Visual slam is a technology based on computer vision for precise indoor location and positioning.
In particular, Visual SLAM refers to the complex process of calculating the position and orientation of a device with respect to its surroundings, while mapping the environment at the same time, using only visual inputs from a camera. For example, Dragonfly is a visual SLAM technology.
Introduction to Visual SLAM
SLAM stands for "Simultaneous Localization and Mapping". This means that the device performing SLAM is able to:
 - Map the location, creating a 3D virtual map
 - Locate itself inside the map
Visual SLAM, also known as vSLAM, is a technology able to build a map of an unknown environment and perform location at the same time. It simultaneously leverage the partially built map, using just computer vision. As a result, Visual SLAM uses only visual inputs to perform location and mapping. This means that the only sensor required is a camera that has to be mounted on board of the device. No other external sensors are required, thus making this technology more flexible than LIDARS or UWB.
Today, with the great improvements in automation and robotics, vSLAM is one of the most challenging open problems for developing autonomous robots and vehicles.
For this reason, we have developed and created Dragonfly to solve this problem. We are proud to offer a robust and reliable technology for precise indoor location of robots, drones, autonomous vehicles.
In conclusion, Dragonfly is a unique patented vSLAM technology that can work with monocular and stereo cameras. In addition, it is able to provide an accuracy up to 5 cm, without the use of LiDARs or of motion sensors.
How can visual SLAM be used and what are the applications?
Visual SLAM can be used in many ways, and its main scope is to provide precise location to autonomous devices, robots, drones, vehicles.
As a result, we work with different companies all around the world to address multiple requirements and projects with Dragonfly. This is a partial list of the typical use cases that can be addressed by Dragonfly:
 - Provide location to robots and drones. Dragonfly comes with a direct ROS integration, upon request, becoming the first SLAM for ROS technology;
 - Remotely monitor the location of devices: Dragonfly can be used to track forklifts inside a warehouse for example, to optimize the operations;
 - Integrate autonomous navigation on board of Unmanned Ground or Aerial Vehicles (UGV, UAV);
 - Control the movements of machines for collision avoidance.
Drones can be programmed to use Dragonfly as a location engine, and the location data can be used as a source for autonomous navigation. In addition, ROS nodes available upon request to integrate Dragonfly SLAM for ROS.
Robots and automated devices can be tracked using Dragonfly, with an extremely high level of precision. Furthermore, ROS nodes available upon request to integrate Dragonfly SLAM for ROS.
It is possible to install Dragonfly on Forklifts, to monitor their movements inside warehouses and improve the operation management. As a result Dragonfly is currently used by many of companies for advanced warehouse management. Are you interested in a ready-to-use WMS? Take a look at the On.Plant WMS!
Dragonfly is a key component for indoor navigation. In particular, where GPS is not precise enough, or inside GPS-denied environments, Dragonfly can provide the optimal level of precision for autonomous navigation.
How can vSLAM be integrated?
Accuware Dragonfly provides all the tools to developers to integrate vSLAM. For this reason, Dragonfly offers API able to provide the real-time location of the device, and the output is a complete 6-DoF. It includes:
 - X, Y, Z coordinates, expressed in meters from an origin.
 - Absolute WGS-84 coordinates (latitude, longitude) + altitude in meters.
 - Yaw, Pitch, Roll : these values indicate the rotation of the device on the three axes. You can read more about the principle behind the Aircraft principal axes on Wikipedia.
We are open to customize the API output upon request. In particular, our R&D team can tailor the payload to address different requirements (it is possible to add the speed indication, the deliver the output in other geographic protocols, to change the type of format…). So please feel free to contact us if you have custom requests.
Accuware provides ROS nodes for direct ROS integration so that Dragonfly can be seamlessly integrated on board of Robots and devices using ROS.
Interested in the technical aspects?
Are you ready to test Dragonfly?


NSS Annapolis
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The 3 remaining towers of the NSS Annapolis.
NSS Annapolis, officially known as Naval Communications Station Washington, D.C. Transmitter or NavCommStaWashingtonDC(T), was a Very Low Frequency (VLF) and High Frequency (HF) transmitter station operated by the United States Navy.
It was located at Greenbury Point, in Anne Arundel County, across the Severn River from Annapolis, Maryland at coordinates 38°58′40″N 76°27′12″W / 38.97778°N 76.45333°W / 38.97778; -76.45333. NSS Annapolis was used by the USN for submarine communication. The station consisted of an umbrella antenna supported by a 1,200-foot (365.76 m) high central mast, which was insulated against ground, 6 guyed masts of 800-foot (243.84 m) and 3 freestanding towers of the same height.
The huge towers were a local landmark, and served as a visual reporting point for aircraft landing at the nearby Baltimore-Washington International (BWI) airport. A golf course ran through the VLF antenna farm; special rules addressed hitting a tower with a ball (usually stroke and distance). The NSS HF receiver station, and the headquarters for NavCommStaWashingtonDC(T), was located at the Naval Communications Station in Cheltenham, Maryland until 1969. In late 1969, the receiver station at Cheltenham closed and a new receiver station was activated at Sugar Grove, West Virginia.
NSS began transmitting in September, 1918 using 500 kilowatt Poulson Arc transmitters. However, arc transmitters were significantly inferior to the then state-of-the-art Alexanderson alternator and the arc transmitters were replaced by more modern vacuum tube transmitters in 1931. VLF, or "longwave" radio was the standard at the time for long range radio transmission, later to be generally replaced by shortwave.
VLF later became essential for communicating with submerged submarines, a critically important capability as submarines became strategic missile platforms. The NSS transmitter fed one million watts of radio energy to its antenna, and during idle times, transmitted the string "W W W VVV VVV VVV DE NSS NSS NSS" in Morse code. The power was so high and the frequency so low, one could hear the signal on practically any kind of receiver anywhere in the Annapolis area (not to mention within some people's dental work). Actual messages were also sent in Morse code, but were either prearranged code signals or were encrypted.
Rendered obsolete by satellite technology and the end of the cold war, NSS ceased operation and most of all of the antennas and most of the towers were demolished in 1999. Only three of the smaller towers were preserved for historic reasons.
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A book is a collection of pages that display content of a certain topic either in picture form or by means of text, and sometimes even both. In Arab people read from right to left. American presidents read books upside down.
Books are best burned or censored because sometimes they contain ideas, or in the case of [Cazzo] avoided altogether

