert and Lois Coker Trustees Chair in Molecular Genetics and is a professor in the genetics and biochemistry department. The research goal is to establish the peach as a model tree genome for identifying and understanding genes that are critical for deciduous tree growth and development.
"The tree providing the DNA for the sequencing effort was chosen after careful analysis of DNA from specific trees in the Musser orchard," said Abbott. "The choice of this tree was crucial to the overall success of the project, and the extremely high quality of the peach genome sequence assembly is a direct result of this choice."
The peach genomics efforts of the Clemson research team and its international collaborators led the Joint Genome Institute, a federally funded sequencing facility, to underwrite the sequencing the genome of peach as one of the key plant species of interest worldwide.
Clemson and Washington State University maintain the Genome Database for Rosaceae, which is a central repository of genetics and genomics data of Rosaceae, an economically important plant family, including apple, cherry, peach, pear, raspberry, rose and strawberry.
Clemson has a close connection to Washington State through Dorrie Main, a WSU associate professor of bioinformatics. She previously was director of bioinformatics at the Clemson University Genomics Institute, a research and training facility focusing on the discovery and analysis of important genes from plants, animals and microbes.
Bryon Sosinski, a graduate of the Clemson genetics program, now an associate professor of horticultural science at N.C. State University, served as the American coordinator of an effort to sequence the genome of the peach. Sosinski said the effort spanned the globe, involving scientists in Italy, Spain and Chile. In the United States, N.C. State, the Joint Genome Institute, Clemson and Washington State universities were the principal partners. In the United States, the effort was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, while the Italian government funded the international effort.
The peach genome should be useful to scientists working with a number of peach relatives whose genomes appear to be similar to that of the peach, according to Sosinski.
"Some of these relatives, such as apple or plum, might be expected, but others, such as strawberries and raspberries, and trees, such as poplar and chestnut, would seem unlikely in that the plants are quite different from peaches," he said.
It is likely, Sosinski added, that all these plants had common ancestors, and that while they have evolved to be quite different today, their genetic makeup remains similar. As a result, what scientists learn about the peach genome may transfer to these relatives, as the peach genome appears to be relatively unchanged or ancestral in nature. If, for example, scientists identify a peach gene that influences sugar content in the fruit, strawberries and raspberries may have that same gene and it may have the same function.
While sequencing the genome of an organism is a significant scientific achievement, Sosinski said, it is just the beginning of scientific work related to the genome. The genomic sequence of an organism is roughly equivalent to a book that is simply a long list of letters, without spaces between words or punctuation, paragraphs or chapters.
This long list of letters, by itself, has little meaning; however, if the letters are organized into words and punctuation added, creating meaningful sentences, paragraphs and chapters, the book begins to make sense, said Sosinski.
At the Musser farm in Oconee County researchers field test more than 350 different types of peaches, including varieties from Italy, China and France. Some of them will perform well in South Carolina; others will not. The goal is to provide peach growers with research-based information so that they can make good decisions for a profitable industry.
"Consumers are becoming much more aware of the health benefits associated with varieties optimized for nutritional value," Abbott said. "The stone fruit industry in South Carolina and the nation faces many significant challenges. These varieties will help growers gain a competitive edge in the marketplace."
Arrangements have been made to send 10 cuttings of the DNA-sequenced tree to N.C. State, where Sosinski hopes to plant the trees around campus.
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Post -by Gautam Shah
Environment is a complex system. Its various aspects affect us differently. Some effects are concurrent and few are directional. Environmental barriers serving many different purposes are required.
Noise barrier Geluidscherm_OverschieWIND BARRICADES
Wind barricades are used for heavy wind sections as well as for the storm prone locations, such as sea fronts, valleys etc. These are designed to deflect the direction and diffuse the velocity of the winds. The barricades primarily depend on the quality of the terrain and man-made formations, such as sand dues, walls, screens, vegetation, walls etc. Projections like galleries, Chhajjas, screens, are also used for diverting the winds to the buildings. The flow is also diverted to specific interior areas of rooms by wind catcher ducts. Tropical houses have terrace parapets with a grill or lattice design to let the air pass through. Louvered doors and windows also control the air movement.
