Family Supplement, and Family Tax Benefit A for third and subsequent children would be approximately $1.4 billion plus $200 million plus $1.3 billion, ie nearly $3 billion.
While this saving would not all become available immediately, it is very significant and could greatly boost the levels of university and vocational education in Australia. It could be used to boost the number of places being offered by Universities so that eligible students do not miss out on a place, it could be used to boost funding for TAFE, and used to boost funding for apprenticeships.
The Bradley Review of Australian Higher Education said we could achieve a demand driven entitlement system for domestic higher education students, where public funding will be provided for each undergraduate student eligible for a university place, at a cost of $1,130 million over 4 years. The Budget Papers have allowed $491 million from 2009-10 to 2012-13 towards this objective. Finding the extra $639 million and funding the extra places would be money well spent.
In relation to the TAFE sector the Australian Education Union has called for increased funding to meet projected needs in vocational education and training of $1,125 million. Key areas for spending include:
- Projected growth in enrolments, the economy's anticipated need for higher level qualifications, investment in retraining the workforce and strategies to engage those in society who are under or un-employed.
- Workforce transition and renewal and professional development.
- Building and technology improvements.
- Student services and support programs.
I would also like to put money into reducing HECS debts, which I think are too high, and into increasing payments to apprentices and Youth Allowance, which I think are too low. I acknowledge, however, that these are expensive items, so improvements in these areas would be subject to getting in the full $3 billion in family payments savings, and therefore would be some time off. I think it needs to be, regrettably, a second order priority to creating the extra places for young people, and some not so young people, who are presently neither studying or working.
Temporary entry permits have skyrocketed in Australia. In 1995-96 they were 3.1 million. By 2007-08 they had reached 4.2 million.
This number is made up of:
- 110,570 subclass 457 visas;
- 278,180 student visas;
- 3,808,610 other visa classes.
There are no caps on student visas, 457 visas, or Working Holiday visas. Nor are there caps on numbers taking up bridging visas or 485 visas after completing courses here.
It is said that this doesn't matter because the temporary residents all return to their country of origin. This is not true. At least half of former overseas students are staying on either by gaining permanent residence visas or temporary bridging or 485 visas. Maybe around a third of 457 visa holders gain permanent residence, mainly via Employment Nomination visas. Furthermore, while they are here, they add to Australia's population pressures.
In 2008, on average nearly one million temporary residents, including tourists, were here at any one time.
Temporary entry work visas are a tool for undermining the wages and conditions of Australian workers, and a recipe for exploiting overseas ones.
The Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union has uncovered dreadful examples of the use of sham contractors who are underpaid or not paid at all, and threatened with deportation if they complain or seek to enforce their rights. Subclass 457 work visas have no worthwhile role to play, except in very limited situations. They should be restricted to areas of clear need, that is to say the medical and health related and professional engineering occupations. If we really are short of workers, how come political and business leaders are forever promoting proposals with the catchcry, "jobs, jobs, jobs?"
Overseas students should be required to return to their country of origin once they have completed their course. They should be subject to a 2 year cooling off period before being eligible to apply for permanent residence in Australia. Since the Howard Government changed the rules in 2001 to allow students to apply for permanent residence, onshore, overseas student numbers have skyrocketed from 204,000 to over 467,000 in just seven years. Rorts and scams have crept into the program and damaged Australia's international education reputation. Decoupling the link with permanent residence will put the focus back on education where it belongs, restore Australia's international education reputation, and probably also reduce temporary entry numbers.
At present we also have uncapped migration from New Zealand. The number of New Zealand citizens stating that they are settling permanently in Australia has increased from 16,364 in 2002-03 to 34,491 in 2007-08 and 47,780 in 2008-09. About 7,000 of the 34,491 were third country migrants who have migrated to New Zealand, then got citizenship, then come to Australia. This open-ended, uncapped program makes it impossible for Australia or New Zealand to implement a population policy and it needs to be reformed.
The Trans Tasman Travel Arrangement with New Zealand would need to be re-negotiated to do away with the open door. The present arrangement has no formal legal status. In any event, we need to stabilise population globally. Hence getting other countries such as New Zealand to address their population capacity, rather than simply acting as an overflow for surplus population, is important.
What we should do is monitor annual departures, and renegotiate the Trans Tasman Travel Arrangement with New Zealand to close off automatic entry for New Zealanders, while allowing the places made available by annual departures from Australia above 25,000 to be filled by New Zealanders, splitting available places equally between skilled migrants and family reunion. Otherwise New Zealanders would be eligible to come to Australia under the normal programs, applying and being assessed in the same way as everyone else.
This would give Australia control over our net migration number which we presently don't have. We can set a target for permanent skilled migrants, family reunion, and refugees, but we have no idea how many people are going to come in from New Zealand, and no idea how many people are going to leave Australia. These numbers are too important to be left to chance, and we should set a net target figure. The approach I have adopted is based on a net overseas migration target figure of 70,000: 95,000 in from skilled, family reunion and refugee categories, expecting at least 25,000 to leave, and allowing New Zealanders to fill the places made available through this process. The number of departures in recent years has been far higher than 25,000, and even when permanent arrivals numbered around 90,000 it was still well above 25,000.
In combination these measures would do great things for Australia. First and foremost they would stop us wrecking our environment. Second they would get us to focus on higher education and training for young Australians. They would open up job opportunities for younger and older workers who are presently missing out. They would help us meet carbon reduction targets. They would make housing more affordable. They would put a halt to the creeping inflation and price rises for food, water, and energy. They would address the declining quality of life in our cities, the traffic congestion and the disappearing backyards and open spaces. They would enable us to be compassionate, decent international citizens, taking more refugees and lifting our overseas aid. Above all else they would discharge our obligation to pass on to our children and grandchildren a world, and an Australian way of life, in as good a condition as the one our parents and grandparents gave us.
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I heard Mr Thomson's comments via the ABC yesterday and would like to respond to them briefly.
I share his concerns about the accelerated environmental degradation that could occur were our population to reach 35 or 50 million. I have noted in the past the public comments of Prof Ian Lowe on this issue. I think however that it is critical that we find a way to properly manage growth in a way that has not occurred previously because I think it essential that we do grow. I am in my 30s and I may well live another 50 years. I can see a crowded world in 50 years that looks at a wealthy and essentially empty continent with hunger and in many cases, desperation.
Now I know that seeing Australia as empty would be wrong - given our climate and resulting geography. But I don't think that the truth of the matter will come into it in 50 years. Desperate people do desperate things - think drowning men and straw. I won't go into the forms I suspect that this desperation could take but they can be imagined.
I think that a perverse truth exists here - that the best way to preserve and rehabilitate our country in the long term will be to develop quite quickly but correctly. I think we must quarantine in the most strict of ways the majority of the country from development while developing larger, sustainable population centres interspersed among it and concurrently using some of the least important land and some of the surrounding ocean to both feed us and our neighbours and to actually begin to reverse climate change. I think we will unfortunately need a much larger population in order to do this and to ensure that we remain the masters of our destiny. Our current means of increasing population is clearly poor and I see no signs that it will improve. What I am talking about requires a major rethink.
While it is obviously important that groups such as this one champion population and ecological issues, I am sorry to say that I believe that to achieve the ultimate aim, a different means to the end must be pursued. When there are more than 10 billion people


