Anime addicts' guide - What does Otaku mean?
Have you heard of the expression otaku? Do you know its true meaning? How did this term come about? In this article we will do a deep analysis on the word otaku and the people who earned this nickname both in the West and in Japan. We will also see the influence of the community otaku in Japan and the West.
The word otaku [オタク] is a Japanese term used to refer to people who are addicted to something. Over time this word began to be used frequently to refer to fans of anime, manga, novels and games. Prepare to immerse yourself in the true meaning of otaku, to help we leave a summary below:
The meaning of the word Otaku
Originally the word otaku (お宅) was a respectful treatment (sonkeigo) used in the second person, to refer to your home, house, person or family. This word has also been used to refer to husband and organizations.
 - Example: I'll call you at home tomorrow (Ashita otaku ni ukagaimasu [明日お宅に伺います]);
The ideogram of the original word is taku [宅] which literally means home. Over time this word began to be used in a negative way to refer to people who live at home watching anime, playing games, surfing the internet, etc.
otaku One of the main Japanese alternatives is the words Geek and Nerd, but more derogatory. In the dictionary, he is described as a person who has a deep interest in certain hobbies, but lacks knowledge and sociability in other fields.
Otaku can also be used as a suffix for people who like a particular hobby for example tetsudou-otaku [鉄道オタク] which means something like a train addict or mekaotaku [メカオタク] which means addicted to Meka.
Otaku - what is it? What true meaning?
The Origin of the Word Otaku
In the 1980s Akio Nakamori and other prominent authors started using the honorific otaku to refer to criminals and serial killers, anime addicts, hentais and things like that. And since the Japanese are superstitious, they stopped using that word on a daily basis, thus becoming a bad word.
Over time this word started to be used to refer to people with obsessions for something. Not only anime and manga, but anything, cars, football, games, computers, etc.
Suppose someone likes football, they have team t-shirts, they idolize the team, they are present in every game, they put football as the first place in life. It can be called otaku.
In Japan it is possible to find thousands of people addicted to anime and games, which are considered otaku, and they take this lifestyle seriously, making cosplays, spending money on products, living a normal and fun life, doing what they like.
Otaku - what is it? What true meaning?
Why are Otakus excluded from society?
In 1989, the murder of a young woman in the Saitama region was sensationalized, as the criminal was a video collector, every case was enlarged, distorted and publicized in the media, putting the name otaku as a dangerous person who commits crimes.
The negative campaign was done in style. Even today, people play otaku because of the media's influence in that incident. Of course, this is not the only reason that otaku are despised in both Japan and the West.
The media blames the otaku for the fall of Japan birth. Japanese TV often claims that otaku do not want real relationships, and are quite antisocial and hikikomori.
Another criticism against otakus is the huge consumption of erotic content in comics, games and animations, where you can find tentacles, lolis, etc. Yes, I have found several articles on Brazilian websites that talk about this subject. Japan is one of the countries that most consumes material of this type, and more than half are animations.
Westerners also often blame anime and games for a variety of problems in Japan and the western Otaku community. Few realize that the problem is not in animations and games but in addiction.
A person can be addicted to anything like movies, series and books. Otaku itself is used to refer to any type of person addicted to something like cars, toys, trains, computers, etc.
Otaku - what is it? What true meaning?
Why is this thought wrong?
The problem is that not all Otaku are antisocial, they tend to be related, live a normal life, work and have other dreams. The fact that a person is addicted to something was not necessarily to be bad.
In Brazil many are addicted to something, some live in the gym, others live drinking, many choose different priorities in their life and have fun with what they like. The fact that a person likes something does not determine his behavior.
Japanese are shy and antisocial by nature, the country's culture puts a lot of pressure on society to follow strict rules. Many end up becoming not just otakus but hikikomori NEETs who are isolated young people who live trapped indoors.
Otaku - what is it? What true meaning?
Otaku in the West
In the West, the word does not have the same connotation as Japan. Here it is usually used only to identify people who like anime. Otaku in Brazil also use the expression otome to refer to women who are anime fans, but it is worth remembering that otaku is not a masculine word, but unisex.
The amount of otakus outside of Japan is increasing a lot. The western population is neither prepared nor used to these types of people who call themselves otaku, they do not understand why they dress up and like this type of animation. Something understandable, since even today comic fans are branded as nerds, and criticized for dressing up.
Otaku - what is it? What true meaning?
The otaku are criticized in the West for the prejudice of thinking that animations are children's or children's. They do not know the depth of a story written by Japanese and do not realize that animation is just an art style like manga.
Others think that anime are crazy, full of powers, macumba, bitching, clichés, etc. They forget that there are genres and that anime are created on top of Japanese culture, made for Japanese people who think and lead a different lifestyle from Westerners. Western Otaku also admire and enjoy Japanese culture.
Otaku - what is it? What true meaning?
What does being an Otaku involve?
For a person to become an Otaku, just addict something and put it as a priority in your life. It is clear that in both the West and Japan the term Otaku started to be used for people who have similar tastes. Otaku 99% will probably like at least 5 things from the list below:
 - Anime - Japanese animations;
 - Sleeves - Japanese Comics;
 - Light Novels - Romance books;
 - Visual Novels - Relationship games, romance and conversations;
 - RPGs - Role-playing games;
 - Cosplay - Character fantasy;
 - Japanese music - Mainly from animes;
 - OST - anime background music;
 - Action Figures - Action figures of the characters;
 - Games - All types of games in general;
 - Japan - Otaku foreigners appreciate Japanese culture;
 - Series - Otaku also watches series;
 - Computers - Most live on computers;
 - Maid Café - Maids coffee;
 - Cosplay Coffee - Themed cafes;
 - Cats - It is rare that someone does not like cats, some even dress up;
 - Moe - Cute stuff, cute anime and characters;
 - Cute things - Cuddly toys, caps, character toys;
 - Weapons and accessories - shuriken, Katana and etc;
 - Eroge - erotic games and visual novels;
 - Hentai / Yaoi / Yuri (erotic animations);
 - Doramas - Japanese dramas / series / novels;
 - Dakimakura - Printed body pillows;
 - Itasha - Cars with prints;
 - Cards - Collect anime cards;
 - Nico Nico - YouTube of otaku;
 - Akihabara - The otaku center in Japan;
 - Waifu - Most Otakus have a waifu;
This list even shows some things that are considered questionable. The point we want to make is that, watching anime doesn't make you an otaku. There are crazy otakus, and they have problems, but it is a subject that must be understood and respected.
Otaku - what is it? What true meaning?
Knowing the otaku life
I recommend some animations and sleeves, which depict the life of a otaku or something related, I'll leave a list here:
 - Pray no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai
 - Shirobako
 - Renai Shimasen ka? (Mango)
 - Genshiken
 - Seitokai no Ichizon
 - Steins; Gate
 - Danna ga Nani wo Itteiru ka Wakaranai Ken
 - Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu
Watching the anime or manga mentioned above, you can understand a little more about the life of an otaku, and how it can be interesting. Of course there are crazy and hobby-obsessed people like in the video below. Be careful not to become one of those.
