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An online stamp generator is a tool that allows business owners to create customized stamps for different purposes, such as packaging, marking invoices, and even authenticating important official and legal documents. Hence, in this article, let us discuss everything that a business owner should know about an online stamp generator or a stamp maker online.
How does an online stamp generator operate?
A stamp maker online or online stamp generator comes with a specific software application that allows customers to design and customize their stamps online. Users can select from various kinds of pre-designed templates, then add their own text, and next can upload images. After that, the online stamp generator can create a specific digital file of the stamp design, which can be easily downloaded or even printed on a self-inking stamp or a rubber stamp.
What are the different types of stamps that can help you with your business?
An online stamp generator can develop various types of useful stamps, such as:
- Pre-inked stamps
These types of stamps have an ink reservoir built into the stamp pad. They are capable of offering a high-quality impression and can be re-inked when the ink runs out.
- Self-inking stamps
These are another type of stamp that has an integrated ink pad. This ink pad can automatically re-ink the stamps after each imprint or impression. These kinds of stamps are more efficient and convenient than many other kinds of stamps.
- Rubber stamps
These are other kinds of stamps that have a certain rubber surface mounted on a plastic or wooden block. You can use these rubber stamps with an ink pad to transfer ink onto paper or even some other materials.
Important features do business owners consider when designing an online personalized stamp?
When designing a personalized online stamp, business owners need to keep in mind some important factors. Such as follows:
- The text of the stamp
The text on the online stamp needs to be both clear and legible. It needs to include important pieces of information, such as the name and address of the business, contact information, incorporating state, and many more.
- The size of the stamp
The size of the online stamp has to be appropriate for its intended use. A stamp that is larger in size can be a lot more visible but may not be accurate or suitable for making an impression on small items, such as envelopes.
- The color of the stamp
The color of your digital or online stamp needs to be consistent with the color scheme of your brand. It needs to be easily readable and contrast with the background.
- The logo of the stamp
The logo of your online and personalized stamp has to be of highresolution and needs to represent your brand as accurately as possible. It has to be placed in a prominent location on the stamp.
Therefore, to make logo stamps with great perfection, a business owner needs to check a few things, such as:
- They need to select a clear and legible font for the text.
- They must choose a high-resolution image.
- They need to select the appropriate size of the stamp as per their needs.
- They should use an accurate color scheme and even check the spelling and accuracy of the information provided in the stamp.
What are the different types of ink pads you can use to make an impression on your online stamp?
There are different types of ink pads that business owners can use. Such as:
- Water-based ink pads
These types of ink pads are perfect for rubber stamps and hence, can offer a quick drying time. These stamps are not suitable for non-porous or glossy materials.
- Pigment ink pads
These kinds of ink pads are great for use with your pre-inked stamps and can offer a high-quality impression. These impressions are more resistant to fading and are even suitable for use on various types of surfaces.
- Solvent-based ink pads
These types of ink pads are ideal for self-inking stamps. Business owners can use these to create stamp online to create an impression on non-porous or glossy surfaces. They provide a longer drying time and are a lot more resistant to smearing or smudging.
Types Of Stamps That A Business Owner Should Have
There are mainly four types of stamps that a business owner must have. Such as:
- Bank Stamps
These types of stamps are important for almost all business owners. Professionals can use this stamp to show the authenticity of checks and documents, and other business professionals may utilize it to track and manage the status of various types of financial transactions.
These stamps are useful in both routine stamping situations and one-off situations. This kind of online stamp helps by saving time and reducing fatigue when stamping large quantities of important documents that need to be properly authenticated with a date.
The places where you can use your bank documents are paychecks, checks, account summaries, banking statements, and many more.
- Signature stamps
When you need to sign a stack of important official documents at once, the time it needs to sign each one by hand may be a really tough job. So, in this situation, you can just rely on an online stamp generator and create a stamp online to complete your task within just a few minutes.
You can create a good quality signature stamp and then can sign all your important papers quickly and easily. Places where you can use your signature stamp are letters, notices, thank you notes, employee contracts, packing slips, licenses and permits, and many more.
- Address stamps
The name and mailing address of an organization are generally imprinted onto an address stamp. With this kind of stamp, you can build strong brand awareness and also a good relationship with your customers. The utilization of an address stamp with your company logo is a labor and time-saving way to produce an attractive letterhead or return address.
Places, where you can use your address stamp, are packing slips, contracts, letterheads, business cards, sales order receipts, thank you notes, etc.
- Date stamps
Date stamps can be used in a large variety of official and legal documents that can reduce your labor to a great extent. You can use your date stamps on papers, like receipts, food packages, contracts, notices, letters, permits, invoices, inventory, and many more.
However, no matter what kind of online stamp you wish to create, you should always trust a reliable and professional online stamp generator, like Stamping and Blogging.
How can you create a stamp online using Stamping and Blogging?
By opting for Stamping and Blogging, you just need to go through a few easy steps to make logo stamp. Such as:
- First, go to the designer page of this online stamp generator and choose "New stamp."
- Then set the accurate size of your customized online stamp.
- After that, insert the "Circle" option and write down the text that you want in your customized stamp.
- Next, upload an image as per your choice, and finish the design after changing the position and size of the image.
- Lastly, you can download it if necessary or even send it for production.
Therefore, creating an online stamp with the help of a reliable stamp maker online, such as Stamping and Blogging can always help your business in many ways.


text: Calcium-dependent release of vasoactive gliotransmitters is widely assumed to trigger vasodilation associated with rapid increases in neuronal activity. Inconsistent with this hypothesis, intact stimulus-induced vasodilation was observed in inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate (IP3) type-2 receptor (R2) knock-out (KO) mice, in which the primary mechanism of astrocytic calcium increase-the release of calcium from intracellular stores following activation of an IP3-dependent pathway-is lacking. Further, our results in wild-type (WT) mice indicate that in vivo onset of astrocytic calcium increase in response to sensory stimulus could be considerably delayed relative to the simultaneously measured onset of arteriolar dilation. Delayed calcium increases in WT mice were observed in both astrocytic cell bodies and perivascular endfeet. Thus, astrocytes may not play a role in the initiation of blood flow response, at least not via calcium-dependent mechanisms. Moreover, an increase in astrocytic intracellular calcium was not required for normal vasodilation in the IP3R2-KO animals.

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Problem 367Published on Saturday, 14th January 2012, 10:00 pm; Solved by 247
Bozo sort, not to be confused with the slightly less efficient bogo sort, consists out of checking if the input sequence is sorted and if not swapping randomly two elements. This is repeated until eventually the sequence is sorted.
If we consider all permutations of the first 4 natural numbers as input the expectation value of the number of swaps, averaged over all 4! input sequences is 24.75.
The already sorted sequence takes 0 steps.
In this problem we consider the following variant on bozo sort.
If the sequence is not in order we pick three elements at random and shuffle these three elements randomly.
All 3!=6 permutations of those three elements are equally likely.
The already sorted sequence will take 0 steps.
If we consider all permutations of the first 4 natural numbers as input the expectation value of the number of shuffles, averaged over all 4! input sequences is 27.5.
Consider as input sequences the permutations of the first 11 natural numbers.
Averaged over all 11! input sequences, what is the expected number of shuffles this sorting algorithm will perform?
Give your answer rounded to the nearest integer.

