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The AEVA Public Policy Position
Australian Electric Vehicle Association Policy Statement as of June 2010
AIMS of the AEVA: To promote the use, development and knowledge of electric vehicles for industrial, commercial, public, domestic and / or other purposes.
Benefits of Electric Vehicles: The widespread adoption of electric vehicles for general transportation would offer a number of benefits to the Australian economy, environment and society as follows:
- Zero Emissions
Electric vehicles produce no emissions at point of use, and when powered by sustainable energy sources, no greenhouse gases or other pollutants are produced. This helps lower Australia's carbon footprint, improve air quality and the health of Australians.
- Energy Independence
The current need to import oil and petroleum products has significant economic and security ramifications for Australia. Current electrical generating capacities are sufficient to enable the majority of transport needs in Australian cities to be met by electric vehicles. Electric vehicles are not only inherently more efficient than internal combustion, but can allow better utilisation of off-peak electrical capacity and a lower, more stable cost of transport.
Fossil fuels are a limited resource, and their use has substantial environmental impact. Australia has the potential to generate all of its power requirements by renewable methods. Electric vehicles are able to make use of this natural advantage due to the unique nature of electricity as a power source.
- Innovation and Growth
There is general consensus within the global automotive industry that the electrification of the automobile is inevitable. Australia needs to take this opportunity to invest in growth via innovation and creation of intellectual property. Such sunrise industries need local demand to justify further investment in the type of technological future that can continue to benefit Australia's economy.
Consider the effect on demand and use of electric vehicles in order to better facilitate their adoption in everyday use when constructing laws and regulations.
2. Public Information
(1) Provide easy access to information regarding:
- Regulations and requirements pertaining to road going electric vehicles and to the conversion of vehicles to electric drive,
- Roadworthy approval and registration.
(2) Ensure sufficient trained, informed and qualified staff are available to support these requirements.
3. Industry and Education Support
Allocate and direct funding that is specific to electric vehicle technology, for industry support, research and development, and industry training and education in the field of road going electric vehicles.
4. Vehicle Registration
Introduce specific number plates or exemption stickers applicable to fully electric road registered vehicles that would allow certain exemptions such as:
- Exclusive access to parking space with recharging points,
- Exemption from fees at selected public parking facilities,
- Access to special transit lanes and exemption from public tolls and charges
In order to encourage early adoption and uptake of electric vehicles by the public;
- Introduce exemption from tax or charges applicable upon sale and registration of a fully electric road registered vehicle.
- A rebate or other incentive for the purchase or conversion of fully electric vehicles.
6. Recharging Points
Encourage, regulate and facilitate for public access electric vehicle recharging points at public parking facilities, shopping centres, rest stops, places of employment and public and other buildings.
7. Government Use of Electric Vehicles
Direct Government Departments and Government controlled entities to:
- Institute a policy to replace the conventional cars in their fleets with a percentage of fully electric vehicles,
- Install recharging points in their parking spaces,
- Offer incentives to employees who purchase an electric vehicle or convert a vehicle to electric.
Institute an expanded program of electric railway infrastructure in order to reduce the reliance on road and air transport for medium and long haul trips for freight and passengers. This can also include planning for Very Fast Trains to service capital cities and major regional centres.
9. Urban Public Transport
Promote, facilitate and plan for the following solutions for urban and outer urban public transport:
- Electric buses
- Electric taxi fleets
10. Bicycles and Low Speed Vehicles
Investigate the effectiveness of existing regulations in regard to electrically assisted bicycles, speed restricted electric 2-wheel vehicles and other types of low speed vehicles as users of public roads, bike-paths and footpaths. These regulations should be examined with the view to relaxing them where warranted to increase ease of use where this will result in a mobility benefit to the general public.
11. Standards and Regulations
Ensure standards and regulations are consistent between all States and Territories. These should be sufficiently open to encourage innovation and diversity of suppliers. Relevant standards and regulations include, but are not limited to, those regarding:
- Charging infrastructure standards and safety requirements, including specification of pre-determined rates of charge (levels) applicable to road going electric vehicles,
- Safety and Roadworthy compliance,
- Vehicle labelling and categories (refer point 10).
12. Power Generation and Supply
- Planning should be implemented to cater for high demand fast recharging stations.
- Electricity billing provisions and metering equipment to allow for off-peak charging at discounted rates.
- Provisions to upgrade supply lines to dwellings for home re-charging.


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Female terrorists are a rare phenomenon. Less than ten terrorist organizations throughout the world have women members. These terrorist groups are either Marxist (atheist) or Jihadist in their ideologies. Sexual Jihad: The Role of Islam in Female Terrorism ascertains, "What is the role of Islam in female terrorism?" It explores the roles of women in eight jihadist case studies including: Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, Boko Haram, the Chechen Separatists, HAMAS, Hezbollah, ISIS, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, and Al Qaeda. Primary sources and secondary sources are used, including research conducted on Palestinian women in Israeli prisons who have been convicted of terrorism. It is argued that are three roles for women in Jihadist terrorism: the disposable, the domestic, and the secretary. The theory posited in this book is that the roles of women in terrorist groups are similar to their cultural/religious roles in society.
Chapter 1: The Roles of Women in Islam, the Quran, and the
Chapter 2: Some Thoughts on Female Jihadist Motivation and Radicalization
Chapter 3: The Domestics
Chapter 4: The Secretaries
Chapter 5: The Disposables (Mujahidat)
Chapter 6: The Women of Cohar: Convicted Jihadist Terrorists in an Israeli Prison
Chapter 7: Female Home-Grown and Emigrant Terrorism in the United States
Christine Sixta Rinehart is associate professor of political science at the University of South Carolina, Palmetto College.

