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Advice for Drama Teachers - Rehearsal Activities
Advice for drama teachers and directors working with a large cast. A reader asks: Any suggestions for what I can get those with smaller parts to do while they are not on stage? They are really struggling with just watching the rehearsals (when not involved), and since it's a class, I feel I should be making them do something, since they are also getting a credit for the course. I'm just not sure…
Developing Characters: Non-Human and Animal Characters
Acting like an animal helps younger drama students to physically assume different poses, not to mention adopt different perspectives. This article offers several tips and activities to help drama students develop non-human characters.
Musical Theater Exercises
Music themed drama games and activities.
A - Z Enunciation Exercises
Getting ready to make a speech? Preparing for your audition? Moments away from walking on stage for the first time? Use these enunciation exercises to practice elocution. This A to Z list of tongue twisters will develop your enunciation ability.
Drama Activities for the Classroom
A cohesive list of drama activities, for theater students, acting troupes, summer camp programs, or party-goers.
Ice Breaker Activity -- "Create a Commercial"
A terrific activity that can work great for drama students, and any class that involves writing or public speaking. Ideal for a large group of 18 and 30 participants. This ice breaker activity creates a fun and productive classroom environment, and helps students learn about advertising and persuasive writing.
Warm Up Activity: Emotion Orchestra
An excellent warm-up activity that gets performers to vocalize, emote, and pay attention.
Ice Breakers: Circle Games
These improvisation activities are designed to warm up actors and drama students. Participants form a circle and then the games begin. Each activity helps students and performers become more comfortable. It's also a great activity for learning names.
Creative Drama: Education Resourses
"Creative Drama" is a guide for instructors. Find out how to use theater activities to liven up any classroom.
Improv Locations - Setting Ideas for Improvisation and Sketch Comedy


Monday, December 9, 2019
Water Supply Reliability Out, Endangered Species Killing Incentives In With New Federal/State Delta Pumping Rules
Delta water exporters are lauding the new biological opinions released by the Trump administration and the state's new regulations known as "Trump lite" by many environmentalists. Water exporters are praising the new rules for their use of real-time operations, as opposed to the old rules that were "calendar based." It's great PR messaging, but lousy policy. The message appeals on the surface - new rules are modern and with high-tech real time adjustments, while the old-rules are primitive and based on calendars. Good political messaging, but I would argue that it does not conform to the best available social science and policy design as it reduces water supply reliability and generates strong incentives to harm endangered species.
Let's start with the goal of water supply reliability - made state law by the 2009 Delta Reform Act. For years, I heard water exporters assure us that they didn't need more water - they needed more predictability about the operation of the water pumps so that they could plan with certainty. Seeing a political opportunity to get more water at the expense of reliability, they have quickly changed their tune. Calendars are old-fashioned, but they are extremely reliable, whereas real-time operations based on species location are highly uncertain, and are pretty much the opposite of reliability.
But the even bigger problem with the real-time operation of the Delta pumps are the incentives and reward structure it creates. You do not need a Ph.D. in fisheries to realize that they lower the fish population, the less likely they will be detected, and the less restricted water pumping from the Delta will be. On the other hand, if endangered species populations actually recover, they are more likely to be detected near the pumps, which would reduce water supplies to exporters under the proposed real-time operations.
Scholars of the endangered species act have known for a long time that triggering regulations by the presence of endangered species creates scores of negative incentives. During the 1980s and 1990s, there were many articles about the perverse incentives for economic interests. These incentives became known colloquially by the acronym SSS, "shoot, shovel and shut-up," and preemptive habitat destruction in more academic circles. I was a contributor to this literature in the 1990s and early 2000s, it was the subject of my PhD dissertation. The policy response to this was not abandoning the ESA, but creating positive incentives through Habitat Conservation Plans (HCP) and safe harbor programs.
These new Delta policies claim to be science-based, I can't judge that, but they certainly aren't based on the best available social science or policy design. They clearly create an incentive where water agencies are rewarded when protected species do poorly - and my understanding is that other parts of these new biological opinions create rules in other areas (like cold water habitat upstream from the Delta) that will be harmful to endangered Delta smelt and salmon. If we wanted to save species, if they experience bad conditions somewhere else in their lifecycle (whether that was due to natural fluctuations of ocean conditions or human mismanagement of Shasta dam or other human managed parts of the system), then we would have stronger restrictions at the pumps to make up for it. Under these rules, bad management upstream works to reduce protections at the Delta pumps, the very definition of negative incentives.
It seems to me that the appropriate policy approach for water supply reliability and species protection/ecosystem enhancement in the Delta would be a Habitat Conservation Plan. This is something that the PPIC is currently talking about in their recent publications on ecosystem management (see I don't always disagree with them). But sadly, the only time HCPs have been seriously proposed in the Delta is when they were being used as green gift wrap around 15,000 cfs Delta conveyance tunnels in the BDCP. Environmentalists haven't been warm to HCPs in the Delta either, but perhaps that might change as the BDCP becomes a more distant history.
The state's own economic consultant's analysis showed the value of the BDCP was in the regulatory certainty produced by the HCP, not the tunnels themselves. But under Governor Brown, the state decided to throw out the HCP and proceed with the tunnels only WaterFix. If the Newsom administration wanted to correct course on the Brown administration WaterFix plan, it wouldn't downsize from two tunnels to one, it would bring back the concept of an HCP (rebrand it ecosystem management if you want) and throw out the tunnels.
Do jobs per drop calculations support more use of water markets?
The UC-D Watershed Center counters crops per drop calculations with jobs per drop calculations and then makes a rather large leap to their conclusion ... we need more water markets - not rules and regulations.
I am not persuaded. The biggest impact of expanded water markets, especially if combined with expensive conveyance infrastructure like Delta tunnel(s) also supported by the PPIC/Davis group, will be more ag-to-urban water transfers that direct water away from Central Valley agriculture. The economic impact of the out-of-ag transfers on the Valley could outweigh any marginal efficiency benefits from reallocating water between higher and lower revenue farmers. Coastal urban areas should be encouraged to develop alternative local supplies, so I would be more supportive of water transfers if ag-urban or out of basin transfers were limited.
Water is not the only thing that can be moved around in the Valley. As water becomes more scarce, I believe within basin transfers will be part of the solution, but it may be less costly and more efficient to move crops, farm workers, and capital to more water rich locations in the Valley than it is to move water long distances out of watersheds. (an acre foot of water weighs 2.7 million pounds and is worth a few hundred dollars in agricultural use)
I also wonder about the validity of these types of calculations that suggest water/jobs ratios are fixed. Water/nut ratios cited by environmentalists might vary widely too, but I suspect their is even greater variation in water/job ratio based on local conditions and production technology. In fact, I have long wondered the extent to which labor and water can be substitutes in the agriculture production function. This could be part of the reason that farm job loss during droughts has generally been less than predicted by simplistic fixed proportions analysis. For example, Santa Clara researchers found nearly 34% of vegetable crops went unharvested in California fields during 2016-17, and that there was a lot of variation in the unharvested amounts by field even for the same crops, and that labor availability/costs was a factor. I wonder if the unharvested percentage declines in a drought year, some fields might be fallowed, but more labor could be applied to the fields that are planted increasing the harvested crop per drop on the remaining fields. And there might be other ways that water-labor could be substitutes, for instance in more closely monitoring/managing irrigation equipment.
I am very much a market oriented economist, but I am deeply skeptical about the potential of water markets to be a major part of California water solutions. The transactions costs are extremely high (both transporation and regulatory), the potential for third-party impacts is large, and markets are unlikely to be competitive.
And as water becomes increasingly scarce, I believe regulatory limits on planting decisions could be warranted some day, and could be part of long-run management plans. We could use market principles to limit the cost of the regulations, for example if we have licenses that limit plantings of certain permanent crops - these could be transferable in markets. I once heard a very smart salmon fisherman say (sadly I forget their name) something like "we have to deal with transferable catch limits and quotas to avoid the tragedy of the commons in the oceans, why not an ITQ (individual transferable quota) for trees to avoid the tragedy of the commons in groundwater."
The job per drop data also suggest reducing field crops like corn and rice that have low labor intensity and relatively low revenue per acre. I worry if that were to go too far. These crops often provide valuable wildlife habitat, and fallowing these types of crops in drought years provides an important buffer to reduce water use while minimizing economic disruptions due to their relatively low labor intensity and relatively high ability to substitute with imported crops.
Of course, these calculations of jobs per drop are based on 2010 data and probably already outdated. The cost and scarcity of labor is having a much bigger impact on most farmers than the cost and scarcity of water. As discussed above, labor scarcity could increase the jobs per drop calculation for vegetables but the change in that number would not necessarily be very meaningful for water management.
While I have cautioned about drawing too many conclusions from these numbers above, I would also be very interested in seeing updated calculations for 2020 and the years ahead as data becomes available.