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Chemical Sciences: A Manual for CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test for Lectureship and JRF/Nuclear magnetic resonance decoupling
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Nuclear magnetic resonance decoupling (NMR decoupling for short) is a special method used in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy where a sample to be analyzed is irradiated at a certain frequency or frequency range to eliminate fully or partially the effect of coupling between certain nuclei. NMR coupling refers to the effect of nuclei on each other in atoms within a couple of bonds distance of each other in molecules. This effect causes NMR signals in a spectrum to be split into multiple peaks which are up to several hertz frequency from each other. Decoupling fully or partially eliminates splitting of the signal between the nuclei irradiated and other nuclei such as the nuclei being analyzed in a certain spectrum. NMR spectroscopy and sometimes decoupling can help determine structures of chemical compounds.
NMR spectroscopy of a sample produces an NMR spectrum, which is essentially a graph of signal intensity on the vertical axis vs. chemical shift for a certain isotope on the horizontal axis. The signal intensity is dependent on the number of exactly equivalent nuclei in the sample at that chemical shift. NMR spectra are taken to analyze one isotope of nuclei at a time. Only certain types of isotopes of certain elements show up in NMR spectra. Only these isotopes cause NMR coupling. Nuclei of atoms having the same equivalent positions within a molecule also do not couple with each other. 1H (proton) NMR spectroscopy and 13C NMR spectroscopy analyze 1H and 13C nuclei, respectively, and are the most common types (most common analyte isotopes which show signals) of NMR spectroscopy.
Homonuclear decoupling is when the nuclei being radio frequency (r f) irradiated are the same isotope as the nuclei being observed (analyzed) in the spectrum. Heteronuclear decoupling is when the nuclei being r f irradiated are of a different isotope than the nuclei being observed in the spectrum. [1] For a given isotope, the entire range for all nuclei of that isotope can be irradiated in broad band decoupling, [2] or only a select range for certain nuclei of that isotope can be irradiated.
Practically all naturally occurring hydrogen ( H ) atoms have 1H nuclei, which show up in 1H NMR spectra. These 1H nuclei are often coupled with nearby non-equivalent 1H atomic nuclei within the same molecule. H atoms are most commonly bonded to carbon ( C ) atoms in organic compounds. About 99% of naturally occurring C atoms have 12C nuclei, which neither show up in NMR spectroscopy nor couple with other nuclei which do show signals. About 1% of naturally occurring C atoms have 13C nuclei, which do show signals in 13C NMR spectroscopy and do couple with other active nuclei such as 1H. Since the percentage of 13C is so low in natural isotopic abundance samples, the 13C coupling effects on other carbons and on 1H are negligible, and for all practical purposes splitting of 1H signals due to coupling with natural isotopic abundance carbon does not show up in 1H NMR spectra.
Similarly for all practical purposes, 13C signal splitting due to coupling with nearby natural isotopic abundance carbons is negligible in 13C NMR spectra. However, practically all hydrogen bonded to carbon atoms is 1H in natural isotopic abundance samples, including any 13C nuclei bonded to H atoms. In a 13C spectrum with no decoupling at all, each of the 13C signals is split according to how many H atoms that C atom is next to. In order to simplify the spectrum, 13C NMR spectroscopy is most often run fully proton decoupled, meaning 1H nuclei in the sample are broadly irradiated to fully decouple them from the 13C nuclei being analyzed. This full proton decoupling eliminates all coupling with H atoms and thus splitting due to H atoms in natural isotopic abundance compounds. Since coupling between other carbons in natural isotopic abundance samples is negligible, signals in fully proton decoupled 13C spectra in hydrocarbons and most signals from other organic compounds are single peaks. This way, the number of equivalent sets of carbon atoms in a chemical structure can be counted by counting singlet peaks, which in 13C spectra tend to be very narrow (thin). Other information about the carbon atoms can usually be determined from the chemical shift, such as whether the atom is part of a carbonyl group or an aromatic ring, etc. Such full proton decoupling can also help increase the intensity of 13C signals.
There can also be off-resonance decoupling of 1H from 13C nuclei in 13C NMR spectroscopy, where weaker r f irradiation results in what can be thought of as partial decoupling. In such an off-resonance decoupled spectrum, only 1H atoms bonded to a carbon atom will split its 13C signal. The coupling constant, indicating a small frequency difference between split signal peaks, would be smaller than in an undecoupled spectrum. [1] Looking at a compound's off-resonance proton-decoupled 13C spectrum can show how many hydrogens are bonded to the carbon atoms to further help elucidate the chemical structure. For most organic compounds, carbons bonded to 3 hydrogens (methyls) would appear as quartets (4-peak signals), carbons bonded to 2 equivalent hydrogens would appear as triplets (3-peak signals), carbons bonded to 1 hydrogen would be doublets (2-peak signals), and carbons not bonded directly to any hydrogens would be singlets (1-peak signals).[2]
Another method in 1H NMR is specific proton decoupling, where a rather narrow 1H frequency range is irradiated to decouple 1H nuclei (protons) from that frequency range with other nuclei, including other protons. This can be done within one 1H spectrum to help determine which protons in the 1H spectrum are next to (and thus coupled with) the irradiated protons in the molecule. [1] This specific decoupling method is also used to help elucidate chemical structure, sometimes along with 13C NMR, mass spectrometry, infrared spectroscopy, and other methods.
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The Albuquerque Historical Society actively supports educators in our mission to promote and preserve all matters relating to the history of Albuquerque. Towards that end, we provide resources and incentives for Educators. These include:
The Albuquerque Historical Society provides a Speakers Bureau as a resource for high school history and social studies teachers. Most topics are appropriate for a high school's New Mexico history class. The teacher would need to prepare their students prior to the speaker's presentation by having classroom discussion or student research on the topic. Volunteer speakers will provide their presentation upon request. Communication and scheduling is directly between the requesting teacher and the speaker. The speaker does not receive an honorarium. The speaker will indicate what audio visual equipment is needed. To find out what topics are currently available and to learn how to schedule a speaker, visit our Speakers Bureau page.
The Albuquerque Historical Society has established a source documents repository as a resource for high school history programs. Documents cover basic historical events occurring since the initiation of statehood in 1912. Creation of this information provides teachers with a readily available resource to help build lesson plans for the teaching of New Mexico history at the high school level. View our Source Documents Index page.
Teacher resource guides for Albuquerque's Tricentennial
As part of the City's celebration of it's 300th anniversary, excellent resource guides were developed for teachers. Many lesson plans are available covering diverse topics such as geology, founding of Albuquerque, trade routes, land grants, civil war, the coming of the railroad, sports and many more. These are provided in grade appropriate pdfs. Download the 4th Grade Tricentennial Teacher's Resource Guide or the 7th Grade Tricentennial Teacher's Resource Guide.
New Mexico Magazine State Centennial Issue
New Mexico Magazine published a comprehensive thirteen page article on the History of New Mexico since 1912 in their January 2012 issue. Through the generous donations by individuals and businesses, the Albuquerque Historical Society was able to supply the January 2012 issue to all Albuquerque high schools and several other schools in the state. Now, the Editors of New Mexico Magazine have graciously allowed us to distribute this article to educators directly. Download the New Mexico Magazine January 2012 State Centennial Article.
There is also an extensive Teacher's Guide to State Centennial Resources including sample lesson plans and classroom exercises managed by the University of New Mexico Libraries and funded by UNM's Center for Regional Studies,
Albuquerque's Environmental Story
The book "Albuquerque's Environmental Story: Educating for a Sustainable Community" is an award-winning teaching resource that "was created to help students relate caringly to their local natural and human environment. A primary objective of the document is to foster a mindset in Albuquerque's future citizens which can lead to a sustainable future for their community," It is still used in classrooms throughout the city and includes anecdotes about the city, hands-on science activities, teacher worksheets and questions about such topics as public policy, pollution, historic preservation, the built environment, transportation, neighborhoods and downtown redevelopment.
The New Mexico Humanities Council offers high-resolution maps through its online Atlas of Historic New Mexico Maps. The website is a rich resource for New Mexico history teachers, including a large collection of first person accounts and oral histories, archival photographs and illustrations, links to full-text resources (many of which are out of print), links to community and state historical resources, audio, and video, as well as a selection of historic maps depicting major historical eras from the first European explorations through the 1920s. The New Mexico Humanities Council has also developed lesson plans to use in conjunction with these maps. The lesson plans are designed to be a sequence, but teachers can also use them individually, to illustrate a certain point, or to supplement other classroom work on an era.

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Carmen Van Kerckhove, president of the diversity education firm New Demographic, specializes in working with corporations to facilitate relaxed, authentic, and productive conversations about race. She has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, and has visited as a guest lecturer at Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia, among many other colleges and universities across the country. If you want to learn how to boost your career by mastering the changing dynamics of race in today's workplace, get your FREE TIPS now at
How to Respond to a Racist Joke
By Carmen Van Kerckhove
Figuring out how to react when a co-worker makes a racist joke can be extremely difficult. If you don't call the person out on her racism, you seem to be condoning the behavior. But if you do say something, you risk alienating him and sabotaging your working relationship.
The best response to a racist joke should accomplish 3 things:
1. Communicate that you find this behavior unacceptable.
2. Demonstrate that the joke is racist.
3. Inflict as little damage as possible to your working relationship with the joker.
Before I explain the response I would recommend, let's look at some of the other possible reactions available to you and why they are not ideal.
You don't laugh.
Withholding your laughter is a way to avoid personally colluding in this kind of racist behavior without damaging your relationship with the joker. However, by staying silent, you do not necessarily make it clear that you find this kind of humor unacceptable and that the joke is racist.
You walk away.
People who tell racist jokes assume that you will agree with and appreciate this kind of humor. By walking away, you communicate that their behavior is unacceptable. However, the act of walking away does nothing to demonstrate the racism inherent in the joke, and the gesture is likely to anger the joker.
You say that you find the joke offensive because it is racist.
This is the most straight-forward to respond to a racist joke. With this reaction, you convey that the joke is unacceptable to you and that it is racist. However, by criticizing your co-worker in front of others in such a blunt manner, you are likely to damage your working relationship and put her on the defensive. She will likely fire back by making it seem as if you are the one with the problem. She will say that "it's just a joke," that you need to "loosen up," and that you're "just too sensitive."
I've established why the above responses are not particularly effective. So how should you react if your co-worker tells a racist joke in front of you?
The best strategy is to play dumb.
Put on a bewildered expression, act as if you don't understand the joke, and ask your co-worker to explain it to you. He will not be able to explain why the joke is funny without evoking a racist stereotype. You can then question the veracity of this stereotype, thus pointing out the racism of the joke, without being confrontational and without humiliating your co-worker.
Here's how it would play out.
Co-worker: Did you hear that Angelina Jolie adopted another kid, this time from Vietnam?
You: Oh really?
Co-worker: Yeah. The poor kid probably doesn't even know he's Asian yet. He certainly doesn't know he's going to be a horrible driver. Or that he's going to be amazing at doing nails. He has no idea! [Laughs heartily.]
You: [Look perplexed.] Sorry, I don't get it.
Co-worker: What do you mean?
You: I guess I'm missing something. Why is that funny?
Co-worker: [Looks embarrassed.] Um, well you know how people say that Asians are bad drivers. And a lot of people who work at nail salons are Asian.
You: But those are just stereotypes, aren't they?
Co-worker: Well, all stereotypes have some truth to them.
You: So you actually believe that all Asians are bad drivers and are good at doing nails?
Co-worker: No, no, it's just… Never mind.
Racist jokes rely on an unspoken, shared knowledge of racist stereotypes. Without the stereotypes, there is no humor.
When you play dumb and ask someone to explain the joke, you are able to draw the racist stereotype out into the open, address it directly, and demonstrate how absurd and offensive it is. But because you are feigning ignorance, you can accomplish all of this without alienating your co-worker and putting your working relationship in jeopardy.
(By the way, the joke I used in this scenario is an actual joke told on The Tonight Show by a comedian named Chelsea Handler. Of course, nobody on the show bothered to point out how racist it was.)
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A Brocken spectre (German Brockengespenst), also called Brocken bow or mountain spectre is the apparently enormously magnified shadow of an observer, cast upon the upper surfaces of clouds opposite the sun. The phenomenon can appear on any misty mountainside or cloud bank, or even from an aeroplane, but the frequent fogs and low-altitude accessibility of the Brocken, a peak in the Harz Mountains in Germany, have created a local legend from which the phenomenon draws its name. The Brocken spectre was observed and described by Johann Silberschlag in 1780, and has since been recorded often in literature about the region.
The "spectre" appears when the sun shines from behind a climber who is looking down from a ridge or peak into mist. The light projects the climber's shadow forward through the mist, often in an odd triangular shape due to perspective. The apparent magnification of size of the shadow is an optical illusion that occurs when the observer judges his shadow on relatively nearby clouds to be at the same distance as faraway land objects seen through gaps in the clouds, or when there are no reference points at all by which to judge its size. The shadow also falls on water droplets of varying distances from the eye, confusing depth perception. The ghost can appear to move (sometimes quite suddenly) because of the movement of the cloud layer.
The head of the figure is often surrounded by the glowing halo-like rings of a glory (Heiligenschein), rings of coloured light that appear directly opposite the sun when sunlight is reflected by a cloud of uniformly-sized water droplets.