Family Math: M&M Color Statistics
What can you do with hundreds and hundreds of M&sM's? Family math!
MM's hands-on math family science activity
My family's lineup of summer hands-on science, technology, engineering, and math projects and activities included almost enough M&M's to bring Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to mind. Maybe not quite that many, but summer was busy, and when I added three bags of M&M's to the list with this project in mind, I had in my head that we needed big bags of M&M's. When we sat down later with three kids, each with a family-sized bag of M&M's, and called up the family-ready activity version of the full Science Buddies M&M Math Project Idea, I realized we really could have used much smaller bags.
Undeterred (they are M&M's, after all, and not likely to go to waste!), we moved ahead. The activity calls for counting the M&M's in (at least) three different bags. This lets students analyze what is in a single bag and then compare those numbers to statistical data derived from combining and averaging the results of three or more bags.
I had three kids at the ready, so my plan was to have each tackle sorting, counting, and tallying a single giant bag. This way they each got to be hands-on, do their own math, get the results for their own bag, and then we would compile the data to get overall statistical information and see how each bag held up to the numbers.
The question in the project is pretty straightforward: which color M&M is most (or least) common in a bag of M&M's? I remember when I was a kid, and it seemed that the green M&M's were always rare. So before we started, I polled the kids. Two of them predicted a color they thought would be most common. One of them leaned toward thinking the colors would be equally dispersed, reasoning that a factory machine probably spits them out in relatively equal numbers.
Then we got to counting. There are many ways a student might approach this part of the project. One strategy that worked well at our table was to dump an entire bag of M&M's on a plate, and then sort them by color into piles on a large napkin. After the bag was sorted by color, the student started counting the M&M's of a single color and dropping them back onto the plate. All M&M's on the plate had been counted, and the piles remaining on the napkin were still to be counted. It was an easy way to keep track of the counting and the piles.
There was a lot of counting going on!
But it was immediately interesting to hear that the totals around the table were differing, sometimes dramatically, for each kid.
When they finished, they each did their tallying, finding out the total number of M&M's and the percentage of each color they had in their bag. Then we made a new chart, copied in all of the individual totals, and combined and averaged to get composite data.
The results were surprising, and not all of our bags held up to what the data told us should be true, which was interesting in terms of realizing that all bags are not created equal!
Sweet Success
In the end, this hands-on math activity was a lot of fun and worked well for a mix of age ranges that spanned elementary and middle school. I knew going into it that the math involved was on the easy side for the middle school kids. But as an exercise, the activity gave them a chance to get hands-on with statistics doing something that gave concrete and visual clarity and reinforcement to concepts they already know, like averages (mean) and probability, and introducing some potentially new terms like population and frequency. [Note: The Science Buddies M&M Math Project Idea guides a more detailed and comprehensive statistics exploration, including the creation of data charts and graphs. A student interested in this project and exploring statistics can take the activity further than we did for our family science activity!]
When finished, one kid made a pyramid of M&M's, which of course crashed and caused a great uproar from the disgruntled engineer. Another made a pie chart of the M&M's on the napkin, a work of art that was then, of course, unceremoniously dumped into a baggie during cleanup. The third bag of M&M's was put to very good use making Monster Cookies. It seemed to me to be a perfectly sweet way to end our hands-on science project and reward all that counting!
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The May issue of Urban Link highlights the contributions made by doctoral students graduating from the University of Pennsylvania whose research is on urban-related topics. Students, who represent Schools from across the University, share findings from their dissertations and identify novel policy recommendations for the urban community. They include:
- Marta Bruce, "The Contribution of Neighborhood Characteristics to Psychological Outcomes After Serious Injury in a Cohort of Black Men: A Multi-Methods Study"
- Chandan Deuskar, "Planning and the Politics of Informal Urbanization"
- Xiaoxia Dong, "A Philadelphia Rideshare Story: An Investigation of Rideshare's Impact on Transit"
- Caitlin Gorback, "Your Uber has Arrived: Ridesharing and the Redistribution of Economic Activity"
- Nora Gross, "Brothers in Grief: The Stages of Grieving for a School and its Students Following Three Shooting Deaths of Black Teenage Boys"
- Ruth Moyer, "Changes Within the Urban Environment and Their Effect on Crime and the Criminal Justice System"
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InnoDB and XtraDB use a special feature called the doublewrite buffer to provide a strong guarantee against data corruption. The idea is to write the data to a sequential log in the main tablespace before writing to the data files. If a partial page write happens (in other words, a corrupted write), InnoDB and XtraDB will use the buffer to recover the data. Even if the data is written twice the performance impact is usually small, but in some heavy workloads the doublewrite buffer becomes a bottleneck. Now we have an option to put the buffer on a dedicated disk in order to parallelize I/O activity on the buffer and on the tablespace.
This feature allows you to move the doublewrite buffer from the main tablespace to a separate location.
This option is for advanced users only. See the discussion below to fully understand whether you really need to use it.
The following discussion will clarify the improvements made possible by this feature.
InnoDB and XtraDB use many structures, some on disk and others in memory, to manage data as efficiently as possible. To have an overview of the different components see this post. Let's now focus on the doublewrite buffer.
InnoDB / XtraDB uses a reserved area in its main tablespace, called the doublewrite buffer, to prevent data corruption that could occur with partial page writes. When the data in the buffer pool is flushed to disk, InnoDB / XtraDB will flush whole pages at a time (by default 16KB pages) and not just the records that have changed within a page. It means that, if anything unexpected happens during the write, the page can be partially written leading to corrupt data.
With the doublewrite buffer feature, InnoDB / XtraDB first writes the page in the doublewrite buffer and then to the data files.
If a partial page write occurs in the data files, InnoDB / XtraDB will check on recovery if the checksum of the page in the data file is different from the checksum of the page in the doublewrite buffer and thus will know if the page is corrupt or not. If it is corrupt, the recovery process will use the page stored in the doublewrite buffer to restore the correct data.
If a partial write occurs in the doublewrite buffer, the original page is untouched and can be used with the redo logs to recover the data.
In usual workloads the performance impact is low-5% or so. As a consequence, you should always enable the doublewrite buffer because the strong guarantee against data corruption is worth the small performance drop.
But if you experience a heavy workload, especially if your data does not fit in the buffer pool, the writes in the doublewrite buffer will compete against the random reads to access the disk. In this case, you can see a sharp performance drop compared to the same workload without the doublewrite buffer-a 30% performance degradation is not uncommon.
Another case when you can see a big performance impact is when the doublewrite buffer is full. Then new writes must wait until entries in the doublewrite buffer are freed.
In a standard InnoDB / XtraDB installation, the doublewrite buffer is located in the main tablespace (whether you activate the
innodb_file_per_table or not) and you have no option to control anything about it.
The feature adds an option (
innodb_doublewrite_file) to have a dedicated location for the doublewrite buffer.
Basically if you want to improve the I/O activity, you will put the doublewrite buffer on a different disk. But is it better on an SSD or a more traditional HDD? First you should note that pages are written in a circular fashion in the doublewrite buffer and only read on recovery. So the doublewrite buffer performs mostly sequential writes and a few sequential reads. Second HDDs are very good at sequential write if a write cache is enabled, which is not the case of SSDs. Therefore you should choose a fast HDD if you want to see performance benefits from this option. For instance, you could place the redo logs (also written in a sequential way) and the doublewrite buffer on the same disk.
The following system variable was introduced.
Use this option to create a dedicated tablespace for the doublewrite buffer.
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Jeffery Lagarias, in his recent article Euler's constant: Euler's work and modern developments in the AMS Bulletin, mentions that Euler obtained $\zeta(3)={{2\pi^3 b(3/2)}\over 3}$ for some "Bernoulli function" $b(z)$ in Section 2.4 ("Zeta values") of his article.
Lagarias also mentions that Euler similarly obtained a value for $\zeta(5)$ in terms of $b(5/2)$.
Is there any modern article explaining this "Bernoulli function $b(z)$?
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I found something on Wikipedia: _URL_ It is written that $$ b\left( s \right) = 2e^{\frac{\pi }{2}is} \int_0^{ + \infty } {\frac{{st^s }}{{1 - e^{2\pi t} }}\frac{{dt}}{t}} $$ and $b\left( {2n} \right) = B_{2n}$ for any $n>0$, where $B_k$ is the $k$th Bernoulli number. Also $$ \zeta \left( 3 \right) = \frac{{2\pi ^3 b\left( 3 \right)}}{{3i}},\quad \zeta \left( 5 \right) = \frac{{2i\pi ^5 b\left( 5 \right)}}{{15}}. $$
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Maybe this paper will be helpful: _URL_ (Donal F. Connon, A generalisation of the Bernoulli numbers from the discrete to the continuous).
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In September last year, the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and 30 ''founding'' banks launched the Principles for Responsible Banking (PRBs) during the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Starting out with 132 signatories, 193 banks and counting have now adopted the six principles that comprise the PRBs. This includes a commitment to align the bank's business strategy with the goals set out in the Paris Climate Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Civil society organizations welcomed the initiative at its launch, but cautioned against the risk of greenwashing in the absence of clear criteria for PRB implementation and robust transparency and accountability by the PRB banks. One year later, analysis shows that at least 20 PRB banks continue to be on a trajectory of climate destruction, and continue to finance projects that are in blatant disregard of climate, biodiversity and human rights impacts.
A briefing published today by civil society organizations calls on signatory banks to set meaningful targets that genuinely align the bank with the Paris Climate Agreement and SDGs, to take measures to facilitate stakeholder engagement and respect all human rights and the specific rights of Indigenous People, and to be as transparent as possible about their progress in implementing the Principles.
To ensure that the PRBs deliver with the urgency required to solve the world's most pressing crises, the briefing makes the following recommendations to the UNEP-FI Secretariat and the PRB Banking Board:
Adopt a clear definition of what it means for a PRB bank to be aligned with the Paris Climate Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This should be in accordance with the Principles for Paris-Aligned Financial Institutions, a civil society statement endorsed by 60 organizations which calls on banks to end the financing of fossil fuels and deforestation. Such a definition should also include an explicit commitment to respect human rights, including Indigenous rights, in accordance with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;
Maximize transparency and accountability of PRB banks. This should include a publicly available and reliable contact for each PRB bank, detailed reporting on the bank's progress towards meeting the PRB goals, and escalating measures to enforce the Principles, with an initial focus on reporting and stakeholder engagement;
Require banks to take measures to facilitate stakeholder engagement, irrespective of the to-be-established PRB civil society advisory body. This should include a requirement for banks to establish a grievance mechanism that is accessible to impacted communities and other concerned stakeholders;
Incentivize banks to adopt a shorter timeline for implementation, prioritizing high risk sectors and adverse impacts based on the severity and likelihood of the impact on climate change, biodiversity and human rights;
Establish clearer thresholds for banks that join the initiative going forward. This should include a requirement for banks to make a public commitment to align with the Paris Climate Agreement and the SDGs and publish its overarching strategy for doing so prior to joining the PRBs.
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plummeting elevator, and AF447.
