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PUE is Still Relevant – It Just Needs a Consistent Methodology
Mon 9 May 2016 | Michael Adams
Since the Green Grid first suggested it, PUE (power usage effectiveness) has taken its place as the standard metric for data centre efficiency. PUE was developed to help make data centres more efficient, and a key industry benefit has been to bring the principles of energy efficiency to the discussion table.
The data centre industry understands that PUE is not perfect. However, it does provide a simple and practical matrix for measuring relative efficiency of power use inside the data centre. It allows data centre operators to generate a matrix of key criteria, recorded along a timeline to provide comparison data. So, a relative increase or decrease in efficiency can be tracked and remedial action taken accordingly.
Part of the problem that ASHRAE may have is the unscientific nature of the current PUE metric and how it is used depending on where in the world the data centre is sited.
There are also questions about which aspects of the physical infrastructure should be measured and which left out of the equation. We are, I'm sure, all aware of how PUE was quickly adopted by marketeers to evidence facility efficiency. All that was needed was the purposeful elimination of certain plant's energy use to generate an impressively low PUE
On the plus side, used correctly PUE can be a good indicator of where you are in the management of a facility. It certainly can be an effective tool if the same methodology is applied to measure the same data centres or the same group of data centres. You can effectively see how you can improve and rate the level of improvement. Using the same criteria provides a repeatable methodology and therefore results that are comparable.
However, there are circumstances where PUE becomes a difficult metric to align to the rating of a specific data centre. For example, a Tier IV data centre. It is also not exactly perfect for making comparisons between facilities due to the different ways in which the metric is applied and a vast number of variables affecting the result – like ambient weather conditions which can be different from location to location.
Using the same PUE methodology in measurement gives you an indication of how efficient your facility is. As an operator, it helps you to understand how efficient your processes are and how you can improve the efficiency. However, if you are comparing let us say, 'colo-sites' then you have to take a wider range of variables into account, not least what your goals are and the relative importance of each of the variable elements in your decision making process.
Measurement tools make sense and PUE fundamentally is useful as long as the criteria is understood and you know what you want to achieve with it. You cannot simply take two sites' PUE and make operational decisions based on those figures. In the process of constantly striving for more efficient data centres there are new technologies that provide real-time data flows to the management of the data centre. Systems such as SynapSense offer a dynamic approach to real-time understanding of the energy efficiency within the data centre. This provides not only the data to continuously improve energy efficiency, but also automated control of cooling systems to effectively control energy usage and minimise PUE figures.


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Indoor plants need more than sun and water: They also need to be cleaned regularly. Dusty, grimy layers on leaves cut down on the amount of light they receive from the sun, while also leaving them open to pest attacks and disease. Cleaning your indoor plants will keep them happy and healthy (and you know, easy, breezy, beautiful).
How often you should clean your indoor plants depends on how dusty your home usually is. Lucky for you, these 7 ways to clean them are super easy:
1. Wash your indoor plants with lukewarm water. (Cold water leaves spots and can shock the roots. Don't forget, most indoor plants are tropical and are used to warmer rainfalls.) Wash small plants in a sink and larger houseplants in the shower. Let them drip-dry before putting them in the sun.
2. For large indoor plants, wipe the leaves with a moist cloth. Cradle each leaf with the other hand to avoid cracking them.
3. When dealing with small indoor plants, fill your sink with lukewarm water. Support them and the soil with your fingers, turn them upside down and gently swish their leaves in the water.
4. Dust is tricky to remove from fuzzy leaves, but easier than you'd think. Simply use a soft-bristled paintbrush to dislodge the dust, working your way from the base to the tip of each leaf. Avoid using water on them, as it can leave spots.
5. If it's been a while since you last cleaned your indoor plants, don't fret. Mix 1/4 teaspoon of dish detergent in four cups of water. Spray the plant, then rinse it off. Set them on a stool so you can easily turn them for a thorough cleaning.
6. For cacti, a can of compressed air works wonders! Like your fuzzy-leaved friends, avoid using water on them.
7. Finally, spruce up each plant by removing withered blossoms and pick up any flowers and leaves that fall on the soil to prevent mold.
This is also the perfect opportunity to inspect each plant and make sure their only problem is dust:
- Inspect the soil. If there's mold, gently scrape it away and don't water your plants as often.
- Check out the stems. Are they strong and the color they're supposed to be?
- Check for webbing where the leaves attach to the stems, as this could be a sign of spider mites.
- Turn over a new leaf – literally, to look for bugs and discolored areas. These could be a sign of disease.
How do you keep your indoor plants clean and healthy?
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Info on the web about Moko Mokai
April 7th, 2000
Aussie Museum To Return Maori Heads
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - An Australian museum
has agreed to return five tattooed and preserved Maori heads to New
Zealand, a spokesman said Thursday. The return of the heads from the
South Australian Museum in Adelaide later this month marks another
milestone in an ongoing campaign to repatriate all the tattooed heads
of Maori from museums and galleries round the world. Maori, the original
inhabitants of New Zealand, preserved the heads of their dead through
a drying process and often kept the heads of their loved ones around
the home. The South Australian Museum will hand over the heads - known
as ''moko mokai'' -on long-term loan at a ceremony on April 17. The
heads will be held by Te Papa, the Museum of New Zealand, in Wellington,
where dozens of other repatriated heads are stored. The largest collection
outside New Zealand, numbering 35 heads, is at New York's American
Museum of Natural History. Moko Mokai Education Trust spokesman Dalvanius
Prime said final negotiations were under way for the return of the
American Museum of Natural History's collection, and the heads should
be repatriated early next year. Prime also said the tattooed and preserved
head of a white New Zealander was secretly repatriated from Australia
in February and buried on land alongside the Whanganui River 160 miles
north of Wellington. Though Maori often kept the heads of their loved
ones, enemies or slaves were not so revered. Many Maori traded their
tattooed heads for European goods like muskets, meaning many heads
are now in museums around the world.
Preserved Maori heads traded by major-general
The first recorded sale of Maori mokomokai was in 1770,
says a history written by a chief trader and collector, British Army
Major-General Horatio Gordon Robley.
His book, published in 1896, Moko; or Maori Tattooing says Maori head
preservers steamed then carefully dried the body parts. Some heads
received further tattoos after death.
Robley said even dried Maori heads with few lines of moko were valuable,
as were "occasional specimens of dried European heads."
The trade ended "as far as possible" in the 1830s, with
most heads obtained in the last 20 years.
He said: "They are works of art; and it's value is subject to
all the vicissitudes that affect the value of other works of art.
"They are all very scarce and the number in private hands (as
distinct from Museum ownership) is very few."
The Major-General, who dedicated his book: "To those who have
served against the warriors of New Zealand",said among heads
in Museum collections were six at the Paris Museum d'Histoire Naturelle,
including a skin mounted on a plaster cast.
Two more were at the Berlin Konigliches Museum fur Volkekunde, one
fitted with glass eyes. This is pictured mounted on a metal pole with
a feather earring. Another four were in Plymouth, England.
He also mentions heads in Museums at Christchurch, Auckland, Sydney,
Gottingen, Germany and at the Royal College of Surgeons, London.
The Museum of New Zealand said last week it has mokomokai in it's
collection but they were not on display. It refused to supply Sunday
News with photographs of the heads because of the sensitivity of the
The many desperate tribes without the much-needed muskets to defend
themselves soon found a way of obtaining these weapons. The European
traders were more than willing to trade muskets for embalmed tattooed
heads. In war, the Maori custom was to take the heads of their victims,
embalm and preserve them, and then present the heads to the family
of the killed warrior. Because of the lucrative trade in dried heads,
with muskets as the end goal, Maori warriors began leading skirmishes
against other tribes uniquely to gain heads for ammunition. Muskets
were always available, but heads began to run short, and soon the
Maori found himself unable to continue supplying dried heads as previously.
News of the head for musket trade reached Britain, and caused an outcry.
As New Zealand was not yet a colony the British were unable to do
much to stop this trade. They were, however, able to pass a law against
the trading of heads to Australia in 1831, and after this date head
trading dwindled rapidly.Hongi Hika died in 1828, following a bullet
wound incurred during a battle in the Hokianga area.