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Synonyms for (verb) sever
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Usage: His head was severed from his body; The soul discerped from the body
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Definition: separate with or as if with an instrument
Usage: Cut the rope
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Usage: sever a relationship
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So Say We All (A Review of Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game)
Everybody look to your left. Now look to your right. One of you is probably a Cylon. It might even be you.
At least, that's the way of things in Fantasy Flight's Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game. Players will take on the roles of characters from the (modern) show as they face dangers, tense political situations, dwindling supplies, and of course the fact that some of the players are secretly Cylons working against them.
How It Plays
Fantasy Flight Games is known for their complex, immersive, and highly thematic games with thick rulebooks, BSG is no exception; however, the rules are actually pretty straightforward and once you get going there isn't a whole lot to remember as long as you have at least 1 experienced player.
Players are tasked with protecting Galactica as her crew prepares for one light speed jump after another, with the goal of traveling enough distance to reach Kobol, which holds the key to finding Earth.
Each turn, a player will draw a few skill cards, move their character anywhere on the ship, perform an action (either from the location they moved to, or from a Skill card or character ability), and finally draw and resolve a Crisis Card.
Actions range from ship repairs, to piloting Vipers (the small fighters), to holding political elections, to throwing someone in the brig.
Each turn, players must deal with a Crisis card which puts forth a challenge that must be dealt with immediately. In some cases these cards send forth a fleet of Cylon ships, but in most cases the conflict is internal. Often these "crises" are resolved by a particular player choosing between two bad outcomes, but most commonly there are "skill checks" required.
Skill checks are where Cylon infiltration comes in. During a skill check, each player passes skill cards secretly into the challenge. Much like the Resistance although less binary, some skill cards help the challenge and some hurt it. The result of the crisis depends entirely on the total skills added in, with certain cards subtracting from the total instead of adding. In addition, random skill cards are added from a "destiny deck," which could throw a wrench into any plan, or hide the evil machinations of a Cylon player.
"These kind of skills?"
Players must survive crisis after crisis, fight off enemies, repair damage, and defend civilian ships as Galactica prepares for "jump," BSG's flavor of faster-than-light space travel. Each time Galactica jumps, it gets closer to Kobol, which holds the key to finding Earth.
Not that it's easy. There are limited resources that will dwindle quickly throughout the game, not to mention Cylon player sabotage.
Oh yes, Cylon players. A number of players are Cylons, working against the fleet, and they win if the humans lose. Cylons when unrevealed are dangerous beasts, but they can reveal themselves at a key moment to do some serious damage to Galactica, and then work the rest of the game openly as a Cylon.
Each player has a character with special abilities and a specific skillset. In addition, two offices – Admiral and President – offer special abilities, but these offices can change hands during the game.
To win the game, human players must travel enough distance to reach Kobol, and then jump one more time. Cylons must destroy Galactica or eliminate at least one resource.
Familiar faces, if you've seen the show.
Are You A Cylon?
This game is one of the most exciting, epic, fun game of cooperation-with-a-traitor that I have ever played. It is brilliant. Does it ride on the theme and popularity of BSG? It certainly does. But it does not skimp on quality. It's not a simple cash-in, that's for sure.
The first few times I played BSG, I had not seen the show. I am a sci-fi geek and had plans to watch it, but the game was still quite enjoyable. There's so much to like about it. Now, admittedly, if you're not into the theme, the game probably will not satisfy. It is heavily thematic and the mechanisms are tightly interwoven with the theme, so the gameplay alone probably wont cut it for you. Liking Sci-Fi and Traitor games should be enough, though.
Not that the gameplay is bad at all. This is not a clunker that gets by because of its rich theme. The mechanisms are great, and even more so because of the thematic context.
The game expertly captures the feeling of desperation and mistrust as you struggle to survive. Every decision that needs to be made is a tough one, and you feel like everyone else is a Cylon and you're all alone in space.
Cylons get special abilities for when they reveal themselves.
The way Skill Challenges (which is pretty much the core of the gameplay experience) are handled is excellent. Since each character has a limited set of skills they draw from, the cards that are played can narrow down who might have tossed in a bad card. But the destiny deck always throws in a level of uncertainty – did a Cylon play that red card, or was it just fate conspiring against everyone? It gives the human players something to work with and the Cylon players something to distract with and it just ramps up the tension.
I like that there are effective ways to deal with Cylon players once they are discovered. Or at least once you feel pretty strongly about your suspicions. Throwing someone in the brig will prevent them from doing any damage when they reveal themselves as a Cylon, but it also severely limits a human player, so you can't just throw everyone into the brig and see who comes out as an evil robot. I also like that, once outed, Cylons still have something to do. It's fun to be an infiltrating Cylon, but it can also be fun to just unleash your big guns. It's even a legit strategy to just play up as a big-time Cylon right off the bat and hope that you can bludgeon the humans to death.
Chief Tyrol, a revealed Cylon, eyes the dwindling Morale resource greedily.
After finally seeing the show, the game got even better. Characters have a lot more context now; powers make sense. The game isn't any easier, since the same characters who were Cylons in the show are not necessarily Cylons in the game, but so many of the mechanisms make brilliant sense after seeing the show. The sleeper phase, the crisis cards, even the destiny deck all fit within the greater scheme of things. Well done, Fantasy Flight. When watching the show for the first time, I whispered to my wife, "wow they did a great job capturing the feel of the board game in this show!" It was a joke, but it just goes to show how thematic the game is.
I like the unique powers each character has; but I also love the positions of power that provide additional abilities can change throughout the game. The president has a special deck of cards that give her unique abilities; but it is possible to elect a new president, or even force the current president to give up their title. The Admiral has a couple nukes to launch at Basestars, but his position too can be changed. This all adds a level of tension and excitement as you really really hope you didn't just elect a Cylon to be the president. Oh, and each character has a "flaw" of some sort – a negative ability they must deal with throughout the course of the game.
The component quality of the game is, not surprisingly, excellent. The board is beautifully designed with ship and Cylon fleet locations clearly marked, and helpful dials to track resources as they dwindle. Cards are on a nice stock. The plastic miniatures are nicely detailed (note: they do not come painted. A friend of mine painted these tiny, tiny miniatures for me and I think he did a great job, but they come in a matte grey plastic out of the box) and fun to play with, and they accurately represent the ships from the show.
I don't know if you guys have noticed, but I love me some minis (note: the minis do not come painted in the box. My friend did these for me).
If there is a con to this game – which honestly, it's difficult to pick one out – it's that there are a few outlying situations that can slow the game down. In one game, we had 4 of 6 people in the brig. Since people in the brig can only add 1 card to a skill check, and a skill check is required to get someone out of the brig, it became very difficult to accomplish anything. We just couldn't get the numbers to get people out, regardless of whether we trusted them or not. But hey, some people really enjoy it when that happens, and it doesn't stop the game.
While the base game does support 3-6 players, you'll get the best game with 5 players. 3 is just too few, and 4 and 6 have a weird "you are a sympathizer" card which comes out at the halfway point and publicly calls you out as a Cylon if the humans are doing too well. Mechanically it is a game balancer but in practice, it's pretty lame for the player who gets dealt that one. Still, that card isn't going


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"My son is a year old. When will he understand the meaning of the word 'no'"?
Q. My son turned 1 recently. While the house is childproofed, there are some things he should not be touching (nightlight, carbon monoxide tester, air filter) that are in electrical sockets he can reach. When he goes to touch these items I shout "no" and if he doesn't stop I remove him from the area and tell him he cannot touch that item (the problem is he pulls them out of the socket and then wants to touch the socket). He laughs and then goes right back for more. What do we need to do to be effective in stopping this behavior? At what point will he understand "no"?
A. It's time to alter your expectations with respect to your baby's ability to comply with your demand to not touch the outlets. Below are six parenting adages to keep in mind as you begin the process of guiding your baby and soon-to-be toddler to respond to your requests.
- You can't parent from an arm chair. Since you don't want your baby to touch outlets, every time he heads toward one you must be up off your feet, moving your child away. Say "no" with a horrified expression. Engage him in another activity.
- Your baby is curious about his environment. Electrical outlets hold lots of interest for little children. They're right at their eye level when on the floor. They stand out from the wall, sometimes with plugs poked in them, sometimes not. Outlets fascinate babies because they realize that the outlet, when connected to various objects, make things happen: lights go on, TVs play, vacuums make noise. Babies and toddlers are little scientists testing the cause and effect of various elements in their environment, outlets being one of them.
- That outlet is like a magnet, a target that he can't resist. Additionally, he realizes that moving toward it brings attention and a predictable response from you. It is very gratifying to a baby to carry out a predictable sequence of events. So the way you're responding is actually keeping his behavior going rather that stopping it.
- Your baby has no idea about the dangers of electrical outlets. Plus, he does not have the inner controls to stay away just because you say so. You must provide the control your baby lacks. Your job is to protect him when he goes in harm's way. In time, when he's between the ages of 3 and 5 years, the control you provide now will transfer from you to him. He'll gradually develop self-control.
- The interaction between you and him is a fun baby game. He can't resist the fun and satisfaction of setting the game plan in motion. He approaches the outlet, you predictably say "no," he keeps moving toward it, you remove him, and he moves toward it again, he laughs with the fun of it. Babies thrive on such games, so develop a similar game around safe -- rather than dangerous -- objects.
- Never leave your baby or soon-to-be toddler unattended, despite the fact that your house is baby-proofed. From now until he's 3 years old you can't let him out of your sight even for a second. He's on the go with no inner controls and he likes to make things happen.
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Webinar: 5 Types of Referral Leakage to Measure (And What to Do About It)
Minimizing patient leakage in a health system's referral network is crucial. However, most organizations do not have the systems in place to measure leakage or determine where it is occurring. Without data, healthcare executives are left to guess about how best to ensure the integrity of their referral networks.
In this one-hour webinar, HSG will demonstrate the key types of patient leakage to identify, how best to measure the impact of that leakage, and strategies for addressing it.
During this webinar we will discuss the following concepts:
- Understanding the types of patient leakage data available
- How to analyze referral leakage data and monitor it over time
- How to diagnose organizational roadblocks to increasing referral capture
- How to build an effective strategy for engaging providers in creating a high-integrity referral network