Man-made_sand_barrier_to_protect_the_forest_-_geograph.org.uk_-_255850 WATER BARRICADES
Water barricades are required against sea tides and ebbs, tsunamis, flooding, land washouts, snow and rain storms and eddy currents. These are in the form of vegetation, walls, dumps of modular or irregularly shaped cast units, landscaping and terrain contouring. Holland has devised variety of technological means against ingress of sea waters.
Sea front barricades of Concrete blocks against land erosion
Sun shading barricades are shading devices, usually vertical or horizontal, and often in inclined positions. Locations above 23° N or South of the equator receive no sun rays from respectively North and South faces. All location under (within) 23° N or S of equator, however, receive some sun rays, and to curtail it sun shading devices of horizontal flat or inclined shape are required. For the same locations, on East and West faces, early part of morning and later part of the afternoons receive horizontal rays, but with Southern inclination. These require a dual shading consisting of horizontal and vertical (on the South side of the opening) elements. Sun shading devices such as Brise de soleil are used.
Solar baffles
Radiation barricades are used against radiation sources, such as furnaces, open fires, oil wells and oil storage tank yards. Such barricades could be natural or man made. Natural radiation barricades are in the form of hills, contours, dunes, slopes, trees, hedges, foliage, plants, grass, climbers etc. Man-made radiation barricades are protection walls, embankments, ramparts, retaining walls and dykes.
Jet Blast Barricade
These are created against super highways, railway tracks, airport runways, open mines, stone crushing plants and sites with pile drivers. The noise control barricades are made of dense vegetation, fibre boxes (grass), and hollowed or staggered construction. Stage podiums have parabolic overhangs to direct sound away from the stage and thus avoid the feedback in sound amplification system. Telephone booths in public spaces like malls, road sides, railway stations have specifically designed envelopes to prevent the background noise. Cinema and performance auditoriums are designed with optimum 1/4 to 1/3 audience occupation, as the bodies of audiences and their clothing absorb sound. Noise control barricades are in form of contoured planes to deflect and amplify the sound, low density surfaces treatments, baffles or cavities to absorb select frequencies of sound, or frequency generators to produce sound attenuation.
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Processing Check Payments
This document discusses how to process payments by checks, wire transfers, and other methods that don't involve credit card processing and web payment systems.
If a user chooses to pay by check or wire transfer, the account registration and operation will include the following steps:
 1. The user goes through the registration wizard.
 2. Upon the completion of the wizard's last form, the account is not activated. An invoice is e-mailed to the user. A copy of this invoice is sent to your administrator address (see Setting E-mail below on how to specify this e-mail address). The invoice includes mailing address for check payments or bank details for wire transfers.
 3. The user sends you a check or wires the amount specified in the invoice.
 4. You receive user's check or wire and enter the received amount into the system.
 5. Next you moderate the account, it becomes active, and the system sends user an e-mail notification that the account has been created.
 6. User receives the notification e-mail and can log into the control panel.
 7. Further, user sends checks or makes wire transfers to pay the bills. Upon their receipt, you enter the payments into the system.
 8. When the billing period closes, the account is not suspended and continues to operate, and the payment owed becomes user's negative balance. When user's negative balance exceeds the credit limit, this user will become unable to purchase more resources, which does not allow the negative balance to grow too high over one billing period. See also Suspending Debtors.
 9. When necessary, you can turn off check payments for the entire system.
In this section:
Setting up the Check Mailing Address
Setting E-mail
Moderating Accounts
Turning Off Check Payments For the Entire System


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The class has about 15 students from 4 different countries, and I'm the last teacher of their Discipleship Training School lecture phase. They begin the outreach portion next week.
The focus this week has been looking at Acts at the various methods of evangelism, and the various approaches to sharing the gospel. We don't find a single script to use in the New Testament, but find how the gospel was contextualized to the setting.
We've focused also on relationships and sharing the gospel in the context of relationships.