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Swainson's Thrush, Catharus ustulatus
Nesting habitats used by the Swainson's Thrush
The Swainson's Thrush generally nests in willows or other riparian habitats.
Migration of the Swainson's Thrush
The Swainson's Thrush is a nocturnal migrant. At night this bird migrates up from Mexico and Central America in the summer. They just come to visit us in the summer.
Range of the Swainson's Thrush
The Swainson's Thrush is a summer visitor along the coast of California.
Habitat/plant communities used by the Swainson's Thrush
The Swainson's Thrush uses dense brushy areas along the coast of California. In the inland valleys it frequents oak woodlands as well as riparian pant communities.
Niche filled by the Swainson's Thrush
The Swainson's Thrush utilizes the organism rich leaf litter. This leaf litter is filled with all kinds of organisms that break down plant material. This includes spiders, worms, fungi, insects and many other creatures.
The Swainson's Thrush forages in the leaf litter for insects and spiders. They also glean them from shrubs. So make sure you have lots of mulch in your garden. It also helps retain moisture, and nutrients for your plants.
How to attract the Swainson's Thrush to your garden
They Swainson's Thrush enjoys Toyon berries as well as the cover it provides. Toyon is a large evergreen shrub with clusters of red berries. The Swainson's Thrush likes large and small shrubs for nesting and foraging as well as leaf litter for foraging. So don't rake up your leaf litter. It is a treasure trove of nutrition and organic matter.
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October 17, 2017 Hangry
How to Get Students to Respond to Surveys
In order to create the ultimate student experience, campuses need to know what the student wants. However, standard surveys, suggestion boxes and substantial feedback are hard to come by—especially from students. This prevents campuses from making the necessary improvements to improve overall campus life. Here we'll be listing 3 ways you can go about capturing valuable feedback.
1) Highlight the effectiveness of their participation
If students can directly see the results of survey participation, they might be inclined to partake as well. This can be done by posting results on social media, or with any medium that you know will generate high visibility. Using the Hangry Campus Branded app, you are able to send students push notifications directly to their phone which can include survey results, and how their feedback led to significant changes or improvements.
2) Provide Incentive
Millennials and GEN Z students are all about convenience, and what benefits they can receive. By providing incentive for filling out surveys, you will generate more participation and results. A great way to do this is through the Hangry Loyalty and Rewards feature. Through this feature, you can place points on virtually any action within your app. Therefore, you can reward students' points every time they participate in a survey or review a product/service. These points can then be redeemed in your mobile rewards store for campus prizes and experiences. This double-edged sword allows you to increase student participation in surveys, and promote campus retail, events, etc. through your mobile rewards store.
3) Keep it Simple, and Part of the Student Experience
The best way to ensure a student will never fill out your survey is to make it long and filled with boring questions. If you want to ensure students will fill out a survey, you need to keep it brief and fly under the radar. How do we accomplish this? Well, your first step is to state your goals to the student. An example of this would be a survey titled, 'Want your experience to be better next time? So do we. Let us help'. Letting them know you have their best interest at heart will cover your introduction (colloquial language is encouraged as it will give off a more personably approach). From there, you want to keep the survey very short and not too detailed.
Finally, you want to ensure the survey is blended into the student experience. With Hangry's Campus Branded App, you are able to strategically place surveys right into the daily app usage of each student. The survey could come after a mobile ordering experience, or it could be advertised as a content to earn points or meal plan credit.
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Getting kids to share isn't always easy, but a new study suggests babies may show altruistic qualities early in life. Researchers at the Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences at the University of Washington studied nearly 100 19-month-old babies. The babies had a delicious snack in front of them, but instead of eating it, they gave it to the adults next to them. Researchers believe this indicates babies can show altruistic behavior at this stage of their life.
Psychologist Christina Fiorvanti, Ph.D., at Montefiore Health System in New York, agrees. "Altruistic helping behavior is likely one way that babies interact with others and watch to see the impact of their actions," Fiorvanti tells Parentology. "When adults respond in positive ways to what an infant or toddler does, children are much more likely to repeat the behavior."
Fiorvanti says babies learn through engaging with their environments and watching those around them.
Studying Altruistic Behavior in Babies
As part of the study, researchers put babies into two groups. The control group had a piece of fruit placed on a tray. The babies could reach it, but the adults couldn't. Babies in the control group were with researchers who did nothing else with the food.
For the babies in the test group, researchers appeared to accidentally toss the piece of fruit and pretended they couldn't reach it. More than half the babies in the test group saw the adults struggle, picked up the fruit and handed it to them.
Researchers repeated the test with another group of babies at mealtime, thinking it would affect how generous they were if they were hungry. While babies in the control kept the fruit for themselves, 37% of those in the test group still gave the fruit to the adults.
Does Environment Play a Role in a Baby's Altruistic Behavior?
Researchers also discovered that children with siblings and those from certain cultural backgrounds were especially likely to help an adult.
Fiorvanti tells Parentology, "Parents tend to be selfless when it comes to their children and may not expect young children to share with them, whereas expecting a child to share with a sibling is much more likely."
The environment that surrounds children can also impact their behavior greatly. Fiorvanti says families and homes where everyone is kind to one another through their actions are most likely to encourage the same traits in their children. Culture can also play an important role in teaching children what behaviors are important.
"Children raised in societies where an emphasis is placed on how everyone supports one another and helps the community as a whole would be expected to display more altruistic behaviors themselves," Fiorvanti says.
Since babies tend to learn a lot from social interactions, seeing their parents display generous behavior can have a greater impact than parents just telling their kids to be nice.
Promoting Altruism in Kids
There are myriad opportunities where parents can promote altruism in kids, many of which involve paying attention to someone else's feelings. Fiorvanti says parents can talk about other's feelings with their children as well as their own feelings.
"When a child starts to notice that another person is sad…and connect that to their own feelings of sadness, they can begin to act in an altruistic way to do something to help make that person feel better," Fiorvanti says.
As kids get older, there are more opportunities to promote altruism. These include exposing them to people in need, modeling kindness, and remaining positive. By exposing your kids to people in need they can see others' struggles first-hand. This can include a volunteer trip to a homeless shelter or soup kitchen.
By being a positive role model, your kids can see how kindness always counts and wins, no matter what age they are.


Real.toString 3.1416);
Convert real to string. Load Real library before using.
Bool.toString : bool -> string
print (Int.toString (5 < 3));
Convert bool to string. Load Bool library before using.
Char.toString : char -> string
print (Char.toString #"a");
Same as str. On my system, appears to be pre-loaded.
Operations on characters
The operators < <= = <> >= > can be applied to characters.
Functions that begin with Char. are in the Char library package. Enter load "Char"; to load this library. Enter open Char; to use these functions without typing Char. each time (open will also display a list of the functions thus made available).
Char.contains and Char.notContains use currying: Char.contains "aeiou" returns a function of type char -> bool that will return true if given a vowel as an argument. For example, the following two expressions are equivalent (and both return true):
Char.contains "aeiou" #"e";
(Char.contains "aeiou") #"e";
Char.succ : char -> char
Get the next character in the ASCII sequence; same as chr (ord #"a" + 1).
Char.pred : char -> char
Get the previous character in the ASCII sequence; same as chr (ord #"a" - 1).
Char.toUpper : char -> char
Given a lowercase letter, return the corresponding capital letter. Given any other character, return that same character.
Char.toLower : char -> char
Given a capital letter, return the corresponding lowercase letter. Given any other character, return that same character.
Char.isAlpha : char -> bool
Test if character is alphabetic.
Char.isUpper : char -> bool
Test if character is a capital letter.
Char.isLower : char -> bool
Test if character is a lowercase letter.
Char.isDigit : char -> bool
Test if character is a digit.
Char.isHexDigit : char -> bool
Test if character is a hexadecimal digit. Hex digits A thru F may be uppercase or lowercase.
Char.isAlphaNum : char -> bool
Test if character is alphabetic or numeric.
Char.isAscii : char -> bool
Test if character is a seven-bit character.
Char.isSpace : char -> bool
Test if character is whitespace (blank, tab, newline, etc.)
Char.isPrint : char -> bool
Test if character is printable (including whitespace).
Char.isGraph : char -> bool
Test if character is printable and not whitespace.
Char.contains : string -> char -> bool
Test if the string contains the given character.
Char.notContains : string -> char -> bool
Test if the string does not contain the given character.
Operations on lists
A list is a set of elements, all of the same type, enclosed in brackets and separated by commas. Example: ["hello", "bonjour", "guten Tag"]. The type of this example is string list.
The empty list is represented by [] or by nil.
hd : 'a list -> 'a
hd [3, 5, 7]
The "head" of a list is its first element. Same as car in Scheme.
tl : 'a list -> 'a list
tl [3, 5, 7]
The "tail" of a list is the list with its first element removed. Same as cdr in Scheme.
:: : 'a * 'a list -> 'a list
1 :: [3, 5, 7]
1 :: 3 :: 5 :: 7 :: nil
(Infix, right associative) Inserts an element as the new head of a list. Same as cons in Scheme.
@ : 'a list * 'a list -> 'a list
[1, 3, 5] @ [7, 9]
(Infix, right associative) Append two lists. Same as append in Scheme.
explode : string -> char list
explode inputString
Convert string to list of characters.
implode : char list -> string
implode [#"h", #"i"]
Convert list of characters to string.
Operations on tuples
If T is a tuple of three elements, then #1(T) is the first element, #2(T) is the second element, and #3(T) is the third element. #4(T) would be an error. _TAG_(T) is illegal syntax.
Functions with side effects
The most useful functions with side effects are the I/O functions. Since ML automatically prints the values of expressions entered at the prompt, you can often avoid doing any explicit I/O.
The most commonly used output function is print, which prints only strings. If you want to print something other than a string, it is your responsibility to convert it to a string. For example, if N is an integer, Int.toString (N) is its string representation.
print : string -> unit
print "Hello\n"
print only prints strings.
The function print is automatically available. If you want to use other I/O functions, you should open the TextIO library by saying
open TextIO;
(or you can prepend TextIO. to each of the function names in the following table). TextIO provides the streams stdIn, stdOut, and stdErr; you don't need to explicitly open these streams. An instream is an input stream; an outstream is an output stream.
openIn : string -> instream
The argument is the name of a file to be opened for reading.
endOfStream : instream -> bool
Tests for end of file.
inputN : instream * int -> string
Reads int characters and returns them as a string. Will wait for input from a terminal, or return fewer characters if at the end of a file.
inputLine : instream -> string
Reads up to \n; if no \n, one is added, unless the line is completely empty.
input : instream -> string
Reads the entire file.
input1 : instream -> char option
Result is either NONE or SOME . These values can be used in patterns.
lookahead : instream -> char option
Peeks at next character, if any.
canInput : instream * int -> bool
Test if at least int characters remain.
closeIn : instream -> unit
Close the input stream.
openOut : string -> outstream
The argument is the name of a file to be opened for writing.
openAppend : string -> outstream
The argument is the name of a file to be opened for appending.
output : outstream * string -> unit
Write the string to the file.
flushOut : outstream -> unit
Flush the output buffer, thus ensuring that all data that has been written to the file actually makes it there.
closeOut : outstream -> unit
Close the file.
fun copyFile (inputFileName, outputFileName) =
 val inFile = openIn inputFileName;
 val outFile = openOut outputFileName
 ( output (outFile, input inFile);
 flushOut outFile;
 closeOut outFile
(Note: this function copies the first 60 bytes from the input file to the output file. I assume this is controlled by some setting that I don't know about yet.)
If expressions
The if expression looks like this:
if then else
If the is true, then is evaluated and is the value of the expression, otherwise is evaluated and is the value of the expression.
Since this is an expression and not a statement, it must have a value; therefore, the else part is required.
Case expressions
The case expression looks like this:
case of
where a has the form:
 =>
 =>
 ...
 =>
First, the initial is evaluated, then its value is compared against each of the . When a matching is found, the corresponding is evaluated and becomes the value of the case expression.
The most common patterns are
case (N + 1) of 1 => "a" | 2 => "b" | 3 => "c" | 4 => "d";
case [1] of [] => "empty" | x::xs => "nonempty";
Because every expression must have a value, ML will warn you if it does not think you have a pattern for every possible case.
Sequence of expressions
We can execute a sequence of expressions by separating them with semicolons and enclosing the group in parentheses; the value of the sequence is the value of the last expression in the sequence. This is most useful with expressions evaluated for their side effects.
(print "Hello, "; print name; print "\n");
An "exception" is an error. You can declare new types of exceptions, with or without a parameter, as follows:
exception ;
 of ;
To signal that one of these exceptions has occurred, use
raise ;
The way you use exceptions is as follows:
 handle
where can perhaps raise an exception; if it does, the first rule in that matches the expression will be executed. If you raise an exception and fail to handle it, ML will give you an "uncaught exception" error.
The usual form of a function definition is
fun = ;
A function only has one parameter, but that parameter is frequently a tuple, for example,