source: HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu


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Organizations whose applications grow organically with time tend to get entangled in a cobweb of unmanageable dependencies, unidentified requirements, and hidden flows of information that cannot be touched lest seemingly unrelated parts suddenly stop functioning. This can happen to everyone, and is actually to be expected to some extent.
Yet, what starts out as just a few calls to one system or another has an intriguing characteristic of inevitably turning into a closely coupled network of actors whose further usage or development becomes next to impossible:
A couple of APIs turns into a closely coupled network of actors
This has become particularly evident in the today's always-connected landscape of online APIs that grow in importance on a huge scale.
Introducing IRA services
To deal with demand and introduce order one can look to software such as the Python-based Zato integration platform, released under LGPL and freely available both from GitHub as well as a set of OS-specific packages.
Zato promotes clear separation of systems and APIs being integrated and emphasizes architecting integrations out of IRA services that substitute point-to-point communication.
An IRA service is a piece of functionality running in a distributed and clustered environment with the attributes of being:
 - Interesting
 - Reusable
 - Atomic
This, in fact, is nothing else than the Unix philosophy taken onto a much higher level of composing processes out of applications and APIs rather than individual system programs.
Different settings three decades after the philosophy has been originally postulated yet the principles stay the same—be composable instead of tying everything into a monolith.
While designing software as reusable and atomic building blocks is understood, being interesting may raise an obvious question—what does it mean to be interesting?
The answer is a two-fold question again:
 - Would you truly accept to use such a service yourself each and every day for the next 10 years or more?
 - Can you fully explain the service's purpose to non-technical stakeholders, the people who ultimately sponsor the development, and have them confirm they can clearly understand what values it brings to the equation?
If the stakeholders happen to be technical people, the second question can be reworded—would you be able to explain the service's goal in a single Tweet and have half of your technically-minded followers retweet or favorite it?
Looking at it through a Unix philosophy's perspective and command line tools, this is interesting:
 - Are you OK with using the ls command? Or do you strongly feel it's a spawn of R'lyeh that needs to be replaced as soon as possible?
 - Would you have any issues with explaining what a purpose of the mkdir command is to a person who understands what directories are?
And now, what is not interesting:
 - Would you be happy if all shell commands had, say, combinations of options expressed in digits only, changed weekly and unique to each host? For instance 'ls -21' instead of 'ls -la' but 'ls -975' for 'ls -latrh'? I know, one could get used to everything, but would you truly condone it with a straight face?
 - How would you explain without any shame the very existence of such a version of ls to a newcomer to Linux?
Same goes for integrating APIs and systems—if you follow the IRA principles you'll be asking yourself the same sort of questions. Add reusability and atomicity on top of it and you've got a recipe for a nice approach to connecting otherwise disconnected participants.
Such a service can also be called a microservice.
Implementing IRA services
Now let's suppose there's an application using OpenStack Swift to store information regarding new customers and it all needs to be distributed to various parties. Here's how to approach it while taking IRA into account:
 - Have the producer store everything in Swift containers
 - Use Zato's notifications to periodically download latest sets of data
 - Have Zato distribute the information to intended recipients using given recipient's chosen protocols
All of the IRA postulates are fulfilled here:
 - Producer simply produces output and is not concerned with who really consumes it—if there are more recipients with time, nothing really changes because it's Zato that will know of it, not the producer
 - Likewise, recipients can conveniently assume the fact they are being invoked means new data is ready. If there's a new producer with time, it's all good, they will just accept the payload from Zato.
 - It's Zato that translates information between various formats or protocols such as XML, JSON, SOAP, REST, AMQP or any other
 - Hence, the service of notifying of new customers is:
 - Interesting—easy to explain
 - Re-usable—can be plugged into various producers or consumers
 - Atomic—it does one thing only and does it well
from zato.server.service import Service
class CreateCustomer(Service):
 def handle(self):
 # Synchronously call REST recipients as defined in Redis
 for conn_name in self.kvdb.conn.smembers('new.customer'):
 conn = self.outgoing.plain_http[conn_name].conn
 conn.send(self.cid, self.request.raw_request)
 # Async notify all pub/sub recipients
 self.pubsub.publish(self.request.raw_request, '/newcust')
This is yet another example of using IRA in practice because Zato's own architecture lets one develop services that are not bothered with details of where their input comes from—most of the code above can be re-used in different contexts as well, the code itself won't change.
The rest is only a matter of filling out a few forms and clicking OK to propagate the changes throughout the whole Zato cluster.
The rest is a matter of filling out forms
Filling out forms
That code + a few GUI clicks alone suffices for Swift notifications be distributed among all the parties interested though on top of it there is also command line interface and the platform's own public admin API.
And here it is, an IRA service confirming to IRA principles:
 - Interesting—strikes as something that will come in handy in multiple situations
 - Reusable—can be used in many situations
 - Atomic—does its own job and excels at it
Such services can now form higher-level business processes, all of them again interesting, reusable and atomic—the approach is scalable from lowest to highest levels.
To get in touch with the Zato project, you can drop by the mailing list, IRC, Twitter or the LinkedIn group.
Everyone is strongly encouraged to share their thoughts, ideas or code on how to best integrate modern APIs in a way that guarantees flexibility and ease of use.
About the author
Dariusz Suchojad - Dariusz is a systems architect with 15+ years of experience in enterprise projects for telecommunications, banking and healthcare. He is the primary author of the Python-based Zato platform which helps enterprise organisations integrate better in the contemporary world. Check out the blog he is posting to and follow Zato Source on Twitter to...


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In November 2003, partners in the IST project MULTIMOD succeeded in registering and animating the bone model of a young patient. They developed the DataManager system, whereby the 3D bone models, as derived from CT data, were registered and animated with kinematical data derived from the patient's gait analysis (walking motion).
The technique enables the programmer to combine multiple representations and display modalities using the same set of data.
Project partners first designed the user interface of a surgical planning software environment, hip-op(c) in May 2002. Using the hip-op ROM, the system computes the range of motion (ROM) of the patient's joint after the planned total hip replacement.
Their work led to the MULTIMOD Application Framework (MAF), a complex software architecture that provides a framework within which a programmer can quickly develop specialised applications in the domain of computer-aided medicine.
"MAF gives Europe's bio-engineering community the scaffold upon which each research group can integrate its own tools and methods," explains scientific coordinator Marco Viceconti, from the Laboratorio de Tecnologia Medica, Bologna. "I am convinced that if the consortium can continue its work, MAP will become one of the most important pieces of software for scientific visualisation available in the world."
MAF allows the programmer to:
Several specialised MAF applications are being explored. The hip-op(c) surgical planning programme is being re-written. Programmers are also writing a new application, FuncEv, which will combine data from multiple sources into a unified representation, allowing the orthopaedic surgeon to perform a complete functional evaluation of a patient's knee prosthesis.
- Represent the patient by importing data from various sources (medical imaging, diagnostic measurements, computer simulations, laboratory tests) and combine them with complex registration and synchronisation methods. This achieves an effective data fusion into a multi-data representation of the patient's body.
- Operate the patient representation using advanced algorithms to modify the data, analyse their mutual position in space and time, or simplify their attributes for specific purposes such as surgical simulation or testing in diagnosis or rehabilitation.
- Examine the patient by visualising the multi-data representation through combining multiple views. This allows the composition of a multimodal display adequate for each specific purpose.
As for the future Viceconti says, "The sky is the limit. We are doing our very best to build a European biomedical industry success story out of this project."
Laboratorio di Tecnologia Medica
Istituti Ortopedici Rizzoli
Source: Based on information from MULTIMOD


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In modern English "do" is obligatory for forming negations and questions, unless there is an auxiliary verb (or the substantive verb is "be", or for some speakers "have").
A passive is formed with the auxiliary "be", so it is not negated with "do":
"A, B and C are compared"
"How are A, B and C compared?" (Not "How do A, B and C be compared?")
If another auxiliary, such as "can" is used, the same thing happens, whether or not there is also a passive auxiliary:
"A, B and C can be compared"
"How can A, B and C be compared?" (not "How does A, B and C can be compared?")
On the other hand, it is common in speech to express passive meaning by the word "get", as in
"A, B and C get compared"
but "get" does not behave like an auxiliary, and does require "do":
"Do A, B and C get compared?" (not "Get A, B and C compared?").


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I thought it should be "Je viens du acheter". Is it because "acheter" has a vowel at the beginning?
De le becomes du only when le is an article, meaning "the". In this case le is a pronoun, meaning "it" (the book).
This sentence contains the particle de (part of the verb venir de) followed by the personal pronoun l' followed by the verb acheter. The usual form of this pronoun is le when referring to a masculine noun, and la when referring to a feminine noun. However, when the article is followed by a word that begins with a vowel, the pronoun is always elided to l'. The form l' exists for both genders.
This elision is also done when le or la is a definite article: le matin, la nuit, l'après-midi. It is also done when le or la is part of a partitive article: du pain, de la confiture, de l'eau.
Now let's suppose the verb didn't start with a vowel: "je viens de le vendre". Why don't we say "je viens
On the other hand, there is no contraction when de and le happen to be next to each other but they do not form a single unit. Here, de is part of the verbal compound venir de and le is a personal pronoun which forms a complement of this verb. There is no contraction when le is a pronoun: "je viens de le vendre".
You are right about the vowel part, consider these two examples:
However, in your example the words "de" and "l'" are not linked at all, so you can't replace them by "du".
Consider these two examples:
Here "de" isn't quantitative but is used to introduce another subsentence, here "manger".
So they have no relation, and you can't say, for example:
But you need to say:


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The rubric below is for scoring collaborative teamwork in math.
Students complete the "Quality of Discussion" column by checking in the appropriate descriptors after the teamwork has been completed.
Mr. Didycz completes the "Mathematical Content" column after scoring student solutions.
Teamwork Rubric Mr. Didycz Sixth Grade Math
Quality of Discussion
□ We discuss the problem solving process.
□ We question each other's ideas and encourage each other to explain our reasoning.
□ Together we think of more than one way to solve the problem.
□ Other discussion does not interfere with our mathematical thinking.
□ The solutions are fully and clearly expressed.
□ The solutions are correct.
□ The solutions show an understanding of the concept.
□ We talk in meaningful ways about the mathematics.
□ At times, we may be working at our own individual paces.
□ Our group may occasionally become sidetracked by the need to encourage participation from each other.
□ There is some understanding of the concept.
□ There are minor errors.
□ The work may be incomplete.
□ There is some collaboration.
□ Not everyone is contributing ideas.
□ Not all of us attempt to help each other understand the solution.
□ The work is incorrect.
□ The work indicates gaps in understanding.
□ The work is incomplete.
□ The work is vague.
□ In general our group is working on the task, but we are not communicating or working as a group.
□ There may be silence or bickering.
□ We may simply check each other's solutions or ask "what did you get"?
□ Very little understanding of the concept/concepts is shown.
□ The work is very incomplete.
□ There is little or no discussion about the understanding of the mathematical task.
□ We are completely off-task.
□ The work is completely incorrect.
□ There is little or no work shown.
Quality of Discussion Level _______ Mathematical Content Level _________ Overall Grade _________