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Part One discusses Ohio's current DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) law, which does not include an exception for mature minors. It explains the medical difference between initiating a valid DNR order and refusing life-sustaining medical treatment. However, the note solely focuses on DNR and how it relates to a minor's right to initiate his or her own DNR order in light of parental disagreement. Part two explains the evolution of the minor and healthcare. Specifically, the progression from the early common law assumption that minors lack the capacity to consent, to the present, in which minors are permitted to make some medical treatment decisions without parental consent or knowledge. Part three examines the development of the mature minor exception, and the effect it has had on minor's healthcare rights. This section will also discuss three cases that have applied a mature minor exception in determining whether a minor was capable of consenting to some form of medical treatment. Part four compares West Virginia and New York's DNR statutes to Ohio's current law, and ultimately determines that Ohio's law should be amended to permit mature minor's to initiate a DNR order with or without parental consent. Part five will focus specifically on Ohio's abortion statute, which recognizes a mature minor's right to have an abortion without parental consent or knowledge. It will include an overview of Ohio's abortion law, and an explanation of the judicial bypass proceeding for a mature minor who does not wish to notify her parents. The section will also discuss the mature minor exception as it was applied in the abortion cases of Bellotti v. Baird, Ohio v. Akron Ctr. for Reproductive Health, In re Jane Doe I, and In re Jane Doe. It will conclude that Ohio law should apply the mature minor exception to the area of DNR because it already applies in the significant medical situation of abortion.
Note, Do Not Resuscitate Decision-Making: Ohio's Do Not Resuscitate Law Should Be Amended to Include a Mature Minor's Right to Initiate a DNR Order, 17 J.L. & Health 359 (2002-2003)

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unification of the Angkor region and the foundation of the Khmer Empire.
Until recently, however, little was known about the urban settlement of Mahendraparvata; a dense forest canopy obscures a great deal of the area's archaeological landscape. To determine the extent of land use around Mahendraparvata, the authors of a recent PLOS ONE paper examined soil core samples taken from one of the Phnom Kulen region's reservoirs.
As Angkor's source of water, Phnom Kulen's archaeological landscape is littered with hydraulic structures, like dams, dykes, and reservoirs (points A, B, and E on the remote sensing digital image shown below), meant to store and direct Angkor's water sources strategically. The researchers focused on an ancient reservoir upstream of the main river running north to south, now a swamp, to find evidence of intensive land use.
Remote sensing
Core samples taken from the sediment of this ancient reservoir, point F on the image above, provided the researchers with chronological layers of earth containing organic materials, like wood, pollens, and spores, which could be assessed using radiocarbon dating.
By analyzing the sediment cores, researchers found that the reservoir was likely in use for about 400 years. Although the age of the reservoir itself remains inconclusive, sediment samples suggest that the valley was flooded in the mid-to-late 8th century CE, around the time Jayavarman II unified the area.
The authors found that medium-to-coarse sand deposition in the sediment samples beginning in the mid-9th century points to the presence of continual soil erosion, either from the surrounding hills or from the dyke itself, likely caused by deforestation in the area. By analyzing samples from the late 11th century, the authors found that the last and largest episode of erosion occurred, a possible result of intensive land use.
The researchers suggest that deforestation, as evidenced by soil erosion, implies that "settlement on Mahendraparvata was not only spatially extensive but temporally enduring." In other words, the estimated extent of deforestation by continual sand deposits from the mid-9th century to the late-11th century in core samples indicates that Mahendraparvata was home to a large and thriving urban network in need of resources.
However, an increase in pollen spores dated to the 11th century, followed by the establishment of swamp forests in the early to mid-12th century in the reservoir, reflects that, by this time, the reservoir had fallen out of use, perhaps linked to changes in water management throughout the broader area, and possible population decline nearby. According to mid-16th century samples, the swamp flora around this time appears to have developed into the swamp flora seen today in the ruins of Mahendraparvata.
For some 400 years, the Phnom Kulen mountains acted as the main source of water for the Angkor region. The change of water management practices in the Phnom Kulen region has implications for the water supply to Angkor itself. In sum, by examining core samples drawn from one of Phnom Kulen's ancient reservoirs, authors were able to explore an archaeological landscape that is still largely hidden and a history still mainly obscured by time. The potential link between the rise and fall of urban life in the Angkor region and the use of reservoirs the one used in this study helps to unearth a little bit more about the the Khmer Kingdom and the marked environmental impact of Mahendraparvata.
Citation: Penny D, Chevance J-B, Tang D, De Greef S (2014) The Environmental Impact of Cambodia's Ancient City of Mahendraparvata (Phnom Kulen). PLoS ONE 9(1): e84252. doi:10.1371/journal.pone._PHONE_
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Underwater Compositions: Song Sharing Between Southern Ocean Humpback Whales
Whale Tail
Imagine a world where sight is limited by the extreme scattering of photons and smell is ineffective due to lethargic diffusion of molecules slowed by the density of water. In these conditions both sight and smell are limited. These conditions characterize, among other things, the ocean, where large sea mammals rely mostly on sound to communicate. The speed of sound is four times greater in water than in air at sea level. Male humpback whales have been observed communicating via ever-changing patterns of vocalization, which scientists have termed 'song'. These whales compose their songs for the purposes of breeding, learning new songs as they come in contact with fellow crooners. Exactly how and when humpback whales learn these songs, however, remains a larger mystery.
To dive more deeply into the nebulous realms of humpback whale song sharing, researchers of a recent PLOS ONE study recorded instances of humpback whale song in the Southern Ocean.
Humpback whale song is identifiable because of its intricate pattern of structure. Songs are composed of multiple sounds types, for example, as these researchers suggest, 'ascending cry,' 'moan,' and 'purr'. When units come together to form a pattern, these units form a phrase. Phrases repeated become a theme, and themes sung in a particular order compose a song. Researchers recorded these compositions by deploying radio-linked sonobuoys, which transmit underwater sound, and then digitized the recordings.
Here is an example of song recorded off the coast of New Caledonia in 2010:
Recordings, like the one above, reveal a possible link between three distinct breeding populations (marked D, E, and F on the map below) off the shores of eastern Australia and the island to the east of New Caledonia with a shared feeding ground in Antarctica (Area V).
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In early 2010, the researchers identified four songs near Antarctica that matched themes from eastern Australia in 2009. By July, 2010, all four songs were then also identified in the group from New Caledonia. The themes recognized in New Caledonia in 2010 were entirely different than the themes of 2009, suggesting a movement of new songs eastward from eastern Australia to New Caledonia.
Consequently, the shared feeding grounds in Antarctica used by both the eastern Australia and New Caledonia groups in early 2010 may be the point at which these populations' songs diverged.
By capturing sonobuoy recordings near feeding grounds off the Balleny Islands, researchers recorded the first instances of humpback whale song in Area V of Antarctica.
Sonobuoy recording
In addition, the inclusion of feeding grounds into the dynamic pattern of humpback whale song sharing helps shed new light on overall patterns of song learning and transmission from one breeding group to another.
Sound recording off the Balleny Islands near Antarctica, however, is challenging, and the sample of whale singers from this area remains relatively small. Regardless, the song documented here suggests Antarctica (Area V) as an emerging location for future study, and highlights the importance of feeding grounds in the transmission of humpback whale song. Through a better understanding of how and where these dynamic compositions radiate across the Southern Ocean, we can begin to understand humpback whale population connectivity and one of the best examples of non-human, large-scale learning demonstrated throughout the Southern Hemisphere.
To listen to more of the whale song recorded by these researchers, check out the Supporting Information of their article. For more on humpback whales, check out these PLOS ONE papers.