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Development of an interpreting service model at the Durban University of Technology
Makhubu, Rosethal Loli
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This research deals with the development of a model of interpreting services for a newly merged multilingual University of Technology, the Durban University of Technology. The rationale for the study was the urgent need to give students whose mother tongue is not the medium of instruction (i.e. English) equity of access to higher-degree education. The research was carried out within a critical realist approach, which seeks to transform society by practical application of theory. Unlike previous studies in interpreting, this research focuses on the service provision aspect of interpreting. It falls within the field of educational interpreting, but goes beyond the classroom situation in considering other university interpreting needs, such as seminars and in-house conferences, graduation and other ceremonies, operational meetings and labour-related meetings. Franck‟s modelling process was used to formulate a theoretical model of the interpreting service delivery mechanism using data gathered during visitations to local and international universities. The theoretical model, or system of essential functions, was used to arrive at the applied aspect of the mechanism, termed an empirical model of interpreting service delivery. The model was then validated in terms of its application in various contexts at the Durban University of Technology. It is suggested that the theoretical and practical models developed have application not only for educational interpreting, but also in other interpreting contexts. The models are also considered to have relevance for service delivery in general, which is a critical issue at present in South Africa.


Dwarf Gonatanthus
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Dwarf Gonatanthus
Photo: Thingnam Girija
Common name: Dwarf Gonatanthus • Nepali: लेलधामखोस Leldhamkhos, पतरकच Patarkach
Botanical name: Gonatanthus pumilus Family: Araceae (Arum family)
Synonyms: Caladium pumilum, Gonatanthus sarmentosus
Dwarf Gonatanthus is a herb which is characterized by large ovate-oblong heart-shaped, Arbi-like leaves. Leaves are 8-15 cm long and 5-10 cm broad, attached to a long stalk from the middle of the blade (what is called a peltate leaf). The plant often grows on trunks of trees. Flower is a 15-25 cm long stick like spadix, wrapped in a green covering (spathe). Fruit is a head of small yellow berries enclosed in the spathe-tube. The rootstock of the plant is tuberous. Flowering: June-August.
Medicinal uses: A paste from the rhizome is applied on the chest for chest pain. Juice from crushed leaves is used as an antibiotic for wounds in humans and animals.
Photographed in Gangtok, Sikkim.
- Is this flower misidentified? If yes,


When troubleshooting a performance problem within a SQL Server database instance, there are a variety of places that you can look to determine its root cause. Some of the biggest performance bottlenecks usually boil down to several causes:
 - Missing indexes
 - Poor index design
 - Poorly designed database schema
 - Inadequate storage I/O subsystem
 - Buffer pool too small
 - Slow network
 - Wrong technology used
Resolving these problems might seem difficult, but if you have the right tools available, they can be easy enough to fix so that performance will improve.
Missing Indexes
Disk performance problems and an increased number of deadlocks are some of the potential indicators that you might have indexes missing. One way to easily determine if there are missing indexes is to use two dynamic management views (DMVs): sys.dm_db_missing_index_details and sys.dm_db_missing_index_columns. Between these two DMVs, you can easily identify many of the indexes that need to be created to improve performance.
However, there's a catch: The system doesn't understand that indexes already in existence might only need another column added to their included columns list. So, SQL Server might recommend that another entire index be created when all that's needed is a new column in the existing index. Because of this, you shouldn't just take the information from the DMVs and create all the specified indexes. The reported indexes should be compared against the indexes that already exist in the database to ensure that duplicate indexes aren't being created. Duplicate indexes can lead to additional writes, updates, and deletes, causing performance problems.
A better approach is to use a query like that in Listing 1 to identify the indexes that are missing from the database on which the query is being run. This query uses the db_id() system function to restrict the output to that from the current database. So, to run it in your database, simply specify that database in the Available Databases drop-down box in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) or add a USE statement before the query.
SELECT a.avg_user_impact
* a.avg_total_user_cost
* a.user_seeks,
OBJECT_NAME(c.object_id, c.database_id),
CREATE INDEX mrdenny_' + replace(replace(replace(replace
(ISNULL(equality_columns, '')
ON [' + schema_name(d.schema_id) + ']
(' + ISNULL(equality_columns, '') +
CASE WHEN c.equality_columns IS NOT NULL
AND c.inequality_columns IS NOT NULL THEN ', '
' + CASE WHEN included_columns IS NOT NULL THEN
FROM sys.dm_db_missing_index_group_stats a
JOIN sys.dm_db_missing_index_groups b
ON a.group_handle = b.index_group_handle
JOIN sys.dm_db_missing_index_details c
ON b.index_handle = c.index_handle
JOIN sys.objects d ON c.object_id = d.object_id
WHERE c.database_id = db_id()
ORDER BY DB_NAME(c.database_id),
ISNULL(equality_columns, '')
+ ISNULL(c.inequality_columns, ''), a.avg_user_impact
* a.avg_total_user_cost * a.user_seeks DESC
When reviewing the output from the query in Listing 1, look for queries that have a high value in the first column. The higher the number, the more savings that will be seen by adding an index.