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While reading about the recording of the lives of the saints, I can across this amazing paragraph:
Sometimes too the author embellished the story. St. Denis is the patron saint of France. He is supposed to have been the first bishop of Paris and to have suffered martyrdom through being beheaded. According to legend, he immediately stood up and walked a good distance, carrying his head in his hands, to the place where the church which bears his name is now situated, a little to the north of Paris. This was miraculous enough, you would have thought, but there are ways to improve on it. In later lives there are saints who do exactly the same thing, but walk even further or are accompanied by other beheaded martyrs also carrying their own heads. In fact this motif became so common that the experts have invented a special name for this kind of saint: cephalophores. This is from Greek, and of course means "headbearers."
—Janson's Natural History of Latin
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Stephanie Rothenberg: Aquadisia
 - ©, Stephanie Rothenberg, Aquadisia
 Website and participatory performance
Artist Statement:
 Aquadisia explores the queering of biopolitical power in the quest to engineer nonhuman life for human survival. For ISEA 2020, the project manifests as an immersive website and participatory performance about a new species of cyborg oysters that can cure climate change. Merging fact and fiction, the narrative centers around the genetic modification of a new species of cyborg oysters that can convert toxic water into an aphrodisia-inducing fluid. Harvested in innovative aquaculture farms, the fluid is piped into municipal water sources. By simply turning on your kitchen faucet, you can pour a glass of this magical liquid and take part in a more-than-human experience.
 Playing on the libidinal myth of the oyster, a hermaphroditic organism, the project explores aphrodisia as a more sentient state of being and empowerment. The sensations move beyond mere sexual connotations into an awakened state of "Aquadisia" – a Sentience 2.0. It questions the contradictions within new technological models of bioengineering that can often adversely affect nonhuman life, and how creating more sentient and perceptible "humans" might be another path to consider.
 The immersive website offers a glimpse into how the science meets a new Sentience 2.0. To participate in the performance, participants must log-on to the website and connect to the Aquadisia Network. And be sure to have a glass of water ready!
 Performers: Lindsey Griffith, Annette Daniels Taylor & Felipe Shibuya
 Website designer: Caco Peguero/United Futures


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What is a Revelian test and how do I prepare for one?
Jaymes Carr
Careers Commentator
Graduate program applicants: find out what a Revelian test is, why it matters and how you can prepare for it. A must-read for all graduates.
What is a Revelian test?
With every advertised graduate position attracting an average of 33 applications, employers face an enormous challenge when it comes to identifying top candidates. To solve this problem, many graduate employers are turning to a time-tested method for figuring out which applicants possess the necessary skills and attributes for a given role: psychometric testing.
The Revelian test is a standardised psychometric test administered by a private company called Revelian (formerly Onetest). While Revelian is tight-lipped about the specific employers with which it works, news reports confirm that current adopters include Ashurst, KPMG, and PwC, as well as other graduate recruiters in the aviation, finance, mining, telecommunications, construction, logistics, and professional services industries. By some accounts, Revelian administers 200,000 tests a year around the globe.
Notably, three of the Revelian tests are presented in the form of interactive games (Cognify, Emotify, and Theme Park Hero). Their other assessments include a cognitive ability test, a verbal reasoning test, a personality test, a work safety test, and a values inventory.
Of course, we can't tell you how to ace a values inventory or a personality test (except to suggest, somewhat unhelpfully, that you aim to have an appealing personality). However, we can give you some tips on how to conquer the verbal reasoning, cognitive ability, and gamified tests.
Preparing for a Revelian cognitive ability test
The Revelian cognitive ability test (RCAT) features 51 questions that candidates must answer within 20 minutes. You'll need to think fast: that's roughly two questions a minute! Having said that, Revelian reports that most candidates don't finish all 51 questions. Instead, the interface is such that you can focus on the questions you feel confident about and then, if there's time remaining, use it to take a stab at any trickier brainteasers.
Revelian warns that 'the RCAT is designed to measure abilities that don't rely on any specific knowledge, so it's not something you can effectively study for'. However, it also provides sample questions and some basic test information—namely, that the questions fall into three categories: numerical, verbal, and abstract reasoning. From this, we can infer some basic facts about the test, and some tips on how to approach it.
Numerical reasoning questions
The numerical reasoning questions require you to think about the relationships between different quantities, which are often presented in an abstract format (for example, a series of digits or incomplete sudoku grids). A common question type asks you to consider an incomplete set of numbers and then fill in the blank. For example:
Find the number that best completes the following sequence:
1, 2, 4, 7, 11,?, 22
The answer, of course, is 16—each number in the series is the previous number plus one, two, three, four, and so on. Easy enough. Here's another:
Find the number that best completes the following sequence:
55, 30, 14, 5,?
This one's a little trickier. Do you have it? If not, here's the answer: 1. The difference between each number is a decreasing squared series of 5, 4, 3, and 2 (i.e. 25, 16, 9, 4).
In truth, numerical reasoning questions can be tough—they're supposed to be! So, if you're not confident, it's a good idea to oil your mental gears by trying some out. You can find a zillion online by searching for numerical reasoning questions or even 'online IQ test'. Alternatively, preparation materials for certain entrance tests, such as the UMAT, GAMSAT, and LSAT, will cover similar question types.
Verbal reasoning questions
Verbal reasoning questions require you to consider various factual statements and then use them to determine the truth of a proposition or draw a logical inference. Others may test your knowledge of semantic relationships (for example, synonyms and antonyms). Here's an actual example from the Revelian sample questions:
Which two statements together PROVE that Megan has brown hair?
1. Jane likes the colour of Megan's hair
2. The only hair that Jane likes is brown
3. Megan likes long hair.
4. Jane has long hair
5. Megan's hair is not blonde
The correct answer is statements one—which tell us that Jane is very superficial—and statement two, which confirms that Jane happens to like Megan's hair. Here's another example:
'It was said that, in the presence of Cleopatra, Marc Antony was often sycophantic.'
Select the word that is closest in meaning to sycophantic: deferential, flirtatious, taciturn, or incredulous.
The correct answer is 'deferential'. However, given their eventual romantic entanglement, it's safe enough to assume that Marc Antony was a bit of a flirt as well. Here's one more example:
Which word is a definition of the description on the left and, as an anagram, defines the word on the right?
Base of the neck ____ _____ Piece of a window
Basement ____ _____ Visitor
Be thrifty ___ ____ Container
Southeast Asian primate ____ ____ Runs late
The answers? Nape (pane), cellar (caller), save (vase), and tarsier (tarries).
As with the numerical reasoning questions, there's no specific best way to prepare for the RCAT. Instead, you could select an enjoyable way to get your neurons firing in the right direction. So consider trying your hand at crosswords, online tests, or the 'word wit' style puzzles that often appear in newspapers.
Abstract reasoning questions
For a sense of how abstract reasoning questions work, it's best to try your hand at online IQ tests and focus on puzzles with a primarily visual component. For example, you may be asked to consider a series of images in which there is a pattern of movement or change. As with the numerical questions, you will be asked to select the next in the series or eliminate the odd one out. To see what this may look like, see the Revelian test questions.
Preparing for the Revelian games
The Revelian games are called Cognify, Emotify, and Theme Park Hero. Cognify has a 30-minute limit; Emotify has a 20-minute limit, and Theme Park Hero is untimed. Only Theme Park Hero must be done on a desktop computer: the other games are mobile and tablet compatible.
Revelian stresses that none of the games rely on specific knowledge or previous study, and reveals only that Emotify includes two games called Matching Faces (in which you have to match faces to corresponding emotions) and Emotional Ties (in which you have to select the most predictable emotional consequence of a particular situation). The other two games involve a range of interactive puzzles that cover various problem-solving skills (such as verbal, numerical, and abstract reasoning). As stated by Revelian, 'The best thing you can do to prepare is to ensure you're in a comfortable, distraction-free environment, and that you read all of the instructions carefully. As with all Revelian assessments, you will also be able to see an example question before you begin the assessment, so you will know exactly what is required of you.'
Getting ready to get results
The thing about the Revelian tests is that they rely, in large part, on the naivety of first-time participants. In fact, Revelian is so careful to prevent preparation, and the impact it may have on results, that they prohibit candidates from taking their tests more than once every 12 months (lest their first attempt lead to better performance on their second).
However, there's a positive flip-side to this philosophy: you can't really pass or fail the emotional perception tests, and preparing for the numerical, verbal, and abstract reasoning tests requires only that you familiarise yourself with the types of questions you might encounter (see above). Otherwise, as Revelian itself advises, the best thing you can do to boost your chances of success is to get a good night's sleep, find a quiet place to complete the tests, focus intently, and take things as they come.