Citation: Garland EC, Gedamke J, Rekdahl ML, Noad MJ, Garrigue C, et al. (2013) Humpback Whale Song on the Southern Ocean Feeding Grounds: Implications for Cultural Transmission. PLoS ONE 8(11): e79422. doi:10.1371/journal.pone._PHONE_
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Image 1: Humpback Whale Tail by Natalie Tapson
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Life isn't cheap. In evolutionary terms, it's incredibly expensive, says Drew Allen, an ecologist at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Using a mathematical model, Allen worked out exactly how much it costs to generate a new species. The answer: a staggering 1023 joules, more energy than is released by all the fossil fuels burned on Earth in a year.
Allen looked specifically at foraminifera (right)—tiny, omnipresent, ocean-dwelling plankton that have been plentiful for millennia. His model took into account both an individual plankton's body size and its metabolism's dependence on temperature to quantify how much energy it takes to fuel all the genetic changes that must occur in order for a new species to emerge. He found that although the amount of energy required is constant, new species form more quickly near the equator because heat speeds up both metabolism and the rate of genetic mutations.
Even Darwin noticed that biodiversity is more plentiful in the tropics. "But the idea that temperature affects speciation rates through its effects on molecular-level processes is brand-new," Allen says.

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Refusing Excalibur – Zachary Jones
re-zSimilar to the premise of Battlestar Galactica, Earth is the lost world of origin of the entire human species throughout the galaxy. Once an advanced culture colonizing space and booming with amazing technology, Earth is now lost to space and time. But the other humans remember the stories, and artifacts of the so-called "First Civilization" circulate among the upper-class families. In this time, a thousand years after the jump gate to Earth has closed, the ruling family of one planet sees its duty to reunite humankind and declares war on those who don't concede. Yet another man loses his entire planet to war and shifts about the worlds seeking vengeance.
Our protagonist, Victor, is the product of a world at war with an enemy for decades, an officer in the space-faring navy who took the lives of his enemies for the good of his own people. Quite possibly the only survivor of his planet, he turns to a life of mercenary work, killing for money and seeking out the opportunity to exact revenge upon the man who ordered genocide. Throughout the story, his PTSD wrestles with his desire to change the galaxy.
Excalibur is a First Civilization relic, a ship of profound technological ability with an AI guardian known only as "the old man." The AI seeks out someone to fly this beacon of strength with intentions of ending the lethal division of the human-inhabited planets by reuniting all humankind under a common power.
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Engineering Challenge
On Wednesday 15 May, 11 pupils from Year 9 formed two teams, travelled to the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Museum in Yeovil and took part in the area Key Stage 3 Engineering Challenge. This trip was offered to pupils who have opted for GCSE DT.
The event set a complicated challenge and required pupils to work together in order to achieve the task. Each team required a manager, construction engineer, electronic engineer, buyer, machine operator and presenter.
The challenge set for each team was to design and build a self-levelling platform to launch aircraft from on board an aircraft carrier operating in high seas. To support this the Royal Navy built a simulator that they could switch on and would pitch and roll just like an aircraft carrier operating in stormy weather.
The picture above shows the simulator in action.
In addition to making the stable platform, teams had to make a launch an aircraft from the platform.
Grace and Will picture trying to figure out how to launch their aircraft.
If that's not a big enough challenge, the team also had to design and make a remote electronic firing mechanism and circuit.
Will, Will and Liam fixing wires into their electronic firing system.
Then came the team presentation and launch demonstration.
Both teams gained a massive amount from their experience and managed to achieve all the individual aspects of the challenge even if, come the launch, wires coming out and stabilization challenges scuppered their success a little.
I am so proud of these Year 9 pupils, they worked hard, formed cohesive teams and were a credit to Test Valley School. The experience has undoubtedly inspired them to the challenges at GCSE DT and I simply can't wait to start teaching them in September.
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The systematic name of the compound PbO is lead(II) oxide. This substance is also commonly referred to as lead monoxide, lead oxide and plumbous oxide.
Lead(II) oxide is an inorganic compound that can take on two different crystal structures, or polymorphs. One structure is tetragonal, and the other is orthorhombic. Lead(II) oxide can be fatal if ingested, and exposure to the substance can be harmful to the skin, eyes, gums, kidneys, blood, respiratory tract and central nervous system.
Most methods for producing lead(II) oxide involve oxidizing lead at very high temperatures, and it is used in the manufacture of industrial glass and industrial ceramics.


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Help Your Child Love to Learn
School can be arduous for children who don't show an interest in learning. Some children are naturally more inquisitive and self-motivated than others. If your child doesn't have the desire to do well in school, you have the privilege and responsibility as a parent to help him or her develop a genuine love for learning. A simple, three-step process can help.
Step #1 - Discover
Ask your child what he likes to do. When he's not in school and no family activities are scheduled, how does he choose to spend his time? Does he have an interest in sports, nature, history, politics or the community? The first step in motivating your child to enjoy learning is to find out what he enjoys.
Step #2 - Motivate
After identifying your child's interests, use them to motivate him to finish his schoolwork. When he does, reward him with opportunities to engage in the things he enjoys. When he doesn't, withhold fun activities until he does complete his schoolwork.
Step #3 - Balance
Balance is just as important in a child's life as it is an adult's. Help your child find balance through spending free time with both family and friends. Alone time is valuable but too much of it can be a problem. Keep TVs, computers and electronic devices in the common areas of your home and limit and monitor your child's use of them.
We all have God-given talents – things we enjoy that come naturally to us. They interest us and we are good at them. Help your child develop those talents and connect with others who have similar interests.


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The Open Data Platform
The core R&D component for Open Data at FOKUS, the Open Data Platform (ODP) is an open source solution that is customizable depending upon an organization's specific requirements.
The ODP is an integrated open source software solution for public agencies and private institutions that make their data available as Open Data, i.e., publishing it according to Open Data principles. The ODP was designed and developed within the EU Open Cities project to enable participating cities to publish their data.
The Open Data Lifecycle
The ODP supports the entire Open Data lifecycle process, which includes identifying, publishing, discovering, enriching, and consuming data. Initially, civil servants identify and prepare relevant raw data in various non-proprietary formats using internal procedures. In the next step, selected datasets are published. A data catalogue improves the usability of the metadata by enabling consistent search and navigation across multiple data sources.
Using linked data and semantic web technologies allows for sophisticated structuring, filtering, or combining and mapping different vocabularies used in different city administration departments to derive aggregated datasets. Such linked data can be stored centrally within the ODP, which provides enrichment tools and triple store services. In the final step (in the Open Data lifecycle) data is consumed by citizens, businesses, and civil society via the use of web (or mobile device) applications. These applications serve multiple roles, including increasing transparency, participation, and collaboration. In addition, they also contribute new data, which can further be published, discovered, enriched, and consumed.
ODP Features Classified by User Roles
The ODP has varying capabilities for diverse stakeholders, including data users, data owners, data stewards, and platform administrators. Data users can search, browse, download, rate, comment, tweet, and discuss datasets. Additionally, they can query data (and metadata) via an API and get notifications for new datasets and categories. Via the ODP provided data portal, data owners can maintain data (and metadata) entries throughout the lifecycle (i.e., users can publish new datasets, including new bulk dataset uploads, edit datasets, or even hide their datasets). The data steward role refers to an individual (or group) that is tasked with transforming existing registered data in the ODP into linked data to provide seamless machine-readable access for web mashups and mobile applications. Uploading RDF (resource description framework) objects into the ODP data store is a core feature of the platform. Other main features are multi-language support, customizable data categories and metadata schema.