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Masks (episode)
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TNG, Episode 7x17
Production number: 40277-269
First aired: 21 February 1994
168th of 176 produced in TNG
168th of 176 released in TNG
311th of 728 released in all
Written By
Joe Menosky
Directed By
Robert Wiemer
47615.2 (2370)
For the unrelated novel, please see Masks.
While investigating a rogue comet, the cultural archive concealed inside begins taking over the Enterprise.
USS Enterprise-D parallels a rogue comet
The Enterprise parallels the rogue comet
The USS Enterprise-D is traveling through sector 1156 when they encounter a rogue comet.
Counselor Deanna Troi is attending Mrs. Narsu's class and helping the students convey their feelings in their sculptures. Data is also attending this class, and creates a sculpture of a PADD. Deanna tells him that he needs to work on his imagination, and as an exercise, suggests he sculpt music. Data is at first confused and points out that music is a collection of sound waves, but Deanna encourages him to sculpt an image that reminds him of music. Data proceeds to form the clay into a treble clef, and Deanna says they'll work on it further. First Officer Will Riker contacts him and tells him to report to the bridge.
The Enterprise has encountered a rogue comet which is not on any of the Federation starcharts. It appears to have originated from the D'Arsay system, over two sectors away, and it seems to have been traveling for more than 87 million years. Picard tells Data to begin a full sensor analysis and to send his findings to the Federation Astrophysical survey. While scanning the comet the bridge is illuminated with a strange, bright, ambient light which gradually fades away. Data says it appeared to be a sensor echo caused by a distortion in the comet's inner core.
In Troi's quarters, Beverly Crusher sees a strange object. When she asks what it is, Troi tells her she's never seen this object before, and its style makes it unlikely to be a gift from Riker. When Crusher and Troi leave the room, a strange symbol appears on the object.
At the next sculpture class, Data creates a mask. He tells Deanna he used his imagination and for some reason the image of the mask appeared in his mind. Troi then asks if he was in her room, since the symbol on his mask resembles the image on the object that appeared in her room. Their conversation is interrupted by Eric, who asks them if they can do something about his terminal because it is not working properly. Strange symbols are moving around on the screen.
In engineering, Data, Commander Riker and Geordi La Forge begin to investigate the strange symbols which are not listed in the Federation linguistics database. La Forge has found that the symbols were downloaded into the Enterprise computer core via the sensor array and replicator systems, and are reconfiguring their systems. Riker wonders if it had something to do with the sensor echo earlier; La Forge tells him that they still don't know what caused the echo. Riker thinks of using the phasers to melt the comet's outer layers. La Forge wants to consult Data about this, but finds him examining the symbols. Unaccountably, Data has found himself able to read them, and does so aloud as they float around the screen; boundary, border, road, companion, message, messenger, and death (which is the prominent sun symbol).
Using a widespread phaser beam, Lieutenant Worf evaporates the comet's outer layers, revealing a mysterious structure. A scan reveals that it's over 87 million years old and composed of fortanium and several unknown materials. This object is definitely responsible for the symbols, having used their sensor beam as a carrier wave to transmit information into the Enterprise's replicators and computer systems. Data thinks it is an informational archive. La Forge has noticed a repetitive node configuration, confirming that it could indeed be a database. Data thinks he might be in contact with the object and requests a level 1 diagnostic of his positronic net.
In his ready room, Picard is investigating several artifacts when Riker tells him that they have confined the system corruption but the alien symbols are still in their computer systems. Riker dismisses the artifacts as primitive, serving no useful purpose. Picard thinks they are ceremonial in nature, and are deceptively primitive since the structure on the comet was obviously made by an advanced technological society, and seems to be much more than a simple library. Riker recognizes the sunburst symbol on the object Picard has; he's seen it on several other alien objects. Picard tells him he's seen another small, U-shaped symbol all over the ship; less prominently displayed, it tends to show up in the background or off to the side.
With La Forge's help, Data is performing a level 1 diagnostic of his positronic net when he experiences a mysterious impulse. He asks La Forge what it feels like when a person is losing their mind. When Data cannot explain what is going on but only says "I am different," La Forge disconnects him from the main computer and checks his positronic net, discovering strange connections. When Data turns his head to La Forge, he has acquired a sunburst symbol on his forehead. In a light, mocking voice, he says "Masaka is waking!"
When Picard enters engineering, Data tells him that he has been waiting for him. "You should feel honored – I don't usually wait for anyone." Picard asks what he wants and Data answers in the same teasing voice, "Masaka is waking." Picard then asks if he is Masaka; Data replies that he is Ihat and that Commander Data is gone. "Who can say where?"
Picard calls for Counselor Troi and asks Ihat where he came from. Ihat tells him that he comes from Masaka City and that there are no others like him. Sashaying around the room, he displays somewhat effeminate mannerisms (or Ihat is a woman). Picard asks Ihat if he can get to know Masaka and speak with her. Ihat advises him to leave this place before Masaka finds them. When Troi enters engineering, Ihat thinks that she is Masaka. His body language and manner change completely, and he is now seen to be wearing a second, rectangular symbol on the front of his uniform; kneeling, he tells her with hushed reverence "I am yours." Picard decides to confine Data to his quarters.
During a briefing, La Forge tells of behavior nodes that he found in Data's positronic net and that he believes the archive is using Data to create different people and the transformation is still ongoing. Troi tells him that Data's "real personality" is completely buried and that he has "the android equivalent of multiple personalities". La Forge adds that because the transformation is still in process there is no way of telling how many people will emerge. Picard asks La Forge to find a way to access the archive, while he tries to learn more from the people who are using Data's body.
Picard visits Data in his quarters; the devotee who loves Masaka is still present. Picard asks if he can speak to Ihat. Ihat comes forward and explains that Masaka is a queen who spends most of her time sleeping and it is better not to wake her. Picard suggests keeping her asleep, but Ihat says only Korgano can do that. When Picard asks where he can find Korgano, Ihat steps back and another person comes forward; a terrified child who pleads for help.
The archive activates a tractor beam which sends an energy pulse that overrides the Enterprise's control systems. At the same time, Ten Forward reports an emergency which Worf investigates. In Data's quarters Ihat comes back, and tells Picard that Masaka is awake.
When Worf and his security team arrives in Ten Forward they discover multiple artifacts. La Forge, Troi and Picard are investigating these artifacts when Troi finds a sun symbol. Picard now recognizes this as representing Masaka; then he sees the small U-shaped symbol on the back of the artifact. La Forge has finished his scan and tells Picard that the artifacts were not beamed to the Enterprise, the matter in Ten Forward was transformed to form the artifacts and bit by bit, the Enterprise is also being transformed. Worf informs them that part of deck 12 is now an aqueduct.
Picard believes there is no alternative other then to destroy the archive, but the weapons control system is not functioning. Worf tells him they can re-configure a photon torpedo for a manual launch. La Forge and Worf are busy reconfiguring the torpedo when the power system stops working. When La Forge opens the torpedo he sees snakes. At the same time, part of main engineering is transformed and they are forced to leave.
On the bridge, the Ops station has been transformed into a stone slab. Riker exits the Observation Lounge and recommends holding briefings on the bridge as the lounge has been transformed into a swamp. La Forge establishes that the archive has transformed 20% of the ship. Doctor Beverly Crusher tells them that the archive can reorder and transform molecular structures into anything it wants – that's how the alien plant life and artifacts are made. If this goes on, the entire Enterprise will be transformed into an alien city. La Forge tells him that he has


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La Notre Dame
Educational opportunities go beyond the traditional classroom. Each semester all students participate in conversation tables conducted by native speakers. Our language clubs sponsor cultural events and provide service projects such as tutoring to local elementary and secondary school students. Some students gain work experience by serving as tutors, department assistants, or language laboratory monitors. Our junior-senior colloquium enables our French, German, and Spanish majors to meet together to discuss literary and cultural issues introduced by guest speakers.
Every spring a growing number of students are inducted into Phi Sigma Iota, an international honor society recognizing outstanding language students. Eligibility for the Delta Chi Chapter is based on five criteria: two courses completed at the 300 level or higher; a 3.5 GPA (approximately) in the studied language, departmental recommendation, committed enthusiasm for the study of language and culture as evidenced inside and outside the classroom and through the pursuit of international study, when possible, and class rank in the top 30%. Factors that will be taken into account for a positive departmental recommendation include no evidence of academic dishonesty, enthusiastic participation in events sponsored by the department, and perhaps a leadership role, such as effective FLTA mentor, conscientious student assistant, reliable lab monitor, tutor, and/or club officer. Seniors who are in their 2nd 300 or 400 level class are eligible to be considered for membership, with departmental recommendation.
Incoming freshmen who intend to major in languages are encouraged to compete for departmental scholarships. Information about our departmental scholarship can be found on our financial aid website.
Teaching assistants, who are native speakers of languages taught at Lycoming, help students with pronunciation and language proficiency. They also arrange readings and activities that engage students outside of a classroom setting with listening and learning about cultural practices of various countries. Below are photos from readings and events about Halloween and Christmas.
More photos about awards and modern language activities can be found in the photo gallery below.


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Accuracy and precision are important for success in airsoft games. What good is it to fire an airsoft rifle if it isn't accurate? Sure, you'll need to be a good shooter with such consistent aiming as well. Having a quality airsoft sniper weapon at your side makes it easier for you to hit your target with better accuracy. Let's consider how accurate an airsoft sniper rifle can be and the tips that will help you increase your game accuracy.
How Far Can Most Accurate Airsoft Sniper Rifle Shoot
- Sniper rifles are very precise, but you may need to change the hop-up from time to time.
- You'll need incredibly high muzzle velocity to achieve greater distances in your airsoft games.
- 450 FPS or higher would suffice, leaving you with an airsoft weapon capable of long-range shooting.
- Good ammo is important for snipers. They must have traction, to be precise. The use of velocity and mass accomplishes this.
- They'll need a ton of heavy BBs. The ideal weights for sniper BBs can vary from 0.3 grams to 0.4 grams.
- The more momentum they have, the less wind, air resistance, and vegetation can impact them.
- A well-calibrated telescopic sight and a long, tight-bore barrel would do for anything else.
- Clean the barrel regularly and keep the internals lubricated regularly. This can affect frame rates.
- The length of your inner barrel and the consistency of your friction sections and hop-ups are the most critical considerations.
- I'll let you know that no airsoft sniper rifle works perfectly right out of the package, so plan to put in much time and effort into your 'rifle' to achieve long-range actions and a highly precise 'firearm'.
- The majority of airsoft weapons have a 200 feet per second field of range. The most precise sniper 'rifles' in airsoft are equipped with pace and distance in mind to get the most efficient range.
- The longer the barrel, the more consistent the shot and the more successful you would be.
- The shot will normally fly up 300 feet, but you can easily upgrade it. Long barrels are common in the most powerful airsoft sniper rifles, helping achieve the most precise shots possible in airsoft games.
Tips to improve your airsoft sniping accuracy
Clean your barrel
Some airsoft snipers believe that their gun's deteriorating inner barrel needs to be replaced. A thorough cleaning might totally take good care of that problem and keep it in proper working order before you need to replace it.
Invest in heavy BBs
We usually suggest between 0.25g to 0.40g BBs. At 0.25g, you'll notice a significant increase in precision, as well as a significant improvement in its efficiency. Your airsoft rifle's velocity should determine the size of your BB. There's no one-size-fits-all solution, so experiment with different weights and brands of BBs to see what works better for you and your weapons.
Invest in a better bucking
The bucking is the silicone/rubber sleeve that protects the barrel's end, contributing to air leakage reduction. Air leaks trigger inaccurate shots. Many players like G&G's green bucking because it is both cost-effective and performs well on the scene.
Invest in a better hop-up chamber
Investigate and buy a higher-end hop-up chamber. Look for i-hop, ir-hop, and v-hop, among other "hop" mods. In contrast to stock configurations, the bulk of them perform better.
Stabilize the barrel
You will prevent certain arms from bouncing by wrapping dense foam around the inner barrel. Your weapons would be less likely to wobble as a result of this. You might try purchasing barrel spacers designed especially for you, but this is usually needless. Tapes often have the bonus of being able to adjust the side by reducing or increasing the distance.
Your inner barrel has to be polished
Although there should be some pressure in the barrel, it should also be smooth. As a result, paint the barrel and remove any scratches or blemishes. The aim is to reduce the amount of friction behind the BB as it goes down the barrel. The most important thing is to maintain a level of consistency.
Most accurate airsoft sniper rifles
Tokyo Marui VSR-10 G-Spec
Itis a bolt-action airsoft 'weapon' with a spring-powered action. It is perfect for beginners.
- VSR-10 system
- High-quality polymer receiver
- Metal bolt assembly and Aluminum outer barrel
- Built-in 20mm rail for attaching optics
- Portable bull barrel
- Mock suppressor
AMOEBA "Striker" S1 Gen2 Bolt Action Sniper Rifle
The AMOEBA Striker is one of the most precise airsoft sniper rifles currently available.
- Metal receiver, barrel assembly, bolt, and fluted outer barrel
- Features an adjustable polymer chassis, buttpad, and cheek riser.
- Direct feed magazine
- Interchangeable handguard
- Ambidextrous magazine release
- Adjustable hop-up dial
You can always improve your sniper accuracy by following those tips. Also, consider an upgrade if you aren't satisfied. Take note of the items that come with your sniper gun package if you're a newbie, and check if your rifle is upgradeable. Note that heavier ammo is not affected by wind. So always consider a heavier BB when you have to fire from 200 feet and above. In conclusion, the Tokyo Marui VSR-10 G-Spec Sniper Rifle is great for beginners and experienced players alike. Simultaneously, the AMOEBA Striker is one of the most accurate airsoft snipers and has a great price-to-performance ratio.