This sense is fairly well understood, so I'll limit this bullet point to pointing out that the visual sense is correlated in the human brain to the vestibular sense. In the amusement park ride, the inputs recieved from the vestibular sense and vision match, and there is no resulting confusion about the perceived motion. In cases where those two senses are decoupled, it is common for nausea to result. In the elevator and airplane in instrument conditions, a visual sense grounding you to a world reference frame is denied. This is one of the senses which can detect unaccelerated motion, more on "unaccelerated" below.
Here we have information which comes in through our sense of touch, primarily through nerve endings in the skin. The roller coaster comes through here again by exposing you to the elements giving you a "rush of wind" in your face as you move through what may be a stationary mass of air. In the closed environments of the elevator and cockpit, this is again denied.
Here is where things get interesting. For the purposes of this discussion, I'll add to the vestibular senses the "seat of the pants", "pit of the stomach" and other bodily means of detecting acceleration. Several other answers have pointed out that all of these senses are sensitive not to velocity but to acceleration, which high school physics reminds us is the the time rate of change, or derivative, of velocity. This means that if velocity is not changing we are not going to have a sensation of motion, although in a gravity field, we may have some sense of orientation (you can have a sense of hanging upside down or laying sideways). There is no difference to these senses between sitting on the ground with the engines running, cruising at 500 knots in level flight, or being in a 500,1000, or 3000 foot per minute descent. As long as velocity is not changing, these senses cannot tell the difference. This is the problem with AF447, No visual, no touch, and in unaccelerated descent, no vestibular sense.
If the airdata instruments are offline, there is nothing to indicate the descent until the cabin pressure starts to increase, putting some pressure on your eardrums. That also won't happen until the aircraft descends to a point where the outside air pressure increases to a point above the cabin pressure then continues to build to a point that you notice. They were doomed.
There is another problem, even with detecting acceleration. The problem is connected to the human brain's remarkable ability to filter out stimuli. A normal human brain is capable of adjusting to the tint of your sunglasses, ignoring conversations in a crowded room, and is very good at not notifying the conscious thought center of the pressure your elastic socks are putting on your ankles. Indeed, it can even lose track of constant accelerations. If you live near a playa, you can do a blind test by driving your car out and enter a gentle turn giving a tenth of a "g" of lateral acceleration. Have someone else do the driving. I am here to tell you that the resulting sensation can be filtered out. Even our sense of acceleration can be lost under constant acceleration. In physics, there is yet another level of derivative, the time rate of change of acceleration, called "jerk", which is harder to not detect.
For more information on the brain's filtering capability, look up the "Reticular Activating System". Understanding it can help you be more safe, and also help you reach your goals.
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That accident took place at night and in IMC while the aircraft was passing through a storm which I suspect had quite a bit of turbulence in its core. This would most likely have caused enough vestibular disturbance for the crew to make the acceleration towards the deck go unnoticeable.
Secondly the crew was on an IFR flight which means flying by instruments in conditions and specifically trained to rely on cockpit instruments for aircraft orientation and not vestibular senses. Doing otherwise will get you killed in any other situation. Once the aircraft reached its peak descent rate in dark night over water and with the air data sensors iced over, preventing the flight control computers from receiving accurate air data, there was no perceptible means for the crew to sense they were in danger until it was all over.
Pilots do experience the vestibular sense of accelerating as occupants in a carnival ride do - try flying aerobatics some time and yes, it's quite noticeable when pulling negative Gs, etc. it's just not a good standard to use to judge movement in an airplane by and without visual references outside of the aircraft it is difficult and very dangerous to use vestibular senses to accurately assess aircraft attitude from.
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business owners and office workers, rents usually rise to reflect the increased demand. At times,
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tenants. Scholars have called this process of change commercial gentrification.
Preservationists and planners should understand the causes and consequences of this process, as
well as how to identify the phenomenon. They should also be aware of arguments for and
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Five Key Insights from the 2021 Canadian Impact Investor Survey
We are facing unprecedented collective pressure to address social and economic injustice. Alongside good public policy and community action, we know that mobilizing investment capital has a significant role to play in tackling our most pressing problems. And Canadian asset owners have the capital to make meaningful progress in addressing these challenges.
While there is clearly an impact investing movement underway, there is much work to be done before we can declare that local and global capital has been transformed to operate in the service of all people and our planet. As impact investing continues to rapidly evolve, it is crucial that we look to collect data to identify the levers to pull and barriers to break to unlock new capital. Accordingly, we need to ask important questions: what is the current state of impact investing in Canada, what preferences do investors hold, and what roadblocks exist for asset owners?
As a starting point to answer these questions, SVX designed and deployed a survey this past spring targeting accredited impact investors from across Canada to assess their current and planned impact investing activities. The following key takeaways are a taste of the insights we've gained from our survey.
What did we want to know?
Our core objectives for the survey were:
- Assess current engagement and desired future engagement with impact investing;
- Understand information flows and pain points in the impact investment process;
- Discern target return profiles, geographic preferences, and thematic focuses for impact investment opportunities; and
- Identify the ways in which intermediaries can improve their service offerings to better meet investor needs.
How did we do it?
The survey was deployed in April 2021 to a broad range of pre-selected respondents from the SVX and Impact United investor network as well as our partner client and investor networks. Those surveyed were accredited investors active or interested in impact investing representing individual investors, foundations, family offices, financial institutions, endowments, and faith-based organizations. A total of 95 respondents completed the survey, representing approximately $3.5 billion in assets (CAD).
What five key insights did we derive from the survey?
- Investors are meeting their financial and return expectations
- Climate, housing and food are top priorities for investors
- There is a need to build greater engagement and capacity in equity lens investing
- Investors want to significantly grow their asset allocation to impact investing
- Asset owners are seeking a shared community for connecting, learning and action
Investors are meeting their financial and impact expectations
We found that investors overwhelmingly view their impact investments as performing in-line or outperforming their expectations along both frontiers, with very low levels of underperformance on impact or financial returns. This demonstrates that impact investment product issuers are bringing a high degree of rigour to their return projections, pointing to the proficient expectation setting in the industry.
When we explored what financial returns impact investors were seeking, it became clear that the majority were targeting risk-adjusted market-rate returns. 72% of survey respondents were seeking market or risk-adjusted market rate returns, which is largely in-line with global results sourced from the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN). This reinforces the narrative that impact does not necessarily have to come at the expense of financial returns.
However, when we break down the return expectations by investor type, we see that the comfort with more modest return investments that may generate greater impact is highest among foundations (42% seeking capital preservation or below market-rate) while larger institutional investors like financial institutions and family offices are seeking market-rate returns.
Climate, housing and food are top priorities for Canadian impact investors
We asked investors about thematic priorities in their impact investments and saw the greatest interest in issue areas like energy and the environment, food, and affordable housing. These issues are not only top of mind for Canadians, with the climate-related events on the West Coast and rapid housing cost increases across Canada, but they're also highly investable with existing and emerging solutions that can be capitalized with impact investments.
There is a need to build greater engagement and capacity in equity lens investing
Respondents reported lower overall interest in equity-lens investing, which includes investing in BIPOC-led and BIPOC-serving enterprises as well as gender lens investing. This is at odds with the rise in awareness around issues of equity and inclusion, systemic racism, and the disproportionate disadvantage that women and racialized communities face in accessing investment capital. This disparity may indicate that an education gap exists in relation to equity lens investing, as well as a product availability and awareness gap with opportunities that drive greater equity, diversity, and inclusion. This identifies a greater need to integrate equity into the strategies of all impact investing intermediaries, and to support the work of impact investing community actors including SETSI, New Power Labs, and the Social Innovation Academy.
Investors want to significantly grow their asset allocation to impact investing
To discern how best to unlock more capital for impact, we sought first to understand current and prospective levels of portfolio allocation among active impact investors. To this end, we asked respondents to disclose their current and desired portfolio allocations to impact investing.
Given our previous insight that impact investments are meeting or exceeding the impact and financial targets of investors, the results were unsurprising, yet highly encouraging. Participants suggested a decisive increase in overall engagement in impact investing, with 45% of respondents indicating plans to allocate half or more of their portfolio by 2026. With the majority of growth coming from the group indicating current 0–9% allocation, it seems that impact-generating holdings are providing sufficient proof of concept to drive increased demand from those already exposed. Investor appetite on a decisively upward trajectory is appealing on two fronts. First, it validates the ability of existing products and issuers to deliver on ambitions of producing attractive financial and impact returns. Second, it shows that there is indeed an abundance of investor demand already, which can encourage further adoption of impact investment among all asset owners.
Asset owners are seeking a shared community for connecting, learning and action
Once again, the survey results were clear: asset owners have significant interest in connecting and collaborating with one another in practical ways. This provides a positive and strong foundation for communities and movements through communities like Impact United.
Though simple, providing a common place for like-minded individuals and organizations to connect and work together can go a long way in preventing the fragmentation faced by many sectors and movements. Moreover, linking players can amalgamate numerous unique voices into a unified chorus, hence transforming an industry into a movement to achieve mutual objectives. In doing so, leading impact investors can lay the groundwork for subsequent investigations like this survey, which cast light on the necessary improvements in our approach to create the transformative change we seek.
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month (n.)
O.E. monað, from P.Gmc. *menoth- (cf. O.S. manoth, O.Fris. monath, M.Du. manet, Du. maand, O.H.G. manod, Ger. Monat, O.N. manaðr, Goth. menoþs "month"), related to *menon- "moon" (see moon (n.); the month was calculated from lunar phases). Its cognates mean only "month" in the Romance languages, but in Germanic generally continue to do double duty. Phrase a month of Sundays "a very long time" is from 1832 (roughly 7 and a half months, but never used literally).
season (n.)
c.1300, "a period of the year," with reference to weather or work, from O.Fr. seison (Mod.Fr. saison) "a sowing, planting," from L. sationem (nom. satio) "a sowing," from pp. stem of serere "to sow" (see sow). Sense shifted in Vulgar Latin from "act of sowing" to "time of sowing." In Old French and Old Provençal this was extended to "season" in general (sowing season being the most important). Season ticket is attested from 1820.
season (v.)
"improve the flavor of by adding spices," c.1300, from O.Fr. assaisoner "to ripen, season," from root of season (n.) on the notion of fruit becoming more palatable as it ripens. Applied to timber by 1540s. In 16c., it also meant "to copulate with." Related: Seasoned. Seasoning (n.) is from 1570s.
date (n.3)
date (v.1)
date (n.2)
the fruit, late 13c., from O.Fr. date, from O.Prov. datil, from L. dactylus, from Gk. daktylos "date," originally "finger, toe;" so called because of fancied resemblance between oblong fruit of the date palm and human digits. Possibly from a Semitic source (cf. Heb. deqel, Aram. diqla, Arabic daqal "date palm") and assimilated to the Greek word for "finger."