TANGLEMENT PUZZLES (TNG) have parts that must be linked or unlinked. The linked parts, which may be flexible, have significant freedom of movement in relation to each other, unlike the parts of an interlocking puzzle.
Mickey Mouse by Tad Muroi, Keys from Japan 1980s based on Victorian Keys improved and modified by Nob Yoshigahara
"Radio" by James Dalgety. "Rock" by Jean Claude Constantine


Application of pixel truncation to reduce intensity artifacts in myocardial SPECT imaging with Tc-99m tetrofosmin
Masao Funahashi, Tsuyoshi Shimonagata, Kazuhiro Mihara, Kazuyuki Kashiyama, Ryuichi Shimizu, Shuzo Machida, Kazuyuki Izumi, Hideo Kusuoka, Tsunehiko Nishimura, Noritake Hoki, Sei Ichi Kawamoto
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review
Background. Technetium 99m-lauibeled radiopharmaceuticals accumulate in the liver and gallbladder, where they generate intensity artifacts that can result in misdiagnosis of myocardial single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) images. This study identifies and eliminates factors affecting the magnitude and appearance of intensity artifacts in a gallbladder-heart phantom. Methods and Results. The myocardium and background compartments of a phantom were filled with Tc-99m at concentrations of 320 and 26.1 kBq/mL, respectively. A disposable plastic syringe containing 5 mL of Tc-99m as a model of the gallbladder was fixed in a position lateral to the heart phantom. Artifact intensity was determined on SPECT images over a specific activity range in the syringe (28.6, 6.6, and 0.2 MBq/mL). Among 72 projection images, those with maximal heart counts in the region of interest were selected. Counts above and below 110% of the maximal heart count in all projection images were excluded and reconstructed, respectively. At 28.6 and 6.6 MBq/mL, excessive artifacts generated cold pixels immediately around the source, whereas lower activity (0.2 MBq/mL) caused the artifacts to disappear. Truncating the counts in the gallbladder caused the intensity artifacts at specific activities of 28.6 and 6.6 MBq/mL to disappear. Conclusions. The magnitude and appearance of intensity artifacts depend on contrast between extracardiac activities in the same slices of the heart in myocardial SPECT images with Tc-99m tetrofosmin, and pixel truncation can eliminate them.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)622-631
Number of pages10
JournalJournal of Nuclear Cardiology
Issue number6
StatePublished - 2002
 - Intensity artifacts
 - Pixel truncation
 - Technetium 99m tetrofosmin
ASJC Scopus subject areas
 - Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
 - Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
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Delayed Walking and Other Foot and Leg Problems in Babies
Most babies can pull themselves up to stand and begin taking their first steps somewhere between the ages of 8 months and 12 months. Soon after their first birthday, they can usually take a few steps alone, but prior to this will have started to 'cruise' -- walking along the edge of a couch or table, using furniture or outstretched hands for support. But what if your baby shows signs of delayed walking? And what if you notice your baby has bowed legs or is walking on tiptoes -- should you worry?
There is a wide variation from one baby to the next in learning to walk. Timing of first steps can also vary between babies of different ethnic backgrounds. One baby may not walk until three or four months after another. That doesn't necessarily signal a problem or delayed walking. Both children are likely to be equally healthy and able to run and play as they get older.
Are Baby's Bowed Legs a Concern?
Bowed legs are a common concern of new parents who may not realize that nearly every baby has bowed legs at birth. This outward curve of the leg bones usually resolves itself by age 2. Toddlers usually sway from side to side rather than move forward, at first, making their bowed legs look even more exaggerated. Bowed legs don't cause delayed walking or affect your baby's ability to learn to walk.
In a few rare cases, when bowed legs don't resolve naturally by age 2, your baby's knees can be turned outward by the curve of the leg bones. This can cause knee problems. If bowed legs appear suddenly or persist beyond the age of 2, see your baby's doctor.
Rarely, bowlegs are a sign of rickets. That's a condition caused by, among other things, a lack of vitamin D and calcium in your baby's diet that inhibits bone growth. Bowlegs can also be caused by a relatively rare condition called Blount's disease, which causes abnormal bone growth in the tibia, or lower leg bone. This condition is more commonly seen in African-American children and is thought to be associated with being overweight.
Are Pigeon Toes a Problem for Babies?
Many babies have a slight intoeing, also called pigeon toes, when they're born. This usually disappears during the toddler years.
Pigeon toes may be caused by problems with any of three areas in the leg and foot. There may be deviation of the foot also known as metatarsus adductus. The other source may be problems at the head of the thigh bone at the hip. Finally, this could be due to problems in the tibia or lower leg bone -- internal tibial torsion -- discussed below.
Can intoeing, or 'pigeon toes', cause a delay in a baby learning to walk?


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Expression 1 to 2 and Express 1 to 2 software allows you to convert shows created on the original Expression, Concept, Insight, and Impression consoles running software versions 1.7 or newer into a format compatible with ETC's newer Expression 2/Expression 3* or Express line of consoles.
Be aware that there are two versions of the 122 software: Expression 122 and Express 122. These are not compatible with each other--make sure you are using the correct version of software.*
The Expression 122 software will run on any Expression 2 or 3 line console, including the Insight 2/2x, Impression 2, Concept 2x, and Insight 3.
Expression 122 -- Rename this file "run.bin" when saving to diskette
Express 122 -- Rename this file "run.bin" when saving to diskette
The conversion process transfers the following elements of the old show:
Currently, the conversion process does not transfer the following elements of the old show:
To convert a show, follow these steps:
To work with the new show on your console, turn the console off and back on, reloading the console operating software. From the Diskette Options menu, read the converted show into the console, as described in the console User Manual. Test the show thoroughly to confirm the conversion.


ADDING COPIES 1. Search shelflist for card. a. If card has IO on it, or is an IO shelflist card, do not pull, mark "IO" on printout. b. If card has any other designation, pull card. 2. Search IO for matching record. a. Make sure to look at bib record to make sure it really is a match. Some things to check are publisher, edition, year of publication, number of pages and parts. b. If not a match give to Karen. 3. Write call number on title page. 4. Make processing card with call number and author/title information for any items that need to be bound. Make sure to stamp with bindery instructions. 5. Go to holdings record to add copy. a. Change copy status and classification type code. Usually they will be 1I when you initially look at the record, you need to change it to 1L. b. If the item is part of a multi-volume set, the copy status will be 2 for an incomplete set and 3 for a complete set. (1) Make volume (MARC) holdings record (Ask for more explanation) c. Type location code. Usually it is "mus". d. Add call number if necessary. EXAMPLE: 002 1L CN mus |b M222.C43 |c W3 6. Create item record for added copy. a. With holdings record on screen, type "citm ". For example above the command would be "citm 2" b. Add enum/chron. info., if applicable c. Scan barcode in Item ID. If the item needs to go to bindery staple the barcode to the processing card. 7. Add any other copy holding needed to match shelflist card. a. Do not create item records for these. b. Write "IO" in top right hand corner of card.