NEWS for Risa package Changes for 1.3.3 ----------------- 1. Fixed definitions of assay.filenames.per.sample and factors. 2. Fixed regulession of investigation file (i_) to be considered at the beginning of the string. 3. Added CITATION file. Changes for 1.1.0 ------------------ 1. The ISAtab-class was extended to include the definition of assay.names, factors, treatments and groups. 2. The previous processAssayXcmsSet method was split into processAssayXcmsSet.1factor and processAssayXcmsSet to consider the first factor only (as it was in the previous definition) or all the factors, respectively. 3. More methods for processing mass spectrometry assays were added: - the method getMSAssayFilenames retrieves a list with the mass spectrometry assay filenames - the method getRawDataFiles retrieves a list with all the files listed under the column 'Raw Spectral Data File' within the mass spectrometry assays. - the method receives an object from the ISAtab-class and an assay filename as parameter, and retrieves TRUE if the assay filename is a mass spectrometry assay, or FALSE otherwise. 4. A method called suggestBiocPackage was added, which retrieves a list of packages in Bioconductor that might be relevant to the ISAtab dataset, according to its assays' mesaurement and technology types. This method relies on the BiocViews annotations for each of the packages available in Bioconductor in a specific version. 5. Added AssayTab-class and subclasses for MS, Microarray, Seq and NMR. 6. Defined method getAssayRawDataFilenames and getRawDataFilenames 7. Defined method getExpressionSet for microarray assays relying on affy package. Changes for 1.0.0 ------------------ This is the first release version of the package. It contains functionality to parse ISAtab datasets into an R object from the ISAtab class. It also provides functionality to save the ISA-tab dataset, or each of its individual files. Additionally, it is also possible to update assay files. Currently, metadata associated to proteomics and metabolomics-based assays (i.e. mass spectrometry) can be processed into an xcmsSet object (from the xcms R package).


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Many everyday activities and behaviors can be the source of brain drain. Here are some common things that can hurt your brain and body.
Lack of new learning: No learning actually causes the brain to disconnect itself. The brain gets easily bored and requires new and different challenges to stay healthy. Once the brain really learns something, such as how to navigate the streets of your hometown, it uses less and less energy to accomplish the task.
Physical trauma: Severe injuries, concussions, and even mild trauma can affect every aspect of your health and well-being.
Drugs: Marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy, methamphetamines, inhalants, and heroin seriously decrease brain function. Illegal drugs aren't the only culprits. Abusing prescription medications, such as Vicodin, Oxycontin, and Xanax, can also hurt the brain. Drug abuse may make you feel better in the short term, but in the long term, they are a disaster for brain function.
Alcohol: Studies show that people who drink every day have smaller brains than nondrinkers. When it comes to the brain, size matters! Excessive drinking lowers activity in the prefrontal cortex (PFC), the area responsible for judgment, forethought, and planning. That's why people make such stupid decisions when they are drunk.
Obesity: As your weight goes up, the physical size of your brain goes down. Obesity doubles the risk for Alzheimer's disease and has been associated with decreased brain tissue.
Imbalanced hormones: Imbalances with your thyroid, estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, DHEA, or cortisol levels have all been implicated in both brain and body problems.
Poor diet: Even though your brain accounts for only about 2 percent of your body weight, it uses 20-30 percent of all the calories you consume. If you eat a fast-food diet, you will have a fast-food brain and a fast-food body.
Chronic inflammation in the body: This is now thought to be at the center of many diseases, including diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and Alzheimer's disease.
Check the Know Your Numbers section to find the important health numbers you need to know and optimize.
Low blood flow: Blood flow is important because it carries oxygen, sugar, vitamins, and nutrients to the brain, and it gets rid of toxins. Anything that decreases blood flow, such as nicotine, too much caffeine, or a lack of exercise, prematurely ages it. Nowhere is this more true than for your brain.
Chronic stress: When you constantly feel stressed, your brain tells your body to secrete higher amounts of the stress hormone cortisol. At elevated levels, cortisol increases your appetite and cravings for sugar making you fat, increases muscle tension and chronic pain, increases blood pressure, and raises your risk for many serious health conditions.
Sleep deprivation: Getting less than six hours of sleep a night lowers overall brain function and causes your brain to release hormones that increase your appetite and cravings for high-sugar snacks like candy, cakes, and cookies. People who don't get enough sleep tend to eat more calories and gain weight.
Lack of exercise: When you don't exercise, you decrease blood flow to your brain, your body, and your genitals. It is well-documented that a lack of physical activity can negatively affect your weight and overall health.
Negative thinking: We have conducted studies that show that focusing on the things you don't like lowers brain activity, causes your heart to beat faster, increases blood pressure, and negatively affects many systems in your body. Negative thinking can also sabotage your efforts to change your bad habits, lose weight, start an exercise program, or quit smoking.
Dehydration: Your body consists of 70 percent water, and your brain is 80 percent water. If you aren't drinking enough water, you reduce brain function.
Smoking: Smoking constricts blood flow to the brain.
Too much caffeine: Drinking too much caffeinated coffee, tea, sodas, or energy drinks restricts blood flow to the brain, dehydrates the brain, body, and skin and fools the brain into thinking it does not need to sleep.
Too much TV: Watching too much TV can be harmful for your brain and body. Excessive TV watching has been associated with ADD in children and Alzheimer's disease in adults. Watching more than two hours of TV a day also significantly increases your risk for obesity.
Violent video games: Playing violent video games has led to an increased rate of violence and learning problems. With brain imaging, we see that video games work in the same area as cocaine, and kids and adults tend to get hooked on them like a drug. Spending more than two hours a day playing video games increases the risk of being overweight.
Excessive texting and social networking on the Internet: Neuroscientists have shown that spending too much time texting and social networking leads to attention problems and may cause difficulties communicating face-to-face. It also takes time away from physical activities, making you more prone to weight gain and a decrease in your general health.
If after following the solutions on this website, you feel like you need additional help, call the Amen Clinics for an appointment at _PHONE_.


FIG Foundation - Building a Sustainable Future
FIG Foundation Grant for Young Surveyors' educational and training activities
The FIG Foundation may contribute a maximum of 5000 euro's to support travel and accommodation costs for young surveyors to participate in surveying (See the FIG Definition of the Functions of a Surveyor education or training activities. Funded events are likely to be part of a Commission's Working Plan or part of the activities associated with a FIG Working Week/Conference.
Young surveyors are those as defined by the FIG Young Surveyors Network. Preference will be given to young surveyors from countries listed by the World Bank as a low-income, lower-middle or upper-middle income economy.
The application and post grant reporting procedure should be as follows:
 1. The grant covers travel and accommodation costs. Registration costs are excluded. These shall be covered by the event organisers or through other funding sources.
 2. The application may be prepared and submitted by the organisers of the activity / event. If the event is tied to or part a Commission's activities, the Commission Chair shall co-sign the application.
 3. The application shall be submitted to the FIG Foundation at least 90 days before the activity.
 4. The application shall be structured as follows:
 1. A description of the Commission (s) involved / FIG Working Week / Conference,
 2. A description of the activity,
 3. The benefits to the young surveyors who are intending to participate in the activity / event,
 4. The benefit to FIG of the young surveyors participation,
 5. The selection procedure of potential participants (e.g. education levels),
 6. A description of how the grant will be managed,
 7. Intended dedication of the grant,
 8. Other sources of funds.
 9. A budget and a justification for the budget. If airfares are part of the budget, applicants should do a search of fares for travel from different possible locations.
 6. Within 60 days after the activity, the organisers and the Commission Chair(s) as co-signatories shall send a report to the FIG Foundation which covers:
 1. A brief report of the activity,
 2. The outcomes realised for the young surveyors as measured against the proposed outcomes,
 3. The benefit to FIG of the young surveyors participation as compared with the proposed benefits,
 4. The management of the granting process as compared with what was proposed
 5. An appendix explaining and comparing budgeted expenses against actual expenses
Send your proposal by email to:
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 - Enums now come in three different flavors: static, dynamic and bit fields!
 - Enum values are now scoped out of namespace scope. Times of enum values conflict are gone.
 - Nice and customizable (de)serialization for enum to string equivalents. Including dynamic enum values with offset and bit fields arbitrary composition!
 - Fresh and light as a native enum, no overhead over enum constants. Limited overhead for serialization support.
 - Integer operations as easy and simple as ever.
This library introduces three new variation over the enum concept. The main difference between them is the way these enums are (de)serialized and the available enum / enum and enum / integer operators when this is meaningful (only when using C++0x).
 - Static enums only allow explicitely defined constants (with specified or implicit integer values), any other value will result in a (de)serialization to special value "unknown".
 - Dynamic enums allow explicitely defined constants and offsets from these constants, within a given global range (from the first constant to the specified upper integer limit).
Every value whithin the range will be serializable, any other will result in "unknown". An integer value between two enum constants will be (de)serialized as the nearest lower enum constant plus an offset.
For example, if the enum is defined as { value1 = 1, value2 = 5..., unknown = 10 }, the available range would be from 1 to 9, and the integer 4 will be serialized as "value1#3" which means (value1 + 3).
 - Bit fields only allow combination of explicitely defined constants.
These will be (de)serialized as a combination of every defined enum constants, any other value will be (de)serialized as "unknown". This flavor restricts constants values to bitwise distinct integers, and to values different from 0 in order to be able to decompose the enum into the specified enum constants. 0 being the special "unknown" value for this flavor.
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The Congo was a region in central Africa associated with the Petro gods. (PROSE: White Darkness) The Congo River and the Democratic Republic of Congo were located in this region.
In 1842, Abasi was born in the Congo. In 1851, Professor Cedric Scrivener brought him back to the United Kingdom to work as his servant. (AUDIO: The Ghosts of Gralstead)
The Congo reminded Leela of her home planet. (AUDIO: The Ghosts of Gralstead)