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Let $F$ be an unramified extension of $Q_2$. How can I compute the Hilbert symbol (a,b) for $a,b \in F^*$. Here, (a,b) is 1 if $ax^2+by^2=z^2$ has a nontrivial solution, and -1 otherwise.
In the case of $F=Q_2$, I can do this by finding representatives of $Q_2^*/(Q_2^*)^2$, and calculating the Hilbert symbol for each possible pair. However, this becomes a bit unmanageable for larger fields $F$. Is there a better way of approaching this?


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The CLARUS approach to processing sensitive data in the cloud
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 - Stephanie Parker interviews Josep Domingo-Ferrer about the CLARUS project.
 - CLARUS is creating a new security framework for processing and storing data in the cloud.
 - Users will be able to monitor and control their cloud data which will save money and improve standards.
Europe's H2020 CLARUS project is developing a secure framework for storing and processing data outsourced to the cloud so end-users can monitor, audit, and control their stored data while gaining the cost-saving benefits and capacity that cloud services bring.
Stephanie Parker of Trust-IT Services speaks to project coordinator Josep Domingo-Ferrer, from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Catalonia, Spain.
What are the main barriers to increased uptake of cloud computing? Why is trust so important when it comes to cloud computing?
Most companies are outsourcing at least some of their IT to the cloud, such as data storage, email, and other productivity applications. Reduced costs, virtually unlimited resources and increased availability are the main forces driving this change. Yet security, privacy, and ultimately trust, are still the main barriers preventing organizations from migrating to the cloud. Indeed, current security and privacy mechanisms are commonly located within the cloud platform, hence compelling customers to trust cloud service providers. However, a customer might be reluctant to outsource business-critical or confidential data because they lack control over its storage and management. To facilitate uptake, cloud computing needs to increase the user's control over the security and privacy of their data, thus reducing the need for blind trust.
What are the privacy and security challenges?
When it comes to outsourcing sensitive data, security and privacy challenges are intertwined around data protection. Regarding security, users want to be assured that no intruder can hack the cloud and/or impersonate them, and that no denial of service will occur. Regarding privacy, users want the guarantee that no one other than themselves will be able to see or infer personal or confidential data. It's important to note that privacy is even more challenging than security, because it must also apply to the cloud service provider. If the user wants to use not only the cloud storage but also the cloud computational power, then the challenge is even harder, Providing a privacy solution for this case is precisely what project H2020-644024 'CLARUS' is about.
... and the legal ones?
One might argue that sensitive data handling in the cloud would be much simpler if users had greater trust in the cloud service provider. However, there are several legal issues here. On the one hand, in many scenarios the data subjects entrust the data controller with their personal data (e.g., healthcare data), but this does not mean they allow the controller to further transfer their data to whoever the controller chooses to trust. On the other hand, the cloud service provider may also be under a jurisdiction different from that of the controller.
Josep Domingo-Ferrer, project coordinator.
What is the CLARUS project doing to address these issues?
Enhancing privacy, security, and trust of end users with respect to the cloud providers are the main goals of the CLARUS project. To achieve this, the CLARUS solution is envisioned as a proxy located in a domain trusted by the end user (e.g., a server in her company's intranet or a plug-in in the user's device) that implements security and privacy-enabling features towards the cloud service provider.
To enhance privacy, CLARUS will implement a set of privacy-enabling mechanisms to ensure that the user's sensitive data is properly protected before it is outsourced to the cloud. Protection will be provided in a way that still preserves cloud service functions, even those that require performing operations (e.g., queries, transformations, calculations) on the protected data. To achieve that, CLARUS draws on and innovates the current state-of-the-art on functionality-preserving cryptographic and non-cryptographic data protection techniques, with a special focus on preserving the benefits associated with cloud services (functionality, cost-effectiveness, efficiency).
To enhance trust, CLARUS will also implement a set of auditing services, so that users can directly supervise how data is being protected and outsourced to the cloud. To enhance security, CLARUS will also develop an attack-tolerant framework, dynamically detecting potential security breaches within the cloud and activating appropriate mitigation measures online.
Please tell us about the two use cases you currently have.
CLARUS has two use cases. One of them relates to the outsourcing of legacy medical records, which will be demonstrated at a leading hospital in Barcelona. The other is about outsourcing different kinds of geo-referenced data, in such a way that the sensitive locations are not leaked either to the cloud service provider or anyone else, but computations and map drawing based on those locations can still be performed by the data owner using the cloud's computing power.
What are the CLARUS project's goals?
From now to its end in December 2017, CLARUS will publish original research contributions focused on sensitive data processing in untrusted clouds. The project will also build demonstrators for the above-mentioned use cases and will strive to contribute to emerging standards on sensitive data processing in the cloud.
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The Bakota are an important ethnic group whose principal location is the northeast of the country of Gabon in Central Africa. They call their language iKota. They are also known as Kota, Kuta, and iKuta. Their neighbors, the Fang, call them Mekora. Because the Bakota are organized along patriarchal lines, they have developed many subgroups based on various patriarchies. Thus, one can find Menzambi, Bougom, Sake, Ikota-la-hua, and Ndambomo people who will say they are also Bakota. In effect, these are subclans with their own particular style and accent of speaking the iKota language. The meaning of the term Bakota is controversial, but it seems likely that the idea of bonding is central to the meaning in the iKota language; this is in line with much of the thinking in African philosophy. When people come together in family, they are bonded in one way or another. It might be consanguine...


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The ragfish, Icosteus aenigmaticus (Lockington, 1880), is an odd ray-finned fish of the northern Pacific Ocean; although a perciform, its skeleton is mostly cartilage, and the larvae have pelvic fins that disappear as they mature. It is the sole member of the family Icosteidae, and some authorities place it into its own order Icosteiformes.
The ragfish body is scaleless and limp, both because of the cartilaginous skeleton, as well as its flabby muscles. None of the fins have any spines. The dorsal and anal fins extend much of the length of the body, while the pelvic fins are absent. The coloration is generally a dark brown, and maximum known length is two meters.
The larvae make a remarkable transformation as they mature; the caudal fin shrinks, and the pelvic fins disappear.
It was considered formerly that adult ragfishes were different species, known then as Acrotus Willoughbyi.
- "Icosteus aenigmaticus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. _URL_ Retrieved 19 March 2006.