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Source:Health and medicine courses in the UK
'Study health and medicine in the UK and experience a wide variety of training, world-class teaching and excellent facilities. UK medical schools are among the most prestigious in the world and attract thousands of international students every year. Whatever medical career you're aiming for, there's a UK course to help you get there.'
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Many UK institutions are not only long-established and prestigious, but are also at the forefront of modern medicine. Study in the UK and you'll find innovative courses and high quality teaching in health-related subjects. This allows you to combine clinical experience with academic study.
There are many career opportunities for international medical students in the UK. The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is the largest organisation in Europe - with over a million employees. It has been used as a model for public health systems worldwide.
You can find further information about career opportunities on the Prospects website.
Why study health and medicine in the UK?
- Regulatory and professional bodies, such as the General Medical Council (GMC) and the General Dental Council (GDC), oversee training in the UK. Their high standards enable members to work virtually anywhere in the world.
- Many UK language schools run specialist courses teaching medical terminology and vocabulary for international students hoping to work in the health industry.
- Medical research is highly valued in the UK - it was The Medical Research Council in the UK that first found the link between high blood pressure and heart disease.
- The UK is constantly making breakthroughs in medical research and clinical practice. The Office of Science and Technology places it first among the G8 countries for biomedical productivity and pre-clinical research.
Vocational courses in the UK include BTECs in Care, Health Studies, Medical Science and Pharmacy Services. There are two-year courses for trainee dispensing opticians, and certificates or diplomas accredited by CACHE, the Council for Awards in Children's Care and Education. HNC/Ds and more than 200 health-related UK Foundation Degree courses are also available.
Entry requirements are very high if you wish to study to become a doctor. However, unlike many countries, the UK allows medical students to start their training at undergraduate level by taking the five-year MBChB Medical Degree.
Dozens of UK universities and colleges offer courses in nursing and midwifery. There are also 13 specialist universities in the UK where you can train to become a dentist.
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Postgraduate study is essential to further medical research. It is a requirement for many careers in medicine, healthcare and complementary therapies. UK taught postgraduate courses are available or you can undertake research via an MPhil, an MD or a PhD.
You can specialise in areas such as oncology, immunity and neurosciences and there are also postgraduate opportunities for graduate nurses, midwives and health visitors.
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Police Sexual Violence Is Hidden in Plain Sight
tags: violence, sexual assault, Police, human rights, womens history
Anne Gray Fischer is an assistant professor of women's history at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her research focuses on gender, race, and law enforcement.
When photographs of Brett Hankison, one of the officers who murdered Breonna Taylor on March 13, began to make the rounds on social media, at least five women recognized his face. He was the same officer, they said, who had offered them a safe ride home and then sexually harassed or assaulted them. Margo Borders wrote on Facebook that Hankison "drove me home in uniform, in his marked car, invited himself into my apartment and sexually assaulted me while I was unconscious." Borders did not at the time report the rape because she feared retaliation: "[H]e had the upper hand because he was a police officer. Who do you call when the person who assaulted you is a police officer? Who were they going to believe? I knew it wouldn't be me."
The pursuit of justice for Breonna Taylor has been absorbed into a movement driven primarily by the killings of Black men, her name honored among calls to say their names. But there remains an urgent need specifically to say her name. That is—and as the case of Hankison shows—we miss a crucial component of police violence if we only think of it as defined by something that happens to Black men, or as something that happens to Black people regardless of gender. Women's experiences with police reveal distinct and often overlooked forms of gender-specific violence that are baked into the structure of law enforcement and that need be addressed in those terms as part of any effort to dismantle structural racism.
Police sexual violence is hidden in plain sight. Grossly underreported and understudied, the scant research that does exist reveals that sexual violence at the hands of police is endemic to law enforcement, and that women of color—cis and trans—are especially vulnerable to it. This violence is possible in part because of the extreme power disparity that exists between targeted women and police, which at once enables such violence and shields officers from consequences. But police sexual violence is also possible because it is a legally sanctioned tactic of everyday policing. Women's bodies are the strategic terrain on which police gain evidence, secure informants, and impose their authority in the name of "public safety" and "border security."
Indeed, rape is considered a legal and legitimate tool of law enforcement. For example, in prostitution-related misdemeanor policing, undercover police routinely entrap women into engaging in sexual acts to gain "evidence" that they are doing sex work. Because consent is obtained under false pretenses, this practice amounts to legal sexual assault. "It's incredibly traumatic to be tricked into having sex with someone who stops in the middle and puts you in handcuffs and takes you against your will to be locked up in a jail cell," one activist said. "Women have told me that years later they still have PTSD symptoms when they see a police car." Sexual "contact" by police officers to enforce morals laws is legal in all fifty states; when lawmakers in Alaska tried to ban police sexual contact, the Anchorage Police Department quashed the bill.
How did we get to the point where sexual assault is considered valid, necessary police work? The answer lies in the origin story of modern police, and specifically in the history of the discretionary enforcement of public order laws. When we interrogate this past, a central contradiction of modern policing becomes clear: the same violent practices that are now widely considered abuses of power—and which reformists believe can be cleansed from police departments—are also official policies of urban policing.
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Chapter 1 Introduction to Substance Abuse Counseling
Chapter 2 Ethical and Legal Issues in Substance Abuse Counseling
Chapter 3 Major Substances of Abuse and the Body
Chapter 4 Theories of SA Etiology
Chapter 5 Assessment and DX
Chapter 6 Treatment Settings and Treatment Planning
Chapter 7 Individual Treatmen... MORE
Chapter 8 Group Treatment
Chapter 9 Family Treatment
Chapter 10 Retaining Sobriety
Chapter 11 Working with Selected Populations: Treatment Issues and Characteristics
Chapter 12 Working with Diverse Cultures: Exploring Sociocultural Influences and Realities
Chapter 13 Prevention
Dr. Patricia Stevens, a retired Counselor Educator, is currently in private practice in Louisville, CO and consults in a variety of venues. Dr. Stevens has published and presented at the local, state, regional, national and international levels in the areas of substance abuse, gender implications in counseling, training counselors, and ethical and legal issues in counseling. She is a Fulbright Scholar and a Mental Health Disaster Relief volunteer for Red Cross and has been honored by her professional organizations and by her university for her teaching, scholarship, service and mentoring of students and staff. Dr. Stevensí professional career in substance abuse issues has included clinical practice as well as research and publications throughout her career.
Robert L. Smith, Ph.D., FPPR, is professor, Chair of the Counseling and Educational Psychology Department, and Doctoral Program Coordinator at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan. As a licensed psychologist, he has worked as a private practitioner in addition to serving as the chair of three counselor education programs. He is the author of several books and more than 60 professional articles. He serves as the Executive Director, and was one of the founders of, the International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors. He is also the founder of the National Credentialing Academy for Family Therapists. His research interests include the efficacy of treatment modalities in individual psychotherapy, family therapy, and substance abuse counseling. He is a Diplomate-Fellow in Psychopharmacology with the International College of Prescribing Psychologists. Dr. Smith is an international lecturer. He is currently involved in the development and implementation of graduate programs in counseling and psychology in Latin America.


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How Can a Champaign/Urbana Office Remove Fire Odors Before Reopening?
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The odors left behind after fire damage in a Champaign/Urbana business can be significant; because soot can be caustic to surfaces and airborne particles can cause issues, it is crucial to get them removed before reopening. SERVPRO technicians have a multi-layered approach to fire clean-up, which includes:
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SERVPRO techs have different types of fire odor removal processes depending on the part of the business getting treated. Hydroxyl generators are beneficial for eradicating airborne particulates that cause pungent odors. This method of odor control is safe for use around people and plants. When the technicians use thermal fogging to neutralize odors, the building needs to be cleared of people, and the technician wears protective clothing. The heated solutions permeate porous items such as reception area furnishings and carpet, where it latches onto smoke molecules and eradicates them.
SERVPRO of Champaign/Urbana has the training and experience to handle any size fire damage mitigation in commercial properties. The technicians work fast and efficiently to get your business back to, "Like it never even happened."


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The Coat of teeth is a scale mail hauberk or tunic made of many different teeth. All of the teeth are old, some are yellowed, and all come from animals. A great variety of animals large and small were used in the creation of this coat. Teeth from the size of a rat to a bear can be seen sewn onto the leather backing with sinew.
What sets this coat apart from being a macabre scale mail is the ability to pull teeth off of the coat and use them to summon the animal spirit of the tooth. The animal spirit will fight for the holder of the tooth as the holder directs it for it's duration. This spirit is almost exactly like the animal was in life, save for the fact it does not need to eat, sleep, and will disappear when killed. Only one tooth can be held in a hand at a time, so two creatures is the most a humanoid can control at one time.
If the wearer spends a round seaching the Coat, he can find a tooth he's looking for if it exists on the Coat. Supernatural creatures like unicorns or dragons teeth are not on the Coat, and neither are creatures that have no teeth, like griffions. No teeth of creatures above animal intelligence have ever been on the Coat either.
This item can be recharged. To add a tooth, the wearer must either be freely given the tooth by an animal, or defeat the animal in an equal combat. Equal combat means no weapons, no magic, no clothes. Once the tooth is obtained, the wearer may sew it onto the Coat with sinew. If the original owner of the tooth is dead, the tooth may be used as normal.
If the wearer does not take the time to search for a tooth, use this random table:
2 Giant spider
3 Venomous snake (natural size)
6 Giant Rat
14 Giant Ant
15 Wild Dog
16 Boa Constritor
18 Mountain Lion
20 Giant Snake
Creatures summoned by throwing teeth last untill combat is over or the dawn of the second day. The creatures can be killed just as they were when they were alive and disappear on being killed. Each time a creature is summoned using a tooth, the tooth becomes more ivory, and after being used twice, crumbles to powder. There is a one in four chance a randomly drawn tooth has been used once before.