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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or state of expecting; expectation: Tense with expectancy, I waited for my name to be called.
- n. The state of being expected.
- n. Something expected.
- n. An expected amount calculated on the basis of actuarial data: a life expectancy of 70 years.
- n. expectation or anticipation; the state of expecting something
- n. the state of being expected
- n. something expected or awaited
- n. an expectation
- n. something expected (as on the basis of a norm)
"University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, who has studied health inequalities and reproductive patterns, points out that healthy life expectancy is short for African Americans and women depend on extended family networks for support."
"There's too much of … what I call an expectancy culture of things being provided."
"Because of that, there's what we call the expectancy effect."
"Life expectancy is only longer because fewer babies die; people who reach 65 live about the same number of years as they used to."
"The increase in life expectancy is very small by comparison."
"If he's extremely obese and a smoker, his life expectancy is 60, a difference of 21 years."
"At the extremes, the gap in life expectancy is wide: There is a nearly 18-year difference in life expectancy between black men and Asian/Pacific Islander women (69.4 vs. 86.9 years)."
"Doing screening tests on patients whose life expectancy is extremely limited because of cancer is just not a cost-effective thing to do," said Dr. Allen Lichter, CEO of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, who wasn't involved in the research."
"Calculating life expectancy is a tough task that requires analyzing extensive information about how people died and how old they were, as well as statistical modeling to predict how long people born today will live if current trends continue."
"Hispanics, life expectancy is nearly two years lower in Puerto Rico, more than two years lower in Cuba, and more than four years lower in Mexico, according to World Health Organization figures."
These user-created lists contain the word 'expectancy'.
All words that could come in handy in stories.
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Aidiladha Celebration
Assalamualaikum everyone,
I know that it has been a hard experience for everyone in these past few months and i truly understand the situation which everyone is in.
With the pandemic instilling fears in our hearts, it is understandable for us parents to protect our children. However, children need to explore, learn and experience especially after their long absence from school. They've surely missed out a lot. Our main intention now is to encouraged their developments in any way possible while following all the SOP given by the government.
I hope that all parents will take part in this "new normal" by bringing your children to school on time, ensuring their health and be alert and informed of all the announcements given by the school.
Thank you again for everyone's cooperation😊
Selamat Hari Raya Aidiladha, maaf zahir dan batin and take care😘
𝐏𝐮𝐚𝐧 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐚 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐮𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐧
𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐏𝐊𝐏𝐒
𝐀𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐍𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞, 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞


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in humid conditions, so when grown as a house plant it becomes necessary to mist the plant when relative humidity falls below around 80%. Although outdoors this plant prefers partial shade or full shade, inside it grows best in bright filtered light.
Boston fern is native to Florida, the West Indies, and Asian Pacific. A related species, the Tuberous Sword fern (Nephrolepis cordifolia), is frequently confused with Boston fern and is a serious exotic invasive plant, forming dense monocultures.
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Carboni, Gianluca (2011) Evaluation of conservation tillage and rotation with legumes as adaptation and mitigation strategies of climate change on durum wheat in Sardinia. Doctoral Thesis.
This study aimed to evaluate the interaction between conservation tillage and rotation with legumes on durum wheat phenology and production, in climate change conditions. The CSM-CERES-Wheat model (DSSAT beta 4.5), in combination with a stochastic Weather Generator (WG), were used to assess climate change impacts and suggest adaptation strategies to cope with climate change. Twenty-seven climate change scenarios (GCMs-based), obtained with the pattern scaling technique considering three values of climate sensitivity and four emission scenarios, for the periods 2025, 2050 and 2075, were used. The direct and indirect effects of projected changes in atmospheric CO2 concentrations, on the alternative cropping systems, were evaluated. The results on yield, for present climate conditions, showed a substantial indifference between tillage practices, whereas the crop rotation with legumes favoured quantity and quality of grain yield. This behaviour has been observed also in simulations carried out using future climate change scenarios, that, however, showed a high variability depending on the wide range of climate scenarios used mainly in the more distant future periods. The uncertainties linked to climate sensitivity, emission scenarios and atmospheric CO2 concentrations are among the main causes of this wide variability. The application of conservation tillage might be recommended in this region because permits a more environmentally and economically sustainable management.
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The poisonous element, once used in embalming fluids, could be contaminating drinking water as corpses rot
Live near a cemetery? Better check your drinking water. (The Brett Weston Archive/CORBIS)
If you live near a Civil War-era cemetery, rotting corpses may be on the attack. While there's no need to fear the walking dead, homeowners should watch out for toxins leaking out of old graves that could be contaminating drinking water and causing serious health problems.
When someone died at the turn of the century, it was common practice to bring a photographer in to take death photos. Also, the people who fought and died in the Civil War came from all over the United States, and families who wanted to bury their kin would pay to have them shipped home.
At the time, ice was the only option to preserve a body, but that didn't work very well—and no one wants to see a deceased relative partially decomposed.
"We're talking about the 1800s, so how do you freeze [the bodies] and keep them frozen if they take weeks to transport?" says Jana Olivier, an environmental scientist and professor-emeritus at the University of South Africa.
Thus, embalming in the U.S. became a booming industry during the Civil War era. People willing to try their hand at embalming spent their time following the military from combat zone to combat zone.
"Embalmers flocked to battlefields to embalm whoever could afford it and send them home," said Mike Mathews, a mortuary scientist at the University of Minnesota.
An embalming surgeon is seen at work on a Civil War soldier's body sometime in the early 1860s. (Corbis)
Embalming fluid is effective, but it's also nasty stuff. Many early recipes for embalming fluid were jealously guarded by morticians because some worked so much better than others, but most commonly contained arsenic, Mathews adds.
One popular formula "contained about four ounces of arsenious acid per gallon of water, and up to 12 pounds of non-degradable arsenic was sometimes used per body," according to the 5th Street Cemetery Necrogeological Study.
Arsenic kills the bacteria that make corpses stinky—if you've ever smelled bad meat, you can imagine how important it is for embalming fluid to do its thing and do it well. But the poisonous element doesn't degrade, so when embalmed bodies rot in the ground, arsenic gets deposited into the soil.
"A Civil War-era cemetery filled with plenty of graves—things seldom stay where you want them to," says Benjamin Bostick, a geochemist at Columbia University. "As the body is becoming soil, the arsenic is being added to the soil." From there, rainwater and flooding can wash arsenic into the water table.
That means old cemeteries full of deceased soldiers and civilians present a real problem for today's homeowners. The federal government says it's only safe for us to drink water with 10 parts per billion of arsenic or less. But in 2002, a USGS-sponsored survey in Iowa City found arsenic levels at three times the federal limit near an old cemetery.
"When you have this big mass of arsenic, there's enough to affect literally millions of liters of water at least a little bit," Bostick says.
Soldiers bury Union dead who fell near Fredericksburg, Virginia, during the 1863 Chancellorsville Campaign. (Medford Historical Society Collection/CORBIS)
If humans ingest the contaminated water, it can cause significant health problems over time. Arsenic is a carcinogen that's associated with skin, lung, bladder and liver cancers, says Joseph Graziano, an environmental health scientist at Columbia University. Drinking arsenic-contaminated water has also been linked to cardiovascular disease, lung disease and cognitive deficits in children.
The good news is that arsenic was banned from embalming fluid in the early 1900s. It was causing health problems for medical students who were operating on embalmed cadavers. Also, the presence of so much arsenic made murder investigations almost impossible. Police couldn't distinguish between embalming fluid arsenic and cases of murder by arsenic poisoning.
"The state stepped in and said [morticians] couldn't use arsenic anymore. Boy, they outlawed it real quick," Mathews says. Now, morticians use a combination of gluteraldehyde and formaldehyde—both chemicals that sterilize—to embalm bodies for open caskets, he adds. These chemicals evaporate away before they pose a risk to the water table.
But if you live near an old cemetery, you should get your well water checked for arsenic and other contaminants every few years, Mathews advises.
"Sadly, much of the population today isn't aware of the hazard that arsenic poses," Graziano says. "Any homeowner should be testing their well water frequently. We need to be vigilant about hazards from drinking water."
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This exists to help hide and obscure people's real identity. This is done by seeding the fake data into search engines.
Fake identities on the public internet are not dangerous. Real identities are!
How does publishing fake identities help obscure my real identity?
There are several companies that gather your identity information, either from public sources, or via scraping information on the internet, creating identity profiles of people.
Web sties like,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, and others advertize access to this information to anyone via google search.
Some companies charge a monthly fee for this service, some ask you to contribute your information in exchange, some will let you pay to remove the information. Regardless of the revenue model, it is easy and likely that someone can learn enough from the web to hijack your identity.
The fake identities in this site are designed to rank higher in search engines compared to the other companies listings. In the case of phone numbers and social security numbers, our sites rank first. This fact will keep some of the curious away from attemting to pry into your true identity.
How was this made?
To start, the Author legally obtained access to 78 million real contacts, with permission to publish the data in this way. The contact information was then scrambled, and filtered against listed names to avoid any coincidences with real people.
A customized set of programs designed to work with the high volume of data was created. Current database technology is too general purpose, and too slow to handle such a large volume of information. Even with these fast advances, it took 20 months in order to process the data.
A technical summary will be posted in the future.
What is this?
This is actually a list of 250 million people, indexed by the WRONGaddress, name, phone, and SSN.
This data is ficticious. Any resemblance to an actual person, living or dead is purely coincidence.
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On behalf of Israel & Gerity, PLLC posted in Medical malpractice on Tuesday, May 1, 2012.
If signed by Governor Jan Brewer, Arizona would join nine other states in banning so called "wrongful birth" and "wrongful life" lawsuits. The bill has passed both houses of the state's legislature and is awaiting a decision by the governor.
In a wrongful birth lawsuit, parents allege that the doctor was negligent in his or her prenatal care by failing to diagnose or detect severe birth defects like Down's syndrome, cystic fibrosis or spina bifida, or failing to inform the parents that a severe birth defect was detected in prenatal testing. Parents often then argue that the pre-birth knowledge of the existence of a severe disability would have led them to abort the child.
Compensation awarded in these lawsuits is used to cover the cost of care these children with severe disabilities will require throughout their lives.
There is only a single exception to the Arizona bill's outright banning of these lawsuits. In cases of "an intentional or grossly negligent act or omission" parents are able to file medical malpractice lawsuits against their doctor.
According to Gary Marchant, an Arizona State University law professor, there have been approximately 100 wrongful birth and wrongful life lawsuits filed throughout the United States; however, this number only reflects the number of cases that have gone before a jury and does not include cases that were settled or dismissed, meaning the actual number is much higher.
Opponents of the move to ban these lawsuits believe that they unfairly insulate physicians from negligent actions and actually lead to more incidents of negligence, according to The Colorado Independent. Further, banning these lawsuits leaves parents without the ability to seek compensation for significant medical mistakes.