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A treatment model designed to accommodate the beliefs and concerns of Chinese immigrants increased the percentage of depressed patients entering treatment nearly sevenfold.
Culturally sensitive treatment model helps bring depressed Chinese immigrants into treatment
Understanding patients' beliefs and attitudes allows clinicians to address misconceptions, stigma
A treatment model designed to accommodate the beliefs and concerns of Chinese immigrants appears to significantly improve the recognition and treatment of major depression in this typically underserved group. In a report in the December American Journal of Public Health, a Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) research team describes how their model for screening and assessing patients for depression in a primary care setting increased the percentage of depressed patients entering treatment nearly sevenfold.
"Ours is the first study to incorporate a culturally sensitive interview into a collaborative care model in order to address disparities in mental illness treatment among ethnic minorities in primary care," says Albert Yeung, ScD, MD, of the MGH Department of Psychiatry, lead author of the AJPH report. "The model appears to be a promising way to treat this population, which highly underutilizes mental health services."
Yeung and his co-authors note that, while major depression is just as common among Asian Americans as in the overall U.S. population, a lack of familiarity with mental illness and a cultural stigma against psychiatric disorders lead to most cases of depression among Asian Americans going unrecognized and untreated. Language barriers, a tendency to seek medical care for physical symptoms only, and lack of cultural sensitivity among health care providers can further exacerbate the disparity.
To overcome these barriers, the MGH team devised a culturally sensitive collaborative treatment model that incorporates systematic depression screening at all primary care visits, contacting those who screened positive for depression to recommend assessment, and an assessment protocol designed to explore patients' cultural beliefs. Patient who chose to enter treatment received either usual care or care management, which included regular telephone contact with a care manager along with depression treatment by a primary care physician, psychologist or psychiatrist.
The study tested this model among patients of the South Cove Community Health Center in Boston's Chinatown, where Yeung is on staff. Completion of a bilingual health questionnaire has been part of routine primary care at the health center for over a decade, and the research team reviewed screening results for 4,228 adult Chinese immigrants who came to South Cove for primary care visits between late 2004 and early 2007. The almost 300 patients who screened positive for depression were contacted within two weeks of their screening by investigators, who informed patients of their results, told them about the study and recommended more focused psychiatric assessment.
While more than half the contacted patients declined further treatment, 122 came in for the assessment. In addition to a standard survey of depression symptoms, the assessment asked participants how they would describe their symptoms, what they believed caused them, how symptoms affected their daily lives, and what they hoped that treatment would accomplish. Based on participants' answers, the assessing clinicians were able to communicate information about depression in more comprehensible ways, using the participants' language and illness beliefs. Of the 104 participants whose depression diagnosis was confirmed in the assessment, 100 agreed to enter treatment – 96 percent of those with a confirmed diagnosis and 43 percent of those who had screened positive on the original questionnaire. Prior to this study, only 6.5 percent of South Cove patients with a positive depression screening result entered treatment.
Participants – who could choose to receive treatment from their primary care physician or from a psychiatrist or other therapist at the health center – were randomized to receive either usual depression care or care management. At the end of the 24-week study period, more than half the participants in both treatment groups had symptom improvement rates as good or better that those reported by several large-scale depression treatment studies. While there were no significant differences in response between the usual and managed care groups, the authors believe that could be explained by the high percentages of both groups who chose to receive care from South-Cove-based psychiatrists.
"Our model appears to be very promising, but it needs to be tested at other centers," says Yeung, an assistant professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. "Similar models could be designed and tested to help other minority populations who have cultural barriers that prevent receiving mental health services." Additional co-authors of the AJPH report are Irene Shyu, Lauren Fisher, Shirley Wu, MD, Huaiyu Yang, MD, MPA, and senior author Maurizio Fava, MD, all of MGH Psychiatry. The study was supported by a grant from the National Institute for Mental Health.
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In the Gregorian calendar,the White Dew usually falls around September 7, and more often refers in particular to the day when the sun is exactly at the celestial longitude of 165°. It is the day when the temperature drops sharply, the rain never stops, and the duration of the sunshine decreases substantially. Therefore, the date reflects the transition from summer to autumn. Normally, a period of cloudy and rainy weather occurs after White Dew.
During the White Dew, there are different weather conditions in different parts of China. In the north, the hot summer has ended, dew begins to fall, wild geese begin to migrate to the south, and birds begin to stock food for the long winter. Yet, it may still be very hot in the south. The Yangtze River and Huaihe River valleys are usually very humid during this period. Customs related to the White Dew also vary greatly from one area to another. For example, people in Fuzhou Fujian Province often eat longans to build up their health on this day while residents living around Taihu Lake in Anhui Province hold a ceremony to worship Yu the Great (the legendary founder of the Xia Dynasty and the ancient hero who successfully controlled floods).


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Optimal triangulation of large real world input-output matrices
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- Grötschel, M., Jünger, M. & Reinelt, G. Statistische Hefte (1983) 25: 261. doi:10.1007/BF02932410
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In this paper we present optimum triangulations of a large number of input-output matrices. In particular, we report about a series of (44,44)-matrices of the years 1959, 1965, 1970, 1975 of the countries of the European Community, about all (56, 56)-matrices compiled by Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung for the Federal Republic of Germany, and about the (60,60)-matrices of the Statistisches Bundesamt of the Federal Republic of Germany. These optimum triangulation were obtained with a code developed by the authors which utilizes new polyhedral results for the triangulation problem in a linear programming cutting plane framework. With this code the range of solvability of triangulation problems was more than doubled (in terms of sector numbers) compared to previous work. In particular, for none of the triangulation problems mentioned above optimum solutions were known before. Moreover, we discuss various claims about properties of optimum solutions made in the literature and question some common concepts of analysing triangulated input-output matrices.


Two new models for the two-person red-and-black game
May Ru Chen, Shoou Ren Hsiau
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In a two-person red-and-black game, each player holds an integral amount of chips. At each stage of the game, each player can bet any integral amount in his possession, winning the chips of his opponent with a probability which is a function of the ratio of his bet to the sum of both players' bets and is called a win probability function. Both players seek to maximize the probability of winning the entire fortune of his opponent. In this paper we propose two new models. In the first model, at each stage, there is a positive probability that two players exchange their bets. In the second model, the win probability functions are stage dependent. In both models, we obtain suitable conditions on the win probability functions such that it is a Nash equilibrium for the subfair player to play boldly and for the superfair player to play timidly.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)97-108
Number of pages12
JournalJournal of Applied Probability
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Publication statusPublished - 2010 Mar
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 - Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
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With respect to Radiation Protection, detriment is a term used to describe the 'total harm' experienced by exposing a population (and their descendants) to Internal Radiation. ICRP uses detriment to effectively sum all the Risks (probabilities) that exposure to ionising radiations might produce. For example it will include probability of fatal cancer induction, non-fatal cancer induction (and therefore years of life lost). It therefore as the dimensions of probability and thus can be expressed as a risk. In ICRP publication 60, radiation detriment is developed and used to derived Dose Limits.


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Lake Trout (Salvelinus namaycush, Ojibwa: Namegos)
Largest of the freshwater char, these Superior predators sit atop the food chain, but the bulk of them live deep within the lake... most of the time. The fats (siscowets), of which there are many, lounge in lightless zones lolling about in cold, oxygen-rich waters until hunger and dusk have some of them hunting kiyi and ciscoes closer to the surface. The leans are tasty... maybe too tasty. Overfishing combined with the arrival of the vampirish sea lamprey sent Superior's lake trout populations reeling in the '50s. Now, there are leans and siscowets to spare, thanks to sea lamprey control and careful fisheries management.
Members of the char clan, lake trout can be found in Minnesota's northeastern lakes and Lake Superior. Fishermen and fisheries professionals talk mostly about two strains that make up the bulk of the lake trout in Lake Superior: leans and fats (a.k.a. siscowets). However, there are at least two other strains recognized: half-breeds and humpers (a.k.a. paperbellies).
More closely related to arctic char than they are to the Superior's introduced steelhead, lake trout prefer to live offshore in cool, deep waters; siscowets live even deeper than leans and often spend the day near the bottom of Lake Superior. In the Great Lakes, leans are usually found at depths between 100 and 300 feet.
In late September, lake trout move to spawning grounds in water shallower than 100 feet. Lake trout are known to return to the same spawning grounds every year. The male trout arrive before the females to clean the lake bottom of debris, algae, and slime. Males often remain near the spawning grounds for 3 weeks or longer, but leave after the spawning season.
Lake Trout in Lake Superior:
- They mostly prey on the opossum shrimp (Mysis), although they are also known to eat other crustaceans, insects, and midsize fish like cisco, kiyi and bloaters.
- Sea lamprey, an invasive parasitic fish, can kill lake trout. Lake trout are also eaten by humans.
- Adults typically grow to 15-20 inches.
- Adults weigh 7-12 pounds, although a 63 lb. 2 oz. trout was angled out of Lake Superior in 1952.
- They live about 12-16 years, but can survive up to 25 years.
Lake trout were once plentiful in Lake Superior. The population plummeted from overharvesting paired with predation by the non-native sea lamprey. Since 1952, chemical control of the sea lamprey, restocking, and ending commercial fishing have helped the lake trout recover. The siscowet populations have been more resilient than lean lake trout; some estimates place the number in Lake Superior around 100 million fish.
What do you get when you cross a lake trout with a brook trout? A splake! The splake is an omnivorous species that grows rapidly and matures rapidly (although it is less fertile than its parent species). Splake prefer to live closer to shore than lake trout, making them less susceptible to sea lamprey attacks.
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The portrayal of women's rights violation in the Ugandan novel (1979 - 2006)
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This research studied women's rights violations in the Ugandan novels. In the scope of this study, women's rights traversed were those that fall within social-economic rights. The research puts across two major arguments in correlating the Ugandan novel and women rights; the first argument is that the Ugandan novel lays emphasis on women rights violations and the second argument is that male and female Ugandan novelists offer different perspectives and emphasize different issues in their depiction of human rights violations. From this angle the research identifies and discusses women's social-economic rights violations. It also compares the portrayal of these rights violations by male and female Ugandan authors. The research studies human rights as fundamental human needs without which people are unable to follow up other human ambitions. In this line the study appeals to people's desire for some baseline liberty and opportunity, a subsistence amount of income and wealth, living in a stable and secure social context and a provision for at least minimal respect and dignity. The novels discussed have been interrogated in light of these baseline objects of fundamental interest for every human being and also in line with the realities of the societies of these novels. The research, particularly notes the fluid relationship between human rights activism and human rights violation, since often times, the celebration of our rights doubles as the violation of other people's rights. In studying human rights in Ugandan novels, this research has taken on a qualitative research approach though as part of data collection, the researcher had conversations with two of the six authors. He interacted with two because; they are the only ones who were willing to freely talk about their novels. The research found out that both male and female authors variously depict women's rights violation though women authors depicted such rights violation more as conscience commitment on their part unlike their male counterparts depicted these violations as part of women's broader society. As such there were more liberative actions taken by characters in the women authored novels than in their male counterparts. Giving a human rights perspective to the Ugandan novel proved a worthwhile engagement since it has provided new angles from which to view Ugandan literature especially considering that most Ugandan literature depicts social reality.