ODP: Technological Aspects
The Fraunhofer FOKUS developed ODP is an integrated solution based on open source software. The platform consists of three components:
- a data catalog based on the CKAN (comprehensive knowledge archive network) software,
- Liferay, which implements an Open Data portal, and
- a repository for linked data based on Virtuoso DBMS
Additionally CKAN provides numerous features including customizable metadata schemas, metadata-APIs, and dataset harvesting capabilities. However, the ODP goes beyond CKAN.
The ODP complements CKAN with a feature-rich, easily extendable Open Data portal, as a front-end component. Implemented in Liferay, a Java-based open source content-management-system, the Open Data portal integrates social media and supports community activity features, comprehensive user management, as well as a user friendly interface.
Unlike other platforms (e.g., Socrata), the ODP is free and it is available as open source software under the AGPL (Affero general public license) terms. To enable Open Cities app (i.e., application) challenges, the ODP was successfully deployed and hosted by Fraunhofer FOKUS for Amsterdam, Barcelona, and Berlin.


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Understanding the impacts of the COVID-19 disruption on maritime transport, response measures adopted and overall implications for the sector is key given the role of maritime transport as the backbone underpinning global supply chains, trade, and economic interdependency. Any disruption to global maritime transportation networks can have far-reaching implications for a highly globalized world economy. The restrictions introduced in response to the pandemic have caused disruptions affecting ports, shipping, and supply chains. In this context, assessing impacts, managing risks, and building resilience in maritime transport are the new mantras of a post Covid-19 world.
Organized in collaboration with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP) and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN-ESCWA), the webinar aims at:
- Raising awareness, among policy makers and industry players, about COVID-19 impacts, responses and good practices in crises management and resilience building.
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Pointers in Haskell??
Jeff Dalton _EMAIL_
Fri, 7 Dec 2001 17:07:52 GMT
The answers are making this question seem trickier than I'd thought it
was, because so far they (both) make it sound like structure-sharing
is tied very closely to names / variables. For instance:
> In Haskell, you can arrange for a large data structure to be shared by
> giving it a name, and then using the name wherever you'd use a pointer in
> some other language.
The idea here seems to be that you have a name that refers
specifically to the struccture you wish to share (as opposed
to needing only an expression whose value is that structure),
and then there are two possible interpretations:
One possible interpretation is: this is *a* way to get sharing,
to show that it's possible to have shared structures.
The other possible interpretation is: this is *the* (only) way
to do it.
What I'd expected was that it would suffice to have an expression
(and indeed that implementationally it would be much like Lisp or
Java so that values were always (except in exceptional cases)
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I am completely new to regular expressions,and I am trying to create a regular expression in flex for a validation.
Using a regular expression, I am going to validate that the user input does NOT contain any white-space and consists of only characters and digits... starting with digit.
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This correctly checks for user input to start with a character followed by a possible digit, but this does not check if there is white space...(in my tests if user input has a space this input will pass through validation - this is not desired) can someone tell me how I can modify this expression to ensure that user input with whitespace is flagged as invalid?
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thanks!! the substring explanation helped a lot =) – Rees May 16 '10 at 20:48
Try "^[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9]*$".
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Trying to brush up on some geometric and algebraic topology, I got a little confused about the following:
Suppose we have the standard unit sphere $S^2$, but we remove its north and south poles. Is this topological space homeomorphic or homotopic to $S^1 \times \mathbb{R}$? I would think that they are not homotopic since I don't think both spaces are deformation retracts, are they? Now I do know that the stereographic projection is a map from $S^2$ to the plane, but that just involves the removal of either the north or the south pole, correct?
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If you know that $S^2$ minus one pole is homeomorphic to $\mathbb{R}^2$, then $S^2$ minus two poles is homeomorphic to...? – Qiaochu Yuan Mar 31 '12 at 18:04
$S^1 \times \mathbb{R}$ is a cylinder. Put the sphere inside the cylinder (north and south pole on the axis of the cylinder) and project from the center of the sphere minus north and south-pole onto that cylinder using straight lines. – t.b. Mar 31 '12 at 18:06
It makes it a straight line homeomorphism, if such a term exists :) A straight line homotopy is usually understood to be a homotopy $H$ between two functions $f,g: X \to \mathbb{R}^n$ of the form $H(x,t) = (1-t)f(x) + tg(x)$. See here for example. – t.b. Mar 31 '12 at 18:15
If $Y$ is homeomorphic to $X$ it's clearly also homotopy equivalent. Just use the homeomorphism and a constant homotopy. – user20266 Mar 31 '12 at 18:16
Linguistic nitpick: maps are homotopic. Spaces are homotopy equivalent. – Neal Mar 31 '12 at 18:57
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The two spaces are homeomorphic. $S^2$ minus one point is identified by stereographic projection with $\mathbb{R}^2$, so $S^2$ minus two points is homeomorphic with say $\mathbb{R}^2 \backslash \{0\}$. Identifying $\mathbb{R}^2$ with $\mathbb{C}$ and $S^1$ with $\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z}$, the homeomorphism
$\mathbb{R}\times \mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z}\cong \mathbb{C} \backslash \{0\}$
is given by $(r,\theta)\mapsto e^re^{2\pi i\theta}$.
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 The first approach that comes to my mind is to determine if the mouse is in the widget you're using:
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I'm still following the Assembly Primer for Hackers from Vivek Ramachandran of SecurityTube in preparation for Penetration Testing with BackTrack. In this review I'll cover data types and how to move bytes, numbers, pointers and strings between labels and registers.
Variables (data/labels) are defined in the.data segment of your assembly program. Here are some of the available data types you'll commonly use.
Data types in assembly; photo credit to Vivek Ramachandran
# Demo program to show how to use Data types and MOVx instructions.data HelloWorld:.ascii "Hello World!" ByteLocation:.byte 10 Int32:.int 2 Int16:.short 3 Float:.float 10.23 IntegerArray:.int 10,20,30,40,50.bss.comm LargeBuffer, 10000.text.globl _start _start: nop # Exit syscall to exit the program movl $1, %eax movl $0, %ebx int $0x80
Moving numbers in assembly
Introduction to mov
This is the mov family of operations. By appending b, w or l you can choose to move 8 bits, 16 bits or 32 bits of data. To demonstrate these operations, we'll be using the example above.
Moving a byte into a register
movb $0, %al
This will move the integer 0 into the lower 8 bits of the EAX register.
Moving a word into a register
movw $10, %ax
This will move the integer 10 into the lower 16 bits of the EAX register.
Moving a word into a register
movl $20, %eax
This will move the integer 20 into the 32-bit EAX register.
Moving a word into a label
movw $50, Int16
This will move the integer 50 into the 16-bit label Int16.
Moving a label into a register
movl Int32, %eax
This will move the contents of the Int32 label into the 32-bit EAX register.
Moving a register into a label
movb %al, ByteLocation
This will move the contents of the 8-bit AL register into the 8-bit ByteLocation label.
Accessing memory locations (using pointers)
In C we have the concept of pointers. A pointer is simply a variable that points to a location in memory. Typically that memory location holds some data that is important to us and that's why we're keeping a pointer to it so we can access the data later. This same concept can be achieved in assembly.
Moving a label's memory address into a register (creating a pointer)
movl $Int32, %eax
This will move the memory location of the Int32 label into the EAX register. In effect the EAX register is now a pointer to the data held by the Int32 label. Notice that we use movl because memory locations are 4 bytes. Also notice that to access the memory location of a label you prepend the $ character.