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The Mayor's Interagency Task Force on Truancy, Chronic Absenteeism and School Engagement has launched the nation's boldest, most comprehensive effort to combat truancy and chronic absenteeism in NYC's public schools. Established by Mayor Bloomberg in 2010 in partnership with the NYC Department of Education, the Task Force has piloted innovative, data-driven programs and policies in 100 pilot schools to help identify best practices for schools citywide.
The results have been promising: during the 2011-2012 school year, Task Force schools outperformed comparison schools across elementary, middle and high schools in reducing chronic absenteeism. In fact, chronically absent students with Success Mentors, one of the core initiatives, gained 11,800 additional days of school as compared to chronically absent students at comparison schools.
Research shows that the consequences of chronic absenteeism are severe: three out of four students who are severely chronically absent – meaning they missed 38 or more days of school – in the sixth grade never graduate from high school. In addition, nearly 80 percent of children in New York City's juvenile justice system were chronically absent in the period preceding their arrest.
Chronic absenteeism is not solely a Department of Education issue. Because the causes of chronic absenteeism are complex and varied, it is a city-wide and community-wide issue that requires strategic collaboration of key city agencies and other multi-sector organizations.
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| ||Simply put, livestock traceability is tracking the path and the history of an animal. It is the linking of premises identification (PID), animal identification and the recording of animal movement. Traceability systems are important, effective tools that can be used for many things, including the protection of animal health, public health and food safety. Livestock traceability helps government and industry to prevent… prepare… respond… and recover quickly and effectively to manage disease outbreaks. This helps minimize economic impacts. For more traceability information, click here. To see how traceability fits into Canada's national food safety strategy, click here.
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The need for corpora of interpreting discourse in translation studies is gradually increasing. The research of AV
translation is another rapidly developing sphere, thus corpora of subtitling and dubbing would also be quite useful. The main reason of the lack in such resources is the difficulty of obtaining data and the inevitability of manual data input. An interpreting corpus would be a collection of transcripts of speech in two or more languages with part of the transcripts aligned. The subtitling and dubbing corpora can be designed using the same principles. The structure of the corpus should reflect the polyphonic nature of the data. Thus, markup becomes extremely important in these types of corpora. The research presented in this paper deals with corpora of Finnish-Russian interpreting
discourse and subtitling. The software package developed for processing of the corpora includes routines specially written for studying speech transcripts rather than written text. For example, speaker statistics function calculates number of words, number of pauses, their duration, average speech tempo of a certain speaker.


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Practice and review the concepts presented in Merrill's Atlas! This popular workbook set includes anatomy labeling exercises, positioning exercises, self-tests, and an answer key. Types of exercises include matching, labeling and identifying anatomy, short-answer and multiple-choice questions, crosswords, true/false, fill-in-the-blank, identifying structures on radiographs, and identifying proper patient positioning. A must-have for radiography students!
- Exercises correspond to chapters in Merrill's Atlas, providing strong support for teaching and learning.
- Essential projections are those most frequently performed and determined to be necessary knowledge for entry-level competency.
- Anatomy and positioning exercises provide balanced coverage of both topics.
- Film evaluation exercises include radiographs with accompanying questions on why an image is inadequate, leading to fewer repeat exams in the practice environment.
- A wide variety of review exercises are used to cover different kinds of information.
- An abundance of labeling exercises include about 600 illustrations for labeling practice, ensuring that students recognize anatomical structures on actual radiographs, not just on line drawings.
- Comprehensive self-tests end each chapter, so that students can accurately gauge their comprehension of the material and measure their own progress.
- Pathology exercises help radiographers understand which projections will best demonstrate various pathologies.
- Additional exercises covering all chapters in Merrill's Atlas Volumes 1 and 2 and some in Volume 3, including:
- Compensating Filters
- Geriatric and Pediatric Radiography
- Mobile Radiography
- Surgical Radiography
- Computed Tomography
- Exercises to review abbreviations
- Exercises on aspects of digital imaging related to positioning and procedures
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Table of Contents
11. Long Bone Measurement
12. Contrast Arthrography
13. Trauma Radiography
14. Mouth and Salivary Glands
15. Anterior Part of Neck: Pharynx, Larynx, Thyroid Gland
16. Digestive System: Abdomen, Liver, Spleen, Biliary Tract
17. Digestive System: Alimentary Tract
18. Urinary System and Venipuncture
19. Reproductive System
21. Facial Bones
22. Paranasal Sinuses
24. Central Nervous System
25. Circulatory System and Cardiac Catherization
26. Sectional Anatomy for Radiographers
27. NEW! Pediatric Imaging
28. NEW! Geriatric Imaging
29. NEW! Mobile Radiography
30. NEW! Surgical Radiography
31. NEW! Computed Tomography


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Chapter 4: Variant Rules
Feats and Features
Source Gamemastery Guide pg. 192
The Core Rulebook presents a character progression carefully designed to offer plenty of options and depth without overwhelming players with too many choices at once. However, you can use the Pathfinder rules to create an infinite number of variant progressions. If your group wants more powerful characters, specific themes for all characters, or the like, you can implement these variants.
Dual-Class PCs
Source Gamemastery Guide pg. 192
Sometimes, especially when you have a particularly small play group or want to play incredibly versatile characters, you might want to allow dual-class characters that have the full benefits of two different classes.
Building a Dual-Class Character
Source Gamemastery Guide pg. 192
When building a dual-class character, the primary changes to the character creation process are fairly straightforward. Choose and implement your character's ancestry and background as normal. Then, when you get to the step of choosing a class, select two classes and add everything from each class except Hit Points and starting skills: initial proficiencies, class features, class feats, extra skill feats and skill increases for rogues, and so on. As always, use the highest proficiency granted for a given statistic. For instance, if one class gave you expert proficiency in Will saves and the other gave you master proficiency in Will saves, you would be a master in Will saves.
Use only the higher Hit Points per level from the two classes. For starting skills, apply the skills automatically granted by each class, and then apply the larger number of additional skills. For instance, a cleric of Shelyn/ranger would gain Hit Points equal to 10 + their Constitution modifier per level, start with the trained proficiency rank in Nature and Survival from ranger and Religion and either Crafting or Performance from cleric, and then gain a number of additional skills of their choice equal to 4 + their Intelligence modifier, since the ranger provides the trained proficiency rank in more additional skills than the cleric does (this example doesn't include any skills they gained from their background or other sources). This character would also have the deity, divine spellcasting, divine font, and doctrine class features from cleric plus the Hunt Prey, hunter's edge, and ranger feat class features from ranger.
Source Gamemastery Guide pg. 192
Dual-class spellcasters get full access to all the spells of any spellcasting classes they have. For instance, a sorcerer/wizard gets five cantrips in their spell repertoire from sorcerer, five prepared cantrips from wizard, three spontaneous 1st-level spell slots from the sorcerer (with three 1st-level spells in their repertoire), and three 1st-level prepared spell slots from wizard (or four, for a specialist). They keep these spells entirely separate and get the full benefits of both spellcasting class features, even if both classes use the same tradition.
Classes with focus pools get all the Focus Points granted by all of them. These share one focus pool as normal, with the standard cap of 3 maximum Focus Points.
Character Advancement
Source Gamemastery Guide pg. 193
A dual-class character gains the class feats and class features for both classes at each level as they advance, with the exception of ability boosts, general feats, skill feats, and skill increases—the character gets each of these benefits only once per level, since both classes would provide the same benefit. (A dual-class rogue/ranger still gets the extra skill feat and skill increase at levels where the other class doesn't provide them.)
If a character gains the same proficiency rank in a statistic more than once, they still use only the highest rank. In the example above, when the cleric gets Alertness at 5th level, they wouldn't change their Perception rank, since it was already expert due to the ranger's initial proficiencies.
Playing with Dual-Class Characters
Source Gamemastery Guide pg. 193
Playing a dual-class character certainly gives a character more options, and adding additional spellcasting classes can result in a significantly wider variety of powerful spell effects available to each character. Nonetheless, this sort of dual-classing is more likely to increase the party's longevity than it is to drastically adjust the level of opponents a dual-class character should be fighting. The increases to saving throw proficiencies and Hit Points make characters somewhat sturdier and able to take on slightly higher challenges, but not every fight should be harder, nor should encounters exceed extreme-threat difficulty.
Dual-classing in two similar martial classes to double up on their advantages can result in characters who, instead of increasing their flexibility, become drastically more powerful in one focus. For instance, a fighter/ranger with the flurry hunter's edge gains access to incredibly accurate press actions, and a barbarian/fighter has the barbarian's high damage plus the fighter's high accuracy. One way around this is to simply disallow combinations that double down on a narrow ability, and instead encourage dual-class characters that open up narrative options and increase the character's flexibility. The other solution is to raise the challenge from the opposition, treating the party as if the characters were a level higher. However, this is a choice that affects the whole group, even if only one character is built to mow down foes.
Due to the increased number of class feats a dual-class character has, you should limit how much of a benefit a character gets from feats that scale based on the number of feats you have, such as Resiliency feats from multiclass archetypes. Typically, the limit should be half the number of total class feats the character has.
Free Archetype
Source Gamemastery Guide pg. 194
Sometimes the story of your game calls for a group where everyone is a pirate or an apprentice at a magic school. The free archetype variant introduces a shared aspect to every character without taking away any of that character's existing choices. It can also provide a lighter version of dual-class characters by giving everyone a free multiclass archetype.
Building a Character
Source Gamemastery Guide pg. 194
The only difference between a normal character and a free-archetype character is that the character receives an extra class feat at 2nd level and every even level thereafter that they can use only for archetype feats. Depending on the needs of the group and the theme of the game, you might restrict the free feats to those of a single archetype each character in the group has (for a shared backstory), those of archetypes fitting a certain theme (such as only ones from magical archetypes in a game set in a magic school), or entirely unrestricted if you just want a higher-powered game.
If the group all has the same archetype or draws from a limited list, you might want to ignore the free archetype's normal restriction of selecting a certain number of feats before taking a new archetype. That way a character can still pursue another archetype that also fits their character.
Playing with Free Archetypes
Source Gamemastery Guide pg. 194
Free-archetype characters are a bit more versatile and powerful than normal, but usually not so much that they unbalance your game. However, due to the characters' increased access to archetype feats, you should place a limit on the number of feats that scale based on a character's number of archetype feats (mainly multiclass Resiliency feats). Allowing a character to benefit from a number of these feats equal to half their level is appropriate, as this is the maximum number of feats you could use to take archetype feats without this variant.
Ancestry Paragon
Source Gamemastery Guide pg. 194
Most characters have some elements that connect them to their ancestry but identify more strongly with their class or unique personality. Sometimes, though, a character is the embodiment of their ancestry to the point that it's of equal importance to their class. For a game where an ancestral background is a major theme and such characters are the norm, your group might consider using the ancestry paragon variant.
Building an Ancestry Paragon Character
Source Gamemastery Guide pg. 194
When creating an ancestry paragon character, instead of starting with one ancestry feat and gaining another at 5th, 9th, 13th, and 17th levels, the character starts with two ancestry feats and gains another at every odd level thereafter (3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, and so on) for a total of 11 ancestry feats.
Playing with Ancestry Paragon Characters
Source Gamemastery Guide pg. 194
Ancestry paragon characters have a bit more versatility and power than other characters, though their extra abilities are usually limited to themes the ancestry already was suited for. It's unlikely to affect the game balance of combat encounters, but it might make exploration and social challenges easier for the heroes.
Simplified Ancestries
Source Gamemastery Guide pg. 194
The variants presented so far have mostly been aimed at groups looking to increase their nuance in exchange for greater character complexity. However, sometimes players are looking for something a little simpler instead, or want to increase the complexity in one area and decrease it elsewhere, keeping a rough balance. In games where a character's ancestry is only incidental and each PC is more defined by their class and individual characteristics, simplified ancestries allows your group to pick an ancestry and go.
Building a Simplified Ancestry Character
Source Gamemastery Guide pg. 194
When choosing an ancestry for a simplified ancestry character, you gain the ancestry's normal abilities at 1st level, choose a heritage, and gain the appropriate lore feat (Dwarven Lore for dwarves, for example) as your ancestry feat. Simplified ancestry characters never gain ancestry feats beyond that first lore feat