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Kayaking is a great way to enjoy the water. But it can be tough to learn how to paddle a kayak in a straight line. Nothing could be further from the truth.
With good reason, kayaking is one of the most popular water sports. It's relaxing, fun, and a great way to get exercise.
In this article, we'll take a look at some of the different ways to learn how to paddle a kayak in a straight line.
- Here's The Answer To How To Paddle A Kayak In A Straight Line
- Why It's Difficult To Paddle A Kayak In A Straight Line?
- Benefits Of Paddling A Kayak In A Straight Line?
- Is It Safe To Paddle A Kayak In A Straight Line?
- Does The Type Of Kayak Matter To Paddle In the Straight Line?
Here's The Answer To How To Paddle A Kayak In A Straight Line
The best way to paddle straight is to look at where you want to go and maintain that angle. If you're paddling with a partner, it's important to stay coordinated with them so you're paddling in the same direction (for instance, if one person is paddling left, the other should be paddling right).
This can be difficult for beginners when working independently, but staying focused on your goal will help keep you from veering off course.
Also, keeping your paddle in the water while looking at what you want to hit keeps your kayak moving straight. It's best to practice this technique by paddling away from the beach and watching a stationary point, such as a tree or post.
Keep your body centered over the kayak and paddle in a consistent motion. Look where you want to go as you paddle, and keep your body perpendicular to your direction of travel.
For forceful paddling strokes, keep your knees bent 90 degrees and engage your thigh muscles.
The Correct Technique To Hold Paddle
The correct position for paddling is with your arms straight and your elbows bent so that the paddle shaft rests comfortably in the crook of your armpit.
Your hands should be placed in the middle of the paddle shaft and about a foot apart. This will allow you to control both ends simultaneously, making manoeuvers easier and more efficient.
Your hands should be relaxed as well—no excessive shaking or squeezing! If there's too much tension in any part of this motion, we run into problems: wrists can't move properly; shoulders tense up; breathing becomes strained; etc.
Finally, remember that wrist position is key here: they should be straight while paddling (not bent back or forward), but relaxed enough that they don't get tired quickly if you're using them continuously over several hours on end!
Position Yourself Correctly
The best position to paddle a kayak is with your body facing forward. This allows you to utilize the most power with each stroke and gives you the most control over where the kayak goes.
If possible, try positioning yourself so that your torso is leaning slightly forward while sitting on top of the kayak (not in it).
This will give you an easier time moving around the boat when needed, such as performing turns or accelerating through rapids.
Additionally, make sure your arms are fully extended with one elbow pointing toward the sky when paddling straight ahead.
Your body will move smoothly with each stroke instead of jerkily from one side to the other or backward and forward.
Correct Forward and Reverse Strokes
How to Paddle a Kayak Straight (The Right Way!)
- Keep your paddle in the water at all times.
- Push down on your paddle as you pull it forward and up as you bring it back, making sure that the blade stays flat on the water's surface.
- It is recommended to keep your knuckles and arms in the proper position. To do so, make sure you are facing forwards. The front of the kayak should be facing backward.
- When you are paddling, make sure you are keeping your body straight. To do this, your knees should be bent 90 degrees. After you have bent your knees, keep your feet flat. Additionally, you should maintain a straight spine and relaxed shoulders. This will allow you to achieve the ideal level of equilibrium.
Make Sure Your Kayak Is in The Right Shape
Before you even step onto the water, make sure your kayak is good. You should check the hull for any holes or cracks and ensure that it's not too heavy or too light for you.
If the boat is too small for your body type, it will be harder to paddle and control. The opposite is true: if your kayak is too big, it will be harder for you to maneuver around obstacles and other boats on the water.
Make sure your seat fits comfortably with as little adjustment as possible before heading out into open waters; otherwise, this could cause problems later down the road!
Practice, practice, practice!
Make sure you practice paddling on flat water before heading out on the water. If you do this, you'll have a better sense of your kayak's characteristics and how it responds to paddling.
It will also help build up the muscles and endurance needed to paddle in strong winds or choppy conditions. There will be certain things to get used to, just as in any new sport (like trying out different strokes).
You might find that one stroke is more comfortable than another, so try them all out at least once before deciding which works best for you!
Why It's Difficult To Paddle A Kayak In A Straight Line?
The most common reasons for kayaking in a straight line are:
- The paddle is not placed correctly.
- The paddle is too big or small for your size and strength.
- The shape of the boat you are using makes it difficult to paddle in a straight line.
- Your position in the boat may be off, causing you to lean away from where you want to go, causing your kayak to turn instead of going straight ahead.
Benefits Of Paddling A Kayak In A Straight Line?
Benefits of Paddling a Kayak in a Straight Line
- Less stress while paddling.
- More efficient use of energy.
- Enjoy a smoother ride.
- Maintains control over your kayak.
Is it safe to paddle a kayak in a straight line? What are the risks of not paddling a kayak in a straight line?
Reduces Stress While Paddling
- Less stress on the body
- More efficient use of energy
- Less fatigue: less effort to paddle, so it's easier to keep going for longer
- Enjoyable: no more paddling with a crooked neck and sore arms – enjoy yourself!
- Reduces the risk of injury: if you're not stressing out your muscles and joints, they won't get damaged as easily. This includes wrists, shoulders, back, and neck.
More Efficient Use of Energy
To paddle a kayak straight, you need to use your body's power. When you do this correctly, you can exert less energy and still get the same effect as paddling harder.
This means that it's easier for you to keep going for a long time, so it's such an important technique. The key is using your core muscles and legs instead of just your arms when paddling straight.
This will make it so that even though you're using less energy than before (and therefore getting tired less quickly), you can still move forward at the same speed!
In fact, even though most people associate kayaking with being very difficult to work (which sometimes leads them not to want to try).
Enjoy a Smoother Ride
If you're a newbie, it is most likely that your kayak will be moving sideways more often than not. This can be extremely uncomfortable and cause injury to your back, shoulders, and wrists.
To avoid this issue, you should always strive to paddle straight. By paddling straight, you will increase the efficiency of your strokes by at least 50%.
Paddling straight keeps your body comfortable for longer periods which means less strain on those key areas mentioned above.
You might think that paddling straight is easier said than done but with just a little practice and some guidance from someone who has experience in kayaking (like I did), you'll be able to master it within minutes!
Maintains Control Over Your Kayak
When paddling a kayak in a straight line, you are gaining control over your kayak. This is because you can maintain a hand position that is good for steering, and you can stay in an upright position.
This also means that you can paddle with less wind resistance and use your paddling skills to move forward with more momentum.
It's possible that an experienced paddler could use less force and still maintain good forward velocity. This is because you can use an efficient stroke that uses less energy.
Overall, the easiest way to paddle a kayak in a straight line is to keep your top hand close to the kayak and paddle with a wind-up. This will help you maintain control over your kayak and paddle with less effort.
Is It Safe To Paddle A Kayak In A Straight Line?
Yes, it is safe to paddle a kayak in a straight line. Paddle stroke, posture, and proper paddling techniques are the key to success. Turning the kayak is also possible with the proper use of a rudder.
- Paddle stroke is the main factor in moving the kayak forward. The proper paddle length and use of the dominant hand are key. The power phase of the paddle stroke should be used to move the kayak forward.
- Proper posture is also important when paddling a kayak. Using foot pegs and proper back support will help keep the paddler in the proper position.
- Turning the kayak is possible with the proper use of a rudder. The rudder should be used to turn the kayak in the desired direction.
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Approximately four hundred years elapsed from the death of Noah to the call of Abraham.
These are the generations:
- Noah – name means: Comfort or Rest
- Shem – meaning: renown; prosperity;
- Arphaxad – meaning: A healer; a releaser
- Shelah – meaning: Sent Out, Branch or Javelin
- Eber – meaning: to pass over, through, take away
- Peleg – name means: division
- Reu – name means: Friend
- Nahor – name means: Breathing Hard
- Terah – name means: Esprit, Spirited or Inspired
- Abram – a high father – later to be called Abraham – father of multitude
Descendants of Shem to Abram
11:10 These are the family records of Shem. When Shem had lived 100 years, he fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood. 11 Shem lived 500 years after he fathered Arpachshad and had other sons and daughters.
12 When Arpachshad had lived 35 years, he fathered Cainan. 13 After he fathered Cainan, Arpachshad lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters, and then died.
Cainan lived 130 years and fathered Shelah. After he fathered Shelah, Cainan lived 330 years and had other sons and daughters, and then died.
14 When Shelah had lived 30 years, he fathered Eber. 15 After he fathered Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
16 When Eber had lived 34 years, he fathered Peleg. 17 After he fathered Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.
18 When Peleg had lived 30 years, he fathered Reu. 19 After he fathered Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.
20 When Reu had lived 32 years, he fathered Serug. 21 After he fathered Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.
22 When Serug had lived 30 years, he fathered Nahor. 23 After he fathered Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.
24 When Nahor had lived 29 years, he fathered Terah. 25 After he fathered Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.
26 When Terah had lived 70 years, he fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Descendants of Terah
27 Now these are the family records of Terah: Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot. 28 Haran died during his father's lifetime in the land of his birth, that is, in Ur of the Chaldeans. 29 Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah. She was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of Milcah and Iscah. 30 Sarai was barren, so she had not borne children.
31 Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran's son), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and they journeyed together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. But when they had gone as far as Haran, they settled there, 32 where Terah died at the age of 205 years.
Other modules in this unit:
- In the beginning God created the earth – Undated Past
- The 7 or Seven Days of Creation – Undated Past, Genesis 1:1-3:24
- Adam was the first created man specifically named in Scripture, Genesis 1:26-31 – 2:1-25
- Eve the first woman specifically named in Scripture, Genesis 2:18-25
- Tree of Life, Genesis 3:1-24
- Cain the first human murderer and older brother of Abel – Genesis 4:1-17
- Abel a righteous man, Genesis 4:1-16
- Seth, Genesis 4:25-26
- Enoch did not die, Genesis 5:21-24
- About a 1100 Year gap between birth of Adam and the birth of Noah, Genesis 5:1-32
- Noah built an ark with God's instructions, Genesis 6:8-22
- The Ark God's way of saving people from the flood, Genesis 7:1 – 10:32
- The Tower of Babel, Genesis 11:1-9
- 400 years between Noah and Abraham, Genesis 11:10-32
- Abraham the father of nations, Genesis chapters 12:1-20
- Sarah was the wife of Abraham, Genesis 11:29-23:20
- Lot is rescued by Abraham, Genesis 14:1-17
- Melchizedek was the King of Salem, Genesis 14:17-20
- Ishmael the son of Hagar and Abraham, Genesis 16:1-16 – 17:27
- The birth of Isaac Abraham's son, Genesis 21:1-7
- Hagar an Egyptian slave given to Abraham by the Pharaoh of Egypt, Genesis 21:8-21
- Rebekah married Isaac, Genesis 24:1-67
- Esau the son that Isaac loved, Genesis 25:20-34
- The birth of Jacob the son of Isaac, Genesis 25:20-26
- King Abimelech a local king and Isaac, Genesis 26:1-33
- Genesis Part Two – Click Here
- Time Line for Genesis
- Background Information – The book of Genesis
- Resources – The book of Genesis