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I confused with the three terms:
 1. Packet drop.
 2. Packet loss.
 3. Packet drop attack.
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These terms are a bit more general that that, which may be the cause of the confusion.
When Alice sends Bob a message over a packet switched network, like the Internet, then it is broken into a number of individual packets, which are sent one at a time. Each packet travels from router to router, eventually ending up at Bob's computer, where the message is reassembled.
If one of the packets fails to get from Alice to Bob for some reason, we say it is lost. (One of the reasons why you use packet switching is that if you lose a packet, you can just ask for it again, rather than needing the whole message to be retransmitted.)
It might get lost by accident, but packets can also be lost because a router receives it and specifically decides not to pass it on to the next hop. This deliberate loss of a packet is called dropping. (There are legitimate reasons for dropping a packet: for example if the router is overloaded, or if the router believes the packet is part of a DOS attack.)
A packet-drop-attack, then, is a denial of service attack where the attacker takes control of one of the routers between Alice and Bob and tells it to deliberately drop some or all of the packets in the message.
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A new policy paper by The Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) urges the Government of Israel to share the cost of Jewish education for the children of Israeli immigrants (Yordim) in the Diaspora. The paper, Helping Yordim Remain Jewish: A new policy for the treatment of Israeli migrants abroad, argues that Israelis residing abroad, especially in North America, can be a strategic asset to Israel, and help facilitate a process of demographic and identity regeneration within Diaspora Jewry as well as serve as a bridgehead between Israel and Jewish communities abroad. The paper addresses Israeli decision makers and leaders of Jewish communities in the Diaspora.
The major recommendations of this new paper include:
- Israel should give Israeli migrants absentee voting rights for their first four years abroad to strengthen ties with Israel.
- Israel should finance establishment of kindergartens and schools for children of Israelis in the Diaspora.
- Israel should finance special study tracks for the children of Israeli migrants studying in Jewish schools.
These recommendations are based on a detailed analysis of the current state of the Israeli migrant community in the Diaspora, which indicates that:
- Israeli immigrant community could be an asset both to Israel and local Jewish communities.
- The second-generation Israeli migrant community is exposed to accelerated assimilation processes.
- Israeli parents abroad face difficulties in instilling "Israeli" identity in the next generation.
The paper's author, Yogev Karasenty, a JPPI fellow, told eJP, "investing in preserving the Israeli-Jewish identity of children of Israeli emigrants abroad, is in line with the Zionist ethos. Rather, the existence of a strong and integrated Jewish-Israeli Diaspora is a clear Israeli interest. Stronger involvement of migrants from Israel in the Israeli public arena could serve as an effective tool for strengthening their ongoing ties with Israel. "


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The Ministry of Energy has announced that before the end of the Peña Nieto Administration on December, 2018, the National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH) will call the fifth bid of Round 2 (commonly known as Bid 2.5) for the award of exploration and production contracts for onshore blocks, which will include unconventional or shale blocks.1 Because hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to tap hydrocarbons entails intense use of water, the Ministry of the Environment has begun to take regulatory action in preparation for Bid 2.5.
SEMARNAT published its Guidelines for the Protection and Conservation of National Waters in Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production Activities in Unconventional Blocks (the "Fracking Guidelines"), effective August 31, 2017. The Fracking Guidelines are directed at state productive companies and private companies performing exploration and production activities in unconventional fields ("Regulated Parties"), with the purpose of preserving national waters and inherent public property. Regulated Parties already performing fracking activities have 180 days to comply with the Fracking Guidelines.
The application processes referred to in the Fracking Guidelines must be followed and resolved by the central offices of the National Water Commission ("CONAGUA"). Regulated Parties may make corresponding filings before the Basin Agency (Organismo de Cuenca) or Local Bureau (Dirección Local) where the corresponding contract or entitlement (asignación) area is located.
A. Use and Exploitation of National Waters
The Fracking Guidelines consider two scenarios for the use and exploitation of national waters during fracking activities, namely: (i) when there is availability of water in aquifers or basins within the relevant contract or entitlement (asignación) area, and (ii) when there is no such availability of water.If there is water available in such area, a Regulated Party must apply for the corresponding water concession pursuant to the National Waters Law and include the following technical specifications and documents:
- The polygon circumscribing the contract or entitlement (asignación) area, determined in accordance with geographical coordinates ITRF2008, 2010.0
- Exploration or Development Plan approved by the CNH, as applicable
- The number of exploratory wells the Regulated Party intends to drill and complete, and their respective designs
- Construction program for the exploratory wells
- Exploration report pursuant to the authorized Exploration Plan
- Total required volume of water for the production of hydrocarbons, calculated from the total number of wells to be drilled and completed in The production area, and probable required average volumes of water per well and percentage of water return
- The georeferenced location of the planned hydraulic infrastructure for the transportation, distribution, and handling of water, fluids, and additives
- The hydrocarbon-production program
- The draft completion project for each production well
- The design of Regional and Local Monitoring Networks
- A list of additives to be used in the preparation of fracturing fluids, including their commercial name, chemical formula, CAS registration number, total volume to be used, and the percentage of such additive (in terms of mass) to be used in the fracturing fluid
If no water is available within the contract or entitlement area, a Regulated Party may apply to CONAGUA for (i) the assignment of rights contained in the water concession titles granted in the relevant aquifer or basin, (ii) a concession for interior saltwater or territorial waters for desalination purposes, or (iii) an authorization to use non-committed wastewater resulting from urban public use.
Upon the completion of hydrologic wells, Regulated Parties must submit to CONAGUA a file per well containing (i) a map with its georeferenced location, and (ii) cuttings and geophysical readings obtained within the well, and capacity data and results from their interpretations.
CONAGUA may use wells operated by Regulated Parties for the abstraction of national waters and built under a concession in order to monitor the levels and quality of national waters as long as prior notice is sent to the corresponding Regulated Party.
B. Occupation of Federal Property and Permits for Hydraulic Infrastructure Works
Regulated Parties requiring the surface use of federal property under CONAGUA's jurisdiction must obtain a concession from CONAGUA, in accordance with the National Waters Law. To develop new hydraulic infrastructure located within the beds of bodies of water and federal property under CONAGUA's jurisdiction, Regulated Parties must obtain a hydraulic construction permit from CONAGUA, attaching the following documents (in addition to those required under the National Waters Law) to their applications:
- Exploration or Development Plan approved by the CNH
- The polygon circumscribing the contract or entitlement (asignación) area, determined in terms of geographical coordinates
- A favorable resolution on the environmental impact from SEMARNAT
- Sources of water supply
C. Disposal of Cuttings; Waste and Discharge Permits
The disposal of waste from exploration and production activities, including cuttings, produced water, and return flow must comply with the General Law for the Prevention and Comprehensive Management of Waste, the National Waters Law, and Mexican Official Standard NOM-143-SEMARNAT-2003 (which provides environmental specifications for the handling of water associated with hydrocarbons).
D. Protection of National Waters and Inherent Public Property
The Fracking Guidelines require Regulated Parties performing fracking activities to prevent the infiltration of pollutants into the subsoil and aquifers by installing impermeable casing to isolate wells and storage sites for fluids and additives used in fracking. Such casing must be made of synthetic material, and be impermeable and resistant to the sun, hydrocarbons, salts, and acidic and alkaline solutions.
To protect the quality of underground water in each production area, Regulated Parties must drill hydrologic exploration wells, with a depth to be determined by CONAGUA considering the results of exploration activities performed. The data obtained from such wells with respect to the thickness and lithology of the corresponding aquifers must be considered in the design of hydrologic abstraction wells. Each hydrologic abstraction well must meet the following specifications:
- It must have been drilled with water-based fluids, whether bentonitic or biodegradable, or with air and foam
- A macroscopic description of the lithology, with channel samples for each five meters correlated to the geophysical readings of the well
- Geophysical readings, including, at least, natural potential, caliper, resistance, gamma rays, temperature, and porosity
- Definition of aquifer horizons
Prior to commencing activities under the Development Plan approved by the CNH, Regulated Parties must deliver the data for each hydrologic exploration well to CONAGUA, including:
- Its location
- Construction characteristics (total depth, diameter, piping, and length of casing)
- Design and construction materials to be used
- Lithological cuttings
- Geophysical readings
Prior to the implementation of the Development Plan approved by the CNH, Regulated Parties must drill wells that will comprise a Regional Monitoring Network for CONAGUA to determine the Water Baseline, and a Local Monitoring Network to be used by CONAGUA to monitor sources of national waters quantitatively and qualitatively during the development period and after completion. The design and distribution of such wells must be authorized by CONAGUA.
To preserve national waters during fracking activities in accordance with best international practices in the design and drilling of production wells, Regulated Parties must comply with the technical specifications set forth in the Fracking Guidelines.
If a Regulated Party violates the provisions of the National Waters Law and its Regulations, it will be subject to administrative penalties. If its activities cause environmental damage, the Regulated Party must repair such damage, and if such repair is not possible, then environmental compensation must be paid as determined in the Federal Environmental Liability Law.