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PostgreSQL DISTINCT Keyword
The Distinct statement is used to select or fetch only the (different) Distinct data from a database table. There are many duplicate values present in the database table, so Distinct is used to list different values.
DISTINCT Syntax :
The syntax of the DISTINCT statement is −
SELECT DISTINCT column1, column2,.....columnN FROM table_name WHERE [condition]
DISTINCT Example :
Consider the STUDENT table is having the following records
The following is an example, which would fetch DISTINCT NAME record for a STUDENT.
lfcdb=# SELECT DISTINCT name FROM STUDENT;
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Odd Wisconsin Archive
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the first AIDS diagnosis, a gruesome fact but one which, like every other, has a historical context. Epidemics have swept through human communities for about 10,000 years, and Wisconsin has had its share.
European diseases probably reached Wisconsin before European explorers themselves. In the fifty years following Hernando de Soto's invasion of the lower Mississippi in 1539, disease killed 90 percent of the Indians living in the middle Mississippi Valley. These were Indians with whom Wisconsin peoples had traded for centuries, since at least the time of Aztalan. Many archaeologists have speculated that epidemics of measles or smallpox may have swept through Indian communities in Wisconsin decades before Jean Nicolet stepped ashore in 1634.
Once Europeans set up permanent settlements and native peoples gathered around them, disease penetrated Indian communities as effectively as metal pots, firearms, or porcelain beads. "Maladies wrought among them more devastation than even war did," concluded contemporary French writer Bacqueville de la Potherie of the Wisconsin tribes, "and exhalations from the rotting corpses caused great mortality."
The first clearly documented epidemic in Wisconsin was an act of bioterrorism perpetrated by British traders against Indians who had killed one of their colleagues. Dr. Douglass Houghton, who interviewed the Ojibwe about epidemics in 1832, wrote down their recollection that in 1770, when visiting Mackinac, "a cask of liquor and a flag closely rolled were presented to the Indians as a token of friendship. They were at the same time strictly enjoined neither to break the seal of the cask nor to unroll the flag, until they had reached the heart of their own country.
"This they promised to observe; but while returning, and after having travelled many days, the chief of the deputation made a feast for the Indians of the band at Fond du Lac, Lake Superior, upon which occasion he unsealed the cask and unrolled the flag for the gratification of his guests... and of those Indians then at Fond du Lac, about three hundred in number, nearly the whole were swept off by it. Nor did it stop here; for numbers of those at Fond du Lac at the time the disease made its appearance, took refuge among the neighboring bands; and although it did not extend easterly on Lake Superior, it is believed that not a single band of Chippewas north or west from Fond du Lac escaped its ravages...
"The Indians at this day are firmly of the opinion that the smallpox was at this time communicated through the articles presented to their brethren by the agent of the Fur Company at Mackinac; and that it was done for the purpose of punishing them more severely for their offences." His full account, including other outbreaks after this first one, is here. Houghton estimated that the disease had appeared among the Ojibwe at least five times in the previous 60 years.
Disease is no respecter of race or ethnicity, and the earliest white settlers suffered catastrophically from epidemic outbreaks as well. At Fort Crawford in the summer of 1830, 154 of the 199 soldiers came down with malaria. Cholera broke out among them in August 1833, taking down 23 soldiers and killing six, and other outbreaks swept through the state between 1849 and 1854.
In August of 1895, smallpox swept through the southside of Milwaukee, where the traditions of recent Polish immigrants clashed with modern public health practices. The first patients were segregated at an isolation hospital outside the neighborhood, even though the residents preferred caring for their own sick in their own homes, as they had in the old country. When hospital patients began dying, the residents came to see the hospital as a slaughterhouse -- a place they would never send their loved ones. When city health officials or ambulances attempted to remove patients to protect the uninfected, they were met by barricaded doors and armed uprisings. A protest rally drew nearly 10,000 people to the hospital who stoned the police and fired pistols in the air. The 100 police officers plunged into the crowd swinging billy clubs, cracking heads and driving people back to their homes.
The Spanish Flu epidemic that followed World War I perhaps affected more Wisconsin residents than any other outbreak. Known variously as the "Spanish Flu" or "La Grippe," influenza killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide. By the end of 1918, more than 675,000 Americans had died from the flu, most between the ages of 19 and 42, and the Wisconsin Board of Health declared that the "Spanish flu" epidemic would "forever be remembered as the most disastrous calamity that has ever been visited upon the people of Wisconsin." The first cases were reported in southern Wisconsin in September 1918, and by December, influenza had sickened almost 103,000 residents and killed more than 8,000. Read more here, in the autumn 2000 issue of our Wisconsin Magazine of History.
Read more about Wisconsin diseases and epidemics on our Topics in Wisconsin History page.
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Scientists have developed a new sensor for biomedical imaging which could have implications for a range of illnesses.
Researchers at Cardiff University's School of Chemistry have developed a new luminescent sensor which detects the presence of zinc in the body.
Patients suffering from cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer's disease frequently exhibit imbalances of zinc, which is essential for growth and development, and the new sensor could enable doctors to better understand tissue and organ function.
The sensor uses a chemical called europium which changes colour whenever zinc is present.
Researcher Dr Simon Pope said that the work represented a "proof-in-principle" in the design of sensors for biomedical imaging.
"Our approach is to design molecules that are non-toxic to the body and that can be applied to scanning techniques such as MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) and luminescence imaging," Dr Pope explained.
"Our next goal is to improve the properties of the sensor to potentially allow a greater imaging depth within tissue," he added.
The average NHS waiting time for a non-emergency MRI scan is over seven weeks; however, a number of private diagnostic imaging companies offer MRI scans, as well as other services such as CT scans and general X-rays, for patients who prefer not to wait.© Adfero Ltd
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El Parnaso—Preserving culture since 1928
By: Mariah Pepe
Some of the first Europeans to settle the San Luis Valley were the descendants of Spanish conquistadors. Paying tribute to the Hispanic influence, Adams State College established a Spanish Club, originally called "Las Voces del Calle" in November of 1928.
In 1935, the group adopted the name "El Parnaso" to recognize the literary organization of Miguel Cervantes, a prominent Chicano writer.
As one of the oldest and most historical organizations on campus, El Parnaso serves the Adams State community as a window into the Spanish culture; it preserves both language and heritage in an academic setting.
Recently, the club hosted a Dia de los Muertos celebration where members of the community and Adams State students and staff were invited to participate in traditional activities, such as painting sugar skulls and viewing an altar. The event taught people "another way to remember the dead", said Dr. Eva Rayas-Solis, professor of Spanish,, the group's advisor.
However, the most prominent cultural event sponsored by El Parnaso is Pan American Day. Students from high schools in the San Luis Valley are invited to participate in 16 competitions about Hispanic culture and language. Taking place the second and third Thursday of April, the competitions highlight the prominence of Hispanic heritage in the community.
El Parnaso is additionally a vital member of the community due to its participation in various volunteer activities. Last year, the group helped paint classrooms at Sacred Heart Church, and participated in ASC Cares Day. The group is currently pursuing an opportunity to teach English at La Puente.
Angelita Ramirez, El Parnaso's Secretary, says that the group provides her with a sense of community and an opportunity to get to know other people. Members are from all different parts of Mexico, Colombia, or they are from the United States but want to learn about the culture. "This diversity mixes together and allows us to expand our experience because even from Colorado to New Mexico, the Hispanic cultures have very different influences."
Overall, the group is mainly composed of Spanish majors and minors, but all people are welcome to join El Parnaso, whether they speak Spanish or not. It is an opportunity to pursue the language, culture, and to contribute to the Alamosa community. "This club is a great way for people from Hispanic backgrounds to preserve the language and culture that was lost to our grandparents generation," says Ramirez.
The club meets every Tuesday at 12:15 AM in Evans 111.