Recall that the reflections {s_{\alpha} \in Aut(E)} for {\alpha \in \Phi} preserve {\Phi}. They generate a group {W} called the Weyl group. Moreover, since {\Phi} spans {E}, the map {W \rightarrow S_{\Phi}}, the symmetric group on {\Phi}, is injective. So {W} is a finite group of orthogonal isomorphisms of {E}, i.e. leaving invariant the bilinear form {(\cdot, \cdot)}.
Everything here actually makes sense for root systems in general, but we are restricting ourselves to the case of a root system associated to semisimple Lie algebra and a Cartan subalgebra. The only difference is that one has to prove the result on maximal strings (which was proved in the case of Lie algebras here), though it can be done for root systems in general.
Now choose a base {\Delta} for {\Phi} and a corresponding partition {\Phi = \Phi^+ \cup \Phi^-}; the {s_{\delta}} for {\delta \in \Delta} are called simple reflections.
The goal we are aiming for is the following theorem, which gives a large amount of information about the Weyl group.
Theorem 1 {W} acts simply transitively on Weyl chambers and on bases. Any root can be moved by an element of the Weyl group into a given base. {W} is generated by the simple reflections. (more…)
So, suppose given a root system {\Phi} in a euclidean space {E}, which arises from a semisimple Lie algebra and a Cartan subalgebra as before. The first goal of this post is to discuss the "splitting"
\displaystyle \Phi = \Phi^+ \cup \Phi^-
(disjoint union) in a particular way, into positive and negative roots, and the basis decomposition into simple roots. Here {\Phi^- = - \Phi^+}.
To do this, choose {v \in E} such that {(v, \alpha) \neq 0} for {\alpha \in \Phi}. Then define {\Phi^+} to be those roots {\alpha} with {(v,\alpha)>0} and {\Phi^-} those with {(v,\alpha) < 0}. This was easy. We talked about positive and negative roots before using a real-valued linear functional, which here is given by an inner product anyway.
OK. Next, I claim it is possible to choose a linearly independent set {\Delta \subset \Phi^+} such that every root is a combination
\displaystyle \alpha = \sum k_i \delta_i, \quad \delta_i \in \Delta, \ k_i \in \mathbb{Z}
with all the {k_i \geq 0} or all the {k_i \leq 0}.
Then {\Delta} will be called a base. It is not unique, but I will show how to construct this below. (more…)


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Thuringia - Sachsen Schwarzburg Rudolstadt – Fürstentum (principality)PopulationEdit This Page
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Huldigung translates into English as oath of allegiance. During feudal times when German lords governed over their people in a mixture between arbitrary action and patriarchal hegemony, the oath of allegiance on the part of the subservient population was of utmost importance. Perfidy was one of the greatest crimes and was punishable. Therefore, the expostulation of loyalty, faith, honor and morals served as a constant spur among the community members. When a new manor lord was installed, he required of his subjects "Land und Erbhuldigung". With such an oath the lordship made sure of recognition and willing subordination. The oath was to be "treu, hold und gewärtig zu sein". This kind of oath stems from the feudal law (Lehnsrecht). He who was in a relationship of dependence was obligated to swear an oath of allegiance. That concerned almost everybody. Huldigung was as important as any act of state. With time the act of Huldigung became more a formality but did not disappear until the 19th century when constitutional law was established.
Records can be found in "Huldigungslisten" of urban and rural administrations. An "Amt" (local administration) kept lists of the population obligated to swear the oath of allegiance. Often such lists only contain names of male villagers with no additional information, other than that they may have been the heads of households, swearing the oath of allegiance for the entire family. Where the male head of household was deceased, the widow may have sworn allegiance.
For Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt Huldigungslisten are in the Landesarchiv Rudolstadt of varied content. In the 17th century they are ordinarily lists of names. Then there are tabulations with age, occupations and number of children. Sometimes there are lists of people who did not participate in oaths of allegiance. People from faraway places, often whole villages, were counted into this category. On the other hand, one can find indexes with names of people who already pledged allegiance at some other place. People absent from their villages were listed and also people who usually were not registered such as members of the nobility, administrators, ministers, teachers and miners. If two manor lords were owner of a village, two Huldigungslisten were established.
Source: Huschke, Wolfgang. Schwarzburg-Rudolstädtische Huldigunslisten des 17. Und 18. Jahrhunderts in Mitteldeutsche Familienkunde, Band I, Jahrgang 5, Heft 4, page 177 pp.
Some Huldigungslisten are available for Schwarzburg Rudolstadt through _URL_, catalog: Keyword Search: Huldigungslisten and can be ordered through the Family History Center network.
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Universities with the some of the highest entry requirements, including Oxford and Cambridge, have today published ambitious new plans to improve access for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Access and participation plans, a central requirement of the Office for Students (OfS), state how universities will tackle gaps between disadvantaged students and their peers across the student lifecycle. This includes discrepancies in the entry and drop-out rates between the most and least advantaged students, as well as gaps in degree attainment between white and black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) students. Each university's plan must include ambitious targets to reduce the gaps they identify, and evidence-based and robust measures to deliver improvements.
In 2017-18, English higher education providers recruited twice as many students from the most advantaged backgrounds compared to the least advantaged. This ratio increases to approximately five times as many for the most selective universities.
Details from the access and participation plans submitted to the Office for Students by universities include:
- the University of Oxford, which recruited 15 times as many students from the most represented groups compared to the least represented in 2017-18, aims to reduce this ratio to 8:1 by 2024-25
- the University of Cambridge is aiming for a ratio of just under 7:1 by 2024-25, having recruited 14 times as many students from the most represented groups compared to the least represented in 2017-18
- the University of Manchester aims to reduce its access gap between the most and least represented groups to 3:1, from a ratio of 5:1 in 2017-18. The University of Southampton are also aiming for a 3:1 ratio by 2025, down from 5:1 in 2017-18
- King's College London aims to reduce the gap in degree attainment between BAME students and white students from 12.1 per cent to 3.1 per cent by 2024-2025. Aston University aims to eliminate its BAME attainment gap by 2025, from 10 per cent in 2017-18
- several research-intensive universities are collaborating on joint targets to recruit more students from disadvantaged areas.
In total, 41 universities have published access and participation plans today. These are providers with early recruitment deadlines, most of which have medical schools. These are commonly providers with high tariff entry requirements and the furthest to travel to improve access, so the OfS's risk-based regulation focuses strongly on this stage of the student lifecycle.
Of this initial group of universities, 31 will be subject to ongoing 'enhanced monitoring' by the OfS. Enhanced monitoring includes additional reporting requirements on commitments made in the plans, specific actions to address areas of weakness, requirements to change plans, or interventions from the director for fair access and participation. The OfS will be monitoring each university's progress against the targets set out in the plans and has powers to intervene if there is insufficient progress.
Chris Millward, director for fair access and participation at the Office for Students, said:
'These new plans prove that – following sustained challenge from the OfS – there is genuine ambition and drive among universities to address equality of opportunity. I am pleased they are rising to the challenge, but this is just the start. Now they must turn these ambitions into results. This is not just about meeting short term targets, but the first steps in a generational shift towards a fairer higher education system and a fairer society.
'We are still a long way from equality of opportunity in our universities, and gaps remain particularly wide at the most selective universities. Through their plans, we expect universities and colleges to address these issues at all parts of the student lifecycle – including admissions, attainment and successful progression beyond higher education. We will be scrutinising the progress universities make and will intervene where progress is not sufficient.
'Higher education can have a transformative impact on students' lives – creating opportunities for a better life for those that undertake it. It is critical that those opportunities are equally available to students from all backgrounds.
'As well as closely monitoring the progress of individual universities, we have established the Centre for Transforming Access and Student Outcomes – a centre designed to share 'what works' across the sector and ensure that universities and colleges can develop credible strategies to eliminate inequality in higher education.'
Across English higher education providers there are still wide gaps in access and outcomes between the most and least advantaged groups. Data published by the OfS shows that:
- young students from disadvantaged areas are more likely to drop out, less likely to gain a first or 2.1, or find graduate employment compared to their more advantaged peers
- in 2017-18 there was a difference of 23 per cent between the proportion of white and black students achieving a first or 2.1.
The OfS has set itself targets to achieve equality of opportunity in higher education. The targets aim to eliminate gaps in:
- entry rates at the most selective universities between the most and least represented groups
- drop-out rates between the most and least represented groups
- degree outcomes between white and black students
- degree outcomes between disabled and non-disabled students.
For more information contact Aislinn Keogh on 0117 _PHONE_ or [email protected].Find a provider's access and participation plan
- The Office for Students (OfS) is the independent regulator for higher education in England. Our aim is to ensure that every student, whatever their background, has a fulfilling experience of higher education that enriches their lives and careers.
- This is the first group of new access and participation plans which covers those universities with early recruitment deadlines. The next group of plans will be published in October 2019, and thereafter on a rolling basis. We will publish information about the whole sector once assessments and discussions with providers have been completed.
- Having an approved access and participation plan is the first condition of registration for providers in the Approved (fee cap) category of registration.
- Research-intensive universities are working together to promote fair access for students from underrepresented groups through the Realising Opportunities program. Several providers are working towards a shared target for increasing the number of disadvantaged students involved in the Realising Opportunities program who are admitted to research-intensive universities.
- Access and participation data for individual higher education providers can be viewed using OfS data dashboards.


annualfundscreen16Albert Einstein once said, "I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."
Einstein understood the value of the local public library, a place to satisfy our lifelong curiosity about the world, and serve as a center for education for all ages.
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Your gift will purchase the books and online resources our community depends on, will ensure that children have the opportunity to come to storytimes and learn to love reading long before they go to school, provide computers for teens to use for homework and research, and ensure the preservation of library services for future generations and make information accessible to all. You can make a gift at


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What are the most significant arguments for an early date of authorship of Daniel (6th century BC)? What are the primary arguments for a late date (2nd century BC)?
Arguments for a late (2nd century BC) dating:
Arguments for an early (6th century BC) dating:
Argument from Tradition
To give a flavor of the debate over loan words, here is an excerpt from Wikipedia:
More on the linguistics for an early date. It is more proper to say that Hebrew had changed drastically by the 2nd century BC. Lingual shifts had happened but it was still a living language. The most obvious being the word order changed from verb-subject-object to subject-verb-object. It is called Mishnaic Hebrew and the rabbinic writings are full of it. Evidence for Hebrew as a living language throughout the time of Jesus can be found in Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus. Also, coins have been found from the Hasmonean period (165 BC-37 BC) with Hebrew writing on them. During the time of the Hasmoneans, a Hebrew renaissance was in full swing and a new book written in Aramaic would not easily have been accepted.
The Hebrew in Daniel is perfect for Biblical Hebrew but does not match what was used in Mishnaic Hebrew. Likewise, Aramaic had changed since the time of Imperial Aramaic. The Aramaic in Daniel is perfect for Imperial.
One last indication of the antiquity of Daniel is the style of the apocalyptic sections. Apocalyptic writings changed heavily over the life of the genre, and we have examples of them from throughout the Intertestamental period. Daniel's apoc sections don't have the pieces we would expect from a late dating. For example, Daniel lacks an angelic guide which was so popular in the later apocalyptic writings. In fact, Zechariah has an angelic interpreter.