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Use of a Flapper-Nozzle Valve for Axial Piston Pump Control 911817
A mathematical model of an axial piston pump with a flapper-nozzle valve was developed. The first stage was dynamically stable, and calculated values of first-stage gain and dynamic response agreed well with experimental values. Linearized relations were produced for each component part and were combined to form the total state-variable representation of the model. The open loop system, the combined axial piston pump and flapper-nozzle valve, exhibited dynamic instability. However, when the feedback loop was augmented by the output pressure differential, stability was achieved.
From the time responses of the augmented optimal control system, we observed that an increase of input current had little effect on the system response. Doubling the discharge flow rate doubled the overshoot, and an increase in the discharge volume slowed down the system responses. Increasing rotational speed of the pump produced a higher overshoot and a slower response.
The performance of an axial piston pump with a flapper-nozzle valve used as a controller was compared to the performances of such a pump with a four-way hydraulic valve, a single-stage electrohydraulic servovalve, and a two-stage electrohydraulic servovalve used as controllers. We found the combination of a flapper-nozzle valve and an axial piston pump to be superior to other combinations in terms of the balance between pressure-time response and maximum pressure overshoot.


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NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Loyal Forces: Animals in WWII is an exhibit focused on the animals employed and encountered throughout World War II, from the Home Front to the Pacific. Life-size horses and mules, harnessed in authentic World War II saddles and equipment, along with life-size mannequins, dressed in authentic World War II gear, will demonstrate the unique impression made by military animals and their masters. Animals were appreciated both for their labor and love, but unfortunately not all were shown humane treatment when their usefulness was no longer in dire need. This exhibit will focus on each different animals specific usefulness and specific role within a campaign.
Loyal Forces: Animals in WWII will examine four types of animals used by armies throughout the world from 1939 to 1945. An American Coast Guard horse and horseman will feature artifacts from the Home Front and civil defense. A German horse and reconnaissance soldier will depict the European Theater of Operations and the reliance of German forces on horses for several aspects of the war. Pigeons and their varied equipment used in Europe and to cross the English Channel will also be featured. A large part of the exhibit will be dedicated to war dogs including a look inside a veterinary clinic in the Pacific Islands. Finally, mules in the jungles of Burma will demonstrate how only they could handle these strenuous workloads and conditions.
The exhibit will also include two electronic viewing sections for displaying U.S. servicemen encountering exotic animals from North Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific Islands. It will also feature a slideshow of beloved military mascots from every service branch. Another electronic element will utilize touch screen technology to allow visitors to explore the contents of a German horse veterinary kit and learn how its contents would have been used to treat these animals.
Loyal Forces: Animals in WWII will allow visitors to see another side of World War II, and demonstrate how lessons learned then continue to help us today in the utilization of animals and their unique abilities today.


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A lot of the Irish Workhouses fell into ruin or were burned down in the years after the Famine, but one of the few remaining can be found in the town of Carrick-on-Shannon.
Today, it operates as a geriatric hospital called St.Patrick's and this year, from the 3rd-5th of May, it will revisit the haunting past of its workhouse days by offering 30 self-sponsored participants the chance to stay overnight in the rooms of the original whitewashed attic as part of The Famine Attic Experience.
Between the years of 1845 and 1854, a devastating two million people were forced to emigrate from Ireland in search of a better life. For those that remained, the last resort was to enter a Workhouse but with the onset of the Famine, entire families had no other choice but to do so.
The Irish Workhouse Centre in Portumna, Co. Galway writes that, as an inmate of a workhouse, individuals would be packed into crowded sleeping places with straw beds and ragged coverings with only a tub for urination. Disease was rampant and deaths were so frequent that corpses were carried away on special carts every day only to be thrown into mass graves on the grounds of the workhouse
The Famine Attic Experience will be commemorated with a 'Survivors Cairn' and a Society of Friends (Quaker) themed supper afterwards.


one simple DoGenerateNext method that must be overridden by the specific implementation:
class ControllerInterface(object):
"""Defines an interface a value generator
def __init__(self, model):
super(ControllerInterface, self).__init__()
# Attributes
self.model = model
self.view = TheView(None, self, self.model,
"Fibonacci Generator")
# Setup
def DoGenerateNext(self):
"""User action request next value"""
raise NotImplementedError
Now let's define some subclasses that implement the interface and provide the specialization.
Beginning with our FibonacciModel class, we define a model that will generate Fibonacci numbers:
class FibonacciModel(ModelInterface):
def Generate(self):
cval = self.GetValue()
# Get the next one
for fib in self.fibonacci():
if fib > cval:
def fibonacci():
"""Fibonacci generator method"""
a, b = 0, 1
while True:
yield a
a, b = b, a + b
Then our FibonacciController provides the controller specialization, which in this example just makes one update to the user interface, to disable the button while the model is calculating the next value:
class FibonacciController(ControllerInterface):
def DoGenerateNext(self):
Now that the model and controller have been defined, let's take a look at our view, which is composed of a Frame, a Panel that has a TextCtrl for displaying the current value stored in the model, and a Button for retrieving the next value in the sequence defined by the model:
class TheView(wx.Frame):
def __init__(self, parent, controller, model, title):
"""The view for """
super(TheView, self).__init__(parent, title=title)
# Attributes
self.panel = ViewPanel(self, controller, model)
# Layout
sizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL)
sizer.Add(self.panel, 1, wx.EXPAND)
self.SetInitialSize((300, 300))
def EnableButton(self, enable=True):
Here, the ViewPanel is where we interface with the model and controller. We retrieve the initial value from the model on initialization and then register as an observer of changes in the model:
class ViewPanel(wx.Panel):
def __init__(self, parent, controller, model):
super(ViewPanel, self).__init__(parent)
# Attributes
self.model = model
self.controller = controller
initial = str(self.model.GetValue())
self.text = wx.TextCtrl(self, value=initial)
self.button = wx.Button(self, label="Generate")
# Layout
# Setup
# Event Handlers
self.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.OnAction)
def __DoLayout(self):
vsizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL)
hsizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.HORIZONTAL)
vsizer.Add(self.text, 0, wx.ALIGN_CENTER|wx.ALL, 8)
vsizer.Add(hsizer, 0, wx.EXPAND)
Here is our observer method that will be called when the model is updated with a new value:
def OnModelUpdate(self):
"""Observer method"""
value = self.model.GetValue()
This event handler is for the Button, and it delegates to the controller in order to allow the controller to perform the implementation-specific action:
def OnAction(self, event):
Finally, we put it all together and implement an application:
class ModelViewApp(wx.App):
def OnInit(self):
self.model = FibonacciModel()
self.controller = FibonacciController(self.model)
return True
if __name__ == '__main__':
app = ModelViewApp(False)
How it works...
Using MVC to design an application's framework takes a fair amount of discipline. As can be seen in this simple example, there is quite a bit of extra "stuff" that needs to be done. As described before, MVC separates concerns into three main roles:
 1. The Model
 2. The View
 3. The Controller
So let's take a look at how these roles came together in our sample recipe.
First the Model: This has the ability to store a value and to generate the next one in the sequence when its Generate method is called. In this recipe, we implemented a Model that calculates and stores Fibonacci numbers. The important part to take away from this is that the Model does not have any direct knowledge of the View or the Controller.
Next let's jump to the View, which just displays a TextCtrl field and a Button. It does not know any of the details of how the Controller or Model works. It only interacts with them through a defined interface. When the user clicks on the Button, it asks the Controller to decide what to do. In order to know when the Model has changed, it registers a callback function with the Model, as an observer of when the Model's SetValue method is called.
Now to the Controller which is the glue that holds the Model and View together. The Controller is primarily charged with implementing the View's behavior in regards to the Model's state. Our simple Controller for this recipe only has one interface method that is called in response to a Button click in the View. This action first disables the Button, and then tells the Model to generate the next number in the sequence.
There's more...
You may be wondering "what's the point?" of all that extra rigmarole to create such a simple application. Well since the Model is completely separate from the View, it can be more easily unit tested in an automated test suite. In addition to this, since the View is just simply a view and does not implement any behavior, it can easily be reused if, for example, we wanted to add a Prime Number generator model to our application.
Maintainability is also improved since all three parts are separated and can be worked on individually without interfering with the other components. Because of these benefits, many other toolkits, such as Django and web2py make use of this pattern.
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Using mixin classes
A mixin class is a design approach that is similar to the strategy pattern, but directly uses inheritance in order to add extended/common functionality to a new class. This recipe shows how to create a mixin class that adds debug logging facilities to any class that uses it.
How to do it...
First, let's start by creating our LoggerMixin class, which will provide the logging functionality to classes that need to have logging. It simply provides a Log method that will write the passed in string to a file:
import os
import time
import wx
class LoggerMixin:
def __init__(self, logfile="log.txt"):
"""_USER_ logfile: path to log output file"""
# Attributes
self.logfile = logfile
def Log(self, msg):
"""Write a message to the log.
Automatically adds timestamp and originating class
if self.logfile is None:
# Open and write to the log file
with open(self.logfile, 'ab') as handle:
# Make a time stamp
ltime = time.localtime(time.time())
tstamp = "%s:%s:%s" % (str(ltime[3]).zfill(2),
# Add client info
client = getattr(self, 'GetName',
lambda: "unknown")()
# Construct the final message
output = "[%s][%s] %s%s" % (tstamp, client,
msg, os.linesep)
Then, to use the LoggerMixin in an application, it can simply be mixed in to any class to give it a Log method:
class MixinRecipeFrame(wx.Frame, LoggerMixin):
"""Main application window"""
def __init__(self, parent, *args, **kwargs):
wx.Frame.__init__(self, parent, *args, **kwargs)
self.Log("Creating instance...")
# Attributes
self.panel = MixinRecipePanel(self)
# Layout
sizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL)
sizer.Add(self.panel, 1, wx.EXPAND)
self.SetInitialSize((300, 300))
How it works...
The mixin class in this recipe is the LoggerMixin class. It will add a Log method to the classes that use it, which will take a simple string as an argument and write it to the specified log file with a timestamp and ID that shows where the message came from.
A mixin works by using multiple inheritance in order to add additional functionality to a class. The LoggerMixin mixin class can be used with any Python class, but it expects (but doesn't require) that the class it is being mixed into has a GetName method to use for getting the ID portion of the log message:
[17:42:24][unknown] OnInit called
[17:42:24][frame] Creating instance...
[17:42:24][panel] Begin Layout
[17:42:24][panel] End Layout
[17:42:26][panel] Button -203: Clicked
[17:42:27][panel] Button -203: Clicked
There's more
There are a number of handy mixin classes provided by the wx.lib.mixins package. Here is a quick rundown on some of the mixins that are available and what functionality they provide.
ListCtrl mixins
All of the following mixins classes are intended for use with a ListCtrl subclass and are provided by the wx.lib.mixins.listctrl module:
wxPython: Design Approaches and Techniques
TreeCtrl mixins
All of the following mixin classes are for use with a TreeCtrl subclass, and are provided by the wx.lib.mixins.treectrl module:
wxPython: Design Approaches and Techniques
Using decorators
Due to the window hierarchy, there are some architectural issues that can be presented to the programmer that lead to some tedious and unnecessary code duplication due to the need to have delegate accessor methods or properties at each level of the containment hierarchy. Typically, any Frame or Dialog in an application is structured as shown