What is Water Heater Thermostat? How Does It Work? – Explained!
The water heater thermostat is a vital part that plays the most significant role in heating the water. It maintains the heating process and provides you with perfectly tempered water every time you use your geyser.
If you want to know the working process of the thermostats, make sure that you go through our explanations.
What is a Water Heater Thermostat?
Would you like it if your water heater gives you the different temperatures at different times?
No, right?
water heater thermostat
Therefore, the water heater comes with a thermostat. The thermostat maintains a specific temperature every time.
Whenever the stipulated temperature goes down, the thermostat accelerates the power supply to retain the temperature.
Simultaneously, when the electric supply results in the desired heat of the water, the thermostat stops the power supply.
Therefore, you can imagine how vital a thermostat is in maintaining a perfect temperature in the water heater.
It does its duty by continuously checking the temperature.
And it ensures that the water retains its exact temperature until the water heater is turned off.
Where is the Thermostat Situated in a Water Heater?
The thermostat can be outside or inside the water heater. Both types are available in India.
The visible thermostats are controllable. That means you can control the temperature at your desired level.
The other types of thermostats are not controllable. They come with a pre-set temperature level.
In such circumstances, the temperature level remains around 55C to 60C. You will get green and red light with these heaters.
This indicates whether the temperature is prominent or the heating process is on.
Does the thermostat turn off when not in use?
The answer is a big NO. The only duty of the thermostat is to maintain the temperature.
You cannot expect the thermostat to switch off the water heater when it is not in use.
Most people have conceptualized that the thermostat will turn off the water heater when it is not used. But it is not true.
controlling water heater thermostat
The water heater heats the water and keeps it warm for a certain amount of time. After that, the temperature automatically goes down.
When the temperature goes down, the thermostat again heats the water. And the process goes on until the water heater is turned off.
Therefore, if you leave the heater on, it will never turn off automatically; instead, it will consume electricity.
What is the Ideal Temperature of Water in a Water Heater?
The temperature of the water heater plays a significant role in terms of saving electricity. Therefore, the temperature setting is a very vital thing to notice.
Most of the water heaters come up with 40-75 degree centigrade.
However, the ideal temperature is 50 degrees.
Remember that if the temperature is high, the electricity consumption will also be increased.
Therefore, it would be ideal if you set the bar to a moderate temperature.
To save electricity, you can use a solar water heater. And use the electric water heater as a backup.
The solar water heaters are safe and run on solar energy. And when there is a cloudy or cold day, you can use the electric heater as a back-up.
What is the BEE Star Rating?
People may not bother about the BEE star rating in the geysers. But actually, they are important to notice.
BEE star rating
It helps much to save power.
Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) gives the heaters better stars when the product has lesser heat loss.
That means to get better rates, the heater needs to have the capacity to keep the water warm for an extended period.
The science behind it is that the more the heater will keep the water warm, the thermostat will not be used frequently.
Therefore, much power will be saved.
So, if you left the geyser on, it will consume less electricity compared to the less starred products.
Therefore, it will be wiser if you get a product that has 4-5 stars from BEE.
More Noticeable Points To Save Electricity
 - If the water heater comes in a bigger size, the heater may consume more electricity. Therefore, choose the size wisely.
 - Always heat the water to the extent that you need. Overheating will consume more energy.
 - Do not keep the heater turned on unnecessarily.
 - You can use thermal insulating paint on the pipes and water heater to prevent heat loss. Wall paints can also help.
 - Last but not least, choose an energy efficient water heater that has a 4-5 star rating.
The water heater is an essential component to tackle the cold mornings in the winter.
Therefore, making the right decision is essential. Choose the right product and enjoy hot water.
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The state of
lies between 1,800 m (5,905 ft) and 1,987 m (6,519 ft) above sea level. It
is located on the western side of the Mexican highlands between 21° 23' and
the 22° 28' north latitude and 101° 53' and 102° 50' west longitude.
State of Aguascalientes is bounded on the north, east, and west by the
State of Zacatecas and on the south by the State of Jalisco.
The State of Aguascalientes is one
of the smallest states in Mexico, having an area of 5,589 square km. (2,157 sq mi.), which
represents only 0.28% of Mexicos territory and a population of approximately 944,285 inhabitants.
In general terms, the climate in the state of
Aguascalientes is of semidry condition with annual average
temperature, of 17.4 C and an average rainfall of 526 mm the rain season
of the year the registered rain are of low intensity there is a region in
the southeast situated in a great part of the sierra "El Laurel"
municipality of Calvillo, that has warm climate, and for having a so short
extension if is not forth considering it.
It is also known dry
steppe it is characterized due that in this part the evaporation is higher
than the precipitation and it is associated mainly to vegetative
communities of the type desert thicket and xenophile vegetation.


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How Can Social Learning Spice Up Your Existing Learning Strategy?
Bringing Light To The Smile Sheet: The Danger Of Complacency
Jane Hart – 12 Steps To Successful Social Learning at Work : Learning Technologies 2013
Development of tutorials and simulation to teach military aircraft engine maintenance.
Staff Training and Development Unit EPSS design and development.
Training section in Rosslyn Design of learning centre. Recruitment, training and support of a CAI development team. Design and development of a simulated filler panel to provide safe and cost-effective training. For this simulation, an actual filler panel replaced the standard computer keyboard.