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The overall goal of this project is to examine the effectiveness of innovative building structural elements and systems, regarding their structural, environmental and energy performance in retrofitting of existing buildings. This will be done with the aim of facilitating the emergence of products and tools for the development of high performance retrofitted buildings in respect of sustainable development, in terms of design, consumption, building methods, materials, energy efficiency, costs and user comfort.
- Development of innovative technologies and systems for prefabricated façade elements for the building retrofit.
- Evaluation of the influence of advanced retrofit technologies on indoor environments, including health, safety and comfort of building occupants.
- Development of a standards-driven, systematic Building Information Modelling (BIM) approach to building retrofitting, with a holistic package of solutions for Ireland.
- Methodical assessment of Irish buildings from a lifecycle energy consumption and greenhouse gases emissions perspective.
- Development of socio-technical innovations and action plans for more sustainable buildings, primarily focussed on behavioural change of building users.


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The word confrère(s) in French is used to refer to males sharing the same profession; the word for females is consoeur(s). How about English? Is this term used for both genders?
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I imagine anyone savvy enough to use the French masculine version would be capable of generating the feminine even if they'd never seen it before. Yes, it is used in English – FumbleFingers Feb 6 '12 at 18:48
_USER_ I didn't know it existed. Thanks for the information. – misensalem Feb 6 '12 at 18:51
Fun fact: Dutch lawyers address their male colleagues as "confrère", their female colleagues as "collega". If they know each other well, it becomes "amice" v. "amica". – Cerberus Feb 6 '12 at 18:59
Is the term 'confrere' used in English? – Mitch Feb 7 '12 at 13:24
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The definition of confrere is gender-free in American dictionaries (AHED, Merriam-Webster, and Dictionary.com, to name three).
Note that the usage example given by MW is this:
So, yes, confrere (or confrère) is used for either gender in English.
(A French confrère tells me that lawyers in France start letters to fellow lawyers with "Cher Confrère" regardless of the gender of their addressee.)
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Although the observation that confrere is gender-neutral in English is otherwise well-supported, the MW example does not demonstrate this, as it could be that a mixed-gender group would, in English as in French, take the unmarked, masculine form of the noun. – H Stephen Straight Feb 7 '12 at 22:04
I've only heard colleague used in English instead of confrère or consoeur. Colleague does not imply gender in any way. It is not at all unusual for a male and female to be colleagues and that does not signify anything more than a professional association.
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Notwithstanding my comment to OP, I'm solidly with you on this one. We have a perfectly good gender-neutral term that everyone is familiar with, so why get tied up in knots searching for le mot juste (which it can't quite be in this case since even French doesn't have a feminine equivalent for that term, which I'd like to call la motte juste!) – FumbleFingers Feb 6 '12 at 19:08
_USER_ I've discovered that the word confrere is also used in English only recently and wondered whether it could be used to address a female colleague too. I searched in the dictionary but it wasn't much helpful. I know that the neutral word colleague is the most commonly used and this is the one I'd use myself but I think it is legitimate to be curious when encountering a new word and be interested to know how it is appropriately used. – misensalem Feb 6 '12 at 19:29
Although colleague is well-established to refer to members of one's occupation, confrere seems to my ear to refer to a subset of colleagues who share a specialty. So, all of the administrators, faculty, and professional staff (and perhaps even some of the advanced graduate students) in my university are my colleagues, only my colleagues in an identifiable smaller group (school, department, discipline, program) are confreres. – H Stephen Straight Feb 7 '12 at 22:11
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Since the last review of Williams syndrome in Current Opinion (2001) there have been many advances in knowledge about the cognitive, social and psychological impairments that characterize the disorder. The present review focuses on current research in these areas. RECENT FINDINGS: Williams syndrome is associated with a wide range of cognitive, linguistic, social and other difficulties. When young, these deficits may appear relatively mild - for example, many children are highly sociable and talkative - but with age the impact of these difficulties becomes more evident. Thus, inappropriate social behaviours can significantly increase the risk of social exclusion and vulnerability to abuse. Their superficially good speech can lead to educational and other services failing to understand the true extent of impairments or the need for specialist support. Mental health problems, especially related to anxiety, often become an increasing challenge from adolescence onwards. SUMMARY: The core difficulties associated with Williams syndrome have a cascading effect on many areas of development over time. However, specialist provision is rare and intervention trials are almost nonexistent. Longitudinal research is needed to identify factors associated with cognitive, social and emotional problems and to develop more effective ways of minimizing and treating difficulties.
Bibliographical noteThis is the author's accepted manuscript of the following article: Williams syndrome: recent advances in our understanding of cognitive, social and psychological functioning. Royston, Rachel; Waite, Jane; Howlin, Patricia.
Current Opinion in Psychiatry: March 2019 - Volume 32 - Issue 2 - p 60–66. doi: 10.1097/YCO.0000000000000477
- Williams syndrome
- developmental problems
- developmental trajectories


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Synonyms for (noun) chess opening
Synonyms: chess opening, opening
Definition: a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess
Usage: he memorized all the important chess openings
Similar words: sequence, succession
Definition: the action of following in order
Usage: he played the trumps in sequence
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Students will be given a yellow receipt that is a valid Instruction Permit until their hard-card photo permit comes in the mail. The yellow receipt is valid for 60 days. If the hard-card photo permit is not received within 60 days, it is your responsibility to call the Minnesota Department of Public Safety at the phone number shown on the yellow receipt.
The Instruction Permit allows the student to practice driving with a licensed driver who is age 21 or older. The student must have the Instruction Permit with them at all times while driving. The student is required to hold the Instruction Permit for a minimum of six months before attempting their Road Test. The Instruction Permit is valid for two years and is renewable.
To be eligible to take the Knowledge Test and apply for an Instruction Permit, students must:
- Be at least 15 years old
- Have complete 30 hours of classroom instruction and received their Blue Card from Safeway
- Bring a primary and secondary form of identification
Primary Forms: certified birth certificate or valid passport
Secondary Forms: school issued ID card or original Social Security card
- Present their Blue Card from Safeway
- Present their Minnesota ID card (if they have one)
- Know their Social Security number (must be provided on application)
- Pass a Vision Test
- Have their photo taken
- Pay the fee of $15.50 (credit cards not accepted)
- Have a parent or guardian available to sign the application