Dereferencing a pointer (accessing the contents of a memory address)
Moving a word into a dereferenced location
movl $9, (%eax)
This will move the integer 9 into the memory location held in EAX. In other words, if this were C, %eax would be considered a pointer and (%eax) would be the way we dereference that pointer to change the contents of the location it points to. The equivalent in C would like something like this:
int Int32 = 2; int *eax; eax = &Int32; *eax = 9;
The only difference in the C example is that we had to define eax as an int pointer before we could copy the address of Int32. In assembly we can just copy the address of Int32 directly into the EAX register, circumventing the need for an additional variable. But line 4 of this C example is the equivalent of the assembly example shown above.
So to clarify one more time, EAX does not change at all in this example; EAX still points to the same location! However, the data at that location has changed. So if EAX contains the location of the Int32 label, then Int32 now contains 9. So it's Int32 that has changed, not EAX.
Notice that we use the parentheses to access the memory location stored in the register (dereference the pointer).
Moving a dereferenced value into a register
movl (%eax), %ebx
In effect the EBX register is now a pointer to the data held by EAX. Notice that to access the memory location of the register we're again enclosing the register name in parentheses.
Moving strings in assembly
I can imagine that reading this you might be thinking, "hey, strings are just bytes of data so why can't I just move them using the same instructions I just learned?" And the answers to that questions is you can! The problem is that strings are oftentimes much larger. A string might be 1 byte, 5 bytes, or 100 bytes. And none of mov instructions discussed above cover anything larger than 4 bytes. So let's discuss the string operations that are available to alleviate the pains of copying large strings of data.
A key difference between the standard mov operations and the string series of movs, stos and lods operations is the number of operands. With mov, you specify the source and destination via 2 operands. However, with the movs instructions, the source and destination addresses are placed into the ESI and EDI registers respectively. And with stos and lods, the operations interact directly with the EAX register. This will become more clear with some examples.
The DF flag
DF stands for direction flag. This is a flag stored in the CPU that determines whether to increment or decrement a string's memory address when string operations are called. When DF is 0 (cleared) the addresses are incremented. When DF is 1 (set) the addresses are decremented. In our examples the DF flag will always be cleared.
The usefulness of the DF flag will make more sense in the examples.
Clearing the DF flag
DF is set to 0. Addresses are incremented where applicable.
Setting the DF flag
DF is set to 1. Addresses are decremented where applicable.
In the example below, the following variables have been defined:
.data HelloWorldString:.asciz "Hello World of Assembly!".bss.lcomm Destination, 100
movs: Moving a string from one memory location to another memory location
source: %esi; should contain a memory address where the data to be copied resides; the data at this address is not modified, but the address stored in the %esi register is incremented or decremented according to the DF flag destination: %edi; should contain a memory address where the data will be copied to; after copying, the address stored in the %edi register is incremented or decremented according to the DF flag
movsb: move a single byte
movsw: move 2 bytes
movsl: move 4 bytes
movl $HelloWorldString, %esi movl $Destination, %edi movsb movsw movsl
In this example, we first move the address of HelloWorldString into the ESI register (the source string). Then we move the address of Destination into EDI (the destination buffer).
When movsb is called, it tells the CPU to move 1 byte from the source to the destination, so the 'H' is copied to the first byte in the Destination label. However, that is not the only thing that happens during this operation. You may have noticed that I pointed out how the address stored in the %esi and %edi registers are both incremented or decremented according to the DF flag. Since the DF flag is cleared, both %esi and %edi are incremented by 1 byte.
But why is this useful? Well, what it means is that the next string operation to be called will start copying from the 2nd byte of the source string instead of the first byte. In other words, rather than copying the 'H' a second time, we'll start by copying the 'e' in the HelloWorldString instead. This is what makes the movs series of operations far more useful than the mov operations when dealing with strings.
So, as you might imagine, when calling movsw the next 2 bytes are copied and Destination now holds "Hel". And finally the movsl operation copies 4 bytes into Destination, which makes it "Hello W".
Of course, the memory locations held in both %esi and %edi have now been incremented by 7 bytes each. So the final values are..
%esi: $HelloWorldString+7 %edi: $Destination+7 HelloWorldString: "Hello World of Assembly!" Destination: "Hello W"
lods: Moving a string from a memory location into the EAX register
source: %esi; should contain a memory address where the data to be copied resides; the data at this address is not modified, but the address stored in the %esi register is incremented or decremented according to the DF flag destination: %eax; the contents of this register are discarded because the data is copied directly into the register, NOT to any memory address residing in the register; no incrementing or decrementing occurs because the destination is a register and not a memory location
lodsb: move a single byte
lodsw: move 2 bytes
lodsl: move 4 bytes
stos: Moving a string from the EAX register to a memory location
source: %eax; the contents of this register are copied


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In this news summary, we will discuss why hairstyle—as in hair length—matters to people; herein, we draw from works by Tanaka (2018) to discuss why a woman's hair length can be 'a big deal'—from a scientific perspective. Without conducting a survey, nor searching the literature, a consensus we all can come to is that: hair does matter, regardless of whether or not it should matter. Even medicine attests to the fact that hair does matter: one can argue that the medical specialty of dermatology exists partly because physicians who specialized in this branch of medicine treat conditions that are technically non-pathological, such as baldness. Similarly, the significance of hair is also evident in the field of commerce; across numerous cultures, a person's attractiveness is in part determined by their hair; hence the mass production of various hair products.
The human face can be described in terms of external and internal facial features. External facial features include the ears and the person's hairstyle, while internal features of the face include the eyes, nose and mouth. Face perception can be defined as the ability to recognize an individual based on their facial features, and this ability is also known as facial recognition (1). As trivial as remembering or recognizing a person's face may seem, the underlying neural mechanisms involved in the seemingly easy task are far from trivial; there are complex neuro-biological processes that underlie face perception.
An event-related potential refers to the minuscule voltages produced from the brain in response to sensory, cognitive or motor stimuli. For instance, the presentation of a picture, such as a human face, is exemplary of a sensory stimulus, and an event-related potential would be generated from merely seeing the picture. Electroencephalography is a widely used technique that can quantify an event-related potential, and many studies use this tool to investigate neural activity; moreover, this technique is non-invasive. In electroencephalography, a visual record of an event-related potential can be produced on an electroencephalogram (EEG), which essentially depicts the waveform for an event-related potential; a waveform can be thought of as a graph wherein voltage (in microvolts) is plotted against time (in milliseconds) (2–4). In Figure 1, a waveform for an event-related potential is presented.
Figure 1. Schematic of a waveform for an event-related potential (ERP); this schematic is also essentially an electroencephalogram (EEG). An ERP can be characterized by latency and amplitude; latency simply refers to duration, while amplitude refers to height (for instance, if the P1 in this schematic were to have a larger amplitude, the peak would be taller than shown). The vertical and horizontal axes correspond to the amplitude in microvolts (µV), and time in milliseconds (ms), respectively. The P1 components of an ERP is of a positive voltage and occurs at around 100 ms after exposure to a stimulus the N170 component is of a negative voltage and occurs at around 170 ms after exposure to a stimulus. This schematic was modified from the following source _URL_
Previous studies have shown that both the P1 and N170 components of an event-related potential (ERP) are sensitive to facial recognition. The P1 component is believed to be responsive to low-level visual characteristics such as colour and contrast—and human faces possess such characteristics. The sensitivity of the N170 component is specifically sensitive to facial features (5). Furthermore, previous studies have suggested that the N170 component may be more sensitive to external facial features than to internal ones. Thus, the objective of Tanaka (2018) was to investigate whether the latency (i.e., duration) and amplitude of the P1 and N170 components of an event related potential are affected by hair length during face perception.