Poor Index Design
Poor index designs for database tables will usually manifest as slow running queries and queries that have a high execution plan cost. The easiest way to identity these problems is to query the procedure cache because queries' execution plans remain in the cache as long as there is enough memory to store them. Listing 2 shows a sample query that looks for queries with a high total cost. When reviewing the output from Listing 2, look at the StatementSubTreeCost column. The higher the number, the more expensive the execution plan.
query_plan AS CompleteQueryPlan,
AS StatementSubTreeCost,
FROM sys.dm_exec_cached_plans AS dm_ecp
CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_query_plan(plan_handle) AS dm_eqp
CROSS APPLY query_plan.nodes
AS qp(n)
ORDER BY n.value('(_USER_)[1]',
In SQL Server 2012, you can set up an Extended Events session to capture the execution plans for queries. However, it isn't recommended that Extended Events be used to capture execution plans in high-load systems as doing so could overload the system by 21% or more by capturing the showplan_xml column.
For more information on how to properly design indexes, see SQL Server 2008 Query Performance Tuning Distilled (APress, 2009) by Grant Fritchey and Sajal Dam. Another book you might want to check out is Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server 2012 ( APress) by Jason Strate and Ted Krueger, which is scheduled to be released in May 2012.
Poorly Designed Database Schema
One of the biggest killers of database performance is a poorly designed database schema. Evidence of a poorly designed database schema can be seen when lots of I/O requests occur while queries are being run. The easiest way to look for this evidence is to use SQL Server Profiler to capture the queries that have the highest I/O load, then run those queries in SSMS with SET STATISTICS IO enabled. Between the table I/O outputs and the execution plans, you'll get a good indication of which table is having a performance problem.
Fixing Schema Problem
After the problematic table has been identified, fixing its schema problem is the next step. Sadly, fixing the problem usually isn't as simple as finding the problem. The table might need to be normalized or denormalized, depending on the table's design. Or perhaps the table needs to be vertically partitioned because there's too much data in it. Conversely, maybe the vertical partitioning was taken a little too far. In case you're unfamiliar with vertical partitioning, it's a technique in which a single table is broken into multiple tables, often using a date as the breakpoint. For example, instead of putting the sales history for every year into a single table, you could put the sales history for each year into a separate table.
Inadequate Storage I/O Subsystem
The most obvious way to determine whether a SQL Server database instance is having storage performance problems is to look in the SQL Server ERRORLOG file. A message about slow I/O in the ERRORLOG file is a good indicator that there's something wrong with the storage I/O subsystem.
However, not seeing any errors about slow I/O in the ERRORLOG file doesn't rule out that your storage I/O subsystem isn't the cause of a performance bottleneck. Not seeing these errors just means that your storage isn't ridiculously overtasked and not keeping up. A quick way to look for I/O problems is to download Adam Machanic's free sp_WhoIsActive stored procedure. When you run sp_WhoIsActive, it will give you the current wait type of all the currently running processes in the system. Look for wait types that report I/O as being the problem.
Another way to look for I/O problems is to query the sys.dm_os_wait_stats DMV with code such as
FROM sys.dm_os_wait_stats
ORDER BY wait_time_ms desc
If the first few rows returned from this query include some I/O wait types, then a slow I/O subsystem might be the problem.
You might have noticed that I said that these wait types might indicate a slow I/O problem and not that they do indicate a slow I/O problem. That's because a poorly indexed database server can also report I/O problems when the I/O subsystem is perfectly sized for the application, but you're asking the I/O subsystem to do a lot more work than it should be doing. In other words, the I/O problem is actually the result of an index problem. To resolve it, you need to add indexes to the system. Because of this, whenever I look at a new system in which the client wants to upgrade the hard drives, I always start with the indexes because that might very well fix the problem.
After the problem has been identified as actually being a storage I/O subsystem problem, there are a few directions that you can go to fix it. For large reporting databases, table partitioning might help. There are two different techniques that you can consider: partitioning for partition elimination and partitioning for CAPEX savings. No matter which approach is taken, a solid understanding of the data and how it's used is required.