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Do deficits in visual motion processing underlie social difficulties in autism?
Little is known about the perceptual deficits associated with autism. This is surprising because the accurate perception of socially relevant information is a necessary first step in social behavior. People communicate vast amounts of rich social information, such as emotion and intention, through their actions. Given the importance of human action perception to social behavior, vision researchers have conducted numerous experiments to understand how the human visual system normally analyzes the bodily movements or actions of other people. This is done by simulating human movements using multiple points of light across a computer screen. This psychophysical measurement will be applied to individuals with high functioning autism (HFA) to determine how, and how well, adults with autism can differentiate patterns of individual points of light that mimic human movement. Significance: This proposal addresses the question of whether individuals with high functioning autism (HFA) are compromised in their ability to perceive human action. If individuals with HFA have difficulty perceiving the actions of other people, then this might account for aspects of their social deficits. Such a finding would indicate that significant changes are needed in our understanding, assessment, and treatment of HFA. The results of this study are complemented by the group at the University of Glasgow which will investigate neural activation during tasks which involve visual processing while observing biological stimuli.


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Deworming schoolchildren: A smart investment for policymakers and philanthropists
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May 14, 2012 | Copenhagen Consensus Center
The Copenhagen Consensus Center ranks deworming fourth among the sixteen most cost-effective investments to overcome the world's biggest challenges in 2012. This list is compiled by an expert panel of Nobel Laureate economists charged with determining the smartest ways to advance global welfare, particularly in developing countries. The panel recommends that US$300 million be allocated annually for deworming, providing an endorsement that policymakers and philanthropists can look to when prioritizing allocation of limited resources.
Nobel laureate economist Robert Mundell is quoted by the Center, saying: "Deworming is an overlooked intervention deserving of greater attention and resources. This simple, cheap investment can mean a child is healthier and spends more time in school."
Deworming is mentioned in three of the ten challenge papers due to its impact on education, health, and nutrition status of school-age children. To learn more about the economists' rankings and read the outcomes and challenge papers, please visit the Copenhagen Consensus Center website, and see the related Slate articles by Center Director Bjørn Lomborg on strategies for fixing education, and the best solutions to combat infectious diseases.


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Fell-O'Dwyer apparatus, American, 1880s.
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Fell-O'Dwyer apparatus, made of nickel-plated steel with three steel and two vulcanite heads. During the 1880s, American George Fell devised an apparatus for forced artificial respiration through an opening cut in the trachea. Soon after 1887, Joseph O'Dwyer combined this with his own method of intubating the larynx. Air from a foot bellows was passed into the lungs via tubes whose graduated end pieces were introduced in the larynx. He developed this apparatus in order to prevent diptheria patients from suffocating due to the growth of a false membrane over the larynx which occurs in severe cases of the disease.
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Outdoor Garden Barren Strawberries As Ground Covers
Outdoor garden ground cover plants are generally short and spread to fill an area, often reducing the amount of maintenance required in the site. There are some choices of ground covers that good for your yard. One of them is the barren strawberry. The barren strawberry is a low-growing outdoor garden ground cover. Barren strawberry plants are thus named due to their imitable resemblance to edible strawberry plants. An evergreen, barren strawberry is a ground cover with a spread of 48 inches or more but a low height of 6 inches. The foliage of barren strawberry plants is akin to that of edible strawberries with a wedge shape that turns to bronze in autumn. The plants have small yellow flowers, which again resemble those of edible strawberries, and appear in the spring. Native to Europe and northern Asia, barren strawberry is sometimes referred to as "dry strawberry" or "yellow strawberry."
Outdoor garden barren strawberry is an herbaceous perennial that dies down over the winter and greens back up in the spring. It is suitable for USDA zones 4-9. In the mildest zones, the plants will remain as evergreen ground cover year round. This easy-to-grow perennial is suited to a wide range of soils and will thrive in full sun or part shade. While barren strawberry is drought tolerant, it does not thrive in the hot temps of the South, better bets would be W. parviflora and W. lobata, which are native to that region. Use barren strawberry amongst stepping stones or along wooded paths in light shade to sun.garden ground cover plants, outdoor garden plants, outdoor garden pics, garden ground cover, garden ground cover ideas,.


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What Analyst Firms Won't Tell You: Great Leadership Drives the Best Cyber Security Decisions
Making educated decisions about cyber security requires high-quality information. Analyst firms are happy to provide information. But is the information they provide genuinely useful? Are they adding value to the conversation?
In this article, we'll explore the risks of relying too heavily on analyst firms when making key decisions about cyber security.
The challenge, of course, is that you need good information to make intelligent choices. But the problem is figuring out whom to trust. Analyst firms hire people with expertise, but are they telling you want you need to hear?
The best leaders seek input from multiple sources, inside and outside their organizations. They read constantly, ask questions and leverage their professional networks to gain information that informs their decisions.
From my perspective, peer-to-peer networking and industry journals such as CPO are better sources of information for technology executives than analyst firms.
Great leaders gather information from many sources, often stepping out of their comfort zones to find the best sources of reliable information.
I believe the analysts have created an echo chamber. They've invented an essentially meaningless argument over which solutions are good, better and best. This is a false argument, based on the obvious fallacy that all business problems can be overcome by technology.
For example, here are four recommendations for improving your cyber security that do not require investing in new technologies, engaging consultants or buying expensive reports from analysts:
 1. Focus on core risks; resist the urge to buy services and solutions you don't absolutely need.
 2. In many instances, the best cyber defense strategy is physical separation between threats and assets.
 3. Know your enemy and study the landscape. Identify the organizations most likely to attack your cyber assets.
 4. Educate, train, communicate and remind. Send regular companywide emails reinforcing the idea that cyber security is everyone's responsibility.
Senior level executives know that technology alone cannot deliver success. Most executives will tell you that strategy, culture and execution are more important than technology, and I agree wholeheartedly.
Ultimately, great leadership is the key to success. Technology is important, but leadership is more important.Great leaders know that technology is an enabler, not a substitute for thoughtful strategy, superior execution and a deeply nurturing culture.
In researching my newest book, The CEO of Technology, I discovered bedrock virtues shared by the world's most successful technology executives. Consistently, the highest performing executives lead, re-imagine, reinvent and enable a culture of genius to create value and drive growth. Let's unpack those four essential concepts:
 1. Lead — The modern CIO is a leader, an experienced executive with the people skills needed to inspire teamwork, individual initiative, superior execution and loyalty.
 2. Re-imagine –Forward-looking CIOs don't accept the status quo. They don't seek the easiest path. They are trailblazers, pioneers and groundbreakers and they are expected by the CEO to identify and execute on opportunities to transform the business. They re-imagine the future and find the right combinations of people, process and technology to convert their vision into reality.
 3. Reinvent – The continually modify, improve and reinvent existing processes, technologies and systems to achieve the strategic goals of their organizations.
 4. Create a Culture of Genius – They nurture and support the people around them and push them to achieve success beyond their wildest dreams. They encourage imaginative work and they reward innovation.
Analyst firms typically downplay the role of great leadership, because it doesn't fit their narrative that technology can solve all problems. Their faith in technology is understandable, but that doesn't mean you need to accept it uncritically.
Very large companies can afford to buy similar versions of solutions from two or three vendors. Essentially, they're hedging their bets.But most firms are limited to buying one solution – and hoping it works. When you've only got one shot, you have to make it count.
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Tumors of the External Ear
Tumors of the ear can be benign or malignant. They can occur on the external ear, or in the ear canal, the middle ear or inner ear. Tumors in different areas of the ear behave differently. Thus, it is necessary to describe tumors based on their site of occurrence, as well as their behavior and treatment.
Tumors of the External Ear Canal
The external ear canal begins at the opening of the cup-shaped portion (concha) of the ear and extends downward to the ear drum. Tumors that occur in the ear canal can be benign or malignant. Malignant tumors of the external ear canal are very serious. Immediate biopsy of any suspicious lesion in the external ear canal should be performed immediately.
Causes of Ear Cancer
The exact cause of ear cancer is not known. Individuals with history of chronic ear infections (>10 years) are at a higher risk for developing ear cancer.