Twenty-one study participants were exposed to long, medium, and short hairstyles on identical female faces in blocks that were 'variable-size' and 'fixed-size'. The ethnicity of both the faces and study subjects were Japanese; all the faces were presented in grey-scale and were unfamiliar to any of the subjects. In Figure 2, the six kinds of visual stimuli the subjects were exposed to are shown. The variable-size blocks corresponded to the top row, while the bottom row represents the fixed-size blocks. In the top row, the size of each face was identical which made the overall size of the stimuli (i.e., face with hairstyle) different among the three faces (Figure 2). In the fixed-size blocks, the size of the overall stimuli was the same. Participants were exposed to the six kinds of stimuli because Tanaka (2018) wanted to investigate whether sensitivity of the respective ERP components are evoked merely by the hair length, or by the overall size of the stimuli. For instance, if the N170 component showed more sensitivity to long hair than to short hair, it would be unclear whether that response is due to hair length or overall size of stimulus as the overall stimulus size of the long-hair face in the variable-size block is larger than that of the short-hair face in the same type of block. Alternatively, if N170 was more responsive to the long-hair face in the fixed-size blocks than to short hair of the same block type, it would be more logical to attribute the responsiveness to length of hair and not overall size of the stimulus—as the size of stimuli, in the fixed-size blocks, are the same.
Figure 2. Six representative stimuli that were used in the research by Tanaka (2018).
Each of the six stimuli was presented to each subject for 1000 milliseconds (ms); right after stimuli presentation, each study participant was given one second to judge whether each face had long, medium or short hair. EEGs for the three hairstyles in the fixedand variable-size blocks were produced; latency and amplitude of the P1 and N170 components were compared among the six types of stimuli.
Tanka (2018) showed that the latency of P1 was significantly affected by hair length as the peak of P1 occurred significantly much later for short hair in variable-size blocks compared to that of the other five types of stimuli. The amplitude of P1 was not significantly different among the six types of stimuli.
Similarly, the latency of N170 was significantly affected by hair length as the peak of N170 occurred earlier for long hair in variable-size blocks than for short hair in the same block type. For short hair, the peak of N170 occurred significantly earlier in the fixed-size blocks than in the variable-size blocks. No significant differences were observed among the six types of stimuli in terms of N170 amplitude.
Reflections from Tanaka (2018)
In the study, long hair attracted more attention than short hair as the long-hair face was processed faster; the speedier processing corresponded to the duration of the N170 peak being shorter for long hair than for short hair. Given that humans are social creatures, it is not surprising that people care about how they look to others, and hairstyle is a major item in the description of a person's appearance. Wearing long hair can be flattering as it could draw other's attention to one; this could be a reason why, cross-culturally, the use of hair extensions and wigs are a commonplace in today's society. This could also explain why hair loss problems—that are essentially benign—are among the common concerns brought to a dermatologist; while one may argue that such concerns pertain to non-pathological conditions, they are arguably "pathological" to the complainer's state of mind. Like in the field medicine and commerce, the non-triviality of hair is also evident in the legal world; typing 'haircut lawsuit' in a Google search engine would explain it all. While hair length may not necessarily be a 'deal-breaker' in the adjudication of a woman's attractiveness by everyone, many men and women prefer long hair on women, and discoveries from studies like Tanaka (2018) tell us that there may be a neuro-biological explanation for this preference.
- Rhodes G, Jeffery L. Face Perception. In: Encyclopedia of the Mind. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc.; 2013.
- Sur S, Sinha V. Event-related potential: An overview. Ind Psychiatry J. 2009;
- Woodman GF. A brief introduction to the use of event-related potentials in studies of perception and attention. Atten Percept Psychophys. 2010 Nov;72(8):2031–46.
- Saavedra C, Bougrain L. Processing Stages of Visual Stimuli and Event-Related Potentials. Bordeaux, France; 2012.
- Tanaka H. Length of Hair Affects P1 and N170 Latencies for Perception of Women's Faces. Percept Mot Skills. 2018;


Have you ever felt a rush of emotions? Being nostalgic about the time you spent with your loved one? You probably started missing them more as you read this. If 'I miss her' is the first thought that came to your mind then it's normal to feel that way as it depicts the love you once had for them. Missing someone with whom you planned your whole life and not being able to do anything about it, is a painful emotion. You feel sad, lonely, angry, and frustrated all at the same time.
Although it is hard to let go of the painful emotions whether it is after a breakup or after the death of a loved one, it surely is not impossible. It might take months to get back to your normal self, but it will be worth it after all. So, if the signs mentioned below sounds familiar, you are in for some sure-fire ways that will not only help you in overcoming the painful emotions but will also make you a controlled and transformed person.
What are the signs of missing someone?
It is natural to miss the person you have been emotionally attached to. You miss a person when they really matter to you. Remembering all the good times and the bad ones. You are nostalgic about the happy moments and you wish how them being around can change the way you feel at the moment. You unconsciously remember them in every prayer and hope for their wellbeing.
Not only that but you want them to be around whenever you are in trouble or you have good news to share. When something you watch or listen to reminds you of them. When you imagine how they would have handled things if they were around. Your life feels incomplete without them. You just can't function properly without talking to them for a day or two even. These among others are some of the signs of missing someone you shared a bond with. The feeling of longing engulfs you sometimes and makes you sob into your pillow at night. Now having said that, let's address the most asked question associated with missing a person.
Is missing someone a sign of love?
You might think, 'I miss her, but is it a sign of love?' you will miss a person but it is not always out of love. As One Cents Worth says it can be infatuation, a crush, lust, or simply attraction. The initial stages of falling for a person makes you miss their absence. However, it is not only associated with romantic relationships. You can miss a person with whom you don't share a romantic bond. Like your family, friends, or even your favorite colleague at work.
Missing someone is not necessarily a sign of love but you cannot love a person whom you don't miss. If you are unbothered by the absence or presence of a person, then it clearly means that you don't love them. Because love requires concern and care. It is the desire of having them around you. So, before committing to a serious relationship, observe the time you spend apart and monitor your feelings first to know if you love them or not.
I miss her | 6 amazing ways to stop missing her
If you are heartbroken and want to get rid of the memories of the person who shattered your heart into a million pieces, you came to the right place. Read on to know some amazing ways to stop missing your ex and carry on with your life happily.
1- Embrace your emotions
The rush of emotions after a breakup or after a loved one's death engulfs you to the core. It feels like a roller coaster ride of never-ending emotions. The sadness, anger, frustration, longing seems too overwhelming to deal with. There are days when you just want to lay in the bed, crying your heart out. You won't feel like eating anything or dressing up for work even.
All the feelings seem too hard to handle at times. You cannot get rid of them all at once. It has to be that way as you had invested your time, effort, and emotions in a person who now no longer exists in your life. But, you need to move on from it now. There's no quick fix to it nor is there any magic wand to ease your heart at once. You just need to embrace your emotions.
Accept what you are feeling instead of showing it your back. If you miss a certain someone, accept it and say it out loud to yourself or write it down on a piece of paper. What I usually advise is to write about how you feel. Think of it as a letter to that person. Pour your heart out but don't show it to anyone. You'll certainly feel much better after you realize how you feel and accept it. So, erase the phrase 'I miss her' from your dictionary once and for all with this amazing tip.
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2- Distract yourself with something that interests you
After a breakup, it is normal to not want to do anything and just lay in bed the whole day. However, it is not good for your mental and physical health at all. Lying in bed the whole day, scrolling through the pictures, or reading the old chats, will make you feel even worse. On the contrary, you should get moving no matter how you feel.