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What Is Trading Effect?
- The trading effect measures a portfolio manager's effectiveness by comparing their portfolio returns to that of a chosen benchmark.
- The trading effect answers the simple question of whether the portfolio manager or investor added value by actively managing the portfolio.
- The trading effect can also be used to determine whether active investing (trading) is better than passive investing.
Understanding Trading Effect
The trading effect is the difference in performance between an active investor's portfolio and a chosen benchmark. Active investing takes a hands-on approach and requires that someone act in the role of the portfolio manager. With active investing, the aim is to see if the chosen composition of the investor's portfolio, including any alterations that were made during the observed period, performed better or worse than the benchmark. The trading effect can also be used to determine whether active investing (trading) is better than more passive buy-and-hold investing strategies.
The chosen benchmark has to have relevancy to the portfolio being measured and must be widely recognized and used. For example, the S&P 500 index would be an appropriate benchmark to measure an investor's portfolio that is predominantly comprised of U.S. large-cap equities.
The trading effect serves as a way for investors to quantify a portfolio manager's performance. It answers the simple question of whether the manager (or investor) added value by making adjustments to the portfolio.
If the benchmark, such as the Dow Jones Corporate Bond Index, outperforms the actively managed bond portfolio, then the portfolio manager subtracted value for the investor. If the bond portfolio earns more than the bond index, then the changes in portfolio composition have increased investor value, indicating a good management strategy.
Trading Effect and Bond Portfolios
Numerous and complex factors can influence bond portfolio returns. One reason for a lack of bond portfolio performance measures was that, prior to the 1970s, most bond portfolio managers followed buy-and-hold strategies, so their performance probably did not differ much. In that era, interest rates were relatively stable, so one could gain little from the active management of bond portfolios. The environment in the bond market changed considerably in the late 1970s and 1980s when interest rates increased dramatically and became more volatile.
Although the techniques for evaluating stock portfolio performance have been in existence for decades, comparable techniques for examining bond portfolio performance were initiated more recently, when the bond market volatility increased dramatically.
This change created an incentive to trade bonds, and this trend toward active management led to more dispersed performances by bond portfolio managers. This dispersion in performance, in turn, created a demand for techniques that would help investors evaluate the performance of bond portfolio managers.
The evaluation models for bonds typically consider the overall market factors and the impact of individual bond selection. This technique for measuring the trading effect breaks down the return based on the bond's duration as a comprehensive risk measure, but it does not consider differences in the risk of default.
Specifically, the technique does not differentiate between an AAA bond with a duration of eight years and a BBB bond with the same duration, which could clearly affect the performance. A portfolio manager that invested in BBB bonds, for example, could experience a very positive trading effect simply because the bonds were of lower quality.


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Frankfort North Breakwater Light
Frankfort owes its history in part to the fate of the weather. In 1855, a schooner owned by George W. Tifft of Cleveland, Ohio was driven by gale force winds toward the shoreline. Through chance, the winds blew the boat into a harbor then known as Aux Becs Scies Lake, the French term for "Sawbill Duck," which was a prevalent species in the area. Impressed with reports of the area's resources and potential, Mr. Tifft purchased more than a thousand acres of land around the lake. In 1859, Mr. Tifft sold the land to a group of developers from Detroit, and the Frankfort settlement was born. The developers built a sawmill and dredged Betsie Lake to accommodate ships of all sizes. The federal government soon recognized Aux Becs Scies Lake's strategic and economic importance, and funded further dredging and shoreline improvements. Frankfort became the best known harbor in the area, with newspapers reporting the arrival of as many as ten ships per day with settlers and visitors.
Recognition of Frankfort's importance as a harbor led to establishment of a wood lighthouse in 1873. The Frankfort North Breakwater Lighthouse was built in 1912 to replace the deteriorating wood lighthouse. The original lighthouse would later be restored, and still stands today along the entrance to Main Street. The Frankfort North Breakwater Lighthouse sits at the end of Frankfort's north pier, stands 67 feet above Lake Michigan, and has a range of twelve miles.
The lighthouse has a rich history. For its first fifty years of existence, it was one of the few lighthouses that did not provide quarters for its keepers, who had to rent local aprtments out of their own salary. In 1932, the fourteen room keepers' quarters from the Chciago Pierhead Light was barged to Frankfort, saving the federal government the $15,000 it would have cost to build a new structure. The lighthouse has had numerous keepers who died on the job, the most notable of which was Sheridan King. In June, 1902, the twenty year old King had only been on the job for three months. He was in his own boat en route to the lighthouse, when a carferry from Ann Arbor approached. The ferry called for King to get out of the way. Before he could do so, the ferry crushed King's boat "like an egg shell," according to newspaper reports. Rather than stop, the ferry kept going. King lived for fifteen minutes in the water. It was widely believed that he could have lived had the ferry stopped to provide assistance.
In June, 2010, the Coast Guard placed the lighthouse for sale under the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act. In 2011, the city of Frankfort agreed to assume ownership. The lighthouse illuminates nightly after sunset, and is a popular place for tourists to stroll and take in the sunset.


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Role modelling and its impact on the self-development of academics
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School of Business and Law
Academics in higher education are expected by their institutions to enhance their self-development. Role modelling is a means by which academics may achieve pertinent self-development goals. The focus of this chapter is to explore how role modelling can be used in this regard. Through a comprehensive literature review, the dynamics of role modelling in the context of higher education is explored. The author discusses the intricate processes involved in how role modelling can positively influence the personal and professional development of academics. Theoretical perspectives of professional identity construction through role modelling are examined. The author presents the position that academics will utilise role models for personal and professional development throughout their careers. In this context, the processes of role model selection are examined, and the theoretical underpinnings guiding the achievement of self-developmental goals are discussed. The author concludes that role modelling can be applied as an avenue to personal and professional development for academics. The author also proposes practical recommendations to facilitate role modelling interventions within the context of higher education and suggests avenues for future research.


Risk Management | Agile Project Management | SpiraPlan
Risk Management
SpiraPlan includes an enterprise risk management system that is fully integrated with the requirements and project management features of SpiraPlan. The risk management module lets you identify, analyze, treat, and monitor risks with support for risks, mitigations, tasks and risk cubes.
Risk Management in SpiraPlan
With SpiraPlan you can easily identify, capture and manage project and program risks with an easy to use web interface. Risks are a unique artifact within SpiraPlan (separate from issues or defects) that have their own types (business, technical, schedule, etc.), attributes and workflows.
Risks have special attributes for analyzing and categorizing how important they are:
 - Probability - how likely it will be that the risk will happen. Each one has a color and weighting (called a Score) associated with it.
 - Impact - how serious it will be if the risk happens. Each one has a color and weighting (called a Score) associated with it.
 - Exposure - calculated by multiplying the Score of the Probability X Impact to give an overall value of how serious the risk is, adjusted for how likely it is.
This means that risks that are likely to happen with serious consequences will appear higher up in the lists than risks that are less likely to happen and/or have less serious consequences.
Each Risk will have their own "details page" similar to the other artifacts, where you can assign the Risk to an Owner, associate with a Release and/or Component, as well have various other standard and custom fields:
One important field for Risks is the Review Date since Risks can change in impact or probability during the lifespan of a project and need to be constantly reviewed.
The risk probabilities and impacts can of course be customized by a project template administrator:
Risk Management Process
A standard risk management workflow typically has the following five phases:
 - Step 1: Identify the Risk. You and your team uncover, recognize and describe risks that might affect your project or its outcomes. There are a number of techniques you can use to find project risks. During this step you start to prepare your Project Risk Register.
 - Step 2: Analyze the risk. Once risks are identified you determine the likelihood and consequence of each risk. You develop an understanding of the nature of the risk and its potential to affect project goals and objectives. This information is also input to your Project Risk Register.
 - Step 3: Evaluate or Rank the Risk. You evaluate or rank the risk by determining the risk magnitude, which is the combination of likelihood and consequence. You make decisions about whether the risk is acceptable or whether it is serious enough to warrant treatment. These risk rankings are also added to your Project Risk Register.
 - Step 4: Treat the Risk. This is also referred to as Risk Response Planning. During this step you assess your highest ranked risks and set out a plan to treat or modify these risks to achieve acceptable risk levels. How can you minimize the probability of the negative risks as well as enhancing the opportunities? You create risk mitigation strategies, preventive plans and contingency plans in this step. And you add the risk treatment measures for the highest ranking or most serious risks to your Project Risk Register.
 - Step 5: Monitor and Review the risk. This is the step where you take your Project Risk Register and use it to monitor, track and review risks.
Accordingly, the default workflow for a risk in SpiraPlan has been created to implement these best practices out of the box:
As with all artifacts in SpiraPlan, you will be able to customize the steps, transitions (actions) and permissions associated with risk workflows, as well as specify which fields are required, hidden or disabled at each workflow state.
Risk Mitigations
One of the key phases of Risk Management is identification and analysis of the mitigations that can reduce or eliminate the impact of the risk, should it happen. SpiraPlan provides built-in native support for adding and tracking the various mitigations to the risk, with the ability to specify individual review dates for each mitigation
Further to that, as part of the Risk Treatment process, you can also create SpiraPlan project tasks to identify, prioritize and assign the specific activities that will need to be performed to successfully mitigate the risk. The mitigations and tasks are both tracked back to the parent risk.
Typically the Mitigations list is used to identify the ways that the risk can be addressed, whereas the tasks are the specific actions that different project members will need to take to act on the mitigations. The tasks have a status, priority, effort and date and will be visible in the standard SpiraPlan task lists and Kanban board.
Risk Audit Trail
Using the built-in SpiraPlan history tracking feature, Risks also include a full audit trail of any changes made to the risk, for both standard and custom fields:
In addition, when you make changes to the status of the Risk, moving it through the risk management workflow, the system will enforce rules such as the need to add comments, add mitigations, specify the probability and/or impact:
The risk workflow operations also support electronic signatures for those customers that need to maintain a validated system.
Risk Associations
SpiraPlan lets you link risks with other artifacts in the system. For example, you have a new feature that you plan on implementing, and you need a way to capture and track all the risks associated with it. Alternatively, you may want to associate a risk with a test case that will be used to test the likelihood of a risk occurring.
The associations tab on each risk page lets you link risks to other artifacts in the system.
Each association will contain the type of artifact being linked to, whether it is dependency, or simple relationship association, the date it was created, who made the association, and whether it is a cross-product association or not.
Risk Reporting and Risk Cube
One of the key aspects of risk management is the ability to display the risks to management to ensure that they are adequately understood and that appropriate mitigations are in place. To make this easier, the SpiraPlan project dashboards include two risk widgets:
 - A risk register that lists the most important risks (measured by their composite exposure score)
 - A risk cube that displays a colored matrix of risk probability vs. impact and plots the number of risks in each intersection. Clicking on a value will open up the main risk list page with the filters set to that intersection.
In addition, SpiraPlan includes a risk summary and risk detailed report in the standard SpiraPlan reporting menu that lets you generate risk reports in HTML, MS-Word, MS-Excel, PDF and XML formats:


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This papercraft is Sakakibara Yasumasa's helmet, the Big Four of Tokugawa Clan Buddhist symbol sword (Vajra) Crest Suji Kabuto Helmet. The paper craft is created by Yonezawa Naoe. Sakakibara Yasumasa (榊原 康政) was a Japanese daimyo of the late Sengoku period through early Edo period, who served the Tokugawa clan. As one of the Tokugawa family's foremost military commanders, he was considered one of its "Four Guardian Kings". His court title was Shikibu-dayū.
Sakakibara Yasumasa was born in 1548, the 2nd son of Sakakibara Nagamasa, in the Ueno district of Mikawa Province. The Sakakibara were hereditary retainers of the Matsudaira (later Tokugawa) clan, being classified as fudai. However, they did not serve the clan directly, but instead served one of its senior retainers, which at that time was Sakai Tadanao. The young Yasumasa interacted with Matsudaira Motoyasu (later Tokugawa Ieyasu) often from a young age, and was soon appointed his page. Due to his valor in the suppression of the Ikkō-ikki uprising in Mikawa, he was allowed to use the "yasu" from Ieyasu's name.
At this time, he unseated his brother and became head of the Sakakibara clan. There are two explanations for this. One is that his brother had been an ally of the Ikko Ikki rebels, and the other is that his brother was a retainer of Ieyasu's son Matsudaira Nobuyasu, who was implicated in what was most probably a fraudulent treason plot against Oda Nobunaga.
In 1566, at age 19, Yasumasa had his coming-of-age ritual, and soon after, he and Honda Tadakatsu were made hatamoto by Ieyasu, and each granted command of 50 cavalrymen. From that point on, they would function as Ieyasu's hatamoto unit commanders.
Yasumasa battled at Anegawa during the year of 1570, The Mikatagahara during the year of 1573, along with the Nagashino during the year of 1575. When the latter chose to defy Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Yasumasa still served under Ieyasu, suggesting the region of Komaki, suited for the currently ensuing campaign. Yasumasa was given the title of "Shikibu-taiyu", when accompanying Ieyasu to Osaka to meet with Hideyoshi. After the Tokugawa moved to the region of Kantō, he was to have a team responsible for the allocation of fiefs. While Ieyasu was serving as one of Hideyoshi's staff in the region of Kyūshū, Yasumasa was to supervise Kantō, as one of the chief administrators.
Yasumasa received the 100,000 koku fief of Tatebayashi han following the Tokugawa victory at the Battle of Sekigahara, which remained in the family for a few generations. Yasumasa himself died in 1606, at the age of 59, and is buried at Zendoji Temple in Tatebayashi, where his grave still stands.
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Denote the open unit disk as \mathbb{D}. Let u(z) be harmonic and positive for z \in \mathbb{D} \backslash \{ 0 \}. Suppose that u(z) + ln|z| is harmonic for z \in \mathbb{D}.
Claim: \forall \ z \in \mathbb{D}, u(z) + ln|z| \ge 0.
This is an old prelim problem I'm trying to figure out. Looks like it could be an application of the max. principle but I'm not seeing the way through.


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Minister of Electricity reveals mechanisms of access to nuclear fuel, ways to dispose of it - Daily News Egypt
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Shaker explains terms of IAEA and Russian company to create El-Dabaa nuclear power plant
By Salah El-Menoufi
The electricity sector is facing several challenges with the unprecedented increase of consumption rates because of population growth, limited sources of fuel, and its price increase. The government is seeking to achieve high rates of economic growth, which requires the provision of more energy sources.
In an interview with Daily News Egypt, Minister of Electricity Mohammed Shaker revealed the ministry's plans to meet the energy shortage crisis, reduce waste, secure supplies, and rationalise consumption. The El-Dabaa nuclear power plant and means of access to nuclear fuel and securing its disposal has become a priority file for the government.
What are the challenges the energy sector is facing now?
The electricity sector has been facing many challenges in recent years. Among the challenges are unprecedented increases of consumption of electricity due to high population growth rates, economic growth increase in losses in the electrical transmission, distribution networks thefts, and the stability of electricity prices for long periods of time despite the increase in production requirements and increase in subsidy bills.
The challenges also include the difficulty of managing the necessary funds and the lack of funding for new projects in streamlining and improving energy efficiency.
The increased cost of renewable energies forced us to find a balanced mix of energy between the traditional with coal, the renewable with hydro, solar, wind, subsoil, and wastes, and nuclear.
The minister discussed the challenges facing the energy sector (AFP Photo)
The minister discussed the challenges facing the energy sector
(AFP Photo)
What are strategic goals of the electricity sector?
Goals include maximising the use of all resources, encouraging the use of renewable energy, and promoting electricity interconnection. We also aim to improve the efficiency of energy production and its usage by adopting environmental protection policies and appropriate measures in the field of electricity generation and future planning to meet the rising demands.
What are procedures for securing disposal of nuclear fuel after operating the plants?
Egypt's strategy for the management of nuclear fuel of high radiation includes two aspects; the temporary storage and awaiting the examination of all technical and economic considerations associated with the subsequent stage. The nuclear fuel is then stored gradually in water basins to alleviate radiation of the fuel as well as providing suitable means for cooling so that the heat emitted from it could be extracted on an ongoing basis.
Afterwards the fuel is transferred, in accordance with the general policy of the state, for reprocessing and separation of some fission products useful for medical, agricultural, and industrial uses.
The disposal of radioactive waste results from scrapping the power plant when the operational life of the plant ends or in case of accidents. This is according to the plan submitted by the main contractor of the project.
This is why they must be reviewed during scrapping operations plans and updated regularly according to the technological development in this regard.
What is the plan prepared by ministry to secure nuclear fuel supplies?
The strategy for guaranteeing secure supply of nuclear fuel and waste disposal is based on the conclusion of multiple long-term contracts with more than one supplier to ensure the supply of materials and services.
At the beginning of implementation of the Egyptian nuclear programme, the supplier company will be obliged to provide the necessary nuclear fuel for the operation of nuclear reactor for a period ranging between five and ten years.
A strategic stockpile of fuel will be provided to ensure its availability if supply from abroad was interrupted for any reason. There will also be special facilities for storing nuclear fuel. It will be emphasised on in the contracts to be signed with the company that will implement the project.
What type of fuel will be used in Al-Dabaa plant?
Universally available nuclear fuel, which is uranium dioxide and mixed oxide fuel.
What are the procedures for dealing with waste?
Disposal of low and medium-level radioactive waste will be done by processing at the power plant with modern and sophisticated technologies, supplied by the main contractor for the nuclear power plant project.
The contractor, the Russian corporation Rosatom, handles equipping a cell at the fuel basin to secure the processing hardware and contaminated equipment.
There will also be an accurate system of operations associated with the management of radioactive waste – assembly, classification, transport, and storage – and keeping these operations under constant monitoring, verification, and audit. This will be through the establishment of an accounting system for all sorts of radioactive waste resulting from operation.
The establishment of a nuclear power plant requires the availability of an efficient electricity network to begin commercial operational for a nuclear plant, which is significant for the high electrical capacities generated from the plants.
The nuclear programme requires highly trained human cadres on all project levels, from choosing the site until operating it.
What are the additional requirements?
Nuclear plants' projects depend on communication between the project's parties and the beneficiaries to ensure the best performance in planed times. Therefore the IAEA requires participating with the participation of all the project stakeholders.
There are also terms to provide the highest levels of environment protection surrounding the plant's site and to elaborate an emergency plan. These terms are an essential part of the infrastructure to stress on the procedures followed during emergency and to be prepared for it.
Through which mechanisms will the ministry operate to increase energy?
We are working through four mechanisms including government's project via NREA, the private sector projects through the Build, Own and Operate (BOO) system, commercial projects, and the feed-in tariff.
The law allows investors to provide the necessary lands to establish state's projects represented in the NREA for a 2% beneficial right from the project's produced energy value.
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When Court-Ordered Support Ends
Child support can be stopped once a child reaches a certain age or if other special circumstances exist.
Termination -- Support orders can be terminated for these reasons:
- Child reaches age 18 and no longer attends an accredited high school full time
- Child reaches the age of 19
- Child marries
- Child dies
- Child enlists in the armed services
- Child is deported
- Legal custody of the child changes
Even after a support order has ended, the person ordered to pay support must still pay past-due support.
In Ohio, children emancipate when they reach 18 and graduate from high school or on their 19th birthday if they continue at attend high school on a full-time basis. Early emancipation can happen based on certain actions of the child, such as if the child gets married or joins the armed services.
It is important to contact the CSEA prior to your 18 year old's emancipation to ensure proper continuation or termination of your child support order.
Documents that may be required by the courts or the CSEA for emancipation include:
- Copy of diploma, if child is 18
- Letter from school stating child has graduated or withdrawn, if age 18
- Marriage Certificate for the child if married