unbounded operator
This page is about unbounded linear operators on Hilbert spaces. For operators on Hilbert spaces, "bounded" and "continuous" are synonymous, so the first question to be answered is: Why consider unbounded, i.e., discontinuous operators in a category that is a subcategory of Top? The reason is simple: It is forced upon us both by applications, such as quantum mechanics, and by the fact that simple and useful operators like differentiation are not bounded. Happily, in most applications the operators considered retain some sort of "limit property", namely the property of being "closed". Although that seems to be negligible compared to continuity, it allows the development of a rich and useful theory, and as a consequence there is a tremendous amount of literature devoted to this subject.
One way of dealing with unbounded operators is via affiliated operators, see there.
Example: differentiation is unbounded
Let \mathcal{H} be the Hilbert space L 2()L^2(\mathbb{R}), and let TT be the differentiation operator defined on the dense subspace of Schwartz functions ff by Tf(x)f(x)Tf(x) \coloneqq f'(x). One might hope TT has a continuous extension to all of L 2L^2, but consider the sequence f k(x):=exp(k|x|)f_k(x) := \exp(-k|x|) for kk \in \mathbb{N}. Then we have Tf kf k=k\frac{\|Tf_k\|}{\|f_k\|} = k, so TT is unbounded.
Note that the domain of definition of an unbounded operator will generally be given only on a dense subspace, as in this example. Indeed, the existence of unbounded operators defined everywhere (on a Hilbert space) is non-constructive, relying on the Hahn–Banach theorem and refutable in dream mathematics.
After the definition we will look at some concepts that can be transferred from the bounded context here.
We will talk about the von Neumann algebra that contains all spectral projections? here.
Finally we give some counterexamples, i.e., phenomena that contradict the intuition built from bounded operators here.
An unbounded operator TT on a Hilbert space \mathcal{H} is a linear operator defined on a subspace DD of \mathcal{H}. DD is necessarily a linear submanifold. Usually one assumes that DD is dense in \mathcal{H}, which we will do, too, unless we indicate otherwise.
In particular every bounded operator A:A: \mathcal{H} \to \mathcal{H} is an unbounded operator (red herring principle).
Domains: a first look
Unbounded operators are not defined on the whole Hilbert space, so it is essential that, when talking about a specific unbounded operator, we are actually talking about the pair (T,D T)(T, D_T) of an operator TT together with its domain D TD_T. In particular two unbounded operators T,ST, S are equal iff their domains are equal, D T=D SD_T = D_S, and for all xD S=D Tx \in D_S=D_T we have Tx=SxTx = Sx.
If the domain is not specified, the default definition of the domain of a given operator TT is simply D T:={x|Tx}D_T := \{x \in \mathcal{H} \vert Tx \in \mathcal{H} \}.
Warning: if one composes two unbounded operators TT and SS, it may happen that D TD S={0}D_T \cap D_S = \{0\}. If we insist that all our unbounded operators are densely defined, we need as an additional assumption that D TD SD_T \cap D_S is dense to make sense of the composite TST S.
The Hellinger-Toeplitz theorem
 - Theorem: Let AA be an everywhere defined linear operator on a Hilbert space \mathcal{H} that is symmetric. Then A is bounded.
For the definition of symmetric see below.
The Hellinger-Toeplitz theorem is a no-go theorem for quantum mechanics. Since it is known that operators essential for quantum mechanics are both symmetric and unbounded, we are led to conclude that they cannot be everywhere defined. This means that the problems that accompany only densely defined operators cannot be avoided.
This is a corollary to the closed graph theorem III.2 in the book
 - Reed, M.; Simon, B.: Methods of modern mathematical physics. Volume 1, Functional Analysis
Closedness, selfadjointness, resolvent
Recall that the graph of an operator TT (or any function, in general) is the subset 𝒢 T:={(x,y)×|Tx=y}\mathcal{G}_T := \{(x, y) \in \mathcal{H} \times \mathcal{H} \vert Tx = y \}. The graph of a given operator need not be closed (in the product topology of ×\mathcal{H} \times \mathcal{H}). The notion that will be a surrogate for continuity is "closable", defined as follows:
 - Definition: Given an operator T with domain D TD_T, any operator TT' with larger domain that is equal to TT on D TD_T is called an extension of T, we write TTT \subset T'.
 - Definition: An operator is closed if its graph is closed.
 - Definition: An operator is closable if it has a closed extension. The smallest such extension is called the closure of TT and is denoted by T¯\overline{T}.
 - Proposition (closure of graph is graph of closure): If an operator TT is closable, then the closure of its graph 𝒢¯\overline{\mathcal{G}} is the graph of an operator, and this operator is its closure.
The last part deserves some elaboration: Given an operator TT, we can always form the closure of its graph 𝒢\mathcal{G}. How can the closure not be the graph of an operator? Given a sequence (x n)(x_n) in 𝒢\mathcal{G}, such that both limits xlim nx nx \coloneqq \lim_{n \to \infinity} x_n and ylim nTx ny \coloneqq \lim_{n \to \infinity} T x_n exist, we have that (x,y)(x, y) is in the closure of 𝒢\mathcal{G}. Now it may happen that there is another point (x,y)(x, y') in the closure with yyy \neq y', which implies that the closure cannot be the graph of a single valued function.
We may assume without loss of generality that lim nx n=0\lim_{n \to \infinity} x_n = 0, so that we get as a characterisation of closability: if ylim nTx ny \coloneqq \lim_{n \to \infinity} T x_n exists, then y=0y=0. It TT were continuous, we would not have to assume that (Tx n)(Tx_n) is convergent, so this additional assumption tells us in what respect closability is weaker than continuity.
 - Definition: For a closed operator TT a subset DD of D TD_T is called a core of TT if T| D¯=T\overline{T \vert_{D}} = T. In other words: if we restrict TT to DD and take the closure, we obtain again TT.
Example of an operator that is not closable
We let T *T^* be the adjoint of an operator TT. Note that for an only densely defined TT, the domain of the adjoint may be strictly larger.
 - Definition (selfadjoint et al.): An operator is symmetric (or Hermitian) if T=T *| D TT = T^* \vert_{D_T} (the adjoint is restricted to the domain of TT). It is selfadjoint if it is symmetric and D T=D T *D_T = D_{T^*}. A symmetric operator is essentially selfadjoint if its closure is selfadjoint.
The difference of being symmetric and being selfadjoint is crucial, although there is a famous anecdote that seems to indicate otherwise:
 - Anecdote of selfadjointness: Once upon a time John von Neumann thanked Werner Heisenberg for the invention of quantum mechanics, because this had led to the development of so much beautiful mathematics, adding that mathematics paid back a part of the debt by clarifying for example the difference of a selfadjoint operator and one that is only symmetric. Heisenberg replied: "What is the difference?"
Nevertheless theorems that assume an operator to be selfadjoint will be not applicable to an operator that is only symmetric. One example is the spectral theorem.
Example of a symmetric, but not selfadjoint, operator
The definition of the resolvent does not pose any problems compared to the bounded case:
 - Definition: let TT be a closed operator on a Hilbert space \mathcal{H}. A complex number λ\lambda is in the resolvent set ρ(T)\rho(T) if λ𝟙T\lambda \mathbb{1} - T is a bijection of D TD_T and \mathcal{H} with bounded inverse. The inverse operator is called the resolvent R λ(T)R_{\lambda}(T) of TT at λ\lambda.
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ulation students are like this. The majority of top 10 students are still bumi students but in general, perhaps the bottom 50 percent are also from matriculation.
Of course, when I was still employed there, we lecturers do give our input to the powers-that-be in the university. We even suggested doing away with the matriculation and have one university entry examination.
We were told it was not for us to decide, the politicians are the ones who make the decisions. Try talking to rational, farsighted malay educationists (not nationalists) and they will give you the same suggestion.
When I suggested to some post-SPM malay students (who excelled in the SPM) to choose STPM over matriculation, they refused to do so, citing teachers who said that the STPM was difficult and more so for malays because Form Six teachers were mainly Chinese and non-bumis!
Life in matriculation schools is about cramming information. Interaction is only amongst the bumis with a sprinkling of non-malays who perhaps will also keep to themselves. There is very minimal cross interaction and learning from students of other races.
It is not so bad for those who came from an urban background, but for the malays who are from rural schools, they will remain in their cocoon. Hence, when they enter university, it is an emotional and cultural shock.
You can't blame the students (both bumis and non-bumis) for only clicking with their own kind. They feel insecure with the other and they sometimes compete unhealthily. Knowledge is not shared and it is not unusual to hear that important reference materials only get passed from one person to another of the same race.
Study groups consist only of one group of students of the same race. Talk about polarisation. Who polarised them? Talk about unity and Bangsa Malaysia, who disunited them?
I do not understand why the government cannot see the 'loss' the bumi students are experiencing in the long run. Let's adopt one entry system. The setback will only be temporary to the bumis.
I can only say that the 'heroic' act by our prime minister in allowing the 128 non-bumi students to do medicine is a political ploy and the scripts have been acted out well.
Anonymous said...
In the end, this guy wraps himself up in colors of Malay agenda and anything justify it. He has spent thousands on billboards, on publicity event and now this adds. Imagine what can be done academically with that money he has spent in defending himself in these short few weeks. He is a fascist and ideologue. If he was a bit younger and his career had stalled, he would be a terrorist now.
Billboard-Hashim hell no, he won't go.
johnleemk said...
cool girl:
Parliament does have many people from different races. However, they are only there for show, as UMNO has admitted: "In Malaysia, everybody knows that Malays are the masters of this land. We rule this country as provided for in the federal constitution." And welfare in Malaysia actually is very much based on handouts. Loans are not repaid. APs are handed out without anything expected in return except some kickbacks. By and large, most welfare programmes, especially for the Malays, are just complicated ways of making a handout look like something else. (Malay author M. Bakri Musa has written extensively about this in his book The Malay Dilemma Revisited.)
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Hisyam said...
Talking about the natural twister of facts.. during my National Service(first batch) period in UM,he manipulated all the rules and regulations in order to maintain stability.If thats not bad enough,he further "brainwashed" us naive trainees so that we wont revolt against his policies and instilled fear deep in our veins..truly the works of an academician and a father to us all
Anonymous said...
"The Malay Dilemma" and "The Malay Dilemma Revisited" are two of the books revealing the weaknesses of Malays. But did they do something to amend their weaknesses using the correct way, like work harder, compete equally etc? They did "work hard", and with the fastest way, implementing unfair policies. How many of you all will agree that the policies are not benefiting the Malays? From the economy to the society and to the education system, all policies were meant to "close" the loop in their mind and body.
I remember they like to say "takkan melayu hilang di muka bumi." Certainly they wont, given their high birth rate. They were paid to give birth! Else how is it possible that each and every Malay family has around 5 to 6 children? How is it possible that a rubber tapper can sustain his family of 7? That's where our taxes went, while most of it went down to the pocket of "person-in-charge". Roughly 75% of Malaysia's population now is Malay. Compare the percentage to say, 10 or 20 years ago and you will understand what i mean.
At the same time, while claiming that the current education system is the best for our country, how many of the ministers' children are experiencing it? All their children were outstation in prestige colleges and universities, funded by tax payer. Another example, why would they go to America or Germany for treatment when they keep boasting that local health ammenities are up to international standard?
All these prove a very simple thing. They just talk cock. They dont even sure that the policy are good and have no confident in what they do. They carry out such policy just to make sure they stay in power, by winning the Malays' heart and most of those unaware non-bumis as well.
In Bernama, Pak Lah just announce that NEP will stay, as long as the gap between the poor and the rich exists. In a free economy, this will always be the case. How can the gap be narrowed if they dont work hard? Just ask any neo-classical or Keynesian economists how an economy works.
Let's assume that they are trying to perform an intra-generational transfer to yield a Pareto improvement, by neglecting the rights of other races. If they are transfering wealth to the poor in this way, it would be better to practice socialism or communism, where everything belongs to the country and no personal assets are allowed.
After 35 years of NEP, how has it benefited the countr as a whole? No one benefited in the end except those in power.
Jee said...
As a UM graduate I am saddened by all the bad publicity recently.
During my study it's generally known fact that the UM academic quality was and is dropping. Too many political issues involved, local lecturers are more keen in politics than in teaching; while foreign lecturers are not given the respect they deserved. Inadequate facilities, improfessional staffs, imbalance student qualities, improper code of ethics..
What saddened me most is the graduates have to face the 'humiliation' of this cause. After all it is still undeniable that some of the Malaysian best qualified students are stuying in UM, they deserved to be noticed as bright and accountable.
Anonymous said...
I am appalled by all these... esecially by vovo, cool girl and romsam and johnleemk...and others
The points on UM weaknesses may be valid, but why bash the Malays?
It seems the UM weaknesses is being used by non-Malays especially Chinese to bash the Malays in general...
That is a sad reflection of the fractured racially based civil society in Malaysia...
johnleemk said...
I am not bashing the Malays. I am bashing the handouts they are receiving. As a people, handouts and quotas have weakened their capability to compete, and as a result, weakened Malaysia and UM's capability to compete. Malaysia cannot struggle on with only the Chinese and Indias actively driving the economy forward. We need the Malays as well. That is how Malaysia and UM can improve.
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Anonymous said...
Exactly, we are not bashing nor having any racism feeling in our post. We are concerned about the future of Malaysia. After all it is where we are borned and somewhere we belong to. All of us are responsible to the good and bad of our own country. One of the ways to improve is to have a fair competition so that Malaysia can take off faster. Without competition, no one has the motivation to work hard and this is what we meant.
Anonymous said...
For Datuk from the MOHE,
we feel we are ready for only one system of university entrance exam like what practice in Korea...
If our students can't even compete among our own system, what do think our National car could compete the Hyundai -- made by the cream of the cream from the Korean educational system!!
Fikir betul-betul Datuk!
We are in a globalised economy!
johnleemk said...
Are you kidding? The Korean system is crazy. Did you even read the article you linked to? We should be modeling our education system after the Finns', not the Koreans'.
Anonymous said...
Nobody wants a polarised society but the Malays in power taken steps which make other races around them lost respect for them. Hashim Yaacob do has to be sacked, but for all you know, he might stay in power too because he has political ties with some minister.
I wonder, why is he still in power after all the fiasco and stunts he pulled. Over and over again he keep repeating the speech above. I really