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Light shades of cool colors such as pale aqua can make a small bathroom feel airy and open, while subtle warm colors can create a rich and serene feeling. The best choice depends on the desired effect and the amount of light in the bathroom.Continue Reading
SFGate notes that cool colors make walls seem to recede, which enlarges a space. Cool colors include shades of blue, green and gray. For example, sky blue is light and airy. A pastel shade of green, such as olive green, extends the bathroom into the outdoors. Cool colors without a sheen can look flat and drab. In contrast, a pearled color, such as pearl gray, reflects light and creates a room-opening shine.
Pink and yellow are warm colors that are flattering and cozy. Pale pink mixed with a small amount of yellow is rosy and creates an intimate feel. Shades of light yellow, including buttercream and pale gold, are associated with sunshine and can be energizing. However, bright yellow in a small space can be overwhelming and make the room look smaller.
White is a popular choice for painting small, dark bathrooms. Bright white or white with blue undertones can make the room feel stark and clinical, but white tinted with pink, peach or yellow is warmer and shimmers rather than glares.Learn more about Home Maintenance


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 (1) County clerk; treasurer; surveyor; supervisor. The county clerk, county treasurer or surveyor, or a county supervisor, by the county board, for cause, by a vote of two-thirds of all the supervisors entitled to seats on such board.
 (2) Clerk of circuit court. The clerk of the circuit court, by the judge or a majority of judges of the circuit court for the clerk's county, for cause.
 (5) Other elective county officers. The sheriff, coroner or register of deeds, by the governor, for cause.


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Ruyton-XI-Towns is located in Shropshire
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Population 1,500
OS grid reference SJ393221
Unitary authority Shropshire
Ceremonial county Shropshire
Region West Midlands
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Postcode district SY4
Dialling code 01939
Police West Mercia
Fire Shropshire
Ambulance West Midlands
EU Parliament West Midlands
UK Parliament North Shropshire
List of places
Coordinates: 52°47′37″N 2°53′56″W / 52.7935°N 2.899°W / 52.7935; -2.899
Ruyton-XI-Towns (/ˌrtən ɨˈlɛvən tnz/[1] "ryetən eleven towns"), formally Ruyton of the Eleven Towns or simply Ruyton, is a large village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. It has a population of around 1,500 people and lies on the River Perry. Nearby to the east is the large village of Baschurch and to the north the smaller village of Wykey. grid reference SJ393221
The village acquired its unusual name in the twelfth century when a castle was built, and it became the major manor of eleven local townships. The Roman numeral for eleven is included in its name. Some of the eleven ancient townships, mostly situated to the north and west of Ruyton, still survive as hamlets today; although some, like Coton, are just a collection of farm buildings. The eleven were Ruyton, Coton, Shotatton, Shelvock, Eardiston and Wykey, which remain in the parish; and Felton, Haughton, Rednal, Sutton and Tedsmore, now in the parish of West Felton.
Lying in the Welsh Marches, the castle was destroyed in 1202, rebuilt by 1313 and destroyed again by Owain Glyndŵr. Its ruins stand in the parish churchyard.
In 1308, an attempt was made to refound the town as New Ruyton. It was awarded a charter which briefly gave it the same status as the County of Bristol, but as raiding continued, it declined and lost most of its rights.
Notable buildings in the village include its parish church, part of which dates from the 1130s, and the gardens of Brownhill House.
Arthur Conan Doyle, while a medical student, worked as an unpaid assistant in the village for a Dr Eliot for four months in 1878, living in at Cliffe House.[2] He later recalled Ruyton in his Memories and Recollections (1923) as "not big enough to make one town, far less eleven".[2]
The Preparatory school Packwood Haugh is near the village.
The parish war memorial is unique in Shropshire in being in the form of a cave, carved eight feet into the sandstone cliff of the Brownhill beside the road leading out of the village towards Baschurch. The idea of London architect Stanley Vaughan, who offered this after a visit to Ruyton, it was sculpted by local father-and-son stonemasons Warwick and Len Edwards, and unveiled in October 1920. The benches either side within the arch and the cross are all carved out of the rock, with the names of those known to have died in the First and Second World Wars listed on separate plaques. A third plaque, to Alfred Rogers whose name had been missed off the former plaque's list, was added in 2007.[3]
Ruyton war memorial
 1. ^ BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names (Oxford, 1971), cited in Wells, John (15 January 2010). "Ruyton how many?". John Wells's phonetic blog. Retrieved 5 March 2010.
 2. ^ a b Brown, Yoland (1988). Ruyton XI Towns, Unusual Name, Unusual History. Brewin Books. pp. 92–93. ISBN 9780947731410.
 3. ^ Francis, Peter (2013). Shropshire War Memorials, Sites of Remembrance. YouCaxton Publications. p. 159. ISBN 978-1-909644-11-3.
External links[edit]
Media related to Ruyton-XI-Towns at Wikimedia Commons