Partitioning for partition elimination. With this technique, the goal is to reduce the amount of data that SQL Server needs to scan through when doing table scans. Typically, this is done by using a static window approach with many partitions created in the system and data. For example, you could put the data for each month into its own partition. This way, when users run a query, SQL Server needs to scan through only one partition instead of going through all the data.
Partitioning for CAPEX savings. With this technique, the goal is to put the most frequently used data on really fast disks, such as flash drives, and put the less frequently used data on slower, less expensive disks, such as Serial ATA (SATA) disks. This often makes flash drives a much more affordable option, because you only need a small number of them.
In either case, the same techniques are used to create the partition scheme and function, as discussed in "Data Warehousing: Horizontally Partitioning the Fact Table." No matter which technique you use, you must have a complete understanding of how the data is used to successfully set up table partitioning.
Another way to fix an inadequate storage I/O subsystem is to simply buy new hardware that can handle the increased workload. Although this is probably the easiest solution to implement,


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How to Spot a Smart Person Through Body Language
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Notice how some people look smart even without knowing them in person, nor having heard them speak before? This is a little magic caused by our body language.
Here are simple tips to spot smart people by their body language:
 1. Newspapers instead of smartphones
Ironically, smartphones don't reflect the sense of intellect that it's touted to have on the user. Studies from Harvard and Columbia Business Schools have shown that forming your body in certain dominant positions raises your testosterone levels, and lowers your stress levels. The opposite happens when you take a hunching, defensive position.
One way to achieve this is to stop bending over your smartphone and carrying a newspaper and reading it spread wide. The presence of a smartphone makes one subconsciously anxious and stressed, whereas holding a newspaper signals a body language that is smart and confident.
 1. Walk the same speed as everyone else
A Boston University study found that walking at the same speed as everyone else will make you look smart.
Apparently, people subconsciously use the speed of movement to infer the presence of mind in people. This means that people who walk slower or faster are subconsciously perceived as stupid.
 1. Glasses
It may not sound surprising to anybody at this rate, but yes, wearing glasses does make you look smart.
Researches have shown that wearing glasses makes you look less attractive but smarter. Specifically, wearing thick, blocky frames make you look smarter than the thinner kind.
 1. Speak Better
Another body language that you need to consider to look smarter is the way you speak.
Using monotone will make you sound uninterested, dull, and stupid. On the other hand, by using expressions, modulations, changes in pitch and intonation, you sound more interesting, energetic, and confident.
By sounding more confident and knowledgeable in your manner of speaking, you can give off the vibe of sounding smarter.
When two people say the same phrase, one in monotone, and the other in a more expressive tone, the one with a more expressive tone will sound more credible, knowledgeable and engaging.
 1. Looking People in the Eye
Looking people in the eye during conversation greatly increases perceived intellect. Eye contact is body language that signifies one is in command or confident about what he is saying. This makes one look more credible when talking to groups of people. In one on one conversations, it also establishes rapport between the speaker and the listener, making the listener trust the speaker more.
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Irish Wolfhound Health Problems and Raising an Irish Wolfhound Puppy to be Healthy
By Michele Welton. Copyright © 2000-2013
The most common health problems in Irish Wolfhounds:
Six to eight years is a very short lifespan for a companion dog, but that's all you get with most Irish Wolfhounds.
The two primary causes of death are cancer (especially osteosarcoma and lymphoma) and heart disease (especially cardiomyopathy). Another major killer of Irish Wolfhounds is the emergency gastrointestinal syndrome bloat.
As you might expect in a giant dog, orthopedic diseases are common, including hip dysplasia, elbow dysplasia, osteochondritis, wobbler's syndrome, and hypertrophic osteodystrophy. The Orthopedic Foundation of America evaluated the hip X-rays of 1330 Irish Wolfhounds and found 5.5% dysplastic. That's pretty good for such a huge dog. However, 12% of 272 elbow X-rays were dysplastic – that's much too high.
Liver shunt is a real concern in Irish Wolfhounds – and it's a serious form of liver shunt that may not be able to be corrected surgically.
Skin problems include allergies (which cause itchy skin and often lead to pyoderma) and elbow hygroma.
Eye diseases in Irish Wolfhounds include progressive retinal atrophy (PRA) and entropion. You may see cataracts as early at 1-2 years old, or as late as 5-7 years old.