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Alaina Mathers, often known as Amanda Scott, is a name that has been surrounded by curiosity and intrigue. As the adopted daughter of the iconic rapper Eminem, her life has been far from ordinary.
Alaina Mathers was born on May 3, 1993, in the United States. She is the daughter of Dawn Scott, the twin sister of Kim Scott, who was Eminem's on-again-off-again wife and the mother of his biological daughter, Hailie Jade. Eminem became a significant figure in Alaina's life when he adopted her in the early 2000s.
Growing up, Alaina faced the challenges and complexities of a blended family. With Eminem's fame reaching unparalleled heights during that period, the spotlight was often on their family, making it difficult for Alaina to lead a normal childhood.
Privacy and Identity
One of the most striking aspects of Alaina Mathers' life is her commitment to maintaining a low profile. Despite her connection to one of the world's most famous musicians, Alaina has consistently shied away from the public eye. This choice reflects her desire for a sense of normalcy and privacy that eluded her during her younger years.
She adopted the pseudonym "Amanda Scott" to distance herself from her famous adoptive father and the intense media scrutiny that came with it. This choice allowed her to live a life largely removed from the public spotlight, pursuing her personal goals and aspirations without the constant intrusion of the paparazzi and media outlets.
Empowerment and Education
Alaina Mathers has demonstrated a strong sense of independence and empowerment. She pursued higher education and graduated with a degree in public relations. Her decision to focus on her education and personal growth underscores her determination to build a life of her own, separate from her adoptive father's shadow.
Additionally, Alaina has been actively involved in charity work. She has supported various causes and organizations, often using her privacy as a means to contribute without drawing unwanted attention.
Reconciliation with Family
Despite the complexities of her family's history, Alaina Mathers has maintained a connection with her biological mother, Dawn Scott. Tragically, Dawn struggled with substance abuse issues, which eventually led to her untimely passing in 2016. Alaina's efforts to support her mother during her battles with addiction and her willingness to reconcile with her mother highlight her compassion and resilience.
Alaina Mathers, also known as Amanda Scott, has carved out a unique path in life. As the adopted daughter of Eminem, she faced the challenges of growing up in the spotlight but made a conscious choice to embrace privacy and empowerment. Her journey to maintain a sense of normalcy and independence is a testament to her strength and determination. In a world obsessed with celebrity culture, Alaina's decision to prioritize her education, charity work, and personal growth is a refreshing reminder that individuals can choose their own paths, even when born into extraordinary circumstances. While Alaina Mathers may forever be linked to Eminem, she has proven that she is more than just a famous last name—she is a symbol of resilience, empowerment, and the pursuit of a life lived on one's own terms.


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change in one coefficient will be reflected in the other one, making it difficult to distinguish the effect of x1 on y from the effect of x2 on y. multicollinearity may not affect the model accuracy, but then we cannot know the effect of singular features (we lose the interpretability of the model).
What causes multicollinearity?
 - Dataset origin. Poorly designed experiments, high observational data, or poor preprocessing
 - Feature engineering. Some variables are created from another but there are redundant.
 - Identical variables. As an example, you have distance in kilometers and miles.
 - Dummy variables. Example dummy variables that are saying the same things (example: a weather variable that has two values: sunny or rainy day. If you create two dummy variables (0/1) one for sunny and one for rainy, the two variables are basically saying the same).
 - Insufficient data can lead to multicollinearity in some cases.
One thing you can do is to do a pair plot and look at your variables to see if they are correlating.
We are selecting only a few variables for this example.
X_short = X_train.iloc[:, 0:5]sns.pairplot(X_short)
Another thing you can do is to calculate a correlation matrix and do a heatmap:
# Compute the correlation matrix
X_short = X_train.iloc[:, 0:20]
corr = X_short.corr()
# Generate a mask for the upper triangle
mask = np.triu(np.ones_like(corr, dtype=bool))
# Set up the matplotlib figure
f, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(11, 9))
# Generate a custom diverging colormap
cmap = sns.diverging_palette(230, 20, as_cmap=True)
# Draw the heatmap with the mask and correct aspect ratio
sns.heatmap(corr, mask=mask, cmap=cmap, center=0, square=True, linewidths=.5, cbar_kws={"shrink":.5})
There are also other methods, the most common is VIF (Variable Inflation Factors). VIF calculates the strength of correlation between two independent variables (it determines taking a variable and regressing it against every other variable). The result is a score that represents how well the variable is explained by other independent variables. This is the formula:
VIF starts at 1 (equal 1 is meaning that the variable has no correlation with other variables) and the is no upper limit (normally over 5 or 10 this indicates high multicollinearity between this independent variable and the others).
Then let's see in our dataset. We will use a subset of our dataset (because the algorithm is quite slow).
# Import library
from statsmodels.stats.outliers_influence import variance_inflation_factor
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def calc_vif(X):
# Calculating VIF
vif = pd.DataFrame()
vif["variables"] = X.columns
vif["VIF"] = [variance_inflation_factor(X.values, i) for i in range(X.shape[1])]
_TAG_ our dataset
X_short = X_train.iloc[:, 100:200] _TAG_ take a subset
vif = calc_vif(X_short)
If we want to drop the variables that have a VIF score of more than five:
vif_drop = vif[vif.VIF > 5]
names = vif_drop.variables.tolist()
X_short.drop(names, axis=1, inplace=True)
For this section, we will discuss the last thing,
. Outlier is generally a value that is distant from the other. Cook's distance is a popular method to calculate the data point's influence (basically to find influential outliers). Generally, if a data point has a Cook's distance higher than 3 times the mean is a possible outlier, all the points with more than 4 should be examined.
Fig 21. Figure source: here
!pip install -U yellowbrick
from yellowbrick.regressor import CooksDistance
# Instantiate and fit the visualizer
visualizer = CooksDistance()
visualizer.fit(X_train, y_train)
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Salvatore Raieli joined the Peter Moss AML/ALL AI Research Project in 2019 and continued as a volunteer for Asociación de Investigacion en Inteligencia Artificial Para la Leucemia Peter Moss Salvatore works on open-source projects for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and COVID, and his medical research and articles are an invaluable asset to the future of our Association.


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Why Windows 8 on ARM Matters
If Windows 8 works successfully on ARM-processor-equipped systems, expect to see thin, light, and innovative devices coming our way. Such devices would include ultrathin laptops with impressive battery life, and superlight, large-screen tablets.
ARM-based 32-bit processors are relatively simple in design compared with Intel's chips. This simplicity means that they consume less power, which makes them perfect for use in devices designed to maximize battery life--such as phones, tablets, and, soon, laptops. The core of the processor can be licensed by chipmakers, who, in turn, can package it into a system-on-chip processor that puts all of the components into a single, integrated-circuit chip. The ARM core isn't new, but it has traditionally been used with embedded systems or with portable devices that don't run Microsoft Windows.
That's about to change--and when it does, it could change the face of computing, as evidenced by the ARM prototypes demonstrated at BUILD.
The beauty of these system-on-chip architectures is that they can be placed in very tight spaces. This obviously impacts case designs--I saw one impressive, not-publicly-shown tablet prototype at this week's BUILD conference that was superthin and supersturdy and that weighed less than a pound and had a 9-inch screen.
Saving space is just one of the benefits of ARM. Another benefit is low power consumption.
"We're seeing no restriction on form factor for the ARM devices," says Steve Horton, director of software and product management for Qualcomm. "Power is going to give you multiple differentiators--multiple days of use, or the ability to do a device that's superthin, or superlight."
The potential power savings of ARM is why chip makers say there is even talk of putting ARM chips into clamshell designs that mimic laptops. ARM is clearly destined for more than just phones and tablets, areas in which ARM already dominates in the form of Qualcomm and Nvidia chips.
But if Windows 8 works on ARM-processor-equipped systems, consumers could see clamshell-style "laptops" with up to 15 hours of battery life.
Of course, once clamshell tablets come out, their keyboards will make them harder to distinguish from ultraportable laptops. Some will run on x86 chips, like those from Intel and AMD, and some ARM-based systems will run Windows 8--but those may not handle your existing software. We're not sure yet how that will be handled, as Microsoft didn't offer much information at this week's event.
If you're wondering whether you'll be able to use existing Windows apps on ARM systems, I did ask--but all of the manufacturers I spoke with glossed over the issue.
"We have thought about it. We're not super concerned," says Qualcomm's Horton. "We think there's a lot of good things coming. The end goal is for the experience to be the same, fundamentally, from a Windows OS standpoint--and it should be the same thing."
Microsoft was also vague about support for legacy apps on ARM, but the company has already demonstrated a version of Office that runs in the new Metro-style Windows interface, as opposed to the traditional desktop.
Windows on ARM: What It Takes
I asked about how the process of adapting ARM for Windows is going, and the Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments execs I spoke with indicated that things are going smoothly. All noted that they needed to add support for DirectX graphics (if they didn't already support it), but beyond that, the process of preparing ARM for Windows is largely about optimizing code for working with the system-on-chip architecture.
"The work has been going on for more than a year now," says Deepu Talla, general manager of mobile computing and wireless at Texas Instruments. "The only thing I would say we needed to work on was our graphics speeds. We've needed to make changes to our graphics engine to support DirectX. Silicon-wise that's the only difference. And we've made other optimizations in software."
Many of the capabilities of ARM, a chip that dominates smartphones and tablets today, will allow Windows 8 to gain smartphone-like functionality.
For example, Horton points to the "Connected On" demo at BUILD this week. Connected On is a new power state that sends a system into a powered-down state without hibernating, so you can come out of it immediately. In this state, apps are suspended, but can still refresh content in the background without requiring much power. This state of suspension will even work with Qualcomm's 4G technology, a boon considering how 4G can guzzle battery life.
There is one design catch that will have a clear impact on the shape of the devices we see: Microsoft is asking hardware manufacturers to stick with a 16:9 aspect ratio, because that's what the Metro interface (two-apps-on-screen) is optimized for.
In the end, TI's Talla notes that the company's focus is mobile computing.
"It's about developing this all-day computing experience," he says. The other ARM chipmakers agree with Talla--all have a goal of 12- to 15-hour battery life on a system, whether it's a clamshell or a tablet design.
If they manage this, we'll all be able to while away our days at the local cafe, nursing a latte from sunup to sundown--and maybe even beyond. Not bad.