3-phase Transformer
Introduction of 3-phase Transformer
3-phase transformer consists of three single-phase transformers having the same capacity, and they generate the same power of amplitude and frequency. 3-phase transformer is used to industrial power supply and equipment, such as elevators, medical equipment, and automatic equipment. By doing so, these machines and equipment can regularly work.
Application Field
Common application includes power system, high/low voltage distributing board, control distributing board, and other electronic equipment and power start accommodation.
The limit of manufacturing is as follows: frequency, 50/60Hz; voltage: 600V (maximum); capacity: 10kVA (maximum)


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- Public Notices
How non-public and home schools relate to the school district
By Steve Bruchman,
Community Services Director
New Prague Area Schools
Each year non-public schools (like St. Wenceslaus School and Holy Cross School) and home schools (individual parents instructing one or more of their children at home) are required to register with the school district in which they operate.
A non-public school is usually defined as having five or more students coming together in a set location/building; a home school is usually fewer than five students and located in a residence.


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Unnecessary harm is caused because people in Scotland are not open about death, dying and bereavement. For example:
- People who are dying or bereaved can experience isolation because people don't know what to say or how to act towards them
- People die without wills, leaving complicated situations for their families and friends
- Health care professionals struggle to have conversations with their patients about what care or treatments they want as they approach death. This makes it hard to plan the care that a person really wants
- If the fact that someone is dying is not acknowledged then opportunities to resolve issues and say goodbye may be missed
What can be done to help?
We believe that there are actions which people can take to help avoid these harms.
For example, they could:
- Make a will
- Do a power of attorney
- Ask their partner if he/she wants to do a power of attorney
- Bring up their children in a way which doesn't hide death
- Allow their aging parents/partner to tell them about their worries and preferences for care
- Say goodbye to the people they love or who care about them
- Be willing to listen to and talk to their neighbours or colleagues if they are experiencing difficult times related to death, dying or bereavement
- Discuss with their GP the sort of care they would prefer towards the end of their life
People may need access to advice, practical tips and information to take some of these actions. These actions will be easier to take in a Scotland which becomes more open about death, dying and bereavement.
Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief is about giving people in Scotland the facts, the skills, the strategies, the information and the opportunities they need to deal with (and to help others deal with) death, dying and bereavement.


Nervous system of gastropods
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LBuG and RBuG: left and right buccal ganglia
LCeG and RCeG: left and right cerebral ganglia
LPeG and RPeG: left and right pedal ganglia
LPIG and RPIG: left and right pleural ganglia
LPaG and RPaG: left and right parietal ganglia
VG: visceral ganglion.
The nervous system of gastropods consists of a series of paired ganglia connected by major nerve cords, and a number of smaller branching nerves.
General layout of the gastropod ganglia. In most species, the brain is fused into a single, six-lobed, organ
Buccal ganglia of Aplysia californica.
The brain of a gastropod consists of three pairs of ganglia, all located close to the oesophagus. In some primitive forms, these ganglia are relatively discrete, but in most species they have become so closely bound together as to effectively form separate lobes of a single structure.
The cerebral ganglia are located above the oesophagus and supply nerves to the eyes, tentacles, and other sensory organs in the head. Beneath the oesophagus, at the forward part of the foot, lie the pedal ganglia. As their name implies, these supply nerves to the foot muscles.
The third pair of ganglia within the brain lie slightly behind and below the cerebral ganglia. These are the pleural ganglia, and supply nerves to the mantle cavity. Bundles of nerves connect the cerebral, pedal, and pleural ganglia together, as well as running above and below the oesophagus to connect the right and left cerebral and pedal ganglia to each other.
In most gastropods, a short pair of nerve cords passes forward from the cerebral ganglia to a pair of buccal ganglia located above the back of the mouth. These supply nerves to the radula and other parts of the mouth.
The main nerve cords of the central nervous system run through the length of the body from the pleural ganglia. In the ancestral gastropod, these would presumably have run down either side of the animal, but because of the torsion of the visceral mass found in many modern forms, they now cross over each other. However, a number of species have undergone de-torsion, restoring their original bilateral symmetry.
A pair of parietal ganglia lie along the length of the main nerve cords, supplying nerves to the gill and associated olfactory organ. Because of the torsion of the nerve cords, one parietal ganglion is typically higher in the body than the other. Finally, the nerve cords terminate in a linked pair of visceral ganglia, which supply nerves to the remaining organs of the visceral mass.
Neurons of Helix, Helix aspersa, are used for study of epileptogenesis, because they are sensistive to epileptogenic drugs including pentylenetetrazol.[1]
 1. ^ Giachello C. N. G., Premoselli F., Montarolo P. G. & Ghirardi M. (2013). "Pentylenetetrazol-Induced Epileptiform Activity Affects Basal Synaptic Transmission and Short-Term Plasticity in Monosynaptic Connections". PLOS ONE 8(2): e56968. doi:10.1371/journal.pone._PHONE_.
Barnes, Robert D. (1982). Invertebrate Zoology. Philadelphia, PA: Holt-Saunders International. pp. 366–368. ISBN 0-03-056747-5.
Further reading[edit]
 - Benjamin, P. R.; Kemenes, G.; Kemenes, I. (2008). "Non-synaptic neuronal mechanisms of learning and memory in gastropod molluscs". Frontiers in bioscience : a journal and virtual library 13: 4051–4057. doi:10.2741/2993. PMID _PHONE_.
 - Richter S., Loesel R., Purschke G., Schmidt-Rhaesa A., Scholtz G., Stach T., Vogt L., Wanninger A., Brenneis G., Döring C., Faller S., Fritsch M., Grobe P., Heuer C. M., Kaul S., Møller O. S., Müller C. H., Rieger V., Rothe B. H., Stegner M. E. & Harzsch S. (2010). "Invertebrate neurophylogeny: suggested terms and definitions for a neuroanatomical glossary". Frontiers in Zoology 7: 29 doi:10.1186/_PHONE_-7-29.
 - Weatherill, D.; Geoffroy, E.; Antkowiak, T.; Chase, R. (2004). "Why the Ovotestis of Helix aspersa is Innervated". Acta Biologica Hungarica 55 (1–4): 239–249. doi:10.1556/ABiol.55.2004.1-4.29. PMID _PHONE_. .
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Jim from California is trying to organize his kid's home chores list. He was trying to mark the current weekday's chores with conditional formatting and a cell that contained =NOW(). In Episode 1269, Bill shows us a method to solve this problem.
Mr. Excel - Kid's Home Chores List Welcome back to the Mr. Excel netcast. I'm Bill Jelen. I got a great question today from Jim. Jim's in California, although he's a Cleveland Indians fan. Jim was trying to organize what looked like household chores. He had days of the week and the task and he wanted to see if there was some way using equal now to highlight the chores for today. Okay, so today is Tuesday. It's when I'm recording this and also when you're watching it. And so we want to see if we can write a formula that will identify all of the Tuesday dates. Now Jim actually had real live dates under column A. I just have tasks Monday, Tuesday, Wednesdays. So for Jim, we're going to have to use not now, equal now, open parenthesis, close parenthesis, but equal today. The difference, both will return today's date but now changes every minute or every second to show the current time. And so, it would never be exactly equal. But in this method, we could actually use either now or today, either one would work. So we're going to go to Home, conditional formatting and create a new rule. Now if you're in Excel 2003, you'll got to format, conditional formatting, and then change that first drop down from cell values is to formula is. In this case, we're going to say use formula to describe which cells to format. And look at this, I see that A2 is the correct cell that has to be the one that we'll write the formula for. Then we'll apply it to all cells. And what we're going to do is we're going to say equal the task of today, open parenthesis and closed parenthesis, and then in quotes "DDDD". That's going to spell out the day of the week, the weekday. And so we have that text. We want to see if that's equal to $B2. Now that's really important, the dollar sign before the B. That says even for columns – actually no, equal, dollar sign, A2. Even for columns B and C, I always want to look back to column A. That the fact that we have no dollar sign before the 2 and the active cell is 2 so we're always going to look in the current row, column A of the current row, and see if that's equal to the text over there in A2. How we format it, I don't care. You can use whatever you want. Jim actually had – to be completely honest with you, it's a pretty hideous format but we'll replicate what he had with the yellow bold italic on top of a red format. Click okay and we got everything on Tuesday is highlighted. Now tomorrow, when we open this up, everything on Wednesday will be highlighted. So again, the trick there is to write a formula that will check to see if the text of today, that's going to return the weekday is equal to that value out there in A2. Now, we had real dates out there in A2 then we would use the text of A2 with the same format. If we just had a three-letter abbreviations, you can actually get away with just DDD so that will be MON. There are lots of different ways to tweak this to make it match your data.