Other health issues in Irish Wolfhounds include hypothyroidism, epilepsy, megaesophagus, and blood-clotting disease (von Willebrand's).
Can you prevent health problems from happening to YOUR Irish Wolfhound?
Yes, often you can.
- Some health problems are genetic, which means inherited from parents. Genetic health issues are common in Irish Wolfhounds today because of unwise breeding practices. My book, Dog Quest: Find The Dog Of Your Dreams, shows you how to find an Irish Wolfhound puppy who is genetically healthy.
- Other health problems are environmental – caused by the way you raise your dog. My best-selling dog health book, 11 Things You Must Do Right To Keep Your Dog Healthy and Happy shows you how to prevent environmental health problems by raising your Irish Wolfhound puppy (or adult dog) in all the right ways.
Here are my dog health tips for raising a healthy Irish Wolfhound puppy or adult dog:
How Long Will Your Dog Live? – Take This Quiz!
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Dog Health Care – The Sensible Way
Read my advice on daily health care so your Irish Wolfhound lives a long, healthy life and seldom needs to see the vet.
The Best Dog Food For Feeding Your Irish Wolfhound
The best diet for feeding your Irish Wolfhound is real food. Real chicken, turkey, beef, bison, venison, fish....This is not "people food" and I'll tell you why.
The Second-Best Dog Food For Your Irish Wolfhound
If you can't feed homemade dog food, here are your next-best choices.
Vaccinations and Booster Shots: Needed or Not?
How many vaccinations does your Irish Wolfhound puppy really need? Does your adult Wolfhound need yearly booster shots? The vaccination guidelines have changed. Find out what many vets aren't telling you.
The Type of Veterinarian I Recommend
Is your veterinarian really the best choice for your dog? Learn about the differences between vets who practice conventional, holistic, and alternative veterinary medicine.
Spaying Your Female Dog: Pros and Cons
Advantages and disadvantages of spaying your female Irish Wolfhound.
Neutering Your Male Dog: Pros and Cons
Advantages and disadvantages of neutering your male dog.
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Wireless sensors are becoming increasingly integrated and miniaturized. One obstacle facing sensor designers is the lack of size and profile improvement in batteries and other energy storage devices that maintain sufficient capacity to deliver the necessary power and energy.
This paper discusses recent advances in thin-film battery technology that are providing new means for wireless sensor designers to power their devices. It introduces the new EnerChip thin-film battery from Cymbet, which can be reflow-soldered directly to the sensor electronics circuit card. EnerChip batteries can be recharged many thousands of times, making them ideal for wireless sensor applications.


Perceptions of Science: Hubris and Public Distrust
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--Guest post by Kathrina Maramba, American University graduate student.
Recently, Dr. David Agus appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to promote his new book The End of Illness. "Why do we have such a hard time allowing science to overcome our irrationality?" Stewart asked the doctor.
While Dr. Agus had his own answer to the question, the topic is one that scholars from a range of fields have studied for several decades. In The Golem at Large: What You Should Know about Technology, Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch discuss the relationship between science and engaged publics.
In their examination of cases involving Cumbrian sheep farmers and AIDS activists in the late 1980s, Collins and Pinch argue that scientists' hesitation (and sometimes outright unwillingness) to include public input on issues they feel belong in the scientific realm actually hinders scientific advancement.
Furthermore, when scientists' hubris is shown to be unwarranted, as was the case of the Cumbrian sheep case in the U.K., science's credibility is undermined among the public. Needless to say, the undermined credibility of science may contribute to the people's inability to "overcome their irrationality."
In April 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union exploded after a melt-down of its reactor's core. As the worst nuclear accident in recent history, as Collins and Pinch describe, the incident not only killed those in the immediate accident but also "condemned many others who lived under the path of the fallout to illness and premature death or a life of waiting for a hidden enemy."
The release of radioactive debris into the atmosphere was carried over some 4,000 kilometres to Britain. As documented in a series of studies by UK researcher Bryan Wynne, scientists in the U.K. advised sheep farmers in Cumbria to keep sheep in their valleys for fear of their exposure to radium caesium, a metal that is carcinogenic when it is unstable.