Posted: June 23rd, 2021
Judaism – 300 word discussion post
300 words
Goal: The goal of this discussion is to be introduced to the fundamentals of Judaism, monotheism, and the Holocaust.
The practice of ethical monotheism stands as a hallmark of the Jewish belief system and is practiced in all areas of Jewish life. Describe and explain the important role ethical monotheism has in the Jewish family life and how this belief system influences the way Jewish parents raise their children when it comes to religious education and why? You will want to research this issue and recognize that not all Jewish sects may share a similar belief in this area, so you will want to identify which sect you are addressing and provide specific examples that are reflective of their beliefs.
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The Alzheimer's Preclinical Efficacy Database (AlzPED) [alzped.nia.nih.gov] was conceptualized by the National Institutes on Aging and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Library to increase rigor and reproducibility in Alzheimer's research. It was designed for researchers, funders, and data scientists who need quick, detailed information about animal model studies to assess current progress and design future research projects. AlzPED is a strategic tool for the Alzheimer's Disease research community, and could potentially save millions of dollars in time and money. It does this by placing information about therapeutic targets, agents, and animal models in an easily searchable and digestible format. Information about outcomes and the level of reproducible experiment attributes are also right there.
ZAI's Project Manager played an instrumental role in the development of this system by having the background knowledge needed to converse with scientists, as well as the project management skills required to get the job done. The Project Manager worked with top scientist to understand their aims, concepts and desired results, and put those objectives into action. The Project Manager worked with scientific team to design the layout and identify existing taxonomies/associated resources to make AlzPED a fluid resource that works well with other resources that provide their own unique and detailed information about various facets of Alzheimer's Disease research. ZAI staff continue to play an important role as the system evolves, and are able to ensure all AlzPED technical requirements are well defined by using agile methodology, implemented by providing user acceptance testing (UAT), and continue to perform optimally as changes occur by developing and following consistent systematic evaluation procedures.


Toxic Emotions E/M11
Balance Type
Emotions Spirit and Desitiny
Balance for
Toxic Emotions Fear Withdrawal Anger Frustration Lack of joy Embarrassment Hurt Sympathy (Excess sensitivity) Grief Disconnect Guilt Paranoia Disconnected Resentment Confused Bitterness Shame Defensive Disgust Disdain Worthless Immobilised Pointless Secrecy Intimidating Aloof Passive aggression Seething Always looking for a new answer Lying Sarcastic Teasing Blush and hide React and push back Prickly Ingratiation Complaining Direct people to be happy Superior Snide Push people away Lack of inspiration Futile
Toxic Emotions E/M11
Toxic emotions refer to the situation where the habitual presence of a particular emotion has prompted a person to turn that emotion back on itself.
For example, the client may have fear of fear or be angry that they are angry. Having lost joy, particularly over a broken relationship a person may feel hatred. If this hatred is turned back on itself, ie. if they hate feeling hatred, then they are likely to become bitter and not open up anymore to others. This secrecy will often make them appear aloof and intimidating.
Toxic emotions often lead to physical illness.
Toxic emotions should be checked and cleared particularly if someone has a diagnosed pathology in an organ or cancer.
The concept of toxic emotions is discussed by Lonny Jarrett in his book Nourishing Destiny.
Five Elements
ElementChart AspectCore EmotionCore emotionsToxic EmotionToxic Behaviour
Central Palace
anger, frustration, indecision
Resentment Confused
Passive aggression Seething Always looking for a new answer
grief; disconnect; guilt
Disdain Worthless Immobilised pointless
Superior SnidePush people awayLack of inspiration Futile
fear, anxiety; withdraw
Paranoia Disconnected
Secrecy intimidating Aloof
over thinking, worry, obsession, sympathy (Excess sensitivity)
Disgust (if advice not followed)
Ingratiation Complaining Direct people to be happy
joy or lack of joy, sadness, connection; embarrassment; Hurt
Bitterness ShameDefensive
Lying Sarcastic Teasing Blush and hide React and push back Prickly
 1. Use element modes or scan to find priority element H/L
 2. Challenge priority aspect/ aspects from list above H/L
 3. Discuss with client
 4. Activate Hardware associated with the element – muscles, cutaneous regions
 5. Hold the following points together with the VRP (choose the points associated with the involved element).
Toxic emotion points
ElementCore Pointssedate and tonify
Wood toxic emotion points
Lv4 (sedate) + Sp1 (tonify)
Water toxic emotion points
Ki3 (sedate) + Ht3 (tonify)
Fire toxic emotion points
Ht3 (sedate) + Lu10 (tonify)
Earth toxic emotion points
Sp1 (sedate) + Ki3 (tonify)
Metal toxic emotion points
Lu10 (sedate) + Lv4 (tonify)
The first point drains the aggressive qi energy, the second supports the first in removing stagnation associated with the first point. The third point drains the source of the aggressive qi and the fourth point moves this qi on through the control cycle.


Red-crested pochard
Red-crested pochard (Netta rufina)
The Red-crested pochard (Netta rufina) is a duck from the family of water birds that includes ducks, geese, and swans (Anatidae).
Species name
Dutch name:
English name:
Red-crested pochard
German name:
French name:
Nette rousse
Scientific name:
Netta rufina
Scientific classification
Has a rounded orange head, red bill and black breast. The flanks are white, the back brown, and the tail black. Eclipse males are like females but with red bills.
Is mainly a pale brown, with a darker back and crown and a whitish face.
Looks similar to the females but have multicolor bellies and Young males look like eclipse adult drakes.
Standard Measurements
Body Length (cm):
The male (drake) of the Red-crested pochard measures approximately 48-64 centimeters. The female measures approximately 48-64 centimeters.
Body Weight (grams):
The male will weight about _PHONE_ gram. The female will weight about _PHONE_ gram.
The nest is never far from water, occasionally on matted reeds in water. The nest is a small depression lined with grass, leaves, rushes, and down. Cup formed by turning movements of body.
The female Red-crested pochard usually lays from 8-12 pale green eggs and incubates them for 26-28 days.
Artificial incubating:
Bird banding:
Recommended closed leg band ring size for the Red-crested pochard is 11 mm.
The leg band ring can only be applied on a young duck at around 12-14 days old.
Suggested: Left leg = Female, Right leg = Male
Rearing food:
Lundi Micro Regular
Lundi Micro Regular
Lundi Micro Regular
Maintenance food:
Lundi Regular
Lundi Regular
Lundi Regular
Lundi Regular
Lundi Regular
Lundi Premium
Lundi Premium
Lundi Premium
Lundi Premium
Lundi Premium
Europese soort
Photos of the Red-crested pochard


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To publish in Economics, marketing your paper is unfortunately very important. And it all starts with a catchy title. Some subjects can inspire you to absolutely great titles, like this one: "An Economist's Guide to Heaven." Dan Hamermesh could have penned that, but it is a paper by Nick Muller, Jo Anna Gray and Joe Stone.
The paper is not about how you can make sure the Pearly Gates are open to you, but rather it "offers an economic model of God and humanity as optimizing agents in the context of concrete belief archetypes (religious 'contracts') in Judeo-Christian theology." In plainer words, they study how belief about God influences the behavior of optimizing agents. In this paper, God optimizes, too, and believers know that. People care about private consumption, public goods and what God does to them, if they are believers. God benevolent, as He cares about public goods and likes to reward people instead of punishing them. Believers have a contract with God that entices them to provide public goods in exchange of godly rewards or punishments. Contracts can take four different forms, depending on the archetype within the Judeo-Christian belief system, which lead to different outcomes that can be tested using the General Social Science Survey.
Results are consistent with the model: strength of faith is irrelevant if there is no penalty in the contract, believers renege if there is no penalty, and contracts with penalty work, even if penalties are never exercised. What remains to be understood, though, is why there are believers in the first place.