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Plant And Protect - DISHONOR LONDON
Why do we donate part of every sale to both protect existing forests and planting new trees?
The short answer is, both actions are essential in the fight against climate change. It's incredibly important to protect old forests as well as the new. New trees take years to develop their carbon-absorbing powers; mature forests are already doing the job.
The Amazon Rainforests are home to over 10% of the world's known species. It's estimated that there are over 40,000 different plants, many of which are the basis of essential pharmaceutical medicines.
Illegal timber poaching and commercialisation of the rainforest is leading to deforestation at an alarming rate of three football fields per minute. It takes decades to recover the damage done in a single minute. Preserving these ecosystems, and supporting local communities that protect them are also brilliant side effects of conserving existing trees.
We believe that we all have a responsibility to protect the world in which we love. If the rainforest is the lungs of the planet together we can help the world breathe.


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Global symmetry plays a crucial role in the study of QFT. Recently, various generalizations of the concept of global symmetry has been proposed. In the talks I would like to discuss the notion called "categorical symmetry", or various other names, particularly in 1+1 dimensions. Such a "symmetry" lacks its inverse, and described by the mathematical concept of a fusion category, instead of a group. Physically it refers to the collection of all the topological line defects exists in the 2d QFT. A "categorical symmetry" is preserved along an RG flow, as an ordinary symmetry and its 't Hooft anomaly does, which is crucial in its applications. It sometimes admits the notion of "gauging", too.
In the first two talks, I will introduce the general concept and its properties.


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Commonly used to refer to a MUD player who
eats, sleeps, and breathes MUD. Mudheads have been known to fail
their degrees, drop out, etc., with the consolation, however, that
they made wizard level. When encountered in person, on a MUD, or
in a chat system, all a mudhead will talk about is three topics:
the tactic, character, or wizard that is supposedly always unfairly
stopping him/her from becoming a wizard or beating a favorite MUD;
why the specific game he/she has experience with is so much better
than any other; and the MUD he or she is writing or going to write
because his/her design ideas are so much better than in any
existing MUD. See also wannabee.
To the anthropologically literate, this term may recall the
Zuni/Hopi legend of the mudheads or 'koyemshi', mythical
half-formed children of an unnatural union. Figures representing
them act as clowns in Zuni sacred ceremonies. Others may recall
the 'High School Madness' sequence from the Firesign Theatre album
"Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers", in which there
is a character named "Mudhead".
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What is Faraday's constant in chemistry?
The Faraday constant, denoted by the symbol F and sometimes stylized as ℱ, is named after Michael Faraday. In chemistry and physics, this constant represents the magnitude of electric charge per mole of electrons. It has the currently accepted value. F = 96485.
What is the formula for electrolysis?
m = E x I x t /96,485, where m is the mass of the substance produced in g; Z is the electrochemical equivalent, which is the mass of a substance produced at the electrode during electrolysis by one coulomb of charge; I is the current in Ampere(A); t is the time in seconds; and 96,485 is the Faraday's constant and is
What is a Faraday equal to?
faraday. [ făr′ə-dā′ ] A measure of electric charge equal to the charge carried by one mole of electrons, about 96,494 coulombs per mole. The faraday is used in measurements of the electricity required to break down a compound by electrolysis.
What is Faraday's first electrolysis law?
First law. Michael Faraday reported that the mass( ) of elements deposited at an electrode in g is directly proportional to the Charge( ) in Coulombs. Here, the constant of proportionality.
What is N in Nernst equation?
E = cell potential at standard-state conditions. R = ideal gas constant = 8.314 J/mol-K. T = temperature (kelvin), which is generally 25 C (298 K) n = number of moles of electrons transferred in the balanced equation. F = Faraday's constant, the charge on a mole of electrons = 95,484.56 C/mol.
What is a Coulomb equal to?
The coulomb is defined as the quantity of electricity transported in one second by a current of one ampere. Named for the 18th–19th-century French physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, it is approximately equivalent to 6.24 × 1018 electrons.
What is Z in Faraday's Law?
Faradays first electrolysis Law states that the quantity of reaction taking place in terms of mass of ions formed or discharged from an electrolyte is proportional to the amount of electric current passed. Z is the electrochemical equivalent mass of one coulomb charge.
What is Z in M ZIt?
- Answer – – In W = ZIt, Z means electrochemical equivalent. – Its value is calculated by – Z = M / nF. where, M = molecular mass, n = moles of electrons used, 1 F = 96500 C.
What is Faraday's first and second law?
Faraday's Laws of Electromagnetic Induction consists of two laws. The first law describes the induction of emf in a conductor and the second law quantifies the emf produced in the conductor.
What is the symbol for farad?
What is Faraday famous for?
Faraday is most famous for his contributions to the understanding of electricity and electrochemistry. In this work he was driven by his belief in the uniformity of nature and the interconvertibility of various forces, which he conceived early on as fields of force.
What is a Faraday machine?
A Faraday cage or Faraday shield is an enclosure used to block electromagnetic fields. A Faraday shield may be formed by a continuous covering of conductive material, or in the case of a Faraday cage, by a mesh of such materials.


Definder - what does the word mean?
What is the bulk?
A large package. Doesn't mean great in bed.
Girl1:Dude, that guys has huge bulk
Girl2:Was he any good?
Girl1: Not really.
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The bulk - what is it?
Something that is magnificent and gets the Bois aroused. Is also eligible on the Bulk scale
"Mate, that maths lesson was so bulk, I couldn't believe how bulk it was"
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What does "the bulk" mean?
Used in place of "really" or "very".
Man, I'm bulk tired.
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The bulk - what does it mean?
What you obtain in the gym.
- "Ole boy's really gettin' that bulk."
- "I need to square away that bulk today."
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The bulk - meaning
Noun - Another word for male genitalia, typically utilized in literary erotica.
Then came the moment when he pressed his bulk, warm and throbbing, against my upper thigh.
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The bulk - definition
A word used to describe the large amounts of something
Lets go to the club for bulk chicks and drinks
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The bulk - slang
A fat person's excuse for overeating.
Friend 1: Dude you ate a large big mac meal, a chocolate block and krispy kreme doughnuts
Friend 2: I'm bulking
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The bulk
Bulking is a process commonly used by an individual wishing to gain weight. Commonly used in bodybuilding (Off-Season) but will also be used by fitness enthusiast. Bulking attempts to build MUSCLE MASS
Simply it is an attempt to eat a healthy diet to gain weight, whilst minimising fat gains. The basic principle of bulking to to consume more calories than you expend. Typically a bulking diet will consist of around 6-8 meals per day, spread out every 2-3 hours. A cleverly structured diet will show the breakdown of carbs,protein and fats. Typical bulking calories usually range from aroun 3000 to 6000 and should be tailored to the needs of the individual and specific goals.
Many bodybuilders/individuals will bulk over the winter season and then cut (cutting diet) in the summer. Cutting to cut down on the fat gain by a bulking diet. In general (except n00b gains) it is exceptionally hard to gain weight and loose bodyfat at the same time (excluding the use of steroids+genetics) therefore you cannot bulk and cut at the same time! You can use variety such as cylical bulking e.g. Bulk for 4 weeks/Cut for 2 weeks repeat process..this is an attempt to minimise fat gains.
Foods/supplements commonly used in a bulking diet include: Protein powder,eggs,steak,wholegrain pasta,tuna,nuts
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eating more and training heavier in order to gain muscle; an excuse for overeating
1. He started bulking for the bodybuilding contest.
2. Joe: Dude, you've already eaten ribs, a Big Mac, a McChicken, Doritos, Cheetos and Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, and drank 3 Coca-Colas, a Mountain Dew, and 2 cups of Gatorade, and you're still eating?
Jack: I'm bulking.
3. KSI: I'm not fat, I'm bulking!
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Someone's excuse to not be called fat. The opposite of hulking. For example KSIOlajidebtHD
Fan: can I get a picture ksi
Ksi: sure (gets in position for pic)
Fan: your taking up the whole shot fat boy
Ksi: it's not fat it's bulk. I'm bulking
"I'm NoT fAt I'm BuLkInG!"
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The evolutionary term descent with modification is most often associated with human evolution, but it is actually a more general term than that would suggest. Simply put, descent with modification means that traits are passed down from generation to generation and sometimes undergo changes or modifications over time. These changes may be caused by Natural Selection or even a mutation of DNA.
The term became popular when Charles Darwin used it in his book The Descent of Man. Since the term was used in conjunction with his idea that humans were related ancestrally to primates, the term descent with modification has become synonymous with the human lineage on the tree of life. However, this is only part of the actual meaning of the term.
On a microevolution level, descent with modification would indicate a change in DNA that leads to a new or different adaptation that could be favorable for a species in that given environment. On a macroevolution level, this term would describe how a species has changed over time and may have even become a new species or gave rise to an additional species through speciation.
Descent with modification can be used to describe changes in a species over generations. For instance, modern day elephants have the traits they have because of descent with modification from their ancestors. Primitive relatives of elephants were as small as a domestic dog at one point. Other points throughout an elephant's evolutionary history had species with long, shaggy hair and extremely long and curly tusks. Through descent with modification, the elephant is now a large animal with smaller tusks and much less hair.