Sheep farmers became disgruntled with what they claimed were scientists' unfamiliarity with fell farming and the land. The issue at hand concerned their livelihood and therefore it was particularly alienating when the government scientists dismissed their own expertise regarding the land. Furthermore, the farmers suspected that the danger of radio-caesium did not come from Chernobyl but rather from a nuclear accident that had occurred decades earlier at a nearby reactor.
In 1957, a reactor in the Sellafield processing plant in Cumbria caught fire and burned for three days. Many claimed the fire was never properly investigated, as details of the accident were never made public. The farmers contested that it was the Sellafield nuclear accident that was responsible for the sheep contamination. Scientists explained isotopic differences of the caesium proved otherwise. However, the scientists later recognized that most of the radioactive caesium were, in fact, from the Sellafield fire and "other sources" and less likely from the tragedy at Chernobyl.
Alternative Medicine
At around the same time of the Cumbrian sheep farmer debacle, in a continent a whole ocean away, experts and activists were contesting another area of science. The issue in this case was how to conduct clinical trials of AIDS drugs.
In April 1984, the U.S. Health and Human Services announced that the cause of AIDS had been discovered. The culprit was a retrovirus known as HIV and the development of treatments had begun. Then unlike for any other epidemic before it, a strong grassroots movement formed in the fight against AIDS. Activists were committed to learning and disseminating the truth about AIDS and how to fight it.
As chronicled by sociologist Steven Epstein, ignorance and misinformation caused AIDS to be viewed as the "gays' disease" in the 1980s. At one point, homosexuality was also considered itself to be a disease by medical "experts." In turn, Epstein found that the gay community was distrustful of the scientific community. With this skepticism of experts, AIDS activists sought to learn the science behind AIDS and endeavored to take the matters of treatment into their own hands.
In the meantime, Dr. Anthony Fauci and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) were charged with evaluating azidothymidine (AZT), a promising anti-viral drug in the fight against HIV. Faucui and the scientific community wanted to use traditional experimental methods when evaluating AZT. These clinical trials are made up of a test group and a control group. The test group would receive treatment and the control group would receive a placebo in order to account for psychosomatic effects of the drug that may skew the drugs' true effectiveness. Fauci and NAIAID argued that this was the safest and only method to effectively determine the true effects of AZT.
Activists claimed two main problems with this trial procedure. The first being that the only way to measure the success of the trial was to tally the body count of each research "arm." In other words, did the control group or the test group have the greater number of survivors? Also a cause for concern—the protocols of the studies prohibited participants from taking other potentially life-saving medications, such as those that prevented opportunistic infections. The clinical trials, activists argued, were not ethical and undermined their purpose of usefulness for the common welfare.
The activists' distrust of "experts" spurred them to learn the science behind the controversy. The activists wanted to prove that the preferred methods of scientists were morally problematic by using their language and in the end, were successful in winning an active role in shaping drug testing procedures and protocols. For example, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) was an AIDS activist group that began in the 1980s and by the 1990s found themselves included in annual International Conferences on AIDS among medical professionals that gather to discuss the status of the AIDS epidemic.
An Inconvenient Answer
In both the instances of the Cumbrian sheep farmers and AIDS activists, we are presented with examples of the hubris of science. These were situations in which experts were reluctant at first to consider lay expertise and active public participation. In hindsight, this resistance became a hindrance to the progression of science as an institution, undermining trust among affected publics.
To answer Stewart's earlier question, "Why do we have such a hard time allowing science to overcome our irrationality?" I would propose that the answer is that trust and communication is a two way street. When science does not properly engage the public and utilize expertise outsides its ivory walls, those affected in a debate will be far less inclined to allow science to overcome their irrationality. You can watch the interview between Stewart and physican David Agus below.
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
--Guest post by Kathrina Maramba, a MA student in Public Communication at American University. Her post is part of the course Science, the Environment, and the Media. Find out more about the MA programs in Public Communication and Political Communication as well as the Doctoral program in Communication.
Collins, M. & Pinch, T. (1998). The Golem at Large: What You Should Know About Technology. New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 113-56.
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After re-reading Dan Pink's A Whole New Mind, I realized his book's six senses apply directly to presentations. In order to deliver a successful message to an audience, you must consider the design of your visual presentation. In Part One of this three-part series, we covered design. Read Part One here.