Sat up late at night, restless and wondering "does vaping keep me awake?" We're here to give you the lowdown on the relationship between vaping and sleep.
If your eliquid contains nicotine, there's a high chance that your e-cigarette is having some kind of effect on your sleep, especially if you vape a higher nicotine strength. You may think vaping makes you feel relaxed however this is likely to not be true.
Nicotine is a stimulant, just like caffeine, which can leave you with a little too much energy due to the fact it increases blood pressure and heart rate, leaving you more alert. This can have an effect on how much deep sleep you get each night.
Studies show that nicotine has an effect on rapid eye movement (REM) sleep which is known as the deepest type of sleep. This is when we feel the most at rest and our body is in recovery mode. Research suggests that vapers and smokers spend most of their night in light sleep which will in turn make you feel less rested and more tired.
Sleep Apnea
Inhaling nicotine through smoke or vapour can lead to inflammation to the nose and throat. It can also have an effect on the bronchial tubes which connect to the lungs. This can have a huge impact on the quality of your sleep due to disrupting night time breathing thus causing sleep apnea. If you're known for your snoring, vaping may be the reason.
Sleep apnea is a disorder which the breathing during sleep is repeatedly interrupted. The muscles in the throat cannot keep the airway open which temporarily restricts breathing.
However, there are a few steps you can take to ensure you're getting the most out of your night time sleep so don't panic! Here's our top tips on ensuring you're nice and relaxed before you head off to sleep.
Lower your nicotine strength in the evening
Maybe you vape 6mg nicotine strength e liquids? Swap to a 3mg e liquid a few hours before bed to ensure less nicotine in your system, therefore decreasing the heavy effects on your sleeping pattern. All Vapemate eliquids (excludes guest eliquids) are available in low nicotine strength or even nicotine free so stock up on your favourite flavour with less nicotine for bedtime.
You could also switch to a nicotine free vape juice which allows enough time for the chemical to pass through your system before going to sleep. You may also find it more useful to vape less in the evening, we're all different, so it's best to find a method that works best for you.
If you're a new vaper, it might not be vaping that's playing havoc with your sleeping habits. It might be a side effect of change from smoking to vaping.
Reduce Your Screen Time
Blue light emitted from devices, phones, laptops and TVs to name a few, play tricks on your brain. Blue light is problematic as it delays the natural release of sleep-inducing melatonin. Those who use blue light emitting devices before bed are more likely to have less REM sleep which is when dreams occur. This often leads to individuals waking to feeling sleepier despite having a solid 8 hours of recommended sleep.
Stay Hydrated
Hydration really is key, during the day and throughout the night. Even if you're well hydrated, you will lose some fluids during the night simply from breathing. If you have sleep apnea or snore, you tend to lose even more. If you vape nicotine, you may already suffer the effects of a dry mouth so keeping hydrated is crucial to avoid further sleep disruption.
Try not to guzzle litres of water just before bed to avoid waking up in the night for multiple trips to the bathroom as this will also have a negative effect on the length and quality of your sleep. Put your focus on drinking plenty of water throughout the day.
The NHS recommends 6 to 8 glasses (around 1.2 litres) a day as a minimum however many people argue that we should be consuming more to stay fit and healthy. Some health experts suggest we should be drinking more around the 2 litre mark.
Try to Avoid Stimulants
Drinking tea, coffee, coke and energy drinks before bed is a huge no, no! During the day, caffeine can help to make us feel more alert however it's important to remember that stimulants cannot replace natural sleep.
Like nicotine, caffeinated drinks can cause increased alertness, rapid heartbeat, insomnia and headaches. Caffeine also causes excessive urination due to its diuretic properties which is definitely something that we want to avoid at bed time.


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Reread Part 1. What's happened since?
Studies have apparently shown that soap operas shown in developing countries introduce/reinforce progressive values like female empowerment, education, equality, with very real effects on the society (e.g. birth rates are lower, girls stay in school longer, etc.)
From a news article entitled, "How soap operas could save the world":
"The evidence we have from these academic studies is that quite often [soap opera viewers in developing countries] take away different attitudes toward things like how many children they want, what is acceptable behavior for a husband toward his wife, what is the breakdown in a household of responsibilities over things like finances, should we be sending girls to school," says Charles Kenny, an economist at the World Bank.
Soaps are particularly powerful because they attract so many devoted viewers. But other shows have similar effects. Charles Kenny wrote more extensively about this in Foreign Policy:
When a woman reached the final five [of Afghan Idol] this year, the director suggested "it would do more for women's rights than all the millions of dollars we have spent on public service announcements for women's rights on TV."Ok. But what did it change in women, exactly?
1. How fast does the culture change due to TV? Probably only by a half-generation. Tick tock.
2a. If this effect is real, is it conscious and deliberate on the part of TV execs? Are interested parties creating shows to influence the culture (as opposed to simply selling product?)
2b. If this effect is real, why don't special interests (the government, the Christian Coalition, GLAAD, whatever) just give money to established producers and say, "can you make cannibalism ok?" or "Please rewrite history or me." Works for Spielberg. So?
Certainly everyone loves to complain that TV is destroying society, why not get together and use TV to push the agenda you want?
Maybe they don't themselves know how real this effect is? Or maybe they don't want to. Maybe Spielberg doesn't want to change the world, just be thought of as the guy who wanted to.
You'll observe that the article's title isn't "How soap operas alter the world" it's "How soap operas could save the world"-- so it's a good thing, then? I know the result here was that women wanted empowerment, but it could just as easily have gone the other way. Why would a soap promote only the positive values of empowerment but not promote the negatively sexy ones such as showering with your boss and recording it?
This is from the Museum of Broadcast Communications article on soaps, specifically 1960s medical soaps:
The therapeutic orientation of medical soaps also provided an excellent rationale for introducing a host of contemporary, sometimes controversial social issuesYay progress. But here's the sentence immediately preceding it:
Their popularity also spawned the sub-genre of the medical soap, in which the hospital replaces the home as the locus of action... the biological family is replaced or paralleled by the professional family as the structuring basis for the show's community of characters.
Not to mention our own personal community of characters. Eventually even those get replaced with TV families. Why else would there be an all new episode of Brothers and Sisters this Mother's Day?
If you're still trying to figure out whether the studies show that TV violence causes real violence or TV progressivism causes real progressivism, you're approaching the question the wrong way. Those are accidental outcomes influenced not by the content of the shows, but the way TV makes you look at things.
And that way of looking a things is-- get ready-- narcissism. TV makes you look at things not starting from the thing, but starting from yourself. No third world village woman looks at a soap and thinks, "I wish women had the right to freely choose their own husbands." They look at it and say, "I wish I could choose my husband freely." It looks like a positive value, but that part's an accident. If you look closely, TV has only made her ask what she would like for herself. It promotes of the right to self-identify. You can argue whether that's good or bad, but the argument has to be about that.
Soap operas were stylistically different from other shows because they were open ended, unlike the neatly wrapped episodic dramas and sitcoms. They are also shot in quasi-real time. If a character says something dramatic and the show cuts away to another scene/subplot, when they return they will pick up exactly at the moment of the character's last words. You are hand-held through every step of the emotional processing. It's impossible to apply the full force your prejudices to a social problem, e.g. abortion, when the show never gives you a moment to do so. You are carried through the entirety of the process through the character's life.
Soaps are also directed as a theater (opera) production, conscious of the audience's placement relative to the stage. Characters never turn their back on the camera; they'll turn their back on the other character (e.g. both facing outwards, towards the audience) and argue in a way no one ever does.
It's a stage effect: it pulls the viewer into their lives. You're in there, day after day, part of the action, part of the drama-- which they guide you through. No closed ended show can be as powerful.
It's hard to appreciate how unusual that was, because nowadays most TV dramas are run like soap operas: Sex & The City, Grey's Anatomy, Brothers and Sisters etc. That's what makes these shows so much more culturally influential than porn. Or church. If I was going to L. Ron Hubbard a religion, I would take Sunday services, and serialize them. Tune in next week.
TV doesn't just influence those who watch it, it's enough simply to be aware of TV:
Barely five percent of the TVs that are on at that time are tuned to Gossip Girl; in other words, very few people watch it. Yet there isn't anyone who doesn't know about it, even if it's imagined based on magazine covers or ads. So the existence of a menage a trois episode mainstreams it for people who don't watch the show, and that's actually more powerful a cultural influence. i.e. If you're a fan of the show, the threesome is specific: those three people are doing it. For everyone else not watching, it becomes background noise: "oh, people are having threesomes nowadays..."
This is why it is true that even if you are not interested in pop culture, pop culture is interested in you.
Let's say I forbid my daughter or son to ever watch TV. What happens? Is she at a disadvantage because she is slightly less familiar with the rhythm of her social group? Will he be mystified by the seemingly contradictory desires in his female classmates? Will they both be frustrated and anxious at how everyone interprets social and political events using the exact same phrases, none of which they know?
Those of you expecting the rise of the Chinese Dragon and the collapse of the American Eagle are all going to die, along with your grandkids, way before that ever happens. Plan accordingly.
When Charles Kenny says TV is promoting values, what he means is western values. Right? As long as America controls the horizontal and the vertical, western values-- or whatever CBS decides those are-- will be exported and fetishized. Accompanying those will be a interpretive framework built on narcissism. It is inevitable. You'll see Chinese women disdainfully rolling their eyes about American frivolity and arrogance even as they dab dry their Cosmopolitan splashed Hermes clutches and wonder why they are single in a nation infested with Y chromosomes. "The last guy I dated didn't even want to want to sex me anymore, let alone get a real job. Do I need to move to fucking Australia?"
Take a breath, Wildman, have a drink, the caps lock is on the left and I'm not going anywhere. Let me ask you more immediate question: not everyone in China has a TV. What do you call it when part of a population becomes exponentially and suddenly more western while another part doesn't at all?
I'll save you the Google search: the answer is Iran.
Tell Sally Fields a happy mother's day from me when you see her tomorrow. I'm glad to hear she's doing good.