Save money and resources with a VM sprawl management plan
Don't let VM sprawl and resource waste drain your bank account. The key to sprawl prevention and elimination is early detection.
Virtual machine sprawl has always been an issue in medium and large virtual compute environments. Sprawl is generally caused by a lack of control combined with process and documentation failure, issues that exist in both public and private cloud environments. It typically occurs when a user creates a VM and then moves jobs, forgetting the machine. The exact details of the VM can be lost over that time and tidying it up becomes an issue.
In an on-premises environment, VM sprawl can waste spare resources. This becomes an ever bigger issue in a paid-for cloud environment, as resource depletion translates to unnecessary expenditures on the monthly cloud bill. Even a well-managed environment can have a significant volume of unused machines, losing you money. The best way to avoid financial risk is to create a solid VM sprawl management strategy.
Creating a plan for virtual machine sprawl detection
So now that we know what sprawl is, how do we eliminate it? The first step is detection. On a small estate, you can potentially identify sprawl machines by asking a few questions: How are VMs being utilized over time? Who has logged in, and how often? What service or request is the machine in question servicing? Again, this method is best applied to small estates -- in an environment with over 15,000 VMs, assessing the situation manually would not be cost effective and would have a significant margin of error.
One Embotics customer took a very controversial approach to dealing with sprawl, choosing to power down his entire development-only estate on a predetermined Friday evening. VMs within the estate were only powered back on after someone complained that the servers were in use.
The eventual findings that resulted from this method were interesting, as 65% of VMs lay unclaimed initially after the power down. After three months, that number had fallen to 33%. One way to look at it is that 33% of the powered on estate served no real purpose other than burning licensing, power and disk. Backing those unused servers were expensive high-end servers and 24/7 hardware support contracts.
Preventing VM sprawl up front
It may sound glib, but the best way to beat sprawl is to prevent it from happening in the first place. You can accomplish this by creating regulations for VM creation and usage. The best place to start is to ensure that every machine built is approved by a senior administrator. Next, you should tag your VMs with pertinent information; all hypervisor platforms allow VM tagging.
It's extremely important that everyone involved in the creation and management of VMs understand the cost. There are two ways to do this: showback and chargeback. Showback is usually used to make people aware of the costs involved in provisioning and running a VM. This is useful for environments where there is no formal charging structure. It shows just how expensive running a few VMs can be. Chargeback shows people what they're being charged for the resources they use via a monthly bill, which must be allocated to someone's balance sheet.
VM sprawl management in legacy environments
While these methods are useful for new environments, legacy environments are in a different position. Fortunately, several vendors have provided VM sprawl management tools out of the box to alleviate this problem. Some are admittedly easier to use and less expensive than others, but they perform as promised.
One issue that's caused quite a bit of grief is the question of how an administrator can manage IT estates set up without IT support on an ad hoc basis. An example of this is AWS, an estate with no perceived slow and expensive local IT, that is, until the reality of managing this kind of server hit. Setting up a cloud on a company credit card is not the way forward, despite what sales people may tell you.
At this point, you need to look at some of the more advanced VM sprawl management tools. Workload analysis shows where admins can optimize so that sprawl servers and efficiency savings from right-sizing efforts are identified. Workload analysis tools can save thousands of dollars' worth of hardware resources to be reclaimed within just a few hours of investigation. You can also use tools such as VMware vRealize Ops (vROps) and Embotics vCommander to manage sprawl. Cost aside, both vROps and vCommander provide extensive reports on sprawl and compute wastage in oversized VMs. Rarely do software vendors' recommendation ring true with actual resources used.
Should these methods for preventing and eradicating VM sprawl prove unsuccessful, there's always the guerrilla approach of distributing top 10 VM resource consumers lists. While this has worked for some smaller IT shops, I still strongly recommend looking at virtual machine sprawl management products to see what they can do for you. The longer you allow sprawl to go unchecked, the more money you burn on unused compute resources.
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Many of today's eddy current units have color screens along with memory to store and create eddy current reports and another feature are units having detachable probes. Most equipment is very portable for work on and around aircraft structures.
Eddy current array (ECA) is a nondestructive testing technique that provides the ability to electronically drive multiple eddy current coils, which are placed side by side in the same probe assembly. Each individual eddy current coil in the probe produces a signal relative to the phase and amplitude of the structure below it. This data is referenced to an encoded position and time, and represented graphically as a C-scan image. Most conventional eddy current flaw detection techniques can be reproduced with ECA inspections; however, the remarkable advantages of ECA technology allows improved inspection capabilities and significant time savings. Eddy current array technology includes the following advantages:
- A larger area on the aircraft can be scanned in a single-probe pass, while maintaining a high resolution
- No need for complex robotics to move the probe; a simple manual scan is often enough
- Imaging improves flaw detection and sizing
- Complex shapes can be inspected using probes customized to the profile of the part being inspected
The eddy current method of inspection is taking the place of more time consuming and hazardous inspection methods such as radiography. In most cases eddy current inspections can be accomplished with one trained technician. Radiography in most states require two technicians for safety reasons along with the high costs of equipment and film processing chemicals and hazardous waste concerns. The eddy current process basically has no consumable materials involved such as gels, couplants, and chemicals, and most aircraft inspections are on the outer surface with no aircraft preparations. Many inspections requiring second, third and fourth layer skin inspections will be able to be accomplished at a high degree of certainty that aging aircraft components are airworthy. Any NDT inspector will advise you to thoroughly research all inspection equipment requirements, education and training, and aircraft manufactures requirements prior to accomplishing any type of inspection.
I consider myself fortunate because during my career as an NDT technician to have been able to use old and new eddy current inspection equipment. New techniques are constantly being introduced into the aerospace industry requiring shorter inspection times and at the same time requiring higher sensitivity to smaller defects. There is, as in any technical profession, a certain amount of technical training that must be regularly accomplished in order to maintain high inspection standards with a high degree of confidence in the technician and eddy current inspection equipment being used.
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Mark Nistler is currently the NDT Shop Manager at Signature TECHNIAir, St. Paul, MN, with a total of 23 years experience in the NDT field. He is an American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) Level III certified in four methods: magnetic particle, fluorescent penetrant, radiography, and eddy current inspections. He also holds an A&P certificate and is currently the company Level III in Ultrasonics. Mark began his aircraft maintenance career in the U.S. Air Force performing NDT inspections on military aircraft such as the F-16, F-15, C-130, and H3 helicopters. He can be contacted at _EMAIL_ or _PHONE_.
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Rhyme Out is a triple-rhyming card game. The game includes 300 cards with 600 questions divided into two levels. The yellow side of the cards has easier words and a rhyming word hint. The other side is a little harder. Players take turns being the Rhyme Out Reader, which means they draw a card and read aloud the card's three clues. The other players race to shout out three correct responses that rhyme. For example, if the clues are "part of an egg, something fire makes, and something that makes you laugh", the rhyming answers would be "yolk, smoke, and joke". The first player to answer correctly collects the card. If a player draws a Steal card, he or she can steal cards from other players. The first player to collect 10 cards wins. Rhyme Out is for three or more players.
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A unique IoT sensor that combines two critical sensors for climate control and energy efficiency which enables the building power management system to determine whether a room or area is occupied or consuming too much energy by AC low temperature.
The motion IoT sensor detects and reports when motion is detected in the covered area, or after a silence detected (no motion for specified timeslot).
The temperature IoT sensor will report the measured temperature at different points in the area, which will provide better accuracy for the HVAC system to achieve the desired temperature without losing much power. Also, an unusual measured temperature will indicate the miss-use of the HVAC system, which will be automatically optimized and adapted by MindoLife building power management system.
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A moment of communal compassion is remembered in this fictionalized retelling of a too-little-known tale.
When little Kedi learns from her Cameroon village's teacher that the people of New York are starving thanks to the Great Depression, she can't get the problem out of her head. Determined to help the hungry children overseas, Kedi appeals to all the people of her village, only to be rebuffed. No one has enough money to pay the colonial head tax, let alone spare riches for an unknown poor. Downcast, Kedi returns to school, only to discover that her efforts to open the hearts of her neighbors have worked beyond her wildest hopes. Rockliff's recap of this true 1931 incident taps into the wonder of altruism toward total strangers. An author's note explaining not just the story's background but also similar historical incidents proves to be almost more fascinating than the book itself. All this is accompanied by Tanksley's lush, vibrantly colored paintings, which take seemingly simple images and render them big, beautiful and bold. They make what might otherwise be a rote story lush.
The human capacity to reach out to those who suffer is lovingly and inspiringly rendered. (Picture book. 4-8)


Research & operational forecasting with the NMM: Radiation & fog in complex topography
Matthias Müller
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At the University of Basel, numerical weather forecasts for Europe are computed twice daily using the NMM, and are made available on the internet []. A visualization system was developed and
some animations are now used daily by national television. Special focus lies on the Alpine region, which is covered by two nested domains running at resolutions of 4 and 2 km, respectively.
A parameterization for radiation in complex topography was developed and tested. The interactions of
radiation fluxes with the terrain due to sky view restriction, slope and aspect angle as well as shadows are computed based on a digital elevation model that has a higher resolution than the mesoscale model. Runtime computational costs are negligible, and temperature differences as high as 3 K are found in complex topography. Especially at night, the cold bias in valleys is significantly reduced.
Current research efforts focus on fog and low stratus clouds. An assimilation and ensemble system for 1Dmodelling was developed, but a 3D approach seems more promising for the topography in Switzerland. Therefore, detailed microphysics of the 1D fog model PAFOG were implemented into the Non-hydrostatic Mesoscale Model (NMM). This introduces total droplet number concentration as a new prognostic variable and a sophisticated determination of condensation/evaporation as well as size dependent droplet settling. The nature of radiation fog requires a high vertical resolution to model the steady growth from the surface. A thickness of approximately 4 meters in the lowest layers combined with the stable stratification during a fog event can cause problems in the standard turbulent exchange, resulting in a cold bias. In the case of liquid water advection, boundary conditions for the droplet number concentration have to be specified. In general, the new microphysics decrease fog water content to a more realistic value and the complex spatial distribution of simulated fog underlines the importance of the 3D approach.


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Castelnuovo di Garfagnana is located in the confluence between the Serchio river and the Turrite Secca river and it is mentioned for the first time in a VIII century document, with the name of "Castro Novo"; however the real consolidation of the village occurred during the XIV century, under the jurisdiction of Lucca.
The Rocca Ariosteca is the symbol of the town and its name derives from the Italian poet Ludovico Ariosto who stayed there from 1522 to 1525, as Governor of the Estense province of Garfagnana. The Castle of Castelnuovo presents itself substantially renaissance being of course the result of continuous adequate restorations carried out throught out many centuries.The original structure dates back to the 11 century, probably a tower-house. Subsequent additions were carried out particulary during the Lucchese nomination.
The Cathedral of Santi Pietro and Paolo is set within the town walls and its origins date to the 10th century but the present structure is a rebuilding of the ancient Romanesque church carried out at the start of the 16th century with enlargement of the walls and architectural additions to the interior. There were modifications to the interior colonnade during the Baroque period, while the austere facade was left intact. During the last war there was serious damage to the whole structure, and the subsequent restoration revealed the original classical lines.
We also suggest to visit the Monte Alfonso Fortress (XVI century), the Alfieri theatre (1860), the Convent of San Giuseppe (1632) and the Archaeological Museum of the Upper Serchio Valley.