Design is the first of Pink's six senses. Today, we'll focus on the importance of story and how you must weave stories into your presentation content; the symphony of the parts of the presentation to make a synthesized whole; and the empathy for your audience in putting their needs first. Pink's final two senses are meaning and play, which we will discuss in Part Three.
The experts agree: story is an essential part of any presentation. Pink explains that stories are the way we remember, so use story in your presentations if you want audiences to remember your speech. Nancy Duarte says stories are meaningful and engaging for audiences. She emphasizes that even in informative presentations, story should be used to connect (Source). In Made to Stick, the Heath brothers emphasize story as one of the six qualities of "sticky" ideas… ideas that stick in our minds and remain with us (Source). Garr Reynolds says we can look to entertainers and comedians like Bill Cosby for lessons on telling stories in our own presentations (Source). All of the major gurus of modern public speaking and presentation agree that story is important, but how do you actually use story in your speeches?
Tell a story right at the beginning of your presentation to hook your audience. Garr Reynolds calls an effective introduction the "P.U.N.C.H." (Source). Weave story throughout your entire presentation. Duarte suggests incorporating stories into your presentations "like layers of a cake" (Source). Mix a little story with a little informative content to ensure audiences remember more of your speech.
You can also use a visual story to reinforce your verbal message (your content). Create slides that are actually visual instead of following the traditional and terrible death-by-bulletpoint method.
Dan Pink describes symphony as putting together all of the pieces to form a unified whole. You have to put together all of the pieces for your audience… You must not only tell your audience your thesis (your argument), but also provide support for that thesis with supporting points. But your job doesn't end there. To create symphony, you must actually explain how each of your supporting points forms a whole, cohesive argument. Never stop explaining. The only way an audience can see the big picture is if you break down your argument into pieces and then put the pieces back together.
How? First, symphony is created by using a structure that works for your audience. Using a traditional introduction, body, and conclusion structure is familiar for your audience, so they can focus on digesting your content instead of worrying about organizing your ideas AND digesting your content.
Flow is extremely important when it comes to symphony. Pink suggests that relationships are key to symphony, so it is your job as a presenter to show those relationships in a clear, cohesive fashion. Transition well from introduction to body; from body point to body point; and from body to conclusion. Using transitions helps your presentation flow, and flow helps your audience see the bigger picture.
Again, symphony also relates to your visual presentation. For example, Pink uses the FedEx logo in Chapter 6 on Symphony to explain the key to effective visuals: cohesive relationships. Your visual presentation must make effective use of relationships: light and dark; positive space and negative space; signal and noise; and many others. Read Nancy Duarte's slide:ology and Garr Reynolds' Presentation Zen to truly understand the importance of relationships in visual presentation and why effective relationships create symphony for your PowerPoint or Keynote.
Empathy, especially defined by A Whole New Mind, relates to audience-centered presentations. If you are an empathetic presenter, you put your audience first. Because of this technique, you present stronger speeches because you follow Nancy Duarte's golden rule: Never deliver a presentation you wouldn't want to sit through yourself.
Audience-centered presenting relates to all three legs of the presentation stool. Let's talk first about content. An empathetic presenter would never deliver boring content because he understands what his audience needs to be engaged. An empathetic presenter uses ethos, pathos, and logos effectively to create a well-rounded message. An empathetic presenter uses story to make his speech more memorable. An empathetic presenter also knows that the key to effective content always comes back to audience analysis.
Moving onto the second leg of the presentation stool, empathetic presenters have strong emotional IQs in order to deliver successful speeches. A great way to start learning about empathetic, audience-centered delivery is to immediately read The Naked Presenter by Garr Reynolds. It is a must-own for anyone who has to give a speech. Empathetic delivery is about mirror neurons and physically mirroring for your audience the response you want them to have. If your passionate nonverbal communication matches the quality of exciting, audience-centered content, you're being an empathetic presenter.
Lastly, please remember to empathize with your audience when creating visual presentation. Don't treat your audience as if they are stupid. They can read. If you create slides full of text on bullet points, they're going to read that text ahead of you. If you're slowly catching up, reading each bullet word-for-word, your audience is going to hate you, and they're going to wish you'd sit down and stop wasting their time. Empathy is important when it comes to visual presentation, and it is your job as a presenter to meet the various learning styles of your audience. 99% of us are visual, so replace all of that text with an impacting image. Learn more about creating strong visual presentations here.