How exactly Facebook decides who sees what is one of the great pieces of forbidden knowledge in the information age, hidden away behind nondisclosure agreements, trade secrecy law, and a general culture of opacity. New research from experts at Northeastern University, the University of Southern California, and the public-interest advocacy group Upturn doesn't reveal how Facebook's targeting algorithms work, but does show an alarming outcome: They appear to deliver certain ads, including for housing and employment, in a way that aligns with race and gender stereotypes — even when advertisers ask for the ads to be exposed a broad, inclusive audience.
There are two basic steps to advertising on Facebook. The first is taken by advertisers when they choose certain segments of the Facebook population to target: Canadian women who enjoy badminton and Weezer, lacrosse dads over 40 with an interest in white genocide, and so forth. The second is taken by Facebook, when it makes an ad show up on certain peoples' screens, reconciling the advertiser's targeting preferences with the flow of people through Facebook's apps and webpages in a given period of time. Advertisers can see which audiences ended up viewing the ad, but are never permitted to know the underlying logic of how those precise audiences were selected.
The new research focuses on the second step of advertising on Facebook, the process of ad delivery, rather than on ad targeting. Essentially, the researchers created ads without any demographic target at all and watched where Facebook placed them. The results, said the researchers, were disturbing:
Critically, we observe significant skew in delivery along gender and racial lines for "real" ads for employment and housing opportunities despite neutral targeting parameters. Our results demonstrate previously unknown mechanisms that can lead to potentially discriminatory ad delivery, even when advertisers set their targeting parameters to be highly inclusive.
Rather than targeting a demographic niche, the researchers requested only that their ads reach Facebook users in the United States, leaving matters of ethnicity and gender entirely up to Facebook's black box. As Facebook itself tells potential advertisers, "We try to show people the ads that are most pertinent to them." What exactly does the company's ad-targeting black box, left to its own devices, consider pertinent? Are Facebook's ad-serving algorithms as prone to bias like so many others? The answer will not surprise you.
In the case of housing ads — an area Facebook has already shown in the past has potential for discriminatory abuse — the results were also heavily skewed along racial lines. "In our experiments," the researchers wrote, "Facebook delivered our broadly targeted ads for houses for sale to audiences of 75% white users, when ads for rentals were shown to a more demographically balanced audience." In other cases, the study found that "Facebook delivered some of our housing ads to audiences of over 85% white users while they delivered other ads to over 65% Black users (depending on the content of the ad) even though the ads were targeted identically."
Facebook appeared to algorithmically reinforce stereotypes even in the case of simple, rather boring stock photos, indicating that not only does Facebook automatically scan and classify images on the site as being more "relevant" to men or women, but changes who sees the ad based on whether it includes a picture of, say, a football or a flower. The research took a selection of stereotypically gendered images — a military scene and an MMA fight on the stereotypically male side, a rose as stereotypically female — and altered them so that they would be invisible to the human eye (marking the images as transparent "alpha" channels, in technical terms). They then used these invisible pictures in ads run without any gender-based targeting, yet found Facebook, presumably after analyzing the images with software, made retrograde, gender-based decisions on how to deliver them: Ads with stereotypical macho images were shown mostly to men, even though the men had no idea what they were looking at. The study concluded that "Facebook has an automated image classification mechanism in place that is used to steer different ads towards different subsets of the user population." In other words, the bias was on Facebook's end, not in the eye of the beholder.
The report comes at an inconvenient time for Facebook, now facing charges from the Department of Housing and Urban Development over its potential to enable advertisers to illegally exclude certain groups. And although the study is careful to note that "our results only speak to how our particular ads are delivered (i.e., we cannot say how housing or employment ads in general are delivered)," it still concludes that "the significant skew we observe even on a small set of ads suggests that real-world housing and employment ads are likely to experience the same fate." In other words, even in the absence of bigoted landlords, the advertising platform itself appears inherently prejudiced.
A Facebook spokesperson provided the following comment:
We stand against discrimination in any form. We've made important changes to our ad targeting tools and know that this is only a first step. We've been looking at our ad delivery system and have engaged industry leaders, academics, and civil rights experts on this very topic – and we're exploring more changes.
It's a familiar refrain at this point, and one that will likely do little to reassure those who just want to know that they'll be provided with the same opportunities as everyone else, even in the context of ubiquitous advertising. The old apologia for targeted advertising is generally that it's a favor to the consumer, sparing them "irrelevant" ads and instead providing them with opportunities to browse goods and services that are "pertinent" to them. What this shallow reasoning misses is that decisions about pertinence can become self-reinforcing; it's foolish at best to think that women are more interested in secretarial work because they keep clicking the secretary ads, rather than that they click secretarial ads because it's all Facebook will show them.