9 Reasons Why A Convent Education Might Be A Huge Roadblock For Feminism
Posted: April 26, 2017
A convent education that rewards girls for being obedient and selfless might be sabotaging the cause of feminism. Here's how.
Think objectively : Have you seen social workers in the animal kingdom? Have you seen an animal dying itself to save another animal? You seen a starving animal carrying food for another? All this happens with only one species: Homo sapiens.
Wait wait, don't start the rant of "We are not animals, we are humans". Of course we are animals, well-bound within the undeniable Laws of Nature. Life wants to survive under all circumstances; and hence, self-sustenance is instinctive and imperative.
Human society is patriarchal, where the women are not permitted their solitude and freedom. They are chained as slaves to patriarchy. Try to capture an animal and it will fight back and usually escape (strong survival instincts and abilities!). Now, try to capture a woman. A normal strong-willed independent self-respecting woman will be beyond your grasp. While animal matriarchy is natural and laid-back, human patriarchy is artificial and regimented. Women need to be first hypnotized into this slavery. Who does that? One of the systems that do that is the Convent Education.
Being in a girls-only convent education system for 12 years, I can safely say it is against the laws of Nature.
Why is it against the laws of nature?
 - It is impractical and idealistic.
 - It glorifies selflessness and self-sacrifice.
 - Girls are taught to be martyrs.
 - It has unrealistic rules and expectations.
 - It rewards those who obey rules unquestioningly.
 - It punishes those who try to be themselves.
 - It chains normal human behavior, contorts thinking and distorts feelings.
 - It does not let one grow and evolve.
 - It does not let one explore the world objectively through one's own eyes.
 - Even before you are a teenager, you are pre-biased about the world. You are not allowed to think freely. Notions are drilled into your head like "gospel truths" (as if everything is simply black-and-white).
 - You are not given the time and opportunity to explore the world and find out your own version of truth and untruth yourself.
 - You never learn see the preaching nun as a normal human being, capable of making mistakes and having wrong ideas.
 - You never learn to be critical.
Convent education peddles conformism
Conformism is put on a lofty pedestal. Women are taught to be tame, by glorifying tamed behavior in school. Convent education prepares females for a hypnotized life under a patriarchal society. Children's brains are wired into believing that submission to authority is paramount. Rebellion is crushed by value-judging. School-girls are labelled as "good", "bad", "obedient", "wild", "kind", etc.
It teaches you not to speak your mind but say what is socially acceptable and politically correct. Naivete is glamorized as being very attractive to the patriarchal male, who wants a controllable wife. Further, marriage is glamorized as the ultimate aim of a woman's life. Convent education teaches the woman to be the 'ideal' wife and the 'ideal' mother. She faces stereotypical expectations from one and all, and keeps 'trying' her best to win others' approval.
Dehumanizes its girls and women
This is a dehumanizing process for females. It tells you to put your own needs last (OMG)!
This is the most unnatural thing. Your first job is to ensure your survival (physical, financial, emotional). Nature sustains itself by competitively surviving and ensuring its own growth and prosperity. Nature is Capitalistic. Period. You cannot help anyone grow unless you are yourself established and settled. It is a universal truth that you must first look after yourself and take care of your needs (physical, financial, social, emotional, intellectual) before you can of anyone else.
Convent education exhorts selflessness, forgetting that you yourself exist. It teaches you to think of others as a priority, drilling catchwords like 'love', 'service', 'kindness', into the female brain through the incessant moral science classes. It keeps repeating the dictum "Live for others" and tells you to believe that unless you live for others, you cannot wash away yours sins. (Which "sins" BTW?!)
Convent education outlaws individuality
Convent education is a factory-line production. It does not respect individuality. You are always under watch. There is a permanent code-of-conduct. You cannot laugh loudly, cannot jump, cannot run, cannot be rude, cannot answer back, cannot rebel. You have to always be prim-and-proper and oh-so-lady-like. You have to be congenial all the time and put up plastic smiles. This affected behavior (called 'nyaka') is just nauseatingly repulsive for an intelligent person. A prude goody-two-shoes is initially amusing and later, irritating.
Such a pretentious facade comes across as phony and artificial. But convent education continues to consolidate this hypnotized grooming year after year, till a robot-ish woman graduates and faces the big bad world. And she is up for a jolt! She finds the world far more practical (idealism is only a theory), self-serving (what is wrong in that?), advantage-seeking (nature's rule, accept it), and "cruel" (actually normal).
How to play the 'victim card'
Convent education teaches you to suffer for others, becoming a victim yourself. This strategy will backfire in an intelligent/practical environment, where normal people easily see through this psychological manipulation of playing the victim card.
Embracing suffering for others sake can be easily perceived as a guilt-invoking tactic to win brownie points. No one likes sob stories. Yup, you actually get taunted for playing a martyr. It irritates normal people simply because it is abnormal and unnatural.
Such women later become suckers for appreciation and validation (personal/social/professional). They feel worthwhile only after someone praises them. They work their asses off to get in others' good books and win praise. They pretend to be Mother Teresa and demand the Nobel. Arre, teri apni koi life nahin hain kya?
How to be politically correct
Convent education teaches you to be politically correct. You cannot honestly speak your mind. You cannot show anger. You must always be patient and forgiving. You are hypnotized into praising others even if they don't deserve it. You start downplaying yourself to make others feel better.
Now it is the basic demand of the patriarchal society that women must step back and put the spotlight on the husband. So convent education hypes 'virtues' like humility and down-to-earth behavior. You keep showering praise on others, hoping for some reciprocation. Stretching it too far, you become a doormat. Later in life, such women who have been lying to praise/raise/comfort others may realize this drama and explode and create more enemies unnecessarily.
Girls trained to give in every time
Girls are made to forget that there is a word called NO in the dictionary. They act as if they are bound to be polite all the time. I mean, who is holding them at gun-point and asking them to forget about themselves? Fear. Fear of being judged and labeled by the society as 'selfish'. But of course the patriarchal society is going to do that, since they need tame women in order to maintain patriarchal law and order (read values/ culture/tradition). Why do you think convent educated women are in demand in the marriage market?
Convent education is preparing them for this, and then claiming "We cannot change the world, but we can make a difference". They are making a difference: regression. They are brainwashing impressionable toddlers for 12 years and making them sweet, nice, kind, polite, soft, obedient, etc. before releasing them as nubile products for men to take home as a trophy. Men silently enjoy it, getting a joyride of patriarchy where you end up doing all the heavy-lifting.
Breeding women lacking in self esteem
Convent-educated women might lack self-esteem. The strictures on them make it difficult to answer back and defend themselves. They buy into guilt very easily, and may also often believe that 'others are right' and 'others know more than me'.
They constantly end up seeking opinions and advice. They look up to others as guardians and superiors, thinking "others know more than me". They get easily convinced to help/support/go-out-of-way-to-serve others. No wonder they get trampled all their lives. More practical people use them for their own advantage/benefit and then ignore them royally. Taking shit from all and sundry 24/7/365, they begin to question the meaning of their own lives (only if they are intelligent to see the shit). Convent-education trains them to take shit without realizing it as shit! Since they don't have the courage to assert themselves, they take it as a way of life and re-hypnotize themselves by "learning to count their blessings" as Sister taught them in the moral science class.
More of the doormats
Convent education is a brilliant system to train the dumb assistants of patriarchy. Such women will always look up to someone else to salvage them (socially/financially/emotion


text: In this issue, Larson and colleagues (4) performed a well-designed, labor-intensive, randomized, double-blind trial comparing symptom rates among families with at least 1 preschool-age child who used handwashing and household-cleaning products with or without antibacterial ingredients. The intervention households received a kitchen cleaner (with a quaternary ammonium compound), laundry detergent (with oxygenated bleach), and liquid handwashing soap (with triclosan). Control households received identically packaged products without the antibacterial ingredients. Both groups received the same liquid dishwashing detergent and bar soap, without antibacterial ingredients. The households were followed for 48 weeks, with active monthly surveillance for adherence to product regimens and infectious disease symptoms (vomiting, diarrhea, fever, sore throat, cough, rhinorrhea, skin infection, and conjunctivitis). No significant differences between the 2 groups were found in reports of symptoms, which included rhinorrhea (26.8%), cough (23.2%), fever (11%), sore throat (10.2%), vomiting (2.6%), and diarrhea (2.5%). Fewer than 1% of the households reported any skin symptoms. Within most subgroups, such as young children, children attending day care, and persons working outside the home, no differences were found between the 2 groups. Interestingly, persons with chronic disease or poor health in the antibacterial product group were more likely to have fever, rhinorrhea, and cough.