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NeuroCa: Integrated framework for systematic analysis of spatio-temporal neuronal activity patterns from large-scale optical recording data
Minjee Jang and Yoonkey Nam
In this work, Minjee developed a MATLAB-based toolbox, named NeuroCa, for the automated processing and quantitative analysis of large-scale calcium imaging data. This tool includes several computational algorithms to extract the calcium spike trains of individual neurons from the calcium imaging data in an automatic fashion. Two algorithms were developed to decompose the imaging data into the activity of individual cells and subsequently detect calcium spikes from each neuronal signal. Applying our method to dense networks in dissociated cultures, we were able to obtain the calcium spike trains of ∼1000 neurons in a few minutes. Further analyses using these data permitted the quantification of neuronal responses to chemical stimuli as well as functional mapping of spatiotemporal patterns in neuronal firing within the spontaneous, synchronous activity of a large network. These results demonstrate that our method not only automates time-consuming, labor-intensive tasks in the analysis of neural data obtained using optical recording techniques but also provides a systematic way to visualize and quantify the collective dynamics of a network in terms of its cellular elements.
For more information please go to the NeuroCa webpage (link)
Source: Jang et al., Neurophotonics 2015 (Link)


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The present study deals with bibliometric analysis of articles and references provided at the end of each article contributed in Indian Journal of Chemistry from 2005-2009. The analysis cover mainly the number of articles, authorship pattern, forms of document cited, etc. All the studies point towards the merit and weakness of the journal which will be helpful for its further development. This study showed that most of the contributions are India. The authorship pattern of the articles published during the period of study. Maximum number of articles were contributed by two authors. This study also showed that majority of the contributors preferred journals as the source of information which occupied the top position. All the studies point towards the merits and weakness of the journal which will be helpful for its further development.


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There are more than 6,000 of their kind, species that vary in colour, habitat and behaviour. Yet most know little about the tiny invertebrate scientists call Amphipoda. Since it also looks a lot like a more popular creature, the shrimp, it's often confusing for homeowners when an amphipod infestation occurs. But how can you spot the signs before it's too late? Below are a few things that'll help you be prepared and ready to fight these "lawn shrimp" pests.
What are Amphipods?
Amphipods are a kind crustacean that lives both in water and on land. They are very similar in appearance to shrimp but are much tinier with adults measuring 5 mm – 20 mm on average. Their bodies are elongated in shape, shiny and smooth. These creatures are also known as land hoppers – that's because they jump like fleas — or lawn shrimp.
The adult amphipods can live up to a year and feed on bacteria, plants and animals depending on each species. Though the majority of amphipods live in the oceans, the terrestrial amphipods are the ones which most homeowners have to worry about. The best-known home invader of its kind is the Arcitalitrus Sylvaticus.
These amphipods are most active at night as this is when they feed. They are scavengers by nature and breed several times per year, usually during wet seasons.
Where are Infestations Most Likely to Occur?
Knowing where an infestation is most likely to occur will help you not only spot one, but best of all prevent one from happening in the first place. The key to this is remembering that an amphipod's behaviour is largely affected by the amount of moisture in the environment.
Lawn shrimp pests like moisture so it's no wonder they'd aim for your pool. When an infestation occurs in a home owner's pool it can cause serious problems including clogging of filters. Since infestation is most likely to occur during periods of excessive rain, be sure to clean pool filters often during this period.
Amphipods like moisture but not too much. When rain falls they are likely to enter your home by crawling beneath your doors to avoid excess moisture. Your garage is one spot they'll likely end up in such instances. If the moisture level is optimal – not too much or too little – they will thrive there. To avoid an infestation, keep moisture down. Clean up puddles, use a dehumidifier, de-clutter and so forth.
- Fish Tanks
What's in your fish tank? If you see dozens of shrimpy pests appear out of nowhere, they are likely amphipods. They'll enjoy the controlled settings, especially since it'll be abundant with food sources. Though many species are herbivores, others are scavengers and will eat any form of animal life their little mouths can handle.
Terrestrial amphipods can thrive beneath stones or decaying vegetation. They like soft, moist soil which can be very abundant in gardens. Some species also jump about like fleas, making gardening where an infestation is present very annoying. You'll be able to distinguish between amphipods and fleas as you look closely at the body. An amphipod's body is usually brownish-white and will turn red when it dies. Also, unlike fleas, the amphipod doesn't bite.
Managing Moisture Within and Outside Home
Amphipods are very vulnerable to water loss because unlike insects whose exoskeleton possess a waxy layer, their bodies are not designed to manage water loss on its own. They can die pretty easily in the right environment. To manage an infestation, apply the following procedures:
- Reduce moisture in home, especially after excessive rainfall
- Clean pool filters regularly
- Reduce irrigation, where possible, in gardens and lawns
- Remove excessive rocks which often protect amphipod environs
- Clean up mulch, or debris around property including nearby pavements and drains
- Use non-chemical methods that help to dry out your environment
Remember moisture control is the key! Also, be sure you are certain that it's an amphipod infestation before applying treatment. Since amphipods are some of the least known pests, be careful to avoid drawing hasty conclusions. If you have an infestation and you're not sure if it's due to amphipods, contact us today.


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Faraday Shrouded Induction Heated Capillary Molten Metal Deposition Head
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A metal deposition head based on surface tension of molten metal.
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This is a stub for development of a capillary molten metal deposition head.
One of the theoretically most affordable ways to melt small quantities of metal is induction heating. However, in case with metal 3d printers it has a major drawback of eddy currents that arise in the printed object itself while it is printed, causing non-homogenious heating and power draws. So the basic idea is to distance away induction melting area from deposition area and to shroud induction heater with a faraday cage with low resistance. This kind of shroud will act as a mirror preventing EM waves from escaping and thus keeping effects localised and not messing with a printed object or electronics. If resistance of a shroud is kept low and there're no sharp edges, real heat production in shroud walls can be almost avoided.
However, if we reject an idea of melting pool being directly on the object, we have to find some way to guide molten metal to the object in a controllable way. And probably one of the most promising methods to do it is via capillary forces. Just like in ink pen. So if there's no contact with the object - there's no flow, just a drip of molten metal hanging from the deposition head (drip sizes are controllable via choice of nozzle materials and coatings).
 - Induction heater coil
 - Power source for a coil
 - Faraday shroud (probably just a piece of a metal pipe)
 - Simple ceramic nozzle with a drilled capillar. A detailed study is needed on interacton of different ceramics with molten copper.
First steps
First iteration will work with copper wire via inducing local circular currents in it. In order to build it, a study on ceramics is needed (or maybe it will be some other material if no ceramics can be wetted with copper) and some EM fields computer calculations.