Distract yourself with something that interests you. Find a new hobby or carry on with the older one. Watch a movie at home or go out with your friends. Keep yourself busy so that your mind no longer wanders to bring back the emotions associated with that person. It is easy to mourn over a loss, time and again when you have nothing else to do. But, it is a vicious cycle which you need to break consciously.
Normally, when someone says to me ' I miss her so much it hurts,' It is because they never really make a conscious effort to come out of the loss. They just look at life blankly wondering they have nothing substantial to do now. Well let me tell you one thing, your life is as important without them as it was with them. Life goes on. People come and go, so you need to move on too. Stop thinking too much and just find something you enjoy doing. Go for a walk or join a gym. The rush of endorphins after a workout will surely make you feel better.
3- Focus on yourself and your career
Now that you have all the time in the world to spare on yourself, make good use of it. Focus on yourself. Look deeper into your positive and negative attributes. Maybe some of your negative traits were the cause of a breakup. Observe them and try to fix them. You cannot make up for the failed relationship but you can surely improve your future relationships with this strategy.
Also, do some meaningful work each day whether it is for your personal or professional development. Choose a career that you enjoy. This way even if you are going through hard times personally you wouldn't feel exhausted professionally. Waking up in the morning and dressing up for the work you love would most likely fade away from your pain for a few hours. Interacting with like-minded people would prove to be encouraging and refreshing too.
So, if you were thinking 'how can I stop missing her?' think about 'how can I focus on myself and my career. 'Because life is too short to waste it mourning over a person who didn't even value you in the first place. Thus, enrol in a professional course, learn a new skill, or even volunteer anywhere if you want to. Spending this time on your personal improvement and development will be highly beneficial in the longer run.
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4- Be social to stop missing her
As much as you hate facing people after you have had a breakup, you should do it more often. Stop spending the whole day at your house. Go out and meet your friends. Although they would ask about your love life, however, that shouldn't be something to be ashamed of. Just put the facts straight. The more you avoid something, the greater the fear and pain attached to it. Say that you are no longer together due to some odd reasons. You'll instantly notice that it just lifted a certain weight over your shoulders.
It is okay to not want to interact with someone in the initial days of a breakup. Cry if you must, be angry or sad. But, not for too long. After certain days it will become extremely toxic and disturbing to handle all alone. So, lean on the people you trust. Share your feelings with them and see how your perspective changes on things.
Join a club, go to a party, or have a Saturday movie night at your friend's house. Surrounding yourself with people is an instant therapy to boost your mood and uplift your morale. You won't feel sorry for yourself and you'll look at life from a different perspective eventually.
5- Change your lifestyle
Often times when we are in a relationship with someone we change our schedules to suit each other's and spend the most we can with one another. However, after a breakup with the same person if you continue following the same lifestyle you will keep on remembering them at every moment of the day. It is advisable to change your lifestyle after a breakup. This way you won't have to sit alone thinking about them each time you prepare breakfast in the morning or watch a movie on Saturday night.
If you had the habit of going for a walk with your partner in the evening, shift it to the morning. If you wanted to learn a new skill or try something for fun like skydiving or ice-skating, but you couldn't just because your partner was scared. Then this is the perfect time to give it a try.
Focus on yourself and your lifestyle as much as you can. Experiment with it and get rid of all the habits that you acquired


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How important is consistency of look? Explain.
A standardized format will make it easier for consumers to learn how to read nutrition labels and compare different products. When comparing two or more products, a consumer should be able to align the nutrition information panels and easily compare the corresponding nutrients in the same sequence and the same size typeface to select the most healthful product.
A uniform appearance will also help communicate the impression that the nutrition information being provided is regulated and is therefore reliable — and not merely marketing information. If consumers do not have confidence in nutrition labels, they will be less likely to use them.
To what degree should any of the graphic elements be prescribed?
The graphic elements (border, font, spacing, colour, panel shape) should be prescribed to the greatest extent possible to ensure a consistent appearance and maximize readability. Different size variations of the graphic elements could be prescribed to accommodate different product label sizes.
Currently, some nutrition labels are very difficult to read. In some cases, the print is very fine or small, contrasts little with the background, or is placed in an inconspicuous location. The National Institute of Nutrition's 1992 report concluded that consumers want labels with increased size, colour, and contrast; standardized formats; and easier-to-read terms.(14) Legibility is a concern for many consumers, especially for those over 65. Forty-four percent of grocery shoppers (including 70% of seniors) find the writing on packages too small to read.(15)
In a recent survey, of the 30% of Canadians who rarely or never use nutrition information on food labels, 21% complained that they are too hard to read, 19% said that there is too much variation in format from one product to another, and 23% said it takes too much time to read.(16) Nutrition information must therefore be presented in a standardized, easy-to-read format that is simple to locate on the label. Nutrition labels should use sufficiently large type-face with an adequate contrast between printing and background so that consumers (particularly elderly consumers and others with impaired vision) can easily read it. Consumer survey research should be used to guide the formulation of a standard graphic element.
Moreover, maximum consistency of graphic representation will also facilitate efforts designed to promote effective use of the new nutrition label. If manufacturers are free to make stylistic modifications to the nutrition label, the usefulness of educational materials designed to teach consumers how to read and interpret those labels may be impaired. Product comparisons would also be more difficult if different graphic designs were used by competing manufacturers. Furthermore, the failure to prescribe graphic elements would make enforcement more difficult.
Which panel title is better for consumers? Why?
CSPI believes that either panel title — "Nutrition Information" or "Nutrition Facts" — would be acceptable. However, we believe that only one title should be used to reduce possible consumer confusion.
Is providing the number of servings per package useful? Why?
Providing the number of servings per package is useful for several reasons. First, it helps consumers visualize the actual size of one serving. For example, if the serving size of a 1.89 litre carton of juice is 240 mL, it may be difficult for consumers to visualize how large one serving is unless they are told that there are eight servings in the entire carton.
Disclosing the number of servings per package is also useful in comparing products whose package volume is the same, but whose weight is significantly different. For example, rice cereal and whole wheat cereal may be packaged in boxes of similar size. However, because of weight differences, the rice cereal will contain significantly fewer servings per box. Declaring the servings per package allows consumers to easily compare the economic value of the two cereals. Without this disclosure, consumers may incorrectly assume that the numbers of servings per box are equal or have to perform complex calculations to determine the number of servings per container.
As an additional matter, we wish to emphasize that permissible serving sizes, wherever possible, should not be expressed as ranges. We recognize that some foods of the same type — such as cookies - vary in size and weight and that serving sizes will necessarily vary from brand to brand. However, the serving sizes of foods such as peanut butter, margarine, and vegetable oil should not be allowed to vary across brands. For example, the recommended serving size for peanut butter is 15-30 grams. As a result, Kraft Peanut Butter uses a serving size of one tablespoon, while President's Choice Peanut Butter uses a serving size of two tablespoons. To compare nutrition information between those two products, consumers must double the numbers listed on the Kraft label or halve the numbers listed on the President's Choice label.
To rectify this problem, serving sizes should be standardized among similar food products where possible and reflect the amount of food people actually eat. Standardization makes it easier for consumers to make nutrient comparisons among foods and ensures that companies do not use an unrealistically small or large serving size to favourably portray the nutritional composition of their products.
Does it matter which order of presenting nutrients is selected? Why?
The sequence of nutrients should be the same for all nutrition labels to make it easier for consumers to locate particular nutrients on the label, make nutritional comparisons among different products, and facilitate educational efforts. Four factors should be considered in determining that sequence.