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Vegetative Meaning and Definition in Dictionary
Definitions from Wordnet 2.0
- composed of vegetation or plants; "regions rich in vegetal products"; "vegetational cover"; "the decaying vegetative layer covering a forest floor"
- (of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes
- used of involuntary bodily functions; "vegetative functions such as digestion or growth or circulation"
- of or relating to an activity that is passive and monotonous; "a dull vegetative lifestyle"
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Wikipedia Meaning and Definition on 'Vegetative'
- Vegetative: Vegetative describes vegetation. Vegetative may also refer to: Vegetative reproduction, a type of asexual reproduction for plants Persistent vegetative
- Vegetative reproduction: For vegetative reproduction of animals and fungi, see Budding. Vegetative reproduction (vegetative propagation, vegetative multiplication
- Vegetative Sculpture I: (2012). "Vegetative Sculpture I (sculpture)". Inventory of American Sculpture. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 27 December 2012. "Vegetative Sculpture
- Persistent vegetative state: syndrome. After four weeks in a vegetative state (VS), the patient is classified as in a persistent (or 'continuing') vegetative state. This diagnosis is classified
- Vegetative symptoms: be confused with Vegetative state. Vegetative symptoms are disturbances of a person's functions necessary to maintain life (vegetative functions). These
- Permanent vegetative cover: Permanent vegetative cover refers to trees, perennial bunchgrasses and grasslands, legumes, and shrubs with an expected life span of at least 5 years.
- Vegetative treatment system: and a Vegetative Treatment Area (VTA), all these components when used together are considered a Vegetative Treatment System. A Vegetative Treatment
- Vegetative phase change: Vegetative phase change is the juvenile-to-adult transition in plants. This transition is most prolonged and pronounced in woody species. Manipulating


eenth century 'romantic' was being used as a term which contrasted with 'classical'. Nicholas Pevsner argued that the 'irregularity' which affected English gardens in the first quarter of the eighteenth was the first breath of romanticism on European art. Other historians talk of the whole eighteenth century as a 'pre-romantic' period in contrast with the full-blown romanticism of the nineteenth century. Ruined temples beame more significant than new temples because they had a greater affect on the viewer's attitude of mind, suggesting the passage of time, human frailty and heroic deeds in ancient times.
A Rondpoint is a circular area where avenues meet (eg in a Baroque garden).
Root House
A Root House is a garden building made with roots, trunks, stumps, branches and other parts of trees.
A Rosarium is a rose garden, often circular.
A Rotunda is a round building.Example 1: Roman gardens and Gothic invaders, Example 2: Gardens in Middle Germany (2)
Rustication is stonework with roughened surfaces and recessed joints.
Sacred Grove
In Ancient Egypt, Sacred Groves were placed within temple compounds. In Homeric Greece they were places of resort, outside citadels, often dedicated to specific gods and associated with a fresh spring or grotto. In Classical Greece, sacred groves were used for physical and intellectual exercise. They became academies, lyceums and gymnasia.
Shakkei is borrowed scenery (eg a mountain) in a Japanese garden.
Sharawadgi is a word of uncertain origin, used in connection with the supposed Chinese influence on irregularity in early-eighteenth century gardens. Sir William Temple wrote that "The Chineses scorn this way of planting, and say, a boy, that can tell an hundred, may plant walks of trees in straight lines, and over-against one another, and to what length and extent he pleases. But their greatest reach of imagination is employed in contriving figures, where the beauty shall be great, and strike the eye, but without any order or disposition of parts that shall be commonly or easily observed: and, though we have hardly any notion of this sort of beauty, yet they have a particular word to express it, and, where they find it hit their eye at first sight, they say the sharawadgi is fine or is admirable, or any such expression of esteem." Ciaran Murray (Journal of the Garden History Society Vol 26 No.2 Winter 1998) argues that Sharawadgi derives from 'the Japanese sorowaji: which, in sound and sense - 'not being regular' - would correspond to Temple's word'. Murray makes a good case for (1) Temple having learned about Japanese gardens from staff of the Dutch East India Company he had met in Holland (2) having a broad concept of 'Cathay' which embraced the culture of China and Japan
Shin, gyo and so are terms (derived from calligraphy) and used to describe, respectively, a formal, semiformal and informal style of Japanese garden design
Shinden-zukuri is the Sleeping Hall (Shinden) Style (Zukuri) of laying out a Japanese garden during the Heian period.
A Shoin os a study with a low writing desk. The shoin can either be a room in a house of a separate building in a garden.
Shoin-zukuri is the study (shoin) style (zukuri) style of laying out a Japanese garden
Stabilisï¿½e, pronounced'stabil-ezay', the word is used to describe a type of pavement, used in French parks and gardens, formed by ramming gravel or broken stone (see Pavimentum).
A Stewpond is a fishpond in a monastery garden.
A Stoa is a portico or detached colonnade.
Stroll Garden
A Stroll Garden is a Japanese garden planned to reveal a sequence of views as the the visitor strolls along the path.
In general use, the word Sublime means 'of exalted status'. In the eighteenth century the term was given a specific use (eg by Edmund Burke), in contrast with the word Beautiful (meaning'soft, gentle and smooth') so that Sublime meant 'dramatic, awe-inspiring and almost frightening.' Picturesque was used as an intermediate term.
A Sundial is a device which uses the sun to tell the time, much-used as a garden ornament.
Terrace derives from the Latin terre=earth and describes a flat area of earth, often supported by a retaining wall.
Terracotta, from the Latin for earth+burnt, is the traditional material for flowerpots and tiles and also describes their characteristic colour.Example 1: Roman Renaissance gardens
Theatre derives from the Greek theaomai=to behold). In gardens a theatre can be an a place see a theatrical performance or place which is like the set for a play.
Topiary describes a shape made by clipping plants. The practice was popular in Roman gardens and revived with the renaissance.Example 1: Renaissance Gardens in Northern Italy, Example 2: The wild garden
A Torii is a gateway at the entrance to a Japanese Shinto shrine, and in other derivative locations, sometimes in gardens.
Tortoise Island
The tale of islands supported by tortorises (the Isles of the Immortals) came from China and led to the making of islands with rocks representing tortorises in Japanese gardens
Treillage is elaborate trellis-work, used to support plants in gardens.
A Trellis is a lattice for the support of climbing plants.Example 1: Gardens of Amboise, Blois and Gaillon
A Triclinium is a Roman dining room with couches on three sides (from the Greek for 'three couches')Example 1: Pliny the Younger's villas and garden letters
Trompe l'oeil
A Trompe l'oeil is an illusion which 'deceives the eye' (eg a wall-painting which resembles a real garden feature).
Tufa is a soft volcanic stone, used in making grottos.
Tuin is the Dutch word for garden.
An Urn is a vase, originally used for storing the ashes of a cremated body. Empty urns have been popular garden ornaments.
A Vault is an arched covering in stone or brick or other material.
Villa is the Latin word for a country estate. It refers to the land itself and to the buildings upon it.
Volute derives from the Latin voluta=scroll, and is is used for the scroll decoration in the classical Orders of European architecture.
Weathering is the process which changes a material in time. Or, in architecture, the slope on a buttress to shed rainwater.
A Wilderness is a wood, kept for pleasure, with walks.
Winter Garden
A Winter Garden can be either (1) an outdoor area used for winter-flowering plants, or, (2) a conservatory.
Wrought Iron
Wrought Iron is iron which has been worked ('wrought') by hammering on a forge (though the word is often used for gates etc made by bending mild steel bars).
Xystus derives from the Greek xustos, meaning smooth, and describes a place for exercise. In the gardens of Pompeii, the xystus was a place for horticulture.Example 1: Augustus Caesars gardens, Example 2: Gardens in the Roman Provinces
Yuan is the Chinese word for 'garden'. Originally, a 'yuan' was an imperial hunting park, bounded by a mud wall.
A Ziggurat is a pyramid-shaped tower.