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By: OurAmazingPlanet Staff
Published: 05/07/2012 04:28 PM EDT on OurAmazingPlanet
Scientists have announced the discovery of a newfound crocodile species that may have been the largest to ever roam the Earth. The colossal reptiles trolled East African waters between 4 million and 2 million years ago, and may have snacked on human ancestors, researchers said.
The largest fossil specimens recovered belong to massive crocodiles some 25 feet (7.5 meters) in length; and the ancient giants may have grown larger than 27 feet (8 meters), according to Christopher Brochu, an associate professor of geosciences at the University of Iowa.
Brochu stumbled upon the new species three years ago, while examining enormous fossils housed at the National Museum of Kenya in Nairobi. It took four men to lift the skull of one of the specimens, which were originally excavated from the Turkana Basin, an area surrounding Lake Turkana in northern Kenya.
The region is a famed hotspot for human fossil finds. Many early hominids have been unearthed from the Turkana Basin, and Brochu said it's possible some of them came to a nasty end, thanks to the prehistoric crocodiles, dubbed Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni.
"It lived alongside our ancestors, and it probably ate them." Brochu said in a statement, adding that the colossal reptiles may have swallowed them whole.
"We don't actually have fossil human remains with croc bites, but the crocs were bigger than today's crocodiles, and we were smaller, so there probably wasn't much biting involved," he said.
Brochu's research is published in the May 3 issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
The newfound species isn't closely related to Nile crocodiles, Brochu said. "We really don't know where the Nile crocodile came from," he said, "but it only appears after some of these prehistoric giants died out."
This North American bird, which stood over 8 feet tall, would have had an enormous, axe-like beak.
This heavily-armored predator had the second most powerful bite of any fish.
The hornless rhinoceros-like creatures of this genus were the largest land mammals of all time.
Giant ground sloths of this genus were about the size of today's elephants. The megatherium only went extinct around 10,000 years ago (right around the time when humans started farming), and smaller relatives may have survived as late as the 16th century!
Richard Owen, director of London's Museum of Natural History, stands next to the largest of all moa. Moa, which originated in New Zealand, were flightless, and some were even wingless.
The Argentavis magnificens, an early relative of the Andean Condor, was the largest flying bird ever discovered.
These creatures, the largest marsupials that ever lived, roamed Australia. Some scientists have suggested that stories of the supernatural 'bunyip' creature in Aboriginal folklore could be based on diprotodonts.
These distant relatives of modern elephants had an imposing appearance, with strange, downward-curving tusks and heights of up to 16 feet at the shoulder.
The fearsome Liopleuredon, right, had a jaw nearly ten feet long. The Leedsichthys, left, was a bony fish that may have been even larger than it looked; some estimates put its maximum length at 53 feet. Correction: An earlier version of this slide had the positions of the Liopleuredon and Leedsichthys reversed.


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Zoning is a land use tool where properties are assigned a zoning classification to best suit the character of their neighborhood. Zoning also includes setback requirements designed to prevent negative impacts from development on a neighboring property being too close to the property line. For the average property owner, zoning provides more protection than restriction.
Onslow County implemented county-wide zoning in phases; this process was completed in 2005. As a result, all properties in the County's zoning jurisdiction now lie within a zoning district boundary. The zoning ordinance includes seven residential districts, two commercial districts, two industrial districts, a conservation district, and a rural agricultural district. Included in the zoning ordinance is a map showing the zoning district boundaries and text containing regulations that apply to the various uses of land in the zoning districts.
A central part of the zoning ordinance is the Table of Uses, which shows what type of development or use of land is permitted in each zoning district. The Table of Uses distinguishes between uses that merit detailed consideration and those that do not by dividing uses into three categories: Permitted (P) – These uses are permitted by right and require a zoning permit, which is typically issued along with the building permit, assuming all setbacks and other requirements are met.
Special Requirement Uses (SR) – These uses also require a zoning permit, but the zoning permit application must include a site plan, drawn by a surveyor in most cases. In addition, the zoning ordinance outlines specific requirements that must be met for each use.
Special Uses (S) – Some types of development or uses of land are generally appropriate for a zoning district but might have negative impacts that need to be considered in more detail on a case-by-case basis. A public hearing is required for these uses. Owners of properties within 1,000 feet at the site will be notified of the proposed use and notice will be posted on the property. A site plan drawn by a land surveyor or engineer must be submitted with the special use permit application.
The zoning map is displayed at the Planning & Development Department offices at 604 College Street, Jacksonville. The County's interactive map provides a convenient way to view the zoning for your property and other useful property information.
For a summary of the zoning ordinance, click here.
For information on zoning permits, click here.
For information on enforcement of the zoning ordinance, click here.
For further information, please contact the Land Use Section or download the zoning ordinance.
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Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia
[mamapas pali] depicting a hornbill soul ship
26.0 (h) x 171.0 (w) x 5.0 (d) cm
National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden
The ship is an ancient recurring image in Southeast Asian art. A powerful symbol of transition, especially from this world to the afterlife, it appears on grave goods and trade items from the Bronze Age until modern times. The earliest coffins discovered across Southeast Asia are boat-shaped. Ships are still found on textiles, mats, sculptures and paintings that symbolise and celebrate the most important transition in a person's life, the journey of the soul to the realm of the ancestors.
In its most overt form, the boat depicts the vehicle in which the spirit of the deceased travels to the other world. Ship imagery is also displayed at other ceremonies of the lifecycle when an individual moves from one social or spiritual state to another, including initiations into adulthood such as tooth-filing, and at weddings.


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A medical exam is a process to examine a person's health condition by considering their medical history and physical health. An immigration medical exam is a mandatory part of immigrating to the US and becoming a permanent resident. It is also known as a medical exam for a green card. When you go for the immigration medical exam, you should bring your passport and other information about your health, such as the medications you're taking these days. The primary purpose of carrying out this immigration medical exam is to ensure that the health condition of that applicant doesn't pose a risk to the public health and safety of United States residents.
Any of these health conditions may declare an applicant inadmissible:
- Infectious diseases of public health significance
- Lack of required vaccination (polio, mumps, measles, hepatitis A & B, influenza type B, retrovirus, meningococcal) proofs
- Drug addiction
- Mental or physical disorder
Immigration Physical exam
An immigration medical exam is not a complete test. After passing the immigration medical exam, the doctor will give you a physical examination. The immigration physical exam will include looking at:
- Lymph nodes
- External genitals
- Chest X-ray
- Blood test
Passing a medical exam and physical exam is crucial to show that you are not inadmissible to the US and can be issued with Green Card, Permanent residence, passport, or immigration visa.
Basic steps for the medical exam for a passport
A panel physician conducts all the tests, asks questions, and collects the other information by physical observation. The immigration medical exam for Passport and Citizenship consists of three basic procedures:
- Physical examination
- Evaluation to examine skin health and chest condition
- Blood test for syphilis
You should be prepared for the following information inquiries by the panel physician:
- During the immigration medical exam, the panel of physicians will ask you for your medical history about your previous medications, or if you had to be put in an institution for a chronic physical or mental condition.
- The doctor will also ask you about your addiction to alcohol or your history of psychiatric illness.
- The doctor will conduct your chest X-ray to review your history of tuberculosis.
- The panel will also review your studies and previous employment records to determine your harmful behavior related to physical or mental disorders.
- The doctors will also ask you about some symptoms that will suggest you suffer from cardiovascular, pulmonary, or neuropsychiatric disorders.
Documents preparation for immigration medical exam
It is best to have as many relevant documents as possible to reduce the delay in a green card or Citizenship procedure. When you go for an immigration medical exam, you should bring the following items along with you:
- Original and valid passport
- Readable photocopy of the passport
- Medical reports and medicines of the past or present health status
- Required fee
- Vaccination records
- Tuberculosis certificate
Citizenship in the United States
The lawful permanent residence in the United States consider the following status for immigration medical exam:
- Family relations
- Diversity lottery
- Personal investment
- Employment sponsorship
You're required to take the immigration medical exam and immigration physical exam regardless of the basis on which you seek green card status.
Medical exam for the green card
The purpose of the green card medical exam is to ensure that the applicant seeking a green card has no health condition that makes it risky for the health of the United States people. The preparation of the medical exam depends on whether you're in the United States or outside the united states
If you're in the United States
If you're living in the United States, you'll need to make an appointment with a USCIS-designated civil surgeon for medical and physical examination. These civil doctors receive instructions from the "Center for Disease Control and Prevention" to examine the medical applicants. After the medical exam and physical exam conduction for green card or citizenship purposes, the results and findings are sealed in an I-693 form.
If you are out of the United States
You will take the consular process if you are living outside the United States. In this case, you'll file the application with the US "Department of the State" for an immigration visa at the United States embassy. The United States Department of State will conduct a medical examination for Passport or Citizenship purposes. The results and findings of this exam will be mentioned in the "Medical Examination for Immigrant or Refugee Application Form".
The medical exam for a passport, the medical exam for citizenship, and the medical exam for a green card all have similar basic steps, physical tests, documents, and conditions to declare an applicant inadmissible. The medical exam is crucial to ensure the US government that this applicant's health has no risk to public safety and health. Immigration medical exam also includes a physical medical exam to examine the senses and functioning of the lungs and heart. The medical exam for a passport, the medical exam for a green card, and the medical exam for citizenship require some relevant documents. Three basic steps are followed to complete the process of the medical exam. The medical exam is mandatory whether you're living in the United States or not. The results of the medical exam and physical exam are sealed in the forms for a future procedure.


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* Vision of the Fearless Financing & Fundraising Group (FFFG)
· To function as the CFO of the Vision to Action planning process by helping the other working groups be aware of what it will take financially to actualize their vision. The FFFG will help facilitate the execution of the other groups visions by providing useful information about the current state of the Center's financial status, as well as offer projections of what financial resources might be required under various growth/expansion scenarios. This will be done in a transparent manner with information readily shared about current expenses and income, as well as the about the number of hours (and staff resources) it takes to run the Center at present.· The FFFG provides financial stewardship and serves as the voice of reality for the broader community to understand what's practical and how to manifest the vision overtime. The FFFG is responsible for facilitating a realistic understanding of prioritizing various ideas and the importance of first building a strong foundation (three pillars). This involves offering a realistic plan of how much money might need to be raised and how it might best be spent in order to ensure long-term success of the three pillars.