One of the joys of summer is having an abundance of fresh fruit to eat and cook with.
The best way to keep any fruit fresher longer to to keep it whole and with the stem attached.
Apples and peaches and pears we never cut into before using because they will turn brown and maybe even mushy.
But most times we never think about stemming berries, cherries, and grapes for using later.
It is easier, but not better.
All berries, including grapes will keep longer with the stem attached.
So, if you want to make something with them, stem and/or pit them right before using.
If you stem them, they will only last a few days at most. Unstemmed, they can last up to a week or maybe longer.
Plus, if you stem or pit them they will lose nutritional value. If any of the skin gets ripped and exposes the inner fruit they just won't be as healthy.
So, if you grow or pick your own berries or cherries, cut the stems when you pick instead of just pulling the berry off the stem.
Raspberries, due to the way they grow, do just get pulled off the stem.
If you buy them and they still have the stems, leave them til you are going to use them.


What to Do if Your Spouse Is Hiding Assets or Lying About Their Finances During a Divorce
Marriage is a crucial part of a person's life. It matters a lot to some, while some do not give it its due importance. Although it can be a beautiful relationship, marriages do not always work out. Often, the relationship based on mutual trust and support does not seem to work out because one of the people involved in the relationship stops putting in effort.
As much as it is difficult to survive such relationships, selfish partners can also make the divorce process lengthy and painful. One of the issues couples usually face is that one person starts lying and hiding the assets.
While it is despicable and deplorable, there are ways through which you can get your due share and hold your partner accountable. If you are from San Bernardino, you can always rely on a strong San Bernardino family law firm in the area. This article will further tell you how you can counter such a situation.
What Are Assets and How Can Anyone Hide Them?
One of the prerequisites of escalating a divorce process is declaring the assets made by both parties. It is possible that one of the parties may not disclose all the assets. The prime reason for this to occur is that the other party does not want to share the assets with their spouse. While such cases do occur, most of these are abundant in cases where one of the parties has a business or excellent net worth.
But how does one hide the assets? There are several ways through which you can hide your assets. As far as businesspersons are concerned, these people may hold their big deals and investments until the finalization of the divorce. This way, they save their money from sharing.
Your spouse can also transfer your money to someone, disguise it as a charity or a gift, or hide it in an offshore account, and once the divorce is done, they can always retain their money or property back. They might have to pay for such an action, but that probably costs them much less than actually sharing half of the capital.
Spouses also find new partners during the divorce process, which also does not let them share their property or money due to the new partner's expenses.
How Can You Find the Assets Your Spouse Is Hiding?
While the hiding of assets is there and people do it, that does not mean that the other spouse won't know about it. There are ways where you can find out if your spouse is hiding the assets from you or not.
People think that because they did not manage the money the spouse made, they can't request for documents and proof of the properties. However, this doesn't seem right. You can always ask for the property documents for clarification and to be on the safe side.
Your San Bernardino family lawyer must be aware of various ways to locate the assets and properties – both hidden and unhidden. One way of doing it is getting in a detailed Q&A session with the authorities.
No matter how perfectly your spouse manages to conceal the assets, there is always a way to find it, and these detailed interrogations almost always work. This process is called divorce discovery. There are other options and forms too.
Penalty for Hiding Assets:
The penalties for hiding assets vary from state to state. In some cases, the spouse is jailed for some time, and in some cases, they are fined. The fines may vary according to the court decision and state laws.
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Accumulated base: 50 F degree days and departure from normal-May 1 through July 29, 2007.
The third week of July produced slightly above average temperatures in the northwest two-thirds of Iowa, with southeast Iowa right on average. We are now entering the second part of the traditional dog days of summer, a period from July 3 to about August 11. It is named for the astronomical pairing of the sun with the dog star, Sirius, the brightest star in the northern hemisphere. Ancients thought the dog star added to the heat of the sun and attributed the star with oppressive summer heat.
Crops are progressing, but particularly in dry areas, soybeans have been slow to fill rows (if they have) and corn has now pollinated for the most part. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, any rain would be welcome nearly anywhere in the Iowa.
Rich Pope is an extension program specialist working with the Iowa State University Corn and Soybean Initiative.
This article originally appeared on page 246 of the IC-498(21) -- July 30, 2007 issue.


Red Flag: Questionable Contract Amendments (Change Orders)
Questionable contract amendments, or "change orders," include those that:
 - Increase the value of a contract without adequate justification or documentation;
 - Increase the price of a sole source contract award above the sole source threshold;
 - Promptly follow a low bid award, making the contract price higher than other bid prices;
 - Are disproportionately approved for certain contractors, i.e., certain contractors receive multiple questionable change orders when others do not.
Questionable change orders are commonly used to fund bribe payments.
This red flag can indicate the following schemes:
Click on the schemes listed above to see more information on each scheme, a more complete listing of their red flags and steps to determine if the schemes are actually present.