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Powerful ECUs are used to coordinate the complex sensor networks that inform ADAS and autonomous driving platforms. These must be capable of processing huge quantities of data and deriving driving strategies from this data within milliseconds. To develop these complicated control strategies efficiently, development of the software functions is shifting to the lab. Wherever possible, virtualization is replacing experiments based on real hardware. This approach relies on adequate validation of the models with real environment data. This requires reliable, flexible tools for efficient data acquisition as well as the possibility of accessing data via a cloud or backend.
To manage data acquisition from multiple high-performance control units and vehicle sensors, ETAS provides its powerful GETK ECU interface technology. This can handle vast amounts of data and connect a microprocessor's PCIe interface to the recording system. The V-GETK (virtual ETK) comes into play during the prototyping phase, if a production-ready ECU and sensor hardware are not yet available.
In San Jose, ETAS will show RALO (Rapid Logging), a Linux-based, modular, scalable data acquisition control and recording system to develop ADAS ECUs. The system can be used during test drives or in virtual test environments. It is portable, Ethernet-based and can be run on any PC for logging external data.


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Masters student uses pedal power to create novel machine
An innovative bicycle-powered water pump, created by a student at the University of Sheffield, has proved a huge success and is now in regular production in Guatemala, transforming the lives of rural residents.
Jon Leary, 24, a MEng student in the University's Department of Mechanical Engineering, took his bicycle machine design from a Steel City drawing board to the heart of Guatemala as part of his dissertation, which required him to 'make something useful out of rubbish.'
During his four month stint in Guatemala, Jon spent time improving the design for his bicibomba movil – a mobile bicycle-powered water pump to be used for irrigation and general water distribution - by working with the Guatemalan NGO Maya Pedal, who design and build a variety of weird and wonderful bicycle machines using abandoned bikes sent over from the US and Canada. Maya Pedal's aim is to produce machines which can improve the daily lives of locals, without them having to resort to expensive electrical or environmentally damaging fossil fuelled machines. Their machines, which are human-powered sustainable energy sources, range from the bicilavadora (bicycle washing machine) to the bicimolino (corn grinder).
Jon created the machine using a normal bike, which is plugged into a frame with an old electrical pump converted to a friction drive attached to the back wheel. The back tyre of the bike makes direct contact with the former armature of the motor, which is covered with rubber from an old tyre to give better grip. The machine was tested to a range of heights and on flat ground the pump can achieve a 40 litres per minute flow rate - equal to about three normal showers. At 26 meters, a flow rate of 5 liters per minute can be achieved.
The bike frame can be built quickly and easily using only basic workshop tools and materials, including a few lengths of angle iron, some flat lengths of metal, bicycle seat posts and seat tubes, and a scrapped standard electric centrifugal water pump.
Prior to Jon's design, Maya Pedal had already produced a popular machine capable of drawing water from up to 30m below the surface, however many farmers lived on steep inclines and wanted to distribute the water once it had been extracted from the well. As a result, unlike Maya Pedal's other static designs, Jon's bike is completely mobile - when a person is done pumping, they can simply flip the frame upside down and it will sit on top of the back wheel like a pannier rack. This mobility enables users to pump from the bottom of the hill to a mid-way tank until full, and then continue pumping from the mid-way tank to the top of the hill. The number of mid-way tanks can be increased indefinitely, effectively making the pumping distance unlimited.
The machine is now in regular production in Guatemala and at least six more models have been made since Jon's departure from the country last summer. Jon has since produced an open source construction manual for the machine, which is freely available on Maya Pedal's web site. The manual was recently sent to Malawi by students from the University of Strathclyde involved in a rural irrigation project aiming to address some of the agricultural problems that the developing nation is facing.
In two months time, Jon will return to Guatemala with a team of three more of the University's recent graduates from the Department of Mechanical Engineering to design, build and test a wind turbine. The turbine will be designed specifically for Maya Pedal and as a result will be constructed from disused bicycle parts and other scrap materials.
Jon said: "When I was asked to design a novel product from waste material for my Master's thesis, I never would have expected that I'd end up welding together bicycle machines in the highlands of Guatemala! Working at Maya Pedal was like being on Scrapheap Challenge - there is a storeroom full of stripped down bicycle parts, a workshop full of tools and the only limit is your own imagination. There was never a dull day, the volunteers came from all around the world to be there and everyone in the local town was so friendly - it's certainly an experience I'll never forget."
Dr Steve Bradbury from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sheffield, said: "It is gratifying to see that the design expertise that we foster in our students can be utilised in worthy projects such as this. It is a result where everybody wins; Jon, the University and most importantly, the people of Guatamala."


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of Abolishing the International Duel (1917)
- "The Conquest of Happiness"(1930)
- "Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization?" 1930
- Legitimacy Versus Industrialism 1814–1848 (1935)
- "Am I an Atheist or an Agnostic?" (1947)
- "Ideas that Have Harmed Mankind" (1950)
- "What Desires Are Politically Important?" Bertrand Russell's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (1950)
- An Outline of Philosophy (1951)
- Is There a God? (1952)
- Russell, Bertrand (1953). "What is an Agnostic?". Archived from the original on 2 February 2008.
- The Scientific Outlook (1954)
- "16 Questions on the Assassination" (of President Kennedy) (1964)
- Works by Bertrand Russell in audio format from LibriVox
- Sound clips of Bertrand Russell speaking
- Russell's BBC broadcast on "Man's Peril" (1954) and the "Russell–Einstein Manifesto" Press conference (1955)
- "What Desires Are Politically Important?" Bertrand Russell's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (1950)
- Works by or about Bertrand Russell in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Pembroke Lodge — childhood home and museum
- The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly
- The Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation
- Bertrand Russell at the Internet Movie Database
- Bertrand Russell in Japan
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Bertrand Russell", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
- Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery (London)
- Bertrand Russell entry by AD. Irvine in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 1 May 2003
- The Bertrand Russell Archives at McMaster University
- Resource list
- The First Reith Lecture given by Russell (Real Audio)
- Nobel Prize
- Bertrand Russell at 100 Welsh Heroes
- Key Participants: Bertrand Russell — Linus Pauling and the International Peace Movement: A Documentary History
- PM@100: LOGIC FROM 1910 TO 1927 Conference at the Bertrand Russell Research Centre (McMaster University, Ontario, Canada), to be held on 21–24 May 2010, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publication of Principia Mathematica
- Bertrand Russell Society Bulletin (2011–present) (Kris Notaro and David Blitz)
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The jetty head is the largest structure of its kind in Britain and stands over a mile from the shore in about 36 meters (118 feet) of water. It is 443 meters (1,453 feet) long. The outer berth can accommodate ships of upto 350,000 tonnes dead weight and the inner berth has a 70,000 tonnes dead weight limitation but with limited dredging of the approach this could when required be increased to 150,000 tonnes dead weight.
Iron Ore was taken from the holds of ships by the two ship uploaders each with a capacity of 3,000 tonnes per hour. These uploaders with a height of 72 meters (236 feet) and each weighing 2,500 tonnes are among the largest in the world.
Ore and coal are moved between ship and shore along an enclosed system of conveyor belts rated at 6,000 tonnes per hour for ore. Between the jetty and the stockyard is a sampling station where the ore is tested in accordance to the International Standards Organization who checks on ferrous content, moisture and size.
Since British Steel Ravenscraig closed down in 1992 only coal has been unloaded at Hunterston
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# Appliance Definition Language specification
ADL is an abstract parse-tree expressed in JSON. Each node in the tree has a mandatory
'operation' property. All other fields in the nodes are sub-properties.
A tree node looks like this:
{"operation": "runcmd", "chroot": true, "command": ["/bin/true"]}
We use [Jinja2]( as a preprocessor. This provides a useful macro
language, which we have built a framework around. The rest of this document concerns the
macro system and operations.
'base.spec' defines a root of an ADL parse tree, as well as some hooks for various phases
which may be reimplemented downstream by users of 'base.spec'. Almost all ADL files should
derive from 'base.spec', which is declared by doing the following:
{% extends "base.spec" %}
## Operations
There are various operations which are implemented by the interpreter. They are:
* **runcmd**: Run a command inside or outside of a chroot. Takes two parameters, **chroot**
 which is a boolean, and **command** which contains the arguments and command name.
* **render_template**: Renders a template and installs it to a location in the guest filesystem.
* **noop**: Skips this node in the parse tree.
## Phases
There are various phases which are implemented by 'base.spec'. This allows for ADL files
built ontop of the framework provided by 'base.spec' to weave only certain parse tree
nodes into the final parse tree representation based on what the end-user wants to do.
These phases are encapsulated inside '{% block %}' constructs.
The phases are:
* **bootstrap**: Commands to get an initial system installed. Things like 'debootstrap' and
 'pacstrap'. Perhaps ugly hacks involving rpm2cpio, but we will probably ship a helper script
 for that.
* **packages**: Commands to install user specified packages or otherwise optional packages that
 are not needed in the system when it's done with the **bootstrap** phase, but would be needed
 to bring the system up on a hypervisor or under bare metal.
* **configuration**: Commands to set up the configuration of the appliance based on the 'config'
* **custom**: Any special commands that the specfile may wish to provide. Also could have additional
 phases here.
* **cleanup**: Cleans up any changes done to the guest filesystem during **bootstrap**.
* **xentweaks**: Tweaks some config files for running under Xen, such as '/etc/inittab'.