The process also helps establish trust and reliance between the two. That is one of the cornerstones of creating a mutually beneficial long-term relationship.
This is why this process is best understood as an interview. Both parties have the ability to slow and renegotiate the conditions at any time. They are checking the other's acceptability. And if the process fails, they abort the process and return to the "group" (dating pool). Both people have the ability and right to end the interview at any time if the other person does not "pass." What is important to realize is this interview process is indigenous to human beings. And it extends across all cultures on this planet.
It is our theory when this interview goes awry it often results in date rape. Return to top of page
The Bonding Process
The bonding process is described by Dr. Desmond Morris in his book Intimate Behavior. What follows is our interpretation of his works. However, we highly recommend you go the source for further information(1). Although Morris's works are a cornerstone of what is presented here, these conclusions are an amalgamation of findings and research into psychology, body language, communications and biology.
Restating the purpose, the bonding process is how humans interview each other and establish long lasting intimacy. It is a process of mutual consent, establishing trust and communications. If anywhere along the way one of the parties decides that the other has sent an unacceptable message (thereby failing the interview) he or she may decide to abort. This break can come at any time.
Ideally when this process works, it should go like this:
 Stage Corresponding action Key point
1) Eye to body
First look Someone catches your eye
2) Eye to eye Preening gestures Yes/no signal (given by the female)
3) Voice to voice Talking Verbal screening
4) Hand to hand
(or shoulder)
Initial physical contact Usually initiated by female
 To this point these behaviors occur publicly or in social settings
5) Arm to shoulder Bodies closer together Possible isolation
6) Arm to waist More intimate contact Likely while withdrawing from public
7) Mouth to mouth Kissing Less likely to be in public between an unbonded pair
8) Hand to head/face Probable isolation
9) Hand to body Sexual contact Isolation
10) Mouth to breast Foreplay Isolation
11) Hand to genitals Isolation
12) Intercourse Isolation
Repeat steps three through 12. In bonded pairs up to stage 8 often publicly displayed indicating bonding
(Return to Stopping the Process)
This is a process that humans unconsciously follow. It cannot be stressed enough that it is an act of mutual consent, participation and trust. Although apparently sexual, its real purpose is getting to know and establishing intimacy, trust and commitment with another person.
It should also be noticed that the woman controls the primary stages. It is at her initial signal of acceptance or interest that gives the male the "go ahead" to approach her. If the female has not sent the signal and the male approaches her anyway, he will probably be rebuffed. (It is not uncommon for socially inept men to misread the innocent actions of a woman as such a signal or to simply decide not to wait. This does result in a lot of unwanted attention).
Furthermore, it is the woman who usually initiates the first physical contact, thereby telling the man that she is sufficiently interested in pursuing this interview. If the male attempts to initiate it, he will often fail the interview and be perceived as too aggressive or grabby.
Initially isolation is an important issue in the process, however, after intimacy has been established. Behavior up to stage 8 is commonly displayed publicly to indicate an 'exclusive bonding.' These are the most overtly displayed body language and positioning of the pair that serve as a clear indication of involvement with each other. In other words when you see this kind of behavior displayed, you know you are looking at a "couple." Both are "off the market." But you won't publicly see such behavior until the couple has gone through the primary cycle.(2).
It is the fact that isolation is so critical to this process that leaves women vulnerable to someone whose intention is to corrupt it. Return to top of page
Sexual Misinterpretation
Although sexual intercourse is part of the process, it is not the goal of the process. But the selfish often ignore that. To such people, sex is the only goal. In the same vein, the socially inept also can fail to understand that the interest must be mutual. A combination of such misunderstandings and ego can create a dangerous combination.
And that is where you will run into problems -- both with rape and sexual harassment.
During the initial stages of the bonding process, there is a combination of small grooming movements that are often called "preening gestures." These are a significant indicator of interest. When combined with patterns of eye movement, eye contact and facial expressions, they constitute the yes or no signal a woman sends to indicate she wishes to open communications with the male. And once communication is established, she will continue to send these signals to encourage him. The male will be sending similar signals.
Because these signals are a combination of several otherwise normal gestures and actions that are done within a very specific context, they are often a source of confusion. The problem is that these signs and combinations are subtle. A study on sexual harassment several years ago discovered 27 different gestures that women regularly make in the office that men tend to find sexually attractive. It isn't until you realize that these moves also are commonly used as female "preening" gestures that you can begin to see the roots of miscommunication. This is why many men defend their actions by saying the woman was coming on to them. He was misinterpreting normal grooming (or unconscious) actions as preening gestures.
And example is a woman brushing her hair off her forehead with her fingertips. Let's look how this can be used as a preening gesture. The signal for indicating that she is interested in the male would be a combination of this act, plus a particular pattern of eye movement and facial expression. An interested woman might brush her hair back and run her eyes up and down the male's body with a pleased expression on her face. Her hand might also linger longer than normal around her face or caress her cheek as she withdraws it. This would be a clear indication of interest on her part.
However, without those secondary actions, she's just getting the hair out of her face. That's all it means. It is a self-adjusting action, not a preening gesture.
Unfortunately, many socially inept males will ONLY see the hair brushed back and interpret it as a preening gesture. Having missed the lack of all the other signals, he will think he has been given the go-ahead. Or as is often the case, his interest is so great that he will ignore the lack of other signals and choose to believe that he can impress her anyway. In this case, he will intentionally misread her action as a go ahead signal.
This is just one example of many. A full list of behaviors, their implications and uses are beyond the scope of this Web page, but you can find references on the bibliography page. It is important to understand that a major part of the interview process to find an "acceptable" mate is that your understanding and use of body language is similar enough that you both feel comfortable.
Another important issue in the bonding process is that you proceed apace. In other words, both the female and male are on the same schedule during the process.And this holds true even if the goal of both parties is just sex. The procession of events MUST be acceptable to both parties. This synchronicity can quite literally be the difference between rape and tearing-each-other's-clothes-offfurniture-breaking-fun sex. With the first, you have only one person who is forcing the pace -- regardless of the other person's desires. In the other, both are active and willing participants.
Let's take a close look at that last sentence. It is when the male tries to force the process faster than his partner's desires/wishes/ comfort that you move from mutual benefit and into selfishness. And into the legal definition of rape. Return to top of page
Stopping the Process
Unfortunately this process designed to establish intimacy leaves women vulnerable to rape –- especially in the later stages.
This is because an inherent part of the process is for the pair to go off alone. Take a look at the table again and see how much occurs in isolation. Somewhere during the initial cycle, both will want to withdraw from the public (or the rest of the group) so this interview process can continue uninterrupted. That's right, we just said: You will find yourself willingly going off with an interviewee and away from the group. You both want to get away and find out more about each other. All during the process, there will be verbal communication (screening) by both parties, so you might not even notice this withdrawal. And the process can occur over time -- in some cases months. During this period, you could find yourself isolated with such a person while doing errands, riding together to a destination or working late. You may not have thought of it as withdrawing from the group, but you find yourself with someone in isolation
It is it important for women to realize that if the process begins to go awry: WITHDRAW FROM THIS ISOLATION!
Move to a public place or return to the social environment from which you withdrew. Do not try to alter, change or dictate his behavior! Do not stay there and ARGUE with him. Your immediate goal is to get out of isolation. Return to the safety of the group, where he must behave


Sometimes you want the benefits of a dynamically typed language with some of the benefits of a statically typed one.
Many languages these days encourage the user to use dictionaries or maps as a kind of loosely typed record.
These languages often differ on how they treat the situation where you look up a nonexistent key in the map.
That's because they have to conflate two different purposes.
 1. The traditional data-structurish use of maps, where the keys are usually calculated, and a nonexistent one could conceivably be valid. The classical example is a word count program. If a program looks for an unknown key in the word count map, it's reasonable to just return null, because the result will clearly be identical to nil.
 2. The record-like use of maps, where if you look up :aghe in a map with has keys :age, it's obvious a programming error has occurred.
This distinction is roughly related to the (rather outdated now) Exception/RuntimeException distinction in Java. Although the checked exception feature was such a horrible pain that many now derive from RuntimeException, the previous notion was that you avoided catching RuntimeException. The RuntimeException should kill your program, or at least the handling thread.
In the case of example 2, it's clear that (get mymap :aghe) can kill the program. However, in Clojure that expression will return nil. At some other time your code will get a wrong result. By that time, however, the stack trace may be useless.
strict-get will cause your code to break when you access a nonexistent field. This function is also known as grab in the tupelo library.
(defn grab [key_ map_]
 (let [val_ (get-in map_ [key_] ::not-found)]
 (if (= val_ ::not-found)
 (debugp "input was" map_)
 (throw (IllegalArgumentException.
 (format "unable to grab key '%s' from map" key_))))
(defn strict-get [map_ key_]
 (grab key_ map_))
(defn strict-get-in [map_ path]
 (have! sequential? path)
 (reduce strict-get map_ path))
debugp is a personal debugging macro, feel free to replace it as you wish. Also, have! is an assertion from the truss library.
Personally, I'd love for this to become a Clojure idiom, I find it incredibly useful, especially when first writing a new piece of functionality. It's important to remember, however, that you always need to think about your intention when you do a map lookup. For me, strict-get is a good default, but I still use get, :foo, and all the others in all their various permutations.
I wrote this macro that's a simplistic version of map destructuring, but using strict-get instead:
(defn generate-strict-get [keyword input-sym]
 '(strict-get ~input-sym ~keyword))
(defn generate-let-pair [binding-sym keyword input-sym]
 '[~binding-sym ~(generate-strict-get keyword input-sym)])
(defn generate-bindings-vector [bindings input-sym]
 (->> (map (fn k v
 (generate-let-pair k v input-sym)) bindings)
 (mapcat identity)
;; (strict-ds-bind {foo :bar
;; baz :quux} input
;; expr)
(defmacro strict-ds-bind [bindings input & expr]
 '(let ~(generate-bindings-vector bindings input)
When you use this form, it's obvious what's happening, and the reader knows that there's a chance that the continuation may throw at this stage. If you want to get this to indent the body properly, you can use this snippet in your.emacs.
 (strict-ds-bind 2))
Thanks to this Stackoverflow question for the main inspiration. Apparently prismatic/plumbing also calls this safe-get.
I find this so useful that I find myself writing it in JavaScript as well, YMMV though. Python is the only mainstream language that works like this by default, as far as I know. (Update 2019: C++'s at method from std::map also works like this.)