Medical Math for Dummies
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Medical Math for Dummies :
Medical Math for Dummies
The Basics :
The Basics The Metric System Basic units of measure: meter – linear liter – volume gram – weight (mass) Each unit is subdivided in units of 10 by moving the decimal point.
Abbreviations :
Abbreviations Kilogram is kg Milligram/Milliliter is mg/ml Microgram is mcg or ug Milliequivilant is mEq
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KILO – 1,000 times greater than Centi – 100 times greater than Deci – 10 times greater than MILLI – 1,000 times less than MICRO – 1,000,000 times less than
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SO…………… 1 kg = 1000 mg 1 mg = 1000 mcg 1 kg = 1,000,000 mcg
General Rules :
General Rules DO NOT capitalize: use "ml" or "kg" No periods in the abbreviations Single space between quantity and unit of measure (25 mg not 25mg) Do not use plurals (35 mg not 35 mgs) Anything less than 1 must have a zero to the left of the decimal (0.25 mg)
Other units to remember :
Other units to remember 1 T (tablespoon) = 3 t (teaspoon) 1 t = 5 ml 1 T = 15 ml cc means the same thing as ml
Things to remember!!!! :
Things to remember!!!!
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Amount of Drug or Amount on hand How much drug is in the box or the syringe. For example, Epinephrine comes packaged 1 mg in 10 cc. This will be expressed as 1 mg/10cc. This means that there is 1mg of Epi in 10 cc of fluid (almost always saline). Because of diffusion, it will NEVER separate and each drop will always have the same amount of drug.
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Dripsets gtts means drops per cc/ml 10 gtts set, 15 gtts set, 60 gtts set, means that for every 10, 15, or 60 drops that falls in the drip chamber, 1 cc/ml of fluid has passed and therefore into the patient.
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Weight All weights will be in kg. There are two methods to convert a patients weight from pounds to kilograms. Example 1: Take the weight in pounds and divide it by 2.2. Pt wt is 220 pounds. 100 2.2 220.0 100 kg
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Example 2: Divide the weight in pounds in ½ and then subtract 10% from that number. 220 pounds divided by ½ is 110. 110 minus 10% (11) is 99 which we can round up to 100 kg 220 pounds = 100 kg
Rounding off…. :
Rounding off…. When you are trying to figure out drug dosages round off the weight to the closest 5 or 10 digit number. For example 82 kg can be rounded to 80. 93 kg can be rounded to 95. It will make your math much easier and the change in drug amount will be minimal.
Four easy steps….. :
Four easy steps….. Calculate the Desired Dose Calculate the Concentration Calculating the cc's or ml's Calculating Drip Rates
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Desired Dose or DD The amount of drug ordered by the physician or standing orders For example: Dr Smith orders you to push 1mg of Epi. The desired dose is then 1mg. If the drug to be given depends on the patients weight, then you may have to calculate the desired dose.
Calculating the Desired Dose :
Calculating the Desired Dose Dr. Smith orders you to give your 198 pound patient dopamine at a dose of 5 mcg/kg. Since we know that it is a "weight based" drug, we first need to figure out the weight in kg. 90 2.2 1980 So 198 pounds is 90 kg. The DD is 5 mcg/kg. This means that for every one kg of patient body weight, we will give 5 mcg of drug. Therefore 90 x 5 mcg = 450 mcg. The desired dose then is finalized at 450 mcg.
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Concentration or Yield The amount of drug in 1 cc/ml or fluid. amount of drug Conc = ---------------------- amount of fluid
Calculating the Concentration :
Calculating the Concentration Remember that in all cases, concentration is expressed as mg/cc or mg/ml. 1 mg/10 cc 2 mg/2 cc 50 mg/2 cc 1 gm/250 ml Don't forget. We need the concentration to be in its base form. ie., mg per 1 cc or mg/cc 2 mg/2 cc = 1 mg/cc
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The units for the desired dose and the concentration must be the same. For example, if the DD is in mg or g, then the concentration must match that. Make sure that the concentration is expressed in its most basic form. Ie., mg/cc? just one cc.
So far… :
So far… Step 1 = DD Step 2 = Concentration (always weight/cc or ml. Ie., mg/cc or ml
Review :
Review Doctor orders you do give 20 mg of Lasix IV. On hand you have Lasix 40 mg in 4 cc. a. What is the desired dose? 20 mg b. What is the Concentration? 10 mg/cc
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You have been ordered to give 8 mg of Calcium Chloride. In your box is a vial that contains 20 mg in 5 cc. a. What is the DD? 8 mg b. What is the concentration? 4 mg/cc
STEP 3 :
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Calculate the amount of cc's to be delivered. DD ____ C
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The desired dose of Drug A is 500 mg. It comes packaged 50 mg/cc. You have been ordered to give 1 mg/kg of lidocaine IV. Your patient weighs 176 pounds. The prefilled syringe contains 100 mg in 5 cc.
Review… :
Review… Step 1. Calculate the DD Step 2. Calculate the Concentration Step 3. Calculate the # of cc to be given. Remember to always bring your units with you and cancel out any zeros that you can.
STEP 4 :
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Generally speaking, when you… Have to mix a drug into a bag of fluid Have a problem that states "hang a drip" Are dealing with specific drugs such as Dopamine that are always given as a drip We are talking about hanging a bag of fluid that has had some sort of drug mixed in it and that will be infused over a certain amount of time, or until you have reached a desired effect.
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Some general rules regarding hanging a drip. - We do not add the amount of fluid that is in the vial to the total fluid amount in the bag. For example, if our Dopamine comes in a vial that says 400 mg/10 cc and we are putting it into a 250 cc bag of D5W, we don't add the 10 cc to the 250 to make 260 cc. The addition of the 10 cc to the 250 will have an insignificant change in the concentration, and to make our math a bit easier, we do not include it. - Unless otherwise noted, we will always use a 60 gtts/cc drip set
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Calculating the drip rate is necessary to deliver the desired dose. cc which we figured in step 3 x Drip set in gtts/cc ------------------- Time always expressed in minutes
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The TIME factor will ALWAYS be per minute in your calculations. For example 2 hours is expressed as 120 minutes.
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You have been ordered to hang a Lidocaine drip @ 4 mg/min. To get your bag ready, you mix 1 g in a 250 cc bag of D5W. Using a mini drip, calculate how many drops per minute you must deliver. Step 1. What is the DD? 4 mg/min Step 2. What is the Concentration? Remember, since the desired dose is in mg, then the concentration must be in mg also. 1 g = 1000 mg. 1000 mg/250 cc = 4 mg/cc. 1000 divided by 250 is 4. Therefore the C is 4 mg/cc.
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Step 3. Calculate the # of cc to be given. Remember the formula DD ----- C 4 mg 4 mg/cc 1 cc (remember we can cancel out the mg units) ---------- Therefore, 1 cc of fluid will be given. In that 1 cc, 4 mg of lidocaine will be infused.
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Step 4. Calculate the drip rate. Remember the formula… cc x drip factor --------------------- time Now we just plug in our numbers from steps 1, 2, and 3.
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1 cc (from step 3) x 60 gtts/cc (from


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Red Medicine: Traditional Indigenous Rites of Birthing and Healing
By Patrisia Gonzales
Patrisia Gonzales addresses "Red Medicine" as a system of healing that includes birthing practices, dreaming, and purification rites to re-establish personal and social equilibrium. The book explores Indigenous medicine across North America, with a special emphasis on how Indigenous knowledge has endured and persisted among peoples with a legacy to Mexico. Gonzales combines her lived experience in Red Medicine as an herbalist and traditional birth attendant with in-depth research into oral traditions, storytelling, and the meanings of symbols to uncover how Indigenous knowledge endures over time. And she shows how this knowledge is now being reclaimed by Chicanos, Mexican Americans and Mexican Indigenous peoples.
For Gonzales, a central guiding force in Red Medicine is the principal of regeneration as it is manifested in Spiderwoman. Dating to Pre-Columbian times, the Mesoamerican Weaver/Spiderwoman--the guardian of birth, medicine, and purification rites such as the Nahua sweat bath--exemplifies the interconnected process of rebalancing that transpires throughout life in mental, spiritual and physical manifestations. Gonzales also explains how dreaming is a form of diagnosing in traditional Indigenous medicine and how Indigenous concepts of the body provide insight into healing various kinds of trauma.
Gonzales links pre-Columbian thought to contemporary healing practices by examining ancient symbols and their relation to current curative knowledges among Indigenous peoples. Red Medicine suggests that Indigenous healing systems can usefully point contemporary people back to ancestral teachings and help them reconnect to the dynamics of the natural world.


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Joints in steel construction. Simple connections - (In accordance with BS5950-1:2000) Reprinted edition (P212)
This publication provides design guidance for structural steelwork connections for use in buildings designed by the "Simple Method". This publication is another in the series of "Green Books" that cover a range of steelwork connections. (Published 2002)
This publication provides design guidance for structural steelwork connections for use in buildings designed by the "Simple Method" i.e. braced frames where connections carry mainly shear and axial loads only. It is in accordance with BS 5950-1:2000. Design guidance for a range of simple connections was originally published in two separate volumes entitled:
Joints in simple construction: Volume 1: Design Methods (P205) and Volume 2: Practical Applications (P206/92).
Availability of further research has enabled this publication to include design guidance for a wider range of simple joints and, at the same time, the opportunity has been taken to combine the two volumes. The major additions to the previous publications (Volumes 1 and 2) are:
- inclusion of design guidance for bolted connections to hot finished structural hollow sections using Flowdrill or Hollo-Bolts;
- use of fin plates for deep beams;
- inclusion of design procedures for double lines of bolts in double angle web cleats and fin plates;
- improved structural integrity guidance;
- use of fully threaded bolts;
- inclusion of bracing connections;
- inclusion of slotted and kidney shaped holes.
Comprehensive step-by-step design procedures, worked examples and capacity tables are included for double angle cleats, flexible end plates, fin plates, splices, and column base plate connections. Capacity tables have an extensive range of standard connections with shear and tying capacities tabulated in user-friendly format.
REPRINTED EDITION: The capacity tables for fin plates (H27 to H30) have been amended and included in this edition.


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Who are LeSS-Friendly Scrum Trainers?
A LeSS-Friendly Scrum Trainer is a Scrum Trainer (CTC/CST/CEC/PST) whose Scrum courses are aligned with the LeSS concepts and introduces LeSS in their Scrum course. They are also able to teach the Certified LeSS Basics course, which is a one-day introduction to LeSS.
Becoming a LeSS-friendly Scrum trainer
If you are a LeSS-friendly Scrum trainer and want to list your courses here in the future, the criteria for that are:
- Have gone through two CLP courses (with different trainers), at least one with Bas or Craig
- Be a CST/CEC/CTC or PST or be a "Candidate LeSS Trainer"
- Have your Scrum training material reviewed. For CST, their CSM. For PST, their flipcharts/additional slides. For CTC/CEC, their Scrum training.
- Share your CLB material (if teaching CLB), and not using the standard variant
- Thoroughly read both the Scaling Agile and Iterative Development book and the Large-Scale Scrum book
- Have done the post-course CLP assessment at least once, and contributed a question to the assessment.
- Recommended but not mandatory at the moment: Co-train a CLB with an existing LeSS-Friendly Scrum Trainer
The trainer will need to register the participants at the end of the course.
What to expect from a LeSS-Friendly Scrum Training
Courses from LeSS-Friendly Scrum Trainers have been reviewed and as a participant you can expect that the course:
- is consistent with Scrum.
- clearly mark what is part of Scrum and what is not.
- is consistent with LeSS.
- clarify parts of Scrum that are slighly different in LeSS.
- introduces LeSS briefly.
Expectations towards LeSS-friendly Scrum trainer
We expect the LeSS-Friendly Scrum Trainers to:
- Add your course (e.g. the CLB course, etc) here at less.works, to show in our course listings.
- Upload Scrum and LeSS training participants at the end of the course
- For the CLB courses, pay the registration fee per participant, which is 50 USD
- Share their CLB training material within the LeSS-Friendly Trainer group so they can collaborate on improvements to the standard variants
- Be friendly!
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What is the Asyra?
Asyra is a biofeedback device, using digital homeopathy to assess and balance your body. As you relax and hold its brass handles, the asyra:
* READS AND ASSESSES your organs, glands and systems via resonance vibration. Depending on your symptoms, it can conducts specific assessments, such as: * dental * hormonal * emotional * vertebral * constitutional * toxic stressors * food sensitivity * lyme disturbances * heavy metals * allergies and MANY more.
* DETECTS many disturbances at the vibrational level–before they become symptoms or disease states.
So the client with a disease state doesn't know that a vaccination disturbance from childhood, pesticide exposure from fruits and vegetables or too many X-rays have caused a burden that has taxed their body for decades, ultimately rendering them weakened.