First, some consumers may assume that the order in which nutrients are reported reflects their importance. Therefore, the order in which nutrients appear should account for this perception. Where possible, nutrients should be reported in order of most important to least important from a public health perspective. For example, saturated fat should be listed before iron because problems associated with saturated fat are more widespread in the population and are linked to incidence of life-threatening coronary heart disease and cancer. Non-core list nutrients may be reported underneath the core list.
Second, nutrients that have related health effects should be reported together. For example, fat, saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol, and sodium should be reported together. This makes it easier for consumers who are concerned about cardiovascular health to focus on those nutrients.
Third, nutrients that are components of other nutrients should be reported together. For example, fibre and added sugars should be reported as a subset of total carbohydrates.
Fourth, vitamins and minerals (except for sodium) should be grouped together.
We propose the following sequence for reporting the nutrients we have recommended:
 total fat
 saturated fat (including trans fatty acids)
 total carbohydrate
 added sugars
 vitamin A
 vitamin C
What are the educational challenges and solutions for the way nutrients are declared?
Nutrients should be declared both in absolute amounts (i.e., the actual amount of the nutrient in a serving) and in relative amounts (i.e., a percentage of a reference standard of a daily intake).
Expressing nutrients only in absolute amounts is not meaningful for most consumers. Without a context, consumers will not know if those amounts are high or low. For example, a consumer might assume that a food containing five grams of saturated fat per serving is low in saturated fat, or that a food containing 100 mg of sodium is high in sodium.
When the United States Food and Drug Administration examined that issue, it found that many Americans could not specify the recommended intakes for nutrients such as sodium, even when those interviewed indicated that the nutrient was important to their health and that they were concerned about their intake of the nutrient.(17) The same is likely true for Canadian consumers. Putting those numbers in context allows consumers to better assess the food's nutritional value and understand how the nutrients fit into their total daily diet.
A recent survey also supports the declaration of nutrients in both absolute and relative amounts. The survey found that Canadians regard nutrition information expressed as both "grams" and "%RDI" as more useful in describing the nutrient content of a food than the provision of "gram only" information.(18)
We would also like to note that consumers may misinterpret the meaning of missing nutrition information. All food labels should be required to disclose the amounts of all nutrients in the core list, even if those values are zero. 73% of respondents in this survey support requiring such disclosures.(19) Nutrients in the core list should not be removed from the nutrition panel simply because they are not contained in a food.
Which of the two bilingual formats do you prefer? Why?
Both bilingual formats may pose minor difficulties. "Example A" is easier for English readers, but requires Francophones to locate nutrition information by reading from right to left. "Example B" requires unnecessary additional reading for both French and English readers. Francophones must read the English nutrient name before seeing the French equivalent, while Anglophones must read French nutrient names before scanning across to see the quantitative amount of that nutrient. Health Canada may consider conducting additional consumer research to determine which style is most effective for both Anglophones and Francophones.
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The basic impulses and instincts which govern one's actions
A feeling of enmity, animosity or ill will
The current row arose swiftly, sparked both by historical animus and jockeying over future power and place in Asia - and it surprised many observers in the depth of antipathy on both sides. — Christian Science Monitor, April 22, 2005.
The masculine aspect of the feminine psyche or personality
The masculine side of a woman
a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility
The basic impulses and instincts which govern ones actions
{i} animosity; resentment; hostility; masculine part of the female personality (according to Jungian psychology)
If a person has an animus against someone, they have a strong feeling of dislike for them, even when there is no good reason for it. Your animus towards him suggests that you are the wrong man for the job. = animosity. a feeling of strong dislike or hatred = animosity, hostility hostility animus against/towards
Animating spirit; intention; temper
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 [ 'a-n&-m&s ] (noun.) 1816. From Latin animus ("the mind, in a great variety of meanings: the rational soul in man, intellect, consciousness, will, intention, courage, spirit, sensibility, feeling, passion, pride, vehemence, wrath, etc., the breath, life, soul"), closely related to anima, which is a feminine form; see anima.
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The catchment of the Eastern Yar river and Bembridge Harbour is at risk of flooding from both the sea and the river. Flooding and erosion are real risks facing people and their property in this area. With climate changing, rising sea levels and more frequent and intense storms, our existing defences are under increasing threat from the elements.
If the existing defences were not maintained, more than 480 properties in low-lying areas could flood or be lost to erosion from a 1 in 200 year chance event. With rising sea levels this number could increase to over 730 in the next 100 years. Subject to funding being available, our recommendations will help to manage the risk of flooding and erosion to communities throughout this period.


Using Google to Research Problems (1 Viewer)
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sometimes searching google is not the easiest thing to get the answer, right!? Well I have plenty of experience getting things done on google. Here's some hints:
*If you're reseaching an error message, type: "ms access ", followed by the EXACT error message. Example - ms access can't go to specified record. You'll be surprised what the intellisense picks up automatically for you. Chances are, a million people have already researched the error.
*If you have an error message that you're getting in VBA, type: "vba ", followed by the error message. Example - vba object variable or with block variable not set. You will notice that the error message is common to the language, usually NOT the program you are working in.
*If you're trying to figure out how to get something done, and not just doing a "fix-it" type research, type in what it is you want to do. Here's an example - "I keep getting an error message about sandbox mode preventing code from running. Well, try typing this in: ms access disable sandbox mode.
*Avoid actual questions, such as "how do I disable sandbox mode". This will yield less results because it has more words. It also won't work well because the phrase "ms access" isn't included, which narrows down the search results significantly.
*If you're having a problem that doesn't sport an error message specifically, you will have less success with the results that you get, but still, chances are that your problem is still nothing new to the expert population. So, for example, if you can't figure out why your form won't close and you type in: ms access form won't close, you'll get some results, but not many good ones because the search is not specific enough. But regardless, it'll still be somewhat useful, because the phrase "form won't close" is obviously going to be common among what people would say on a forum, if they started a thread for example.
***In general, try to type in phrases that other people with the same problem would say if they were asking experts how to fix it. Google reads the page contents and many times the headers and such. But, in general I think if you follow these types of guidelines I use, you can probably solve your own problems faster than if you were to post it on a forum. Another thing too, if your problem is well documented or popular among Access users, and you are searching google the right way, more than likely you will hit microsoft's KB articles or the office online help articles FIRST on the list, so you can go strait to the horses mouth. If anyone should know, the manufacturer should, right?
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Semantic Conditioned Dynamic Modulation for Temporal Sentence Grounding in Videos
Yitian Yuan, Lin Ma, Jingwen Wang, Wei Liu, Wenwu Zhu
Temporal sentence grounding in videos aims to detect and localize one target video segment, which semantically corresponds to a given sentence. Existing methods mainly tackle this task via matching and aligning semantics between a sentence and candidate video segments, while neglect the fact that the sentence information plays an important role in temporally correlating and composing the described contents in videos. In this paper, we propose a novel semantic conditioned dynamic modulation (SCDM) mechanism, which relies on the sentence semantics to modulate the temporal convolution operations for better correlating and composing the sentence related video contents over time. More importantly, the proposed SCDM performs dynamically with respect to the diverse video contents so as to establish a more precise matching relationship between sentence and video, thereby improving the temporal grounding accuracy. Extensive experiments on three public datasets demonstrate that our proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-arts with clear margins, illustrating the ability of SCDM to better associate and localize relevant video contents for temporal sentence grounding. Our code for this paper